I’m still holding on to the theory that the 1950s teen who ingested the alien roach-toad was Sylvia, Audrey’s mother, and that the alien thing was passed along to Audrey and then to Richard.
By the way, apparently anything we don’t learn by the end of episode 18, we won’t ever learn–everything written to date on the question of ‘another season’ seems to indicate that this is all we’ll get. This set of episodes was literally years in the making. I guess what I’m saying is that this show–unlike most–doesn’t seem to be written to include cliffhangers, meant to bring viewers back to an upcoming season.
That really does make a difference in the writing, or at least that’s the way it feels. There’s a sort of cheapness in the usual ‘this was included to set up the major plot line of season 4’ developments that are so familiar in most serial-storytelling shows.
I also think this is it. Even having it greenlit, it took 18+ months to get on TV.
I don’t think we’ll have a season 4.
Did it do well ratings wise for Showtime? I’m sure it is odder and slower than even they were expecting.
I read something saying that it worked pretty well to get them online signups for their service. I don’t know that they care much, beyond that, on how well the show rated.
Based on the special effects, I think that they realized what most of the fans didn’t, which was that given free reign, Lynch was liable to create an artsy-fartsy slow waltz that only appealed to a pretty small set of people. Given proper editing and executive producer mandate, probably, they would have been able to get his work down to something with more mass appeal, but Lynch wasn’t having it and the general public wasn’t going to come watch the series unless Lynch was part of it. So I think they decided to give the public what they asked for and just gave Lynch a budget that they could afford regardless of how it turned out.
To a large extent, the show has been a lot more tepid and mundane than I personally would fear/expect from Lynch, given full freedom on everything. Probably an edit for time would be all it would take to turn the series into something more splashy.