Creators David Lynch and Mark Frost were tight-lipped, but when ratings dropped in the second season and the killer was revealed to try to pull in more viewers, two things became known:

             1. Lynch and Frost had never wanted to solve the mystery, ever.
             2. Lynch and Frost were making it up as they went along.

Sounds like Lost, where 1 becomes reality.

The beautifully shot but structurally pointless "Fly" episode is a case in point; any episode that causes a critic to gush over "the Aristotelian unity of time and place" immediately deserves suspicion.

yeah, that was a "neat" episode but rather pointless. nowhere near as bad as the spider episode of Lost though, where I almost gave up right then and there. hung in a few more episodes.

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This is the mantra of the self-loathing hack: "I can't believe people buy this shit!"   haha