Louis Theroux

This was around the time of Twin Peaks, so it was peak MacLachlan mania.

I reply, only the most handsome, witty, kind, brackets, question mark, gentle, exclamation mark, question mark, being in the world.

It raises questions about...

Nancy's, I want to say like Nancy's judgment of men.

What 15 year old Nancy was looking for.

Someone nice, quirky, witty.

I said witty, kind.

But look, what we're all thinking is like, where does Louis fit in that iteration, right?

I'm happy with all of that.

Very sweet.

And I guess the main thing is I'm glad we could put that to bed.

And what a charming guy, like you can, he still has whatever that energy is.

And you know, look, if I could make it about the work, that's what Kyle brings, is this sort of sense of almost supernatural suave-tay.

And you know, in the sense of like, it sort of transcends, it's almost surreal quality.

And I didn't express it very well in the chat, but there's a sense in which there's a metaness to some of his acting.

Like he seems to be commenting on the acting process,

And he mentioned that it was a Pauline Kael review in the New Yorker that turned around the fortunes of Blue Velvet, her review.

And I dug out the review and she sings his praises.

Blue Velvet is a comedy, she wrote, yet it puts us, or at least some of us, in an erotic trance.

The movie keeps ribbing the clean-cut Geoffrey, Carl MacLachlan, yet we're caught up in his imagination.