re: Mulholland Drive

HELLO???? big news to me! i will have to reread/rewatch both and see if this holds true... i can see some loose associations but nothing like, concrete.

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Arrested Development seems like a big influence on hs, comedically. very much building up its own language of jokes and gags (much of which is based on pop cultural touchstones), then constantly referencing and remixing all of these. there's vague allusions to AD (a blind lawyer, a rapping ventriloquist dummy), but then more overt references, especially in jane focused parts of part 3 - wall tobias is compared directly to jake, "poppop in the attic" is a joke taken straight from AD.

the candy epilogue especially seems to have a lot of Arrested in it - john is kind of a michael-y straight man, has a teen son whose name is a celebrities first and last (who has a thing going on with his cousin), tavvy has a buster quality to him.