Pretty sure Thug Coop sports a prosthetic high forehead and a mullet wig. The effect not unlike Frankenstein(!) HE SHORE IS EVIL. Also maybe brownface, but we won't go there. We finished the first episode last night, which got fairly intense, so will take a breather before soldiering on. It strikes me that in the 2nd season (and for a lot his prior oeuvre), Lynch alternated between 'normal' [-ish] and 'weird' scenes; thus far, this has been all weird all the time, so the weirdness becomes a bit normalized, predictable, and (possibly) less impactful. Anyway I'm enjoying it all.
One confusing thing is that, at the end of the 1st episode, the credits listed casts for 'Part 1' and 'Part 2' but I didn't notice the episode had more than one part, unless it's a distinction between the red curtain scenes, and the town (etc) scenes, in which case there were several of both.
EDITED: 3 Nov 2023 19:07 by DSMITHHFX