Tagged with: Twin Peaks
The thing you get from the Fire Walk With Me film is that, amongst the Cooperisms, the small town insidiousness, the parables of good and evil, the coffee and the cherry pie, this was always the story of Laura Palmer.
I don’t wanna go too deep in on what just happened though, not with the finale so close at hand. Instead here are a bunch of thoughts and questions ahead of the final couple hours of Twin Peaks – The Return.
EvilCoop strolls up to the convenience store – as in: the convenience store, the one from the atomic flashbacks – and demands to see Phillip Jeffries. A Woodsman takes him in, another takes him to Jeffries...
About that ring then. It’s not an unfamiliar piece of jewellery, in fact it dates way back. Green and with that little symbol on it, the one from the owl cave… Laura Palmer used to wear one just like it.
So… hands up who had Big Ed in the ‘Last Returning Character to Show Their Face’ sweepstakes?
One of the most brilliant things about this show is how one character can tell another character that he had a dream the cut on his face had healed and then pull the plaster off the dude’s face and you’re not even surprised to find out that it had.
Extended visions from within an atomic explosion… strange darkened apparitions that crush skulls and broadcast weird poems… that frog-bug that hatched from an egg...
Hey we learned some stuff this week. New information came to light. Revelations were made. Theories were given a further step towards validation.
It was clear roughly three minutes into the premiere of the rebooted series that trying to place these episodes into any kind of usual judgement would be insane.
Dr Amp, Steve & Beckie, Lucky 7 Insurance, DoppelCoop’s light trick, the creepo at the Bang Bang Bar… we covered some distance here, folks. And yet it almost feels like we went nowhere at all.
Say ladies… have you met Dougie Jones? Doesn’t seem to talk too much these days, nor does he have a whole lot of independent thoughts all of a sudden, but he’s lost a little weight
Oh what’s that, you were expecting a happy cutesy nostalgic Twin Peaks revival? You thought David Lynch was coming back to serve doughnuts and coffee and say hello to old friends?
It’s a commonly held belief that the second season of Twin Peaks, compared to the first season, is kinda trash.
Twin Peaks itself is a show about a murder in Small Town USA, population 51201. There are standoffs with guns, there are significant drug syndicates, there are passionate love affairs, there are nefarious deals being done.
The Red Room is the defining image of Twin Peaks. It’s a dazzling scene full of such weirdness that you cannot watch it without leaning in, agasp at the audacity that someone would commit such a thing to television.
It doesn’t take much to bring you back, a scent or a sound, a word or a phrase, perhaps a sparrow sitting innocently on a branch, fading into a logging factory as smoke rises towards a cloudless sky