He killed Miriam, witness to his crime of vehicular homicide; he beat up his grandma his grandma! and threatened to do worse to poor, mad Johnny unless she gave him all her money. (Dick needs a good talking-to from his mother, wherever the hell she is. Credit: Suzanne Tenner/SHOWTIME Show yourself, already!) Will she be an angel of redemption or a dark phoenix of great vengeance and furious anger? A Shiva, perhaps, destroyer and transformer....
Has a Hellmouth opened up under Twin Peaks? you’re free to get lost in your head or lose it altogether pursuing apocalypse of this sort. Which is why a solitary journey isnt recommended. Credit: Suzanne Tenner/SHOWTIME A Watson for your Sherlock, Scully for your Mulder an Albert Rosenfield for your Blue Rose-questing Gordon Cole. All kinds of hell broke loose in Part 11 ofTwin Peaks: The Return. Bill Hastings, snotty-nosed challenger of the unknown....
Yeah, I know: seven hours! Thats still a lot of TV! Me already mourning the end ofTwinPeaks: The Returnhere at the end of its second act? Credit: SHOWTIME Call it the mid-life crisis of myTwin Peaksfandom. Cant there be more? just, David Lynch! Keep us once more from the horror, the horror of a NON-EXIST-ENTTwin Peaks! Keep the revival alive! It certainly had the title for it. Zombie Laura?!) certainly stoked the coals for another apocalyptic barn-burner....
Now, are you going to quit playing games or do I have to end your story, too? The first silver box contained Monte Cristo Number Twos. The second contained a set of monogrammed diamond cufflinks. Credit: Suzanne Tenner/SHOWTIME The third contained the keys to a BMW convertible. Bushnell received their proverbial gold, frankincense, and myrrh with humility. A wrong has been made right and the sun is shining bright! The conga train formed anew and Rodney made like the conductor, pulling on an imaginary whistle....
Huh, I thought to myself, That definitely means David Bowie will be on tonights episode ofTwin Peaks. This is the mood that the revival season ofTwin Peakshas put me in, 14 hours in. I look for clues in dreams and in overheard conversations. Credit: Suzanne Tenner/SHOWTIME I watch old David Lynch movies and seeobvious correlationsthat no god-mind could have possible created accidentallyoron purpose. Hey, Ididknow David Bowie would appear. (Separate thinkpiece: Is Sirius XMs Richard Blade secretly the Fireman?...
Along the way, he reflects on his mortality, failures, and pride. The first came at the start. A series of fades told us that she had been walking this walk for a long time. Credit: SHOWTIME She was a woman on a mission of reconciliation and release. Its possible she might still. Nadine praised the man and, possibly, her new boyfriend? as the only truth-teller left in town. The long walk to Big Eds Gas Farm had given her time to vet her thinking....
he declared in Part 16 ofTwin Peaks,No knock, no doorbell. Goodbye Dougie daze in the glitzy wasteland of Las Vegas. Next stop: Twin Peaks. Credit: Suzanne Tenner/SHOWTIME Kyle MacLachlan made the resurrection of his signature role an electrifying pleasure. Doctor, will you confirm my vitals are A-okay? Oh, they were. And so the rapturous nostlagia hits of Part 16 was an interrogation of nostalgia itself. It can bring pleasure, it can bring despair, it can make us mad....
How about them golden shovels? “It’s 7 o’clock? Do you know where your freedom is?” Credit: Suzanne Tenner/SHOWTIME he asked, reading from a handwritten script spread before him like sheet music. He turned to a kitschy Statue of Liberty lamp and pulled the string. Let there be enlightenment! And the yanking of your chain. WHERE ARE THE COPS WHEN WE NEED THEM? Microbial toxins bacterial toxins! Our air, our water, our EARTH!...
Many of the negative things you could say about this installment reflect back its best meanings. Agent Coopers Dougie-ish, childlike state taxed our patience. Just grow up already, right? Credit: Suzanne Tenner/SHOWTIME And yet, the stories were all about acquiring a heart or not for the strangers among us. We could be Carl and bravely choose to attend to the suffering others. We could be Chad and be indifferent to it....
Part 7 ofTwin Peaks(Theres a body all right) opened with a still life of disorientation. Call it: Portrait of the TypicalTwin PeaksWatcher. Someone stole it, apparently. Credit: Suzanne Tenner/SHOWTIME I mean, there was a two-minute scene of a guy sweeping peanut shells at The Bang! Bar, set to Green Onions by Booker T. & the M.G.s. And Doppelganger Brain Tree is back! No:BabyDoppelganger Brain Tree! And there was plenty of eeriness and enigmatic stuff, too....
Let it be weird. No need to explain it. No need to figure it out. Credit: Suzanne Tenner/SHOWTIME No need to tame it with reason or theory. Just let it be weird. Part 8 ofTwin Peaks: The Returnwas the David Lynch on heroin wed been promised. I decided to accept Gotta light? as an act of pure Strangelove. I stopped worrying about it and just enjoyed all the crazy bomb drops....
Its hard to remember our first sighting of Major Briggs onTwin Peaks. Don S. Davis played the Major in life, and now, in death. Major Briggs seemed glued into his uniform, and you might have thought he was a real hardass. Credit: Suzanne Tenner/SHOWTIME But humans contain unknowable multitudes, and Major Briggs revealed himself as a seeker of the highest order. He had visions of white light and palazzos. He disappeared into the woods and returned with memories of stone thrones lurking in distant cosmic Edens....
The return of Eraserhead Garmonbozia is a nonsense word on this side of the TV screen. But inTwin Peaksthe term has weight and meaning. For the predatory demons of the Black Lodge, pain and sorrow is foodstuff. They convert the paired feelings into creamed corn literal creamed corn and slurp it up from their cupped hands. Didnt their mother teach them anything? The Return is chunky with Garmonbozia. Brings back some memories, he said as the strains of Lauras theme swelled on the soundtrack....
