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.
Albert went on a date with Constance.
It was a lovely moment.
Dooper and Janey-E had sex.
It was… well, silly.
He flailed his arms and rolled his eyes in delight.
She screamed no, sang!
Dougiiieee!in ecstasy.
Sonny Jim Jones heard the sounds and bolted upright in innocence-lost shock.
(I think its about time we saw Big Ed Hurley again, dont you think?)
And note the birdhouses.
You saw one atop Miriams trailer, which was adorned with out-of-season Christmas decorations.
You saw one mounted on Carls white house.
And for the longest time, there was this darkness.
And it seemed that love would make any difference, and it did.
So, I guess it means that there is trouble until the robins come.
In Lynchlandia, theres a season for everything, and its often darkest before the dawn.
Gordon Cole just might be the greatest Mary Sue character in TV history.
He isnt just played by Lynch; he might as well be Lynch.
a pacifier for mad, dim, busted Johnny Horne during Richards home invasion.
Im not here to theorize that Mr Reindeer is going to make an appearance.
Just making connections to explain Coles drawing and Lynchs symbol system.
Gordon Cole is an agent of justice the long arm of the law.
Mr. Reindeer is a symbol of evil.
This episode the season is a metaphysical and very meta saga about the problem of evil.
(hey say yes.)
Too many minor key characters, too much Dick and Vegas, which is starting to wear on me.
The War on Lady Christmas.Miriam lived on the rural outskirts of Twin Peaks.
It was a scene that once again proved Lynchs powers for disturbing us with the implication of violence.
After Dick broke into her home, we remained outside and watched the trailer rock and tremble.
We heard the sick thud of a knockout punch.
Lynch took us inside to survey the aftermath.
Miriam on the floor, blood pooled around her head.
The oven, door open.
A candle, lit.
But Lynch didnt linger to watch her catch fire and burn.
Heres hoping for a true Christmas miracle and that Miriam survived.
Lynch let Harry Dean Stanton play it out… almost.
He was rudely interrupted by an outbreak of domestic violence.
His incoherent raging spoke of transgressions that may or may not be real.
What I do and dont fing do doesnt concern you!
And this: Listen to me.Listen to me.
I know exactly what you did.Exactlywhat you did!
Its a fing nightmare, observed Carl.
How enmeshed are they?
Is this a vicious cycle that neither of them can escape?
Candie felt awful, although part of me wonders if part of herwantedto inflict that violence upon him.
(The Mitchum bros + Team Candie = theFull Housereboot we truly deserved.)
Yet the Mitchums kindness only made their rapport and model of family even more queasy.
For we remember another father-daughter relationship that was both parental and sexual, Leland and Laura Palmer.
She was turning against her Stepford Wife programming; she was revolting.
(Candie = Dolores and Maeve onWestworld.)
Bring on the Titanomachy!
Hot for Dooper.Janey-E finally got her dim doltish not-hubby to Dr. Bens office for a check-up.
raved Dr. Ben, impressed by Dougies weight loss and blood pressure (110 over 70).
Janey-E was impressed, too.
According to my copy of Freud for Dummies, this is called foreshadowing.
How can you ever love me again after what I did?!
cried Candie, stewing in shame, turning what seemed to be an accident into some cosmic sin.
Rodney and the other sisters were at a loss; no one said Get over it already!
but that was clearly the vibe.
While Candie moped, Rodney and Bradley watched the news.
We got a conspicuous shot of a weather report offering a seven-day forecast.
(Hot, humid, and stormy, basically.)
Like I said: super… important.
popped up, and so they relayed the story of Ike the Spikes arrest.
This brought joy to the Mitchums, as Ike was employed by a rival, Duncan Todd, a.k.a.
Dirty Coopers man in Vegas, and they wanted Ike dead.
Then the KQRY news team showed footage of Janey-E talking to the cops with Doople at her side.
The Mitchums eyes popped.
It was the guy they were looking for, the Mr. Jones that they believed had screwed them.
Bradley: Turns out our Mr. Jones is actually named Mr. Jones.
Rodney: What a fing world.
With that stroke of good fortune, the Vegas plot began showing signs of coming together.
The whole thing was rather goofy-sweet (DOUGIIIEEE!
The sex scene here recalls the tender-funny-hot sex inMulholland Drivebetween the characters played by Naomi Watts and Laura Harring.
and Dooper wasnt in total control of his mind and will.
And giving Janey-E a moment of bliss automatically makes me worry for her.
Does her own downward spiral loom?
Run Silent, Run Drapes.What a great scene.
It began with another epic Dr. Amp rant.
Or, as Dr. Amp put it: AND THE FS ARE AT IT AGAIN!
Stealing the whole sequence was the woman we saw listening with rapt appreciation: Nadine.
It was a lovely little scene.
His phone wouldnt work.
But Jerry seemed to believe that some cosmic agency was messing with him.
You dont fool me!
Ive been here before?
Question: Doesnt Jerry look like a fuzzier, hippier Woodsman?
Or have the drugs finally kicked in with me?
He had to intercept a letter Miriam wrote to Sheriff Truman exposing Dick.
While waiting on the mailman, Chad indulged one of his favorite pastimes: trolling Lucy.
So the first transgression came when Richard penetrates the gate.
The second came when he bounded across the threshold of her house.
Then came the sick remainder.
He throttled his grandma.
He choked his grandma.
He pelted his grandma with violent, obscene, sexual language.
He threatened to cornhole his grandmas invalid, mentally impaired son.
And he bullied his grandma into coughing up the code to her store of worldly treasure her safe.
C.
As this scene played out, Johnny wanted so badly to help his mom.
He was bound in a straitjacket and tethered to a chair.
He toppled over and tried to break free but he couldnt, a portrait of impotence.
The music played to these meanings.
On the high end: Tony Soprano and Walter White.
Today, they swarm all over the screen like Woodsman.
Theyve certainly infested Twin Peaks.
But I also think its asking questions about the proper expression of anti-hero characters to comment on it.
One more observation about the Horne family.
How do you make that right?
Even if you cant, dont you try?
No, Bens isnt to blame for Richards Garmonbozia.
And has he done enough to take responsibility for the past?
These questions are our questions, too.
(All the Vegas strands are starting to find each other and lace up.)
But the new info did compel them to go full Godfather and resolve to kill Dougie.
The best thing about these scenes was how Lynch juggled two stories of strange sabotage at once.
It also highlighted the long-game strategies of Lynchs storytelling.
She just remained in reverie, admiring herself.
After the brothers barked at her, Candie snapped-to and executed orders.
What the hell was she talking to Sinclair about?
The weather according to KQRY, a heat waves coming and the casinos outstanding air conditioning system.
The Mitchums were vexed.
Candie went back to posing.
(Did Albert function as a medium or conduit for Laura?
They do share an intimate history: he performed her autopsy.)
Fresh off a romantic dinner with local PD morgue lady Constance (Cole and Tammy agreed: So sweet!
), Albert had news of a more illicit hook-up: Diane had been texting Dirty Cooper.
Has Diane always been a run silent, run deep operative for Dirty Cooper?
Does the dark doppelganger have some kind of remote control over her?
That might still happen.
Oh, and one more piece of good news.
Dirty Cooper feels like the mysterious billionaire who financed the glass box operation in New York.
But perhaps the box wasnt for cage-fishing Cooper.
Maybe Mr. C was trying to download another transcendental denizen of the Lodge lands.
