I find all literalist narrative readings like this of Twin Peaks ridiculous. The reason is that the clear key to appreciating all of Lynch’s other work is to see him as a surreal formalist painter working in the medium of film— clear because this has been the trajectory of his entire career from his beginnings as a…

“Well...Cooper got out of the lodge and they all managed to beat BOB...but then maybe all of reality has been rewritten now? Marge, I don’t understand. Is that a happy ending or a sad ending?”

These last two episodes made me realize I don’t really give a shit about the mythology. The reason season 1 and parts of season 2 and FWWM worked so well was the emotional resonance and because you cared about the characters.

Season 3 has a bit of that, but mostly it focuses on the mythology way too much. It being a…

Maybe it’s Baby’s First Critical Analysis to suggest that Twin Peaks: The Return is an extended meditation on both itself and the original run of episodes, but that’s the most coherent interpretation I have so far. I guess the only insight less piercing than that would be “Dale Cooper symbolically represents the…

I’m under the assumption that the entity that appeared in the box - which appears to be the same creature that birthed BOB into the world, and which I am also assuming is related to the Mother - has some connection to Sarah Palmer and we’ll see that connection some way. Of course those are only very vague theories,…

I think Mr C might have built the glass box with the intention of preventing Cooper from returning. It worked, but only briefly.

Considering the news of the last few days and weeks that “people are under a lot of stress” line could not have been more perfectly timed. So goddamned good!

God, I love the Mitchum Brothers.