I would have loved to see Sacha Baron Cohen as Freddie Mercury. It’s too bad that the people behind the movie weren’t willing to listen to his ideas. It would have been interesting to see a movie about the guy that looked into his personal life and how it inspired so much of Queen’s music; it could give people a new…

The way Diane covered Dale’s eyes reminded me of Naido’s eyelessness.

Coop is of the belief and represents the belief that there is a good and there is a bad, and that good cab beat bad. That there is a literal manifestation of evil that can be punched. But that’s not how things are. Things are messy.

My girlfriend had a great insight into that when I asked the same question: The real Diane vanished and was replaced with that doppelgänger by Dark Coop. The last memory she had of Cooper before she was made into Naido was of Dark Coop raping her. So when she’s having sex with Agent Dale Cooper she can’t look at his…

You’ve hit on some very salient points here. As is the case with a lot of modern cinema, the story of season 3 is rooted in the making of itself. I have a rudimentary understanding of transcendental meditation and Buddhism, something Lynch obviously knows a lot about, but I think that aspect also informs a lot of…

No, I think Cooper tried to save Laura, but ultimately failed. All he did was create an alternate dimension where Laura lived, but that dimension was extinguished in the final moment of the episode once Laura realized who she really was.

From episode 1, scene 1:

Don’t forget Sarah Palmer watching the same 30 seconds of that boxing match over and over again.

This is a really nice analysis. While I think you’re right that this isn’t the ONLY thing the show is dealing with, I don’t think you should be so dismissive of your “art about the art” reading.

In this ep The Arm repeats the phrase that Charlie unsettled Audrey with at the threshold, surely that’s significant.

The look of straining after something wonderful on Diane’s face mirrored the look on Becky’s face in the car. Something amazing, attainable and just out of reach at the same time.

We got some kind of Hybrid Coop. A good guy (defends the waitress) but clearly utilitarian and coldly violent. Good Coop without any passion.

It was difficult for me to discern whether that was the real Coop or not in those scenes. He had the demeanor of evil Coop. It’s all in MacLachlan’s eyes and facial expressions, or lack of expressions. He was fantastic.

Because he wasn’t the real Cooper, at least not completely. His detachment during the sex scene and his cold demeanor in the diner seemed much more characteristic of Mr. C as if the two had merged in some way.

i like your analysis a lot. Again and again the show returns to commenting on itself (“Starting position is more comfortable.”) Even FWWM begins with smashing a TV. I’m sharing your insights (crediting you) with my FB group, Twin Peaks: The Return: The Discussion Group. I hope that’s ok. Join us if you want to discuss…

Just some random observations:

Based on her hiding of ‘Coopers’ stern face and subsequent departure at not recognising him, I feel that this ‘430' world he inhabits is mirrors and possibly precedes what we have seen in the rest of the season. Richard is both evil dale and good dale, he does bad and good. We get essences of both characters in his…

the point of the sex scene was to demonstrate that these two characters don’t really know each other - they’re richard and linda, and either they’re roleplaying as lovers, but they may be strangers. once they pass through that point on the highway “everything changes” - and everything did change.

Just looking at the scene for what’s there, it’s not pointless at all. That was the face of the man who raped her, if not the man himself, so it doesn’t surprise me that she covered it with her hands. It was an extremely vulnerable, uncomfortable scene, as it should have been and illuminated Diane’s psychology…

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…