I long reached the point with Lynch where I quit approaching his work with any kind of analytical mind. He deals in abstractions and the whole point of his approach is that you have to experience it, not think through it. Trying to make it make sense defeats the purpose. That’s why episode eight is the standout…

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…