"Got a light?" One more (possibly final?) post on this journal -- Twin Peaks s3e8
Last night, Twin Peaks s3e8 gave the world probably the single weirdest and most surreal hour of quality television ever. In all history. Anywhere. Topping the beginning to s3e3
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Last week I wrote about how far Twin Peaks has come from being a murder mystery, which honestly is an angle I wish I’d saved for this week, because hoooooo boy was last night’s episode about as far from a murder mystery as one could get.
In one way, what we saw last night was the most cryptic, surreal and indecipherable episode of television that Lynch - and, quite possibly, anyone else - has ever made. But then, in its own strange way, it was none of those things (except surreal, because duh), because it made sense in its own manner… or, at least, I think it did...
The episode started conventionally enough -
And then all hell breaks loose.
...flees in terror, jumping into his car and driving like all the devils of hell are following him - which they may very well be
At this point, the episode cuts to the Roadhouse, where Nine Inch Nails are performing. We watch an entire NIN song, just plonked in the middle of the episode, because why wouldn’t there just be a live NIN clip in the middle of an episode of Twin Peaks?
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