It was part of Episode 8, which is its own thing entirely, and one of the most thrilling, puzzling hours I’ve seen from either incarnation of the show. (Can Bad Coop die? If so, does that upset the balance with his doppelgänger? Could this be the beginning of the end our Dougie? What happened to his body and why does it look so much like Cooper in FBI agent dress at the end?) But this wasn’t part of any previous installment. If this were part of any previous installment, even one with the long, abstract stretches of Episode 3, it would count as a freaky, effective bit of filmmaking that pushed Bad Coop’s story along and offered a chance to theorize about the workings of the Black Lodge and its agents. Then “The” Nine Inch Nails plays a song at the road house.Īnd, again, this is the relatively normal part of the episode.
It’s all dark and disturbing, a classic film noir scene that takes an unexpected detour into horror. We saw one of these guys earlier in the season, but here they are en masse doing something to Bad Coop’s, freaking Ray out in the process, and somehow producing an image of Bob, as played by the late Frank Silva. Then the truly unexpected kicks with the arrival of what others are calling the Charred Men, so we may as well too. Then, sensing an advantage and maybe hoping Bad Coop will feel some gratitude, he asks for money over the course of their long, tense drive through some abandoned backroads on their way to “The Farm.” (At this point, can we safely say that headlights cutting through an ominous, twisty, wooded landscape is Lynch’s signature shot, a la The Spielberg Face?) This turns into a face-off that ends badly for Bad Coop. Bad Coop has escaped from prison with Ray who has information he wants. Keith: Maybe the best way to start is by discussing the relatively normal (“normal”) first 20 minutes. So where would you like to begin discussing an episode so weird and abstract, it made The Return‘s already-legendarily abstract third hour seem like an episode of NCIS: New Orleans in comparison? After each episode, Uproxx ‘s Alan Sepinwall and Keith Phipps attempt to hash out what we all just watched.Īlan: Well, Keith, not much to analyze with this one, is there? Just a totally straightforward hour that advanced many of this season’s plotlines in equal measure, explained a lot of what we had seen previously, and was among the more conventional and coherent hours David Lynch has ever directed, right?Īlan: What? You didn’t love the moment when Good Coop finally shook off the Dougie persona and delivered a seven-minute monologue explaining how the two Lodges work and how he and Bad Coop can co-exist in this plane of reality? Or the well-oiled Twin Peaks sheriffs department quickly building a case against Richard Horne for the hit-and-run, arresting and successfully prosecuting him all within the space of the same hour?Īlan: Okay, fine.
The return of Twin Peaks is a lot to process.
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