NP Twin Peaks Return, season 1

[Smoke Teff]

Yes. Lynch's electricity in TP:TR not unlike TRP's electric light in AtD.

The [spoiler?] phantom miner types in TP:TR, for one thing. The multiple
overlapping, intersecting planes of being.

Lynch is generally more overtly personal and less systematic/historical
than Pynchon, but I think the nature of the project brings out some
affinities. Lynch is bridging three decades in this quasi-real space--Twin
Peaks being more a Pynchonian kind of space than most of Lynch's other
worlds, in my opinion--where extrahuman forces effect a losing of something
like innocence.

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anybody else feel Twin Peaks: The Return bears certain parallels with
> Against The Day?
>
>
> On Sunday, August 6, 2017, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There's talk that it's the last TV/film thing he'll do (I imagine
>> he'll keep painting).
>> I'm struck by how self-reflexive the show is now. The movie Fire Walk
>> With Me opens with a TV screen being destroyed but this season has so
>> many moments that seem to be speaking directly to the expectations
>> people have of Lynch himself.
>> From the radio signal in part 8 to the New York box, there's lots of
>> meta-commentary on the insidious possibilities of media injure or
>> corrupt, but now we have the auteur himself appearing early on to say
>> "I don't understand this situation at all"!
>> There's a great recap of the last episode that notes how the extended
>> exit of Lynch's French lady-friend is so deliberate:
>>
>> "Watch the look of pure joy on Lynch-as-Gordon’s face as Gordon’s
>> French date sloooooowly makes her exit: She puts on her shoes, shows
>> off her legs, straightens her clothes, checks her makeup, reapplies
>> her lipstick, takes another sip of wine, and kisses him goodbye,
>> dragging everything out as long as humanly possible. And Gordon is
>> just thrilled to pieces.
>>
>> Albert, watching, is less pleased. He wants to sit down with Gordon
>> and talk business. When Gordon suggests that he get back to his date
>> and his glass of wine, Albert is stonefaced.
>>
>> Gordon puts a comforting arm on his shoulder. “Albert,” he says,
>> “sometimes I really worry about you.”
>>
>> The idea of talking business on this show is worrying. It’s as if the
>> show itself is asking why the audience is so invested in the idea of a
>> resolution. Why devote so much emotional energy to trying to solve the
>> mysteries when, after all, there is good wine to be drunk, and when
>> there are beautiful women to chat up? Twin Peaks wants you to relax.
>> Enjoy yourself."
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Very happy to read this message. Glad other people are experiencing this
>> > similarly.
>> >
>> > I was thinking today that one of the most distinctive things about the
>> > return, to me, in addition to how good it is, is the prominence of
>> Lynch on
>> > screen. His character is probably eclipsing Cooper as the closest thing
>> we
>> > have to a protagonist/hero we have--at least through the first dozen
>> > episodes or so.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Ian Livingston <
>> igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Absolutely.
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 7:40 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I love the last half of episode 8.  The Kubrick reference to the post
>> >>> Bomb couldn't have bee more literal.  Then things get freaky.  Pure
>> Lynch.
>> >>> Such a treat.
>> >>>
>> >>> David Morris
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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