Welcome to another edition of The Playlist Podcast, a discussion about film news and other film and television related items.
On this episode, I’m joined by Playlist Editor-in-Chief Rodrigo Perez for a mini-Bingeworthy episode regarding David Lynch and Mark Frost‘s “Twin Peaks: The Return.”
Rod and Bingeworthy host Kimber Myers left off their discussion at Part 2 (Part’s 1 and 2 aired on Showtime proper at the premiere, but Part’s 1-4 were dropped on premiere night on-demand). We discuss – and occasionally disagree – about everything that has happened in the interim (most of the disagreement comes in Part’s 5-7), but the meat of our episode is in regards to Part 8. Despite our varying degrees of enjoyment, we both agree that the last few episodes have been mostly setting the table for things to come into play later. But Part 8 — a gonzo, experimental trek into (potentially?) the pasts of some of the series’ key characters — stands alone even outside of the context of the series as one of the most bizarre, terrifying, and fascinating works that Lynch has done in his entire career. As with any auteur with recurring motifs, this season of ‘Twin Peaks’ has contained a lot of imagery that recalls other Lynch films (a transformation reminiscent of “Lost Highway,” a massacre with an entity that looks to be straight out of “Eraserhead,” as well as a lot of “Inland Empire“), but what occurred during Part 8 was both 100% Lynch, and completely original in the context of his body of work as well as this series.
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