Filmigirl

I agree and I definitely think it's because Diane is around. The cigarette break scene really nails how effortlessly cool Diane is and poor Tammy's vampiness just can't compare, no matter what pose she tries. The Andy and Lucy scene aside, there were some excellent "character" moments in this episode. The conference room lunch scene with Chad was hilarious and the stuff with the three cops in Vegas when their three different colored paunches kind of just fill the screen in a very Lynchian way. I also really liked the conversation with the two women at the end of the episode even though we really have no context for it at the moment (outside of the bad drags going around). I kept waiting for something to emerge from the skin under her armpit... One thing not really related to this episode but kind of related to the discussion on the midseason review episode about the literalness of film as a medium-- A lot of how I watch media now is tied up in the many years I've spent watching Indian, and especially South Indian, movies. Traditionally the storytelling and filmmaking (although this is no longer true for mainstream "Bollywood") relied a lot on allegory and metaphor and on getting the audience to feel certain moods without necessarily conveying the idea that what is being filmed is literally supposed to be taking place. i.e. a filmmaker is able transmit the idea of a young couple having sex by having them sing a romantic song in field full of very suggestive flowers. The jokes about "Bollywood" in American media often rely on a deliberate misreading or misunderstanding of this non-literal style of filmmaking and I wonder if some of the trouble people are having "getting" certain aspects of Season 3 of Twin Peaks ties into this inability or unwillingness to not see a filmed scene as literal.

This is where I'm at. I did go and read some recaps and you guys were right that Laura Hudson has the best one by far. It was disappointing to see other recappers explicitly putting their assumptions about the dream imagery down as fact. I have to admit skimming through large sections of the Secret History book because I find X-Files style alien conspiracy kind of tedious but I did like the use of the Trinity nuclear test. I'd been listening to another podcast about the Wonder Woman movie and why they didn't use WWII as the setting, which seems like a much more obvious choice, except that the weapon of mass destruction in WWII was in the hands of the "good guys"... Maybe I've watched too much Japanese media but even if we've forgotten to be scared of nukes here, the psychic scar left by the bomb is very real.

YES! I made that connection, too. And re: the "Got a Light" guy, I'm not often scared by television but that whole last part of the episode 8 had me as terrified as I was the first time I saw the scene with Maddie's vision of Bob climbing over the couch. I've been watching these on streaming with a really nice pair of headphones and concur with all who said that the sound design was really on point the last episode. The electric crackling behind the "Got a Light" guy's voice was really effective. It's funny but I'd forgotten I'd written in and was startled to hear my name when I was listening to the last episode but what I loved about the original podcast run was that it wasn't just a dry plot recap and although the current "Rewatch" episodes aren't really "rewatches" I still think the guys do a good job of talking about the episodes even if the lack of foreknowledge of events does make it a different kind of discussion. So I had to jump back on the forums because I think this episode is exactly the kind of message Lynch has for TV recap culture. He's often said that he thinks movies should only be the movie itself, no commentary, no "extras" and his television episodes run the same way. Can you put the images he gave us into a narrative without destroying the essence of the images? I don't know.... I'm actually curious enough to (hate?) read some recaps to see what the consensus of "tv recap culture" is on this episode. For the record, I loved it.

Oh man Wild Palms is a blast from the past. I wonder if it holds up. I remember watching it on some VHS tapes back in the late 1990s when I was at college specifically because I was promised that it was "like Twin Peaks". I also like the reading of Dougie as a critique of the emptiness of suburban office park life. And with Cooper crying, my instinct was that he felt sorry for the kid, as did I. You wonder how rare it was to share the connection was that Sonny Jim and Dougie-Cooper had over breakfast. And I didn't think about it until they found the ring in the corpse's stomach but when Jane-e scolds Dougie she says he's been missing for 3 days, which is how long that corpse was lying in the apartment, no? Do we know it's not the "real" Dougie?

I just listened to the interview and what stood out to me was exactly that questions line. I may have to dive deeper on David Lynch, 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist, but the underlying theme with Jones seems to be that asking questions is not the same as looking for clues to fit your answers. Emphasis on seeking rather than finding, which will track if the Jacoby arc has him as a huckster giving easy answers and pushing merch.

Hello all, I binge listened to the podcast at the beginning of 2016 and loved it and now that I finally gave in and signed up for a Showtime trial yesterday to get the new episodes, I look forward to rapping with ya in real time. The Alex Jones Jacoby Rant Show as a replacement for Invitation to love is GENIUS. Politics has become our national soap opera so it makes sense. With the music, it will be interesting to see if the shuffle begins to come back more as Cooper returns to "himself". It would be interesting to see some of the comedic ("comedic"?) scenes at the station house with the music added to see if our reaction is different. One of the things I always really disagreed with the hosts with was on Badalamenti's score. I love the score. I used to have the cassette tape (real OG here) and played it until it wore out. That said, the sparse use of music in the new series is quite effective, with the possible exception of the station house comedy scenes.