therealdougiejones

I don't agree that Sheriff Truman instantly accepting Hawk's denial of knowledge about the symbol on the map is lazy writing. Finding the right path through trust in intuitions and oracles rather than through reason is a consistent note in the show from the beginning. Also in cosmic horror simply knowledge of the evil at hand is very often portrayed as an enormous burden unto itself. Obviously, Sheriff Truman understands that supernatural business is at foot but clearly doesn't understand the depth of the evil that may be behind all of this. The burden of secrets in general is a lot of what this show is about. I can understand criticizing the overplayed mysticism schtick especially as it relates to Hawk's background as a Native American person BUT in terms of that particular interaction between Truman/Hawk beyond the premise itself I thought was just fine.

Just wanted to point out a couple of cool cast interviews. A podcast with Matthew Lillard went up today on a show called "The Watch" which is part of The Ringer podcast network (owned by Bill Simmons, famous sports columnist/personality). Very revealing about Lynch's process making this new season. Also this interview with Amy Shiels who plays Candie - http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/twin-peaks-amy-shiels-on-her-tragic-backstory-for-candie.html Amy Shiels on Candie's background - "I feel in my backstory that the brothers are actually saving her. She just loves them and appreciates everything in the world. That’s why I love Candie and adore and cherish her so much — it’s because she really sees everything through new eyes and has been through something so traumatic in her past, so absolutely hideous, that now that she’s been saved by these boys, she loves them and she sees everything and appreciates it all. Everyone takes air-conditioning for granted; it’s just everywhere. But no, not to Candie. It’s probably the first time she’s had air-conditioning in her life. It’s amazing. Everything is so good. She loves her bosses, and that’s why she was so traumatized, because they were so good to her and she hurt him so badly. Especially when she saw the blood the second time, that was tragic. His face — what has she done to her savior? She’s just a wonderfully kind and appreciative person who really feels people’s joys and pains and emotions. She’s adorable and loves everyone."

The FBI exposition scene was whatever but I don't like to go through a show rating scene by scene, it feels like a weird way to take it in. Also, I got the feeling that the coordinates shown in front of Diane were fake, that Albert brought a photoshopped picture back to see if she would send "someone" the wrong details. Also if anyone is interested I have a lot of stuff on how things in this show are connected to real world occult mythology and history. Mostly Thelema (Aliester Crowley's deal for those who dont know) for and Sumerian stuff

I love the Mitchum brothers. I've seen some theories suggesting that Candie may be the vessel for Laura, or something important like that. I think she is just a Lynchian version of a xanax popping sugar baby (I don't mean that pejoratively). Lynch likes not always just to subvert tropes but to portray them in a state so extreme that it exposes the horror or absurdity or comedy behind it. I lived in Vegas for years and it is a completely outrageous and surreal place to begin with. I feel like with Candie and the girls it's Lynch playing up the literal notion of a trope - the super hot girlfriends of the powerful Vegas gangsters - to a level that reveals iconography or imagery usually associated with a glamorized notion of the rewards of hypermasculine life as a totally empty and bizarre way to actually live. Whereas the Mitchum brothers have this absolutely perfect aesthetic for a classic Vegas crime movie (think Casino with Pesci and De Niro, a fucking brutal movie) and yet they are complete babies and doofs. That's classic Twin Peaks but it also subtly reveals the absurdity of this normally glamorized idea of the American gangster. The two of them eating breakfast together like 8 year olds who share a bunk bed was great. Every expectation of how these kind of characters would normally play out goes in a different direction. Like if you start any Mitchum brothers scene on a freeze frame you're so conditioned if you are familiar with Mafia movies and so on to have this sense of danger and power or eroticism and everything that all of those characters do just makes those expectations fall completely flat. Also the zoom-in on Candy talking about the traffic was a great soap opera type of shot. The other thing that stood out to me about this episode was how Lynch just piles on anxiety after anxiety onto poor Bobby in the Double R. His daughter is extremely unstable and committing serious crimes impulsively. Her husband is maybe abusing her. Now Shelly is disappearing in the middle of a crucial moment with mysterious scumbag. Then gunshots. Then the couple fighting over the kid shooting the gun which takes forever while that lady honks her horn the whole time. You feel like relief is coming when Bobby decides to stop the honking lady but it just reveals another deeper layer of terror and confusion. Dougie is a shaman. The return of the old homeless woman who had a gambling addiction was great - she was basically given real salvation through Dougie and I feel strongly that this is strongly tied into David Lynch's personal interest in mysticism but may also have some strokes of Frost's fascination with Sumerian and Native American mythologies too. Dougie's rebirth has turned him into some kind of messianic Mr.Magoo and I love watching it although I'm not sure I buy into the worldview behind it. It's great that Phil has learned that Dougie will move through the office faster if he makes him chase the coffee. It looks like she's mostly doing accounting for the Double R? I could be wrong. I feel so sad for Gertrude too, I totally forgot about that.