Drink full: The TWIN PEAKS 2017 spoiler thread, part 2

Turkey jerky reminded me of "Welcome to Canada. You won't find a turkey dog here," from the debauched bar scene in FWWM.

I put it to you: in line with the themes of this show, turkey is a malignant doppelgänger for red meat.

Or maybe she's got a turkey in there.

fire walk with me is the best movie in the whole world

long gone like a turkey in the corn

I really need to know what was banging around in Sarah Palmer's kitchen.

Josie's soul trapped in the crisper drawer of the fridge

I was so happy Carl’s sign indicating he is to be bothered no earlier than 9:30 appeared

I seriously considered making a similar sign for my office but decided it wouldn't be a great idea.

it has occurred to me on occasion, perhaps even after typing that last post

mh OTM

carl is very good

"Or maybe she's got a turkey in there."

that would be so good

finally watched this episode and it was hardly as bad as I was led to believe. It was just kind of another episode; but we got Sarah, we got Audrey (even if her scene was irritating; I didn't think it was that irritating); we got, what I thought, was a pretty affecting scene with Ben; and we got a hilarious 5 second Dougie scene. Felt like treading water, I suppose; and there was almost certainly an intentional amount of extra names thrown out (the purpose of which, I have no idea), but I thought it was alright. Sherilyn still looks great. I actually thought her acting was pretty good.

Ben seems like such a solid dude this season

well except for during that phone call with his wife

ah yeah :-/

I'd be lying though if I didn't say this episode did have me wondering if The REturn might have been better at 9 episodes rather than 18

absolutely not

Shut your mouth

many of the set pieces will age like a fine wine

Don't worry I'm sure there will be some cracking fan edits that will deliver the plot with maximum efficiency

Can't be stated often enough how utterly full of shit lynch is about being made to reveal the killer obv, but you all know that if you've seen episode 14 & fwwm

Lynch said he was happy with the original tv series until "Who Killed Laura Palmer". What is he referring to? There isn't an episode called that.

there isn't an episode called anything

You mean David Lynch didn't really call something "may the giant be with you"?!

germans did that iirc

I know

oh

Is Lynch the kind of guy who would attach great significance to the number 13?

we got, what I thought, was a pretty affecting scene with Ben;

One of the best scenes of the episode. Not top heavy plot wise, but affecting all the same. The key, his tale about his green bike. He just let it rip and it was great to watch.

After ep 11 I was idly wondering about exposition, and if we'd get any, and I imagined (not dreamt) a scene in which Albert was explaining to Tammy the origin of Blue Rose, and used the word "taskforce". And, bloody hell, there it was. I think this series has gotten so far under my skin I'm now part of it.

Annoyingly, the NowTV app used a framegrab of Audrey as the thumbnail for ep 12. Oh cheers. I'm now going to have to navigate their TP page on Monday evenings with my eyes half-shut. The Sky Atlantic "contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing" ident v/o is a bit of a spoiler too.

Didn't realise the Twin Peaks episode titles came from Germany.

"Can't be stated often enough how utterly full of shit lynch is about being made to reveal the killer obv, but you all know that if you've seen episode 14 & fwwm"

that's not good evidence as those both happened after the killer was revealed! I mean, it's not like he thought up FWWM before the series. It was written 100% after the series was over.

The new episodes don't have titles either but everyone using the episode descriptions as titles is much more acceptable than the rubbish German tv came up with (realisation time?)

Xp I mean he's full of shit about the forced reveal being a bad thing - it was bad only because it pissed lynch off & he all but abandoned the show, but it was definitely the right creative decision and ep 14 & fwwm are evidence of that

Golden egg thing is bollocks, the show was tanking & would have been cancelled whatever

the real issue was the season two scripts were just people going "laura palmer?" and looking pensive with the rest marked "tbd" and they just had to come up with something when it came time to shoot episodes

90% of the onscreen action that season was CGI-ed in post iirc.

I liked the Ben scene this ep but it's a bummer how much of Beymer's screen time this season has been spent behind a desk, he's still graceful and interesting to watch just moving around a room.

I guess I'm missing something but why is Diane still in Gordon's and Ferrer's confidence when they're intercepting her texts from evil Coop? Do they not know they're from evil Coop?

well they just got some great intelligence via text intercept (Las Vegas) so why would they want to stop?

(they also might not be from evil coop, who knows)

I think it's more about allowing her to think that she's on the inside while they monitor her activities.

my theory which is probably already disprovable is that philip jeffries is texting her

Gordon literally said, "Let's keep her close" after learning about her contacts with Mr. C.

I think the fact the most recent episode was relatively mundane threw me off because I think I had a fever and I couldn't tell if it was mundane, or if I was just really out of it and tuned in

how sad is Dougie getting hit with a baseball, though?

Agree that Diane working with Jeffries (or whoever has taken over for him) is a good bet. When the "Around the dinner table" text was posted on that "Commercials I Hate" site, it appeared twice, with the alternate text case seen on the show, so that was no accident.

that scene was hilarious

agree that Ben's scene was also fantastic, I love Beymer so much

xp

Beymer is endlessly fascinating to watch. I do like that they've kept him nostalgically self-absorbed, slightly oblivious to his family, trying to buy his way to a clear conscience, just as at the end of s2 - he's recognisably still that person and yet we buy that he's a decent guy now, just an imperfect one

Ben trapped behind a desk is emblematic I guess of the shift from the original series to this one in terms of direction and what Lynch will allow the actors to do. The scene in the original where Leland appears in his office singing Mairzy Oats and Ben and Jerry spontaneously start dancing around the room has a fluidity and joy that's pretty hard to imagine happening this season. Everything's stilted and static and mime-y which is obviously a deliberate decision but it gets tiring when there's no contrast, in the last ep in particular. I wonder if Dougie's dilemma might be less tiresome for some viewers if everyone didn't seem to be afflicted with a less-intense version of his same condition (but then MacLachlan also seems to be much better at this style of acting here than most others).

One of the joys of the original series is seeing all of these half-forgotten classic Hollywood actors coming back and just letting rip. That's all been absorbed now into the cult of Lynch; everyone's too deferential.

idk about that, they're also y'know *really* old. Harry Dean's been great in all his scenes, and Zabriskie also brought it in the last episode. Russ Tamblyn is totally chewing the scenery in his Dr. Amp bits. Plenty of examples like this throughout,.

Harry Dean Stanton's character is probably my favorite character in the Return.

Also beymer's physicality was v prominent in the scenes with the hum (although no, no soft-shoe) xp