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

Great episode. Arm wrestling scene was badass

"it's more comfortable if we assume starting positions"

Mr Todd told Sizemore to tell the Mitchum bros dougie was their enemy several episodes ago

― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, August 7, 2017 7:05 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

which is why, when the Mitchums actually visit his office, he hilariously hides under his desk

lots of humor this episode

I kept thinking "wow, what a bunch of dude types" at the whole gang Ray is hiding out with, while wondering about the single meticulous-looking man wearing a suit jacket. "hmm, is that guy the accountant or something?"

and then he asks Cooper if he needs any money, so yeah!

the big lad who got his face caved in had quite the physiognomy.

someone upthread mentioned mr c's supreme power play of dicking with everyone in the room during the arm wrestling contest. this was obviously a big part of it and what i (and probably everyone) expected before it started, but the way he actually did it (e.g. the "it's more comfortable if we assume starting positions") struck me more as showing something much more unsettling about how inscrutable mr c's motivations and desires actually are

ha i forgot about the accountant randomly showing up during the randy confrontation, that was amazing
and yes the music during the opening conga line scene was insane

i am personally skeptical that there's any time fuckery going on here aside from lynch editing stuff together the way he wants to instead of being directly linear, but if you want to give in to the other perspective, i think this is a mildly interesting point/theory: http://ew.com/tv/2017/08/06/twin-peaks-insurance-man/

xp he's also possessed by a malicious being that deals with other human beings by toying with them like a kid pulling the legs off of crickets with the intention of seeing what causes them more emotional stress

i hear this ep was turrible

lol no

I thought it was very Twin Peaks-y

i hear this ep was turrible

Something screwy is happening with time...

definitely a quality ep

Sonny Jim on the playground, arm wrestling, that maddening/distressing scene of Sarah watching TV, James, Big Ed...

get a woman who looks at you the way janey-e looks at her husband from her new bmw

i hear this ep was turrible

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, August 7, 2017 7:28 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

huh, i guess not everyone loves "just you and i"

I think I mentioned it in a facebook comment, but it was a great reminder that for every touring act that passes through a local music venue, there's some local act with an inexplicable hometown following filling in the schedule on the other days

A local act with exactly one song that he's been performing for twenty years.

"inexplicable"? he's got an invisible rhythm section! that's a big draw

Random odd element that I loved: The giant-screen surveillance TVs in the gang warehouse.

Also, this episode had about an even balance of Dougie and Mr. C, which really highlighted the awesomeness of Kyle MacLachlan.

the big lad who got his face caved in had quite the physiognomy.

Apparently he played Jason in the recent Friday the 13th?

I was laughing at "give Ray and I some privacy" followed by the entire gang watching their interaction on the giant video wall

yeah it was another fine addition to the tptr list of totally implausible technology that i immediately bought into because it was fun

great episode, loved every minute, many lolz @ "You and I" making a reappearance

(In the photo in the Palmer lounge)

Hah I was actually referring to the vox on "just you"

I like how Mr C never really changes mode from implacable but within that mode managed to be a bit "dude, what the fuck?" at the accountant

the whole arm wrestling scene was both cruel and surreal. it was as if Mr. C had never done it before, and was approaching it as both the presented challenge and a kind of experiment in how to cause pain

the visual framing was great, with the boss seemingly straining and really putting all his effort into it, and Mr. C just kind of effortlessly moving his arm without any sense of effort or strain

yeah it was another fine addition to the tptr list of totally implausible technology that i immediately bought into because it was fun

By the end there will be material for a whole essay on this, but I love the gnomic simplicity of his imagined tech.

It's a brilliant way of adapting Twin Peaks to the 20-teens but still making it oddly out of step.

The punch in the back of the head was hilarious to me for some reason

The face punch was also funny but horrible even in its cartoonishness xxp

my first thought on the presence of donna was that i had spotted someone who looked a bit like her in the diner (though maybe this is more down to the new hip kids of twin peaks reviving early '90s hairstyles)

I'm just remembering Audrey mentioned ghostwood in her scene didn't she...

Did the loop of the boxing scene that Sarah Palmer was watching change toward the end?

It seemed like it either skipped parts or segments went out of the sequence that had gone before. I should have rewound, but honestly I couldn't stand to hear it anymore.

And I wondered if she recorded it herself or if she set her DVR to loop it or if she was watching a special ESPN Twin Peaks Edition.

the audio loop and the video loop were not in sync

xp She said "it's just like ghostwood" or something. Ghostwood being the thing she was unable to prevent, so maybe also alluding to the possible coma assault.

I'd kinda love for there to be an Audrey-Charlie scene in every ep from now on, always separate from everything else and with a different direction each time, completely decentred & resistant to interpretation; a mini inland empire for sherilyn fenn within the return

I was suspecting something ominous, but then my own television stream did nearly the exact same thing during the next program I watched after Twin Peaks. I'm not sure why but on occasion my streaming tv subscription will jump back a minute or so, then either continue from that point or eventually glitch and jump back to where it was

What I'm saying, I guess, is that Sarah Palmer subscribes to Playstation Vue

All of Lynch's slightly off-kilter tech is so wonderfully weird that I'm disappointed every time someone's cellphone rings with that stock ringtone. They should sound like someone scraping the inside of a bell with a fork or something.

I don't know why I'm so fixated on that but it's pulled me right out of the show both times it's happened. Although both instances were in the RR (once on Norma's phone and once on Shelly's). HMMMM.

The RR exists in an alternate dimension where all the smart phones have stock ringtones.

do we know who composed the batshit antic conga-line music?

audrey/charlie scene in this episode was fantastic in a way that made me want to reassess their scene in the previous episode, during which i mostly felt extremely unmoored

had no idea Diane Feinstein was going to be in this tbh

I'm guessing that music was an Angelo original

The actor who plays Charlie has been in a bunch of things lately and I appreciate his work on Twin Peaks. He seems to get a lot of roles that involve patient questioning!

who was the Boss's right-hand man, the guy that explained the arm-wrestling rules? he looked familiar to me

same here, but I think he just reminds me of two or three different actors?

Big Ed's reflection gets all glitched out at the end

i hear this ep was turrible

you heard right

I've realized that I can only take Dougie in small doses, and the whole new friendship with the Mitchum brothers really irritates me for some reason. That conga line was absurd! Nothing in this episode felt right. From the conversation with Norma at the diner to the to the Dr. Jacoby/Nadine flirting. Only thing I appreciated (although it was almost unbearable to watch) was Sarah Palmer in her living room.

Ray really fucked up by not getting that ring on Mr. C before the dirty bearded men showed up

That conga line was absurd!

wow hot take

How dare u, David Lynch

Yes, absurdity is out of place in what Lynch makes.

the conga line was amazing and i will not hear different