In the latest episode, David Lynch implicates his audience in Twin Peaks’s unfolding dream.
The episode divides its time between domestic drama, overarching mythology, and seriocomic pop surrealism.
As of the latest episode of Twin Peaks: The Return suggests, the darkness seems to be winning.
The episode’s frequent matched pairs and expository repetitions seem to draw attention to themselves.
The episode uses David Lynch’s abiding preoccupation with mirror imagery as an often subtle structural device.
Many of the events in the latest episode of Twin Peaks seem to depend on the toss of a coin.
Parts of the episode play like one of David Lynch’s hermetically sealed surrealist short films.
The first two episodes of the new season are largely preoccupied with sowing the seeds for later developments.