I am perhaps underqualified to talk about the works of David Lynch. I bounced hard off of Eraserhead back in the '80s, so much so that I deliberately avoided David Lynch movies. Except I eventually saw Dune, of course. When I read Dune way back in the day, it was not a story that I ever expected to see on the big screen. But Lynch did an admirable job despite considerable constraints in time and money. He absolutely nailed several early scenes from the book, so much so that the modern Dune movie didn't even try to do better. But he had to skim through so much material just to force a big story into a single movie, and it didn't work for me.
So, Twin Peaks season three. I went into this with considerable good will, because season one was thrilling, and season two ended with surprising clarity. The movie was also decent, for anybody who had already watched the show. It felt like Lynch kept wanting to go off the rails in the movie, but had so many things from the show that he wanted to address. And at this point, I was favorably impressed with Lynch's talent for direction. Good cinematography, strong casting, attention to detail, ability to use music well in a scene, etc. He could get strong performances even out of bit parts, and he either found or attracted so many good performers.
However, Lynch also has a defining fascination with liminal spaces, tedious repetition, banal dialogue, and long silences that often become awkward and unbearable. Early in season three, he leaned into these tendencies too hard at times, and I found it offputting. But I could also see that these were strengths when Lynch used them in moderation, creating an utterly compelling sensation that something important was always about to happen. I was frustrated that he turned the righteously competent Agent Cooper into a blend of Forrest Gump and Mister Magoo, but there was tantalizing signs of progress as the season continued. Naomi Watts and Laura Dern seemed to be having a blast with their performances. If the original show was an eerie parody of a soap opera, and the movie was an errie horror show, season three was more like a parody of the X-Files.
Charlie, I can't say that I particularly enjoyed episode 8, even with your comment in mind as I watched it. There were some powerful visuals and interesting though undefined ideas presented, and the closing scene is seared into my memory. But I didn't understand enough of what I saw, and it disappointed me. I feel that the essence of storytelling is to answer the ongoing question of "What happened next?," but Lynch does not agree with me. I also feel that it is generally better to show than to tell, which is one of Lynch's strengths, but sometimes his visual language just doesn't deliver a complex idea. And there were times when a character just told us about something interesting that happened, and we never got to see it.
I was hoping for at least the same amount of clarity that I got from the end of seasons one and two, and even the movie. But a lot of inexplicable things happened in the final two episodes, and then it abruptly ended with a scream and then darkness. I'm glad that I finally watched Twin Peaks, all of it, but I probably wouldn't recommend it to most people.
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