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<\/a><\/p>\n\nA lot of banner moments in episode 6 of Twin Peaks<\/i>. <\/p>\n
The line I put in the title. The gesture and behavior that went along with that line. WHAT??? My favorite moment in the episode.<\/p>\n
Harry Dean Stanton, reprising his role from Fire Walk With Me<\/i>, showing an almost transcendent sense of peace and relaxation, reminding me of why he is so beloved. Not that I need reminders. He has always been with us. I dread his passing. It is always good to see him. <\/p>\n
The big dramatic seat-swivel-reveal of Laura Dern. GOOSE-BUMPS. <\/p>\n
“FUCK GENE KELLY, YOU MOTHERFUCKER!”<\/p>\n
The wandering Agent Cooper continues to make me laugh out loud as Lynch continues to explore what it must look like to outsiders, to those who have no idea what is going on. The “hand shake” with his boss? I was on the floor. <\/p>\n
I can’t wait to find out what was in the letter Hawk found in the bathroom stall. <\/p>\n
And finally: the scene with the hit-and-run was so beautiful and horrible that I was in tears. It occurred to me: There were multiple shots of the witnesses. People standing on the outskirts, watching the mother’s grief scream into the sky, and these people were crying too. Holding one another. Lynch lingered on all of this. He spent a lot of time there. There was a visceral sense of realism in the scene: the dead boy, the heart-rending screams of the mother … and yet there was a poetic aspect to it, an elongation of time aspect, that made me think, and realize yet again that Lynch is a great and intuitive humanist. This is a man who gives a shit. Who FEELS. In a dark and confusing world, such capacity for feeling – not just for yourself, but feeling the pain of others – is all the hope we have.<\/p>\n
Update<\/big>: My friend Keith’s recap of the episode<\/a> is up at MUBI. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A lot of banner moments in episode 6 of Twin Peaks. The line I put in the title. The gesture and behavior that went along with that line. WHAT??? My favorite moment in the episode. Harry Dean Stanton, reprising his … Continue reading