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Vicki Patolot
I've heard about you... We are back for the start of Season Two of our weekly look at the complete run of Twin Peaks. This week the elaborate, mad race of plot threads that ended season one come to a head and start cinching together into focused knots, launching nearly everyone off onto exciting new trajectories. While this episode may be one of the best episodes of Twin Peaks, it definitely has one of the worst names.
Comparing the Season One finale with the season two premiere is pretty interesting. Where Frost, the more natural writer, layered on intrigue after intrigue, Lynch completely pulled back from that and made me kind of squirm. There's the iconic and excruciating moments of inactivity, where Cooper is just laying on the floor, almost withdrawn completely.
Then there's The Giant. I'm conflicted on The Giant. I think lots of self indulgence in how he's written, with the whole riddles thing, and yet he also has a very powerful air. Whereas the dancing scene from early in S1 was completely new and striking, this was another look at the same basic idea.
That said, worth noting that Frost still did write the teleplay of the season 2 premiere. I think it brings out a different side of him as a writer - he can write tightly-wound plot acceleration, but is also aware of the long-form challenges of a full season and can be very methodical when necessary. Actually, I think too much so in this episode; my big complaint is that there's so much exposition retreading previous ground. It can feel sort of aimless at times.
This summer I started watching Frost's Hill Street Blues episodes to see if I could trace any influence on Twin Peaks. Only a few were available, but there were actually some very revealing parallels (especially with stuff that would come up later in season 2). But one fun thing I noticed: he has a scene in which two characters are trying to have sex during a short lunch break and they keep being interrupted by...you guessed it, an extremely old, slow room service waiter.
Another fun anecdote: apparently David Lynch spontaneously called Frost up when they were beginning to work on the script and simply said, "Mark, there's a giant in Cooper's room." And supposedly Frost simply replied, "David, I believe you."
Really excited to see the response to this episode. The first time I saw it I loved it, the second I thought it was a big disappointment. Now I lean more toward the favorable side - there are so many great moments, even if the whole thing does feel a bit shapeless in comparison to some of the tighter parts of the series.
This was when a lot of critics and viewers began complaining that the show was just indulging in "weirdness-for-weirdness" sake and that Lynch was laughing at them. The ratings also went into a tailspin immediately following this episode, but that may also be due to the schedule: starting with the very next episode, Twin Peaks began airing on a Saturday night, the worst time for Twin Peaks' hip, young audience to be home.
To me, this stretch is where Twin Peaks gets really interesting. The first season is a blast - fun, playful, absorbing, suspenseful - but season two (at least initially) grabs ahold of you in a much deeper, darker way. Let's face it - even today, how many half-comedic (or even full-on gritty) whodunits would flash back to a really relentless, unremitting depiction of the victim's tortuous demise? I think this is the first indication that John Leonard was wrong about Twin Peaks having "nothing at all in its pretty little head except the desire to please."
Incidentally - at the time there was a popular theory, advocated by a critic with the L.A. Times, that Bob is not killing Laura in the final scene, but giving her CPR. I'll let first-time viewers suss that one out for themselves.
Oh, and another thing: while this episode gets darker than anything since the pilot, it's also got some of the most hilarious bits. My particular favorite is Ben and Jerry spontaneously dancing when Leland enters the Great Northern office.
Ben visiting Audrey at One-Eyed Jack's - so creepy, but beautifully played and shot with the colors popping, the wide lens and the Steadicam; is that the first Steadicam on the series (and in Lynch? I can't remember what's in Wild at Heart but that's a pretty freewheeling film so maybe)
Also, the overhead shot when Agent Cooper is laying out the events the night Laura Palmer died, slowly scrolling across the table full of donuts while there are these soft fades of iconic imagery like the tree tops blowing in the wind, the traffic light, etc.
There are of course a couple of odd things about the episode as well. While I think I conceptually get the shift for Donna's character where she suddenly turns into a noir femme fatale character, I dunno how I feel about the actual execution. I'm also not sure that some of the physical gags work for me as well as some of the other episodes, but that's totally subjective.
The goofiness of this episode is off-set, like so many more episodes in Season 2 by a really moving/poignant moment and for me that moment is Briggs and son in the diner. It's so bizarre that a show that had so many alienating surreal moments also produced something this emotionally relevant and then just veers right back into the absurdity and also incredibly dark horror elements.
Man, Major Briggs. One of the best sleeper characters in the series. In some ways, it's criminal how long it took for the show to acknowledge him as a character. Just this strange, articulate, brilliant character.
Now that we've completed the series through the season 2 premiere, I'll share this video I've created here, the first part of a 4-part "journey through Twin Peaks." It is sort of a visual podcast - commenting on the show as it unfolds and providing some context, while mixing the narration with clips and montages. Part 1 (linked below) does not contain any plot spoilers for stuff past this episode, although I do use occasional brief clips from Fire Walk With Me and some later episodes in the introduction, so use your own judgement (you may see certain characters or locations featured again so if that's too much of a spoiler, don't watch). The purpose of the TV montage, about 3 minutes in, is to look at different aspects of the show before zooming in on Laura Palmer via the grief of those closest to her (friends, family) and then a quick non-spoilery clip from FWWM segues into the classroom scene of the pilot. From there, I tackle the show in short groups of episodes without looking ahead:
It can be watched in one full Vimeo video (1/2 hour) or in smaller 4-8 minute chapters on YouTube. Please feel free to share your own thoughts on this group of episodes (and my right/wrong opinions of them!) here, there or elsewhere.
( I wont speculate how many times i have watched it, other than that i wore out my vhs box set in the 90's, and yes I had to put up with the European pilot as the first episode, which was weird because i forgot what the real pilot ending was until the gold box set. One more side note, if you can get your hands on the dvd release of the first season that came out around 98 most of the first season episodes have the directors of that episodes commentary on them.)
I was able to purchase those DVDs really cheap online this summer, when I found out those commentaries wouldn't be on the blu-ray. Very fascinating. (I get that Lynch doesn't like commentaries but it's a pity they couldn't just be included as audio tracks independent of video. That's how I ended up listening to them anyway.)
I lost my shit at that scene last night. They're just so happy Mad Leland is back, instead of Mopey Breaking Down Leland. It's especially bizarre/funny coming right after a nightmare scene in the Palmer house. Jerry's jumping worm dance is the best. You're right, so many good moments in this episode. Donna's heel turn. Andy knocking himself silly.
Watching last night was the first time I got the sense that maybe the old bellhop was mocking Cooper. I always felt it was just supposed to be quirky and awkward, but hanging up the phone, leaving him in that state and then constantly coming back to give Cooper his own trademark thumbs up I was struck that maybe he was...less than friendly actually. But I don't remember much else of this Season so not sure.
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