Why put two such similar scenes, slinging around such unfamiliar names, back to back? In part I think it’s meant to reinforce what’s emerging as one of the season’s central conceits: Twin Peaks is everywhere and everyone, not just one little town and the weird people in it. There are weird people there we haven’t met and never will. There are weird people in Deer Meadow, in Buckhorn, in Las Vegas, in New York, in Rio de Janeiro. There were weird people in that rich people neighborhood where James Hurley had his film noir storyline back in Season 2!
To whatever extent the original run of Twin Peaks was intended to feel like a peaceful idyll in a town time forgot — obviously it was much more complicated and sinister than that, but that was there — that’s gone now. Everywhere you look, characters on this show are constantly scrambling to stay one step ahead of the collection agency, the oncologist, the friend or family member who gets loose with his fists when he drinks. Poverty, disease, mental illness, and the threat of intimate violence and gun violence are everywhere.
In working on this review, I mentioned that last bit to my wife. “Well, they are,” she said simply.
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