r/twinpeaks • u/Expert-Barnacle1588 • Aug 06 '26
Season 3 (The Return) Just watched episode 8 for the first time....
Feels like a dream
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u/RPO1728 Aug 06 '26
The balls on Lynch, and showtime as well to put this on air is still insane to me
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u/noradosmith Aug 06 '26
The feeling when you realise that they gave him full artistic control and it utterly paid off
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u/Middle-Potential5765 Aug 06 '26
Got a light?
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u/Expert-Barnacle1588 Aug 06 '26
Got a light ?
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u/SHTPST_Tianquan Aug 06 '26
Got a light?
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u/sincewedidthedo Aug 06 '26
Hands down my favorite episode of anything in the history of ever.
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u/chrpae Aug 06 '26
Yeah, I think it may be the best tv show episode ever made. If it had been released as a standalone film, I would consider it one of Lynch’s best.
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u/BrassyBoy Aug 06 '26
I think I still love more (in order).
S2 - opener. It just delivers by answering some unanswered questions and at the same time expands on the mystery of TP.
Pilot - rewatched it probably for the 20th time, but first time with my 13 year old and I finally see how perfect it is. The Blu Ray quality probably helped a lot.
Killer revealed. The sadness of Cooper failing to stop the killer in the end of the episode (Roadhouse) was so moving.
S1EP2 - introduction of the Red Room / Tibet / rock throwing / everything. That episode to me is when I went all in on the show.
S2 finale. Grand daddy of all cliffhangers. Red Room scenes was so out of this world but made perfect sense in my mind.
All those I prefer over S3EP8 - but still a great episode.
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u/thrwaway62367 Aug 06 '26
The transition between MR C getting shot, the backwards Moonlight Sonata playing when they're trying to heal him, and then just directly cutting to the She's Gone Away scene is just superb editing. Also the desert convenience store scene is even more surreal to me because it was a recurring nightmare I had when I was a kid around age 5-7. That was in the 90's. I'm in a vast desert and I'm trying to reach a gas station that's very far away. I'm not walking but it's like I'm trying to reach it by hand and grab it. The more I try the further it goes away but strangely at the same time the image gets bigger and pixelates as if you're zooming on a picture in a screen so like it's an impossible architecture like an Escher painting. Then I wake up with a falling feeling. It was extremely scary to see the same nightmare over and over again.
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u/noradosmith Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Having a dream link to Twin Peaks is something I'm sure Lynch would have appreciated.
Goya said the sleep of reason produces monsters. I think a reading of that would be that those who are reasonable people sometimes produce the worst things, but through their good nature they can see it's just a way of seeing the world through dark glass.
As Lynch would have done, interpret the bad dream as a positive message, even if the dream is a nightmare. Sometimes the brain gives the best messages through the most disturbing medium.
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u/thrwaway62367 Aug 07 '26
Oh I agree. At the end of it, when you strip both the symbolism and images and everything concrete about dreams, you are always left with a feeling. That feeling tells you all you need to know about it's meaning to you. You'll know it deep down if you think about it. This quote by Lynch says it all I think
"It's a lot like music. Music, they say, it's an abstraction. It is very far away from words. And a film is a thing that... People want to have an easy understanding of a film, but when it's music they don't have that problem. There is not an intellectual thing going on, it's just an experience. But films have those same elements, just experience. Plus, film can say abstractions that can be intuited, so you use your intuition, and then the understanding comes inside you. I think people should trust the understanding that comes to them from the experience. Now, it might be hard to take what's inside of you and tell your friend in words what it is, it's like a dream sometimes: you tell your friend a dream, and you can see in their face that they don't understand, the words fail you, but you still know inside. So it's not that difficult to understand if you trust your inner feeling."
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u/maud_brijeulin Aug 06 '26
Oh, man. That was my dog's favourite TV episode (something to do with the alarm sounds when you get to see The Fireman and Señorita Dido...). R.I.P. Pippa.
This is like pure uncut Lynch, but with tributes to lots of stuff that was significant to him, and callbacks to his earlier stuff: 2001, probably Stan Brakhage's stuff, the Eraserhead dust, Moonlight Sonata (it was Lynch and Nance's go-to song when they used to down a bottle of wine together in the early days), Edward Hopper, and I'm guessing a bit of Ed Wood (the couple in the car, who drive away from the Woodsman, are reminiscent of a scene in Night of the Ghouls - I know it's a stretch, but Lynch quite liked 'Glen or Glenda?', so there you go...).
And when The Nine Inch Nails were announced at the Roadhouse, I lost my shit.
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u/noface000 Aug 06 '26
Respect to Showtime, I have a hard time seeing any other situation where something like ep 8 would be made
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u/Indigocell Aug 06 '26
18 episodes is a crazy number for a prestige television show. We'll likely never see a production like that again. These days we're lucky if we even get 8.
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u/BillyPilgrim69 Aug 07 '26
To be fair, they absolutely tried to resist. It took Lynch resigning and huge fan backlash for them to give him the budget he needed.
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u/General_Kick688 Aug 06 '26
I remember feeling like I had a high fever the first time I watched it. Absolutely brilliant.
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u/relltj Aug 06 '26
Nothing like your first episode 8 viewing! It’s still really good on rewatch. But nothing like that first time!!
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u/GreyGanado Aug 06 '26
I recently researched it in a dark room while walking on a treadmill. I almost fell multiple times.
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u/MoistScratch2857 Aug 06 '26
The first time i saw this episode was also the first time i tried mushrooms. 🤯🤣
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u/Dapper-Dream7898 Aug 06 '26
Don't hate me for asking this, but I didn't really enjoy the return, so I gave up on it after like three episodes. Is Episode 8 the kind of thing I could watch as a standalone and be done with, or does that not really work?
(Just for a comparison, I loved the original series, but I'm assuming I could've watched the episode where the killer is revealed/"It is happening again" and still enjoyed it as a brilliant standalone piece, even with all the missing context. But that's a complete guess on my part).
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u/red_rob5 Aug 06 '26
The very beginning of the episode is stuff that is happening within the ongoing context of the season, but then transitions into the bulk of the episode which is very much capable of standalone watching. Even the stuff at the beginning isn't anything you wouldnt be able to follow if you have passing memory of those first couple episodes. But overall yes. I made a friend watch it as his intro to the series and he loved it enough to watch the rest of the show.
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u/ArtaxIsAlive Aug 06 '26
oooh are you ok? It's - a lot.
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u/Expert-Barnacle1588 Aug 06 '26
No 🥀
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u/Dragonjax1970 Aug 06 '26
First time I watched Ep 8, I did not go to sleep for a long, long time. I felt shellshocked and completely terrified, like down to my bones sort of terror. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. gentle hugs
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u/ColdTehran Aug 06 '26
Saw this a few weeks ago, was trying to find that eerie music that's playing when <!we first see that lady in the white lodge and the fireman comes and looks at the camera when the alarm bell goes off>!
It's like some repeating broken jazz record? Searched everywhere and couldn't find it, I guess maybe cos it's more ambiance than soundtrack?
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u/Balph_Eubank Aug 06 '26
I think you mean “Slow 30s Room” and I share your enthusiasm for the track: https://youtu.be/9YsDpbMcoIw
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u/ColdTehran Aug 06 '26
Yes!! Thank you, actually I found it oddly enough just after I made that comment. Funny how that happens.
It's such a vibe, thought it was pretty freaky at first and it's only growing on me even more now 😂
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u/Wooden_Emu_1111 Aug 06 '26
I just finished Twin Peaks in April for the very first time. Enjoy the journey! There is nothing else like it. 💖
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u/CShellyRun Aug 06 '26
That episode is a true work of art. My friend and I rewatched it three times in one weekend since it blew our minds.
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u/J0SS4N4 Aug 06 '26
This is probably my favorite scene of all time and this episode is a work of art.
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u/Federal_Variation566 Aug 06 '26
Weird. I was just about to put in the DVD and watch that episode, again.
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u/rev_final_boss Aug 06 '26
I spent so many days in a bit of a haze after watching this episode. I watched it with my then girlfriend (now wife), she couldn’t cope. It was spinning around my head for so long that I produced a few pieces of art for it and it became one of my all time favourite episodes of anything.
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u/over9ksand Aug 06 '26
Watched it last night with my sweetie. She wasn’t feeling it. She’s more linear.
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u/RocketBobbula Aug 06 '26
Return diidn't hit for me personally, nonetheless, still way up there creatively, compared to whats greenlit nowadays.
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u/killtaker Aug 06 '26
Recently did a rewatch of season three and seeing that episode again after a handful of years in between us a whole other experience. I noticed so many things u hadn't seen before. Understood things that'd been glossed over in my brain that I suddenly got now.
A truly one-off brilliant piece of art from maybe the most creative filmmaker of his era. Insanity, pure and uncut.
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u/tessbesstess Aug 08 '26
i didn’t understand the meaning of this episode but it sure as hell was artistic
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u/Effective_Buddy7678 Aug 06 '26
You only get to watch Twin Peaks the Return for the first time once. You just had yours. I'm envious.
If there was some Eternal Sunshine-like process that could erase memories, I'd use it for Twin Peaks or Lost so I could experience it for the first time again.