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And now the most famous episode of Twin Peaks: The Return - Part 8 "Gotta Light?" THREAD 1/
I still remember the palpable excitement when this episode first aired starting with Peter Deming& #39;s Instagram post. It was a fantastic experience to watch it live every Sunday and afteward share thoughts on Twitter with the other fans. What a time to be alive. 2/
The best part about it was that you truly had no idea what was coming next week. No promos, no "next week on..." not even a hint. So Part 8 really came out of nowhere. Can& #39;t think of any other current TV series that did it like that. 3/
Mr. C and Ray drive down this road in Stevenson Ranch, California, very close to Dougie& #39;s house. Another discovery by my friend @samhowzit! 4/ https://tmblr.co/Z7xdtX2kHApNb ">https://tmblr.co/Z7xdtX2kH...
I love it how Lynch conditioned the viewers to expect a Roadhouse performance at the end of the episode only to subvert that expectation at several occasions, like in the case of the Nine Inch Nails. 5/
This sequence set to Krzysztof Penderecki& #39;s Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima is one of the most mesmerizing cinematic moments of the 21st century. It feels like the most expensive, groundbreaking experimental movie ever made. 6/
Part 8 is also the only episode of Twin Peaks: The Return that feels like a narrative, conceptual whole more so than a piece of the larger narrative. 7/
But the greatest part about it is that beyond its otherworldly visuals lies a fairly simple narrative of evil that men do and the forces of good that work to stop that evil. 8/
The White Lodge scene was filmed at the same spot as Club Silencio from Mulholland Drive - the historic Tower Theater in Downtown Los Angeles. Makes perfect sense to me that David Lynch would envision a movie theater as a place of ultimate goodness and beauty. 9/
This moment of Laura Palmer in the golden orb as the force of good in this world is one of the most touching moments in The Return. 10/
The effects in this episode are notably more hi-tech than the rest of the series, purposefully so, I imagine. 11/
The Pop& #39;s Diner scene from Part 8 was filmed at Chili John& #39;s in Burbank. Note their shout-out to the Woodsman: Gotta light? 12/
This is a moment of pure otherworldly, uncanny, deeply disturbing yet somehow beautiful poetry. 13/
I can& #39;t remember if I realized this was Sarah Palmer at the time I first saw it or if the realization came during later episodes, but the sound of the horse whinnying in the dark seems like a dead giveaway. 14/
