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'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'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's house. Another discovery by my friend @samhowzit! 4/ https://tmblr.co/Z7xdtX2kHApNb 

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'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's Diner scene from Part 8 was filmed at Chili John'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'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/

There isn't much I can say about this episode that hasn't already been said but it's truly one of the most original, visually striking hours of cinema ever made. 15/