David Lynch makes me think of a heavyweight boxer, close to retirement. You think you have seen all his tricks, you think you can second guess his every moves, you think that there is nothing on TV which you haven't seen and then... it's one suckerpunch after another and oh! look here is YOUR F***ING JAW on the ground!

                                                                                          MIND-BLOWN!

There is no denying that the third season of Twin Peaks is the weirdest thing you'll see on your screen this year. I can't even qualify it as "television" because it is so much more than that. This is not a TV series anymore, this is a proper movie, an essay in quantic philosophy, a sub-molecular pean to suburban morality. David Lynch and Mark Frost (let's not forget him) outsmart all our wildest dreams and stubbornly refuse to play by the rules. Proof is a transcendantal 8th episode which is the closest thing we have from a Twin Peaks backstory-mythology. It is probably time there to stop and warn about spoilers, but really, guys... There are no spoilers when it comes to David Lynch!

                                                                                    Run. Just... Run.

This episode starts very prosaically where the 7th ended: with Bad Cooper and Ray on the road, after successfully talking their way out of the prison they were held in. Then, a discussion arises about information detained by Ray, which Bad Cooper really really wants. Well... Curiously the genius of evil which is Bad Cooper gets double-crossed, but Ray gets to see the horrible side of his partner in crime, and he is not so happy about it...

You'd then expect Lynch to get back to the gazillions of storylines opened in the previous episodes, but NO! He does the opposite. Where most of the former episodes ended with a concert in the Bang Bang Bar, this is now the time chosen by David Lynch to treat us with a Nine Inch Nails concert! That's not fortuituous: NIN has been featured in Lost Highway as well.

Then, as soon as this is finished, here comes the moment David Lynch decides to challenge Kubrick on his own turf: back in 1945, we are in White Sands, New Mexico, and we are witnessing the birth of a new world with the explosion of a nuclear bomb - in a slow and gripping tracking shot reminiscent of A Space Odyssey famous "monolith travel" scene. Cue 10 good minutes of psychedelics images into the chain reaction of an atomic bomb. May I add also that this sequence leads me to think that David Lynch saw Jonathan Glazer's UNDER THE SKIN and that he liked a lot the first minutes.

This explosion seems to be the start for something sinister and evil and rings a bell into a sort of fortress lost in the middle of a dark dark sea... 

The two occupants there are woken up by a kind of alarm bell, and the actor Carl Struycken (credited as "????????") seems worried to see this explosion and what is... we must suppose... the BIRTH OF BOB! I mean... What else could it be?

Then, as a counter-measure of some sort, the pale gaunt giant invokes a golden orb containing our dearest Laura Palmer, which is duly sent into the world. 

And now guess what... THIS IS WHERE THE SHIT GETS WEIRD! We are transported in 1946, in New Mexico again. At the beginning, everything seems normal and even idyllic: a shy young boy walks a shy young girl back to her house in the dusk.

However, all those atomic tests seem to have turned the region upside down. A strange creature - half batracian, half insect - hatches in the middle of the desert, and a character called "the woodsman" starts to roam the countryside, asking with insistence "Got a light?" to anyone who has the bad luck to cross his path... And beware your skull if you can't oblige the poor man, because you'll end up MINDBLOWN (literally!). More than ever, this woodsman reminds me of the bum who lived behind the dinner's in Mulholland Drive. 

He even turns out to be a kind of poet of some sort. Taking possession of a mic in a radio station, he makes his best impression of a crooner to deliver these unforgettable lines:

This is the water, and this is the well. 

Drink full, and descend. 

The horse is the white of the eyes, and dark within

These lines, however cryptic, have the strange effect of making everyone sleep. Including the little girl... Which is important because there is a final twist, quite gross and disgusting, which I prefer not to talk about right now as long as I don't know who SHE IS... My guess is that she might Bob's mother OR of Laura Palmer herself. 

Never sleep with your mouth open.

That's it. I needed to write it out of my system after pondering about that episode all day long. I still have no certainty considering which direction the show is going or the signification of event he slightest detail. But I can't but acknowledge my admiration to David Lynch to deliver with a straightface such an awesome FUCK YOU to the producers/audience/detractors. And seeing the reactions of the fan base in the forums on Internet... EVERYBODY FUCKING LOVES IT!

Can't wait the next episode!