Twin Peaks: What kind of world are we living in?

Six years on, and I'm still amazed by the Twin Peaks revival. It was unlikly enough that it happened, and while it was also going to be good,I didn't expect it to be so fucking amazing.

It was five minutes into the nuclear explosion in episode eight that it really became clear how uncompromisingly weird it was going to be, and how it was going to make all the other television shows doing weird shit look like total try-hards, 

Just so full of great dialogue, and great philosophies - I roll with the whole idea of 'fix your hearts or die' so hard. But also getting into the whole idea of how trying to fix things can be the noblest of pursuits, but it will also take you to the darkest of places.

I see the world in microcosm in this series, with loads of spooky surrealism to sweeten the unexpected familiarity. Janey E's speech about the unfairness of the world, or the 'everyone's a little stressed' farce that ends in so much bloodshed.

I think about it a lot, I think about the final two minutes of the show so much it leaves me feeling queasy, and there are 17 more hours that are just as rich and meaty.

Plus it was just a terrific modern variety show, with some wonderful music - NIN killing it, Sharon Van Etten doing her best Sharon, and the maestro Angelo Badalamenti finding all new depths in the richness of his Peak themes.

I dig the dream logic, the genuinely shocking violence, the refusal to cut away from the mundane. I love all the the good people who keep this world working and I'm glad they're there to stand up against the vast forces of evil, selfishness and weakness that crash over them.

Lynch is still doing his own thing, and it wouldn't be surprsiring if he never touches this world again. But it also wouldn't be surprising it was to have new wekekly dose of twin peaks again, and for it to be not just good, but transcendently awesome. 

After all, we are lucky to have lived in the same piece of space time as David Lynch and his pals, and for all the wonderful easy weirdness they gave us.