Twin Peaks has now left an indelible mark on my life; a dream I can’t forget. For me, this sort of thing is best served with a healthy portion of solitude and rumination and reflection that you can’t quite get in a room of people with a work that begs to be discussed like Twin Peaks does. But after watching Lynch and Frost’s 3 seasons and then watching them again with this podcast as supplement, I begin to realize or remember, from all of those years of watching programs with my folks, that Television is a collective experience, maybe more than any other art form. Kate and Simon do such a beautiful job of opening up this proverbial can of worms that is Lynch’s opus by getting to what is maybe the point of any piece of really deliberate craft and self-expression with an audience in mind; that you, the audience, are a part of the work. It was never the point with this podcast, as so much television criticism and Twin Peaks discussions seem to think, to dissect all of the narrative connections and to suss out every detail of reasoning and plot. And while it may be our initial reaction to look for a continuous narrative thread, there is so much more hidden underneath this formality. Lynch, with all of his work, gives us the greatest gift he can; a filmic world through which we can experience a very simple and deliberate exposure of his mind and, in turn, our own. And Kate and Simon seem to realize that the best thing that we can do to appreciate this is to project onto this world with our own meanings and interpretations as an audience. Twin Peaks truly is the greatest television of all time because it does live in our world much like a dream that, while not real, lingers in our minds and represents terrible and beautiful truths. While beloved characters are being killed off in Game of Thrones and hackers are dismantling a Late Capitalist America in Mr. Robot, Twin Peaks is shocking us in more real ways; is reflecting our current time and place with greater accuracy because David Lynch accepts no filter on his mind. It was such a pleasure to experience this with such a dedicated group of individuals. Thank you.
