PART 5

"...the atmospherics of Twin Peaks always outranked the story—or maybe it’s more precise to say the atmospherics were the story. Twin Peaks isn’t, and never has been, a procedural adorned with transcendental flourishes. The meaning has always been in the arcane, in the inscrutable, in the transcendental. The procedural elements are just the vehicle they ride around in. They’re the flashy details that get us to hop in for a ride, not the engine driving this thing."

"In Twin Peaks, the uncanny is there all the time. Every character comes across as a hyperreal estimation of someone trying to pass themselves off as human but not quite making it and leaving us feeling we’re in the presence of something derangedly strange. "