Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

Remember three years ago, when Laura Palmer's bloated blue lips opened up a hole in your TV? Part of the thrill of those first episodes of Twin Peaks was the fact that something so self-consciously strange had no business being on network television. Even if the show's pregnant nothings became cloying over the weeks, the space it opened up—menacing, surreal and tediously oblique—seemed to signify some larger mutation of the airwaves. For Lynch did much more than sneak pomo idiosyncrasies...

“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

Remember three years ago, when Laura Palmer's bloated blue lips opened up a hole in your TV? Part of the thrill of those first episodes of Twin Peaks was the fact that something so self-consciously strange had no business being on network television. Even if the show's pregnant nothings became cloying over the weeks, the space it opened up—menacing, surreal and tediously oblique—seemed to signify some larger mutation of the airwaves. For Lynch did much more than sneak pomo idiosyncrasies...

There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people

Remember three years ago, when Laura Palmer's bloated blue lips opened up a hole in your TV? Part of the thrill of those first episodes of Twin Peaks was the fact that something so self-consciously strange had no business being on network television. Even if the show's pregnant nothings became cloying over the weeks, the space it opened up—menacing, surreal and tediously oblique—seemed to signify some larger mutation of the airwaves. For Lynch did much more than sneak pomo idiosyncrasies...

It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

Remember three years ago, when Laura Palmer's bloated blue lips opened up a hole in your TV? Part of the thrill of those first episodes of Twin Peaks was the fact that something so self-consciously strange had no business being on network television. Even if the show's pregnant nothings became cloying over the weeks, the space it opened up—menacing, surreal and tediously oblique—seemed to signify some larger mutation of the airwaves. For Lynch did much more than sneak pomo idiosyncrasies...

But what if the medium is the message?

Remember three years ago, when Laura Palmer's bloated blue lips opened up a hole in your TV? Part of the thrill of those first episodes of Twin Peaks was the fact that something so self-consciously strange had no business being on network television. Even if the show's pregnant nothings became cloying over the weeks, the space it opened up—menacing, surreal and tediously oblique—seemed to signify some larger mutation of the airwaves. For Lynch did much more than sneak pomo idiosyncrasies...