VR on TV

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...