In Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me , the much-scorned theatrical-release prequel that Lynch made after the end of the series, the little red-suited man pops up again and slurs out something that gets subtitled as I want all my … garmonbozia pain and sorrow. Moments later, we see him in horrible close-up, nibbling on a spoonful of something that looks like creamed corn.
Deep as we are in Lynchian wackiness here, the meaning is not obscure: The little red-suited man and his fellow denizens of the dream realm have a taste for human suffering, which they call garmonbozia and consume in the form of a viscous, pearlescent psychic distillate.
Twin Peaks , as a narrative, had a core of almost blackout darkness. Who killed Laura Palmer? This was the spine of the plot. For all its whimsy, Twin Peaks was piled high with garmonbozia. Dollops of garmonbozia have since become standard. What can, or should, we expect from Season 3? To calmly anticipate another ream of seamless prestige television, of the sort that is now ubiquitous, feels like an insult to the raw wizardry of David Lynch.
We will watch it, at any rate, not anchored to time and the boxy television set, but weightlessly adrift in our personal viewing cells. Everybody who watches the new Peaks has to recognize this and not be surprised or upset by it. A something friend of mine quit watching it after a few episodes because his mother had recently died of cancer; Twin Peaks made him feel as if he was reentering a space he never wanted to be in again.
That Twin Peaks is also coming back. We had our coffee. We had our pie. We had our donuts. We were ready for thrills, laughs, answers. The show spent the first part of its season premiere showing Cooper lying on the floor, summoning all the energy in his damaged body trying to tell an elderly, shuffling bellhop to go get help.
The scene went on and on. And on. It was amusing at first, but then it became maddening. This is what David Lynch does. Hard-core Lynchians are going to be mostly okay with it. Everyone else is going to start grumbling the first time Lynch wanders off the beaten path for several minutes to futz around. To quote something Park Chan-wook, a pretty Lynchian director himself, once told me in an interview, the most important relationship in a movie by a true artist is not between any two characters, but between the film and its viewer.
With Lynch, the relationship is complicated, to put it mildly, and there are times when his work is frustrating for what feels like no clear reason. Stuff like Twin Peaks turns a lot of people off. I mean a lot. Always has, always will. Like the best of Lynch, it pulls apart an American myth to reveal the dark, unpredictable heart at its center.
No matter their facades, people are capable of great horror and great kindness. Through the answer to this mystery, Twin Peaks expresses that as best it can. Twin Peaks returns Sunday , May 21 , at 9 pm on Showtime.
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