Twin Peaks: The Return Review Compilation

So it was six months ago now that TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN finished airing, and unlike a lot of television things wrapping up and being forgotten once it is done, it had immediate cult status being directed by David Lynch, and being... well, TWIN PEAKS. It also has found legs in strange internet fights to have it recognized as a 'film' (Jarrett picked it as the best film of the year as what could really beat out the weekly experience of watching the show, and, uh, episode 8?). And hey, it screened over the course of three days at MOMA, which somehow legitimized this argument for anal weirdos on TheMovieDB, and now it is a truly a 'film', right?

In the summer of 2017 the Criterion Creeps podcast talked about the show week to week, and I (Jarrett) thought it would be an interesting idea to compile all those times we talked about THE RETURN on the show and put it together into one big long show. Who knows, might be worth listening to for future re-watchers/first time watchers of the show to see how much we got wrong, and see how that first experience holds up.

The whole act of putting this together was really interesting as I hadn't listened to any of those episodes besides the initial editing, and was made glad to be doing this podcast after some frequent self-questioning of if this worth doing at all as it now acts for me as a kind of time capsule of a time and place. I would never ever remember what I was thinking or doing the week of June 16th, 2017 if it weren't for this whole project. And I think it speaks to why the 'medium' of the podcast has taken off... for this very reason of appealing to our own vanity, insecurities, neuroses, and sense of leaving something tangible behind as we make our way through this dreary life. Uh, Have Fun!