What We're Watching

REVIEW
"Sometimes my arms bend back."

Since 1992 that typically Twin Peaks quote has stayed with me for no other reason than it occasionally acts as a rallying call for fellow devotees of this weird, scary, cultish murder mystery from the convoluted brain of genius David Lynch.

Other quotes ("damn fine coffee") and the array of characters who deliver them (Special Agent Dale Cooper, the Log Lady et al) have slipped more easily into the sub-culture, nurtured during the barren years since the TV series ended.

On the surface, it sounds like a routine pitch - Laura Palmer is found brutally murdered in a rural Pacific North West community and Cooper, along with Sheriff Harry S Truman must investigate.

What they find defies logic and, while the murder of the young beauty was the most comprehensible aspect of the two season series, it was merely a jumping off point into a world of surreality, magic, twisted logic and infuriatingly oblique references that have had the netheads blogging for years.

This is not comfortable viewing (think of Lynch's Blue Velvet) and not for those who like to pick at plotholes and illogicalities (that's kinda the point) but it's sexy psychedelic TV, gumming up the doors of perception with cherry pie.