Twin Peaks: Lonely Souls

 "Would somebody please tell me what the hell is going on here?"

Ah, you can always tell when David Lynch directs an episode himself. The dreamlike quality here was through the roof, from the shooting from above in the hotel lobby early on to that extraordinary final scene in the bar. A surprising amount happens here, much of it gloriously weird.

I won't recount every aspect of the complex unfolding plot, from the shock for Shelley of suddenly being broke and having to look after Leo, her vegetable of an abusive husband "New shoes!") to the unfolding effects of Harold Smith's suicide or even the admittedly weird nature of Nadine's age regression, with the added squashing of a knickerbocker glory. And no, those last few words are not ones I ever imagined myself typing.

No: after the revelations of the One Armed Man last episode things have moved up a gear. Audrey has got her creep off a father to confess to her his doings at One Eyed Jack's and with Laura, and we end up with him being arrested. But we also have not only the Log Lady but also, on stage, the Giant, warning Agent Cooper that, in the Giant's words, "it's happening again"... and, just before she was planning, to leave Twin Peaks, Maddie is attacked by Leland, possessed as per the One Armed Man's explanation, seeming to kill her, having just suddenly killed his wife for good measure...

And the whole ending, the mood and the texture of it, is absolutely peak David Lynch.