Notes on Twin Peaks:

I should have started this sooner. Twin Peaks is sometimes funny and sometimes very scary. It's kind of like a soap opera, I guess. The acting is often very "bad" and the plot preposterously elaborate. But the emotions in it aren't overwrought like a soap opera, it doesn't have that hysterical seriousness, if that makes sense. It's difficult to describe the way people are in Twin Peaks. They're caricatures, definitely, but also so creepy somehow, and not just the creepy ones. I guess it's just the plasticity of them, the uncanniness of seeing a kind of robot, a person with a very rigid essence no matter the circumstances. Everybody is so unflappably themselves, or whatever they are in that episode, that nothing really affects them.

I want to remember that bizarre scene when James and Donna and the doppelganger all sing together in Donna's living room and it's so, so absurd, so hilariously sweeeeeet.

I just watched another episode. Cooper and the sheriff saved Audrey. Mr. Smith is menacing Donna and doppelganger with a gardening utensil. Was there anything special in this episode? I think Bobby's haircut is very '90s. It was action packed and slap stick and intense at times. There's a small town judiciary where they recess with a beer. Donna makes an atrociously cheesy speech about a first kiss. It'd be a fairly corny melodrama if it weren't so many disparate things slapped together.

And another! deprive witnesses of schizophrenic medication to release their other personalities so as to interrogate them! I think I like Twin Peaks best as a musical. Leland is marvelous. I don't know, there really isn't much to all this. I don't really have an excuse for watching it, odd as it is. There's nothing much to take from it. Lynch as Coop's boss, with very bad hearing, is wonderful.