Twin Peaks - Season 2, Episode 22: Beyond Life and Death
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A new season begins with much more challenges and excitement that follows the daily activity and struggle of Dale Cooper, a young intelligent FBI agent, who investigates on the murder of a young girl, the thing that challenges him, as he reveals more horrible secrets. This season begins with a similar murder that reopens the old case of Palmer.
This finale goes down as one of the strangest and most surreal (as well as most frustrating) things ever broadcast on mainstream American television, and it's a small miracle it ever aired at all.
It's true that the second season was wildly erratic. But the one constant throughout Twin Peaks was that whenever Lynch was sitting in the director's chair, he produced singularly stunning TV.
I think the sequence works brilliantly as an impressionistic depiction of the struggle between good and evil that's consistent with the vision Frost and Lynch established with the first episode.
Someone slamming their head against a wall, while BOB laughs and laughs in the background? Sounds like a pretty apt metaphor for watching Twin Peaks to me.
