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No, I don’t know what just happened, either.
Let’s cut to the chase on that. The eighth episode of Showtime’s revived Twin Peaks went Full Cosmic, an hour-long spiraling portrait of supernatural surrealism. It all has to do with the first detonation of the nuclear bomb, on July 16, 1945. It also has to do with a movie theater in a castle on a mountain in a purple ocean in space. BOB, question mark? Laura Palmer, question mark? Also, “The” Nine Inch Nails.This post will be barely helpful. Tomorrow, my personal shaman Jeff Jensen will unleash his full recap, and together we will try to solve the riddle of the Woodsman on the newest episode of A Twin Peaks Podcast: A Podcast About Twin Peaks. Until then, here are the main talking points.
Dirty Cooper gets out-Dirty Cooper-ed. Dale’s nefarious doppelgänger was about to get his beloved information from Ray, by any means necessary. But Ray outwitted his foul friend, shooting him.
Then things got weird, although obviously “weird” is a relative term and honestly everything about this season pre-nuclear bomb seems wholly normal in hindsight.
Ghastly, charred figures emerged out of the shadows. These figures resembled the roasted ghost seen haunting Buckhorn PD — not to mention the strange man in the alley from Mulholland Drive. We can perhaps refer to them as the “Woodsmen” — one of them (their leader?) was called “Woodsman” in the credits, which connects back to the strange woodsmen seen hanging out with the Black Lodge entities in Fire Walk With Me.
The Woodsmen surrounded the fallen doppelgänger, seemed almost to be tearing into him, or perhaps blessing him? Ray fled and called Phillip Jeffries.
He said something about how something “may be the key to what this is all about.” That would be helpful! The bad Cooper woke up where Ray left him, but only after a performance by…“The” Nine Inch Nails. Which is how the Roadhouse’s MC introduced Trent Reznor’s legendary demon-industrial scuzz-goth rock band. In what we have to retroactively refer to as the most “realistic” part of the episode, the band performed “She’s Gone Away,” a song which begins with the lyrics “You dig in places ’til your fingers bleed.”
The Birth of the Atomic Age. July 16, White Sands, New Mexico, 5:29 a.m. The first detonation of the nuclear bomb. We seem to move into the ensuing mushroom cloud. Strange mad things happen on screen, perhaps destruction, perhaps the birth of destruction. The music during this sequence was “Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima,” a title that sounds like a clue. The Woodsmen appeared, laying claim…
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