10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Part 3

10. We've Probably Seen The Most F*cked Up Sequence David Lynch Has Ever Filmed

Part 3 begins with Dale Cooper crashing through a vortex within the Black Lodge, his hands inflated in a patented comical yet unsettling Lynchian image, before landing in an unseen dimension of it.

That dimension is as lush as it is expansive, a purple-hued netherworld of tower and endless ocean. Cooper then enters the tower to find himself locked in a room with an eyeless Lodge denizen. In an unprecedented use of editing, Lynch adopts a disturbing glitch effect to reflect both Cooper's tentativeness and the Lodge's impossible physics.

The spirit leads Cooper into a cosmic dimension before falling helplessly into the reaches of the cosmos before Cooper enters another room. In it, the actress who played Ronette Pulaski, here credited as 'American Girl', warns Cooper of an unseen 'Mother'. Even more impressive is Lynch's sound design; the pounding, erratic thudding on the door is deeply unsettling. The near total absence of Angelo Badalementi's score has angered many, but the spare use of sound elsewhere makes this sequence resonate to a frightening degree.

The entire sequence is both surreal smorgasbord and numerological puzzle, but analysing Lynch's surrealist oeuvre is self-defeating. Twin Peaks isn't Breaking Bad, a complex flash-forward to decode as the series unfolds. We will not see definitive answers to the impossible questions posed, but this wasn't purely a visual derangement of the senses...