10 Most Disturbing Twin Peaks Moments
7. The Glass Box
In 2017 Twin Peaks returned, but in what form?
Would we simply slip back to damn fine coffee and cherry pie, served in reverse by someone of unusually small or tall stature, while Cooper returns to defeat BOB and save the world? David Lynch and co-writer Mark Frost were never going to make things that easy; audiences just had no idea how right they really were.
The first episode of The Return gives us Sam Colby – a man hired for the sole purpose of watching a glass box housed in an empty warehouse. Watching an empty glass box with a tube at the back where nothing ever happens? It all sounds a little familiar – if Lynch is making a comment about television, his metaphor becomes clearer as the episode slides into straight out horror.
When Tracy persuades Sam to let her into the warehouse, it’s not long before the amorous couple have their heads violently torn to pieces in a fountain of blood by what is believed to be Judy, the 'mother of all evil in the world.' Lynch is showing us what bad TV does to our brains – it literally tears them to pieces. Judy takes the form of a faceless being with zenomorph qualities, referenced by Phillip Jeffries (David Bowie) in Fire Walk With Me, the 1992 prequel film and who is now a giant talking kettle in The Return.