10 Things We Learned From Twin Peaks: The Return Premiere
8. That's Before We Even See Inside
The aforementioned box instantly cemented itself as an iconic, Lynchian visual motif.
What happened inside of it beautifully destroyed Steven Spielberg's old Jaws rule. Lynch showed us the monster inside, and it was as terrifying as any of his nightmarish creations.
The aforementioned young couple, in a curiously conventional horror movie staple, were eaten alive by the entity who with lurching agony materialised inside of it as they kissed on the couch from which they surveyed it. That entity was shifting in form - part Adam Jones, part classic alien grey, all unspeakable horror - but what happened later had yet more terrifying implications. The good, trapped Dale Cooper was flung into it from the Red Room, suggesting that it is a man made portal to the Black Lodge. In part, at least.
We've seen what's inside of the box, but it remains a wider, sinister and utterly absorbing and multi-layered mystery. Who created and is in presumed control of it? To what extent can it interact with the Lodge? Are there more portals elsewhere?
There is no whodunnit at the core of The Return, but there are more tangled and intoxicating mysteries lurking within every pore.