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

1. The Most Peaks-y Roadhouse Performance

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Rebekah Del Rio's performance of "No Stars" was the closest the end credits Roadhouse scenes have come to capturing the woozy essence of the original series.

She commanded the stage adorned in a black and white chevron patterned dress - on-the-nose costume design, or a visual reminder of the evil overflowing into the town? The song was a gorgeous, haunting ballad, a heart-wrenching requiem for the abuse theme exhausted throughout the preceding 50 or so minutes. It's dangerous to conflate literal song titles with Lynch's indefinable work, but equally, each musical act has been chosen specifically to capture the mood of the piece. "No Stars" in this context can be read very much a treatise on the subject matter, especially when considering the benevolent cosmology of Part 8 and the outer space sacrifice of Lodge spirit Naido in Part 3.

There are only few stars in modern Twin Peaks - but as the Log Lady put it to Hawk in her own "Truman/True Men" wordplay soliloquy, even though the glow is "dying", "the circle is almost complete". Cooper's star is on the rise.

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