The IMPOSSIBLE Twin Peaks Quiz

Tricked you, f*cker.

Laura Palmer Twin Peaks Pilot
ABC

David Lynch’s idealised version of Twin Peaks, before ABC demanded he reveal Laura Palmer’s killer, was that of a “continuing story”—one that yields endless mystery and detective work on the part of its devout cult audience to interpret it.

25 years of self-imposed exile later, cinema’s most surreal, violent, genius dreamer finally realised his.

Your writer interpreted the climactic events of The Return as an indictment of the American patriarchy and its mechanisms of control, using Special Agent Dale Cooper as a symbol of its awful, disruptive power. This Cooper, or a fragment of him, isn’t the impossibly wholesome and noble white knight of old; he is a sexual predator lurking in our midst, an intervening menace to innocence and agency. It is a brutally distressing theory, but increasingly, ours is a brutally distressing world. Using Cooper’s impossible hero as the vehicle with which to drive home its horrors was a stunningly effective desecration. You have doubtlessly concocted your own. That’s the magic of the continuing story.

In the possible, inter-dimensional absence of Dale Cooper, the responsibility of decoding these mysteries rests with you.

May the road rise up to meet your wheels…

1. Which Actor DIDN'T Criticise David Lynch During The Production Of The Return?

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