It's not about the fact that he likes coffee, it's about the style in which he expresses it and the absurd extent of his coffee obsession. "Damn fine coffee... And HOT!"
It's Cooper's equivalent of all the scenes where the cops chow down on donuts, or the scene in an early episode where the Horne brothers stuff their faces with the sandwiches and can't talk. The show plays up for humor the idea that these archetypal "thriller" characters have over the top, silly appetites for their favorite foods. It's a clashing mix of themes from a serious thriller story together with an Andy Griffith show sort of comedy that works because it doesn't belong.
100%, I think that’s true. I think Lynch is also big on studying base instincts and human pleasures. That includes some of the darker things we see people do but it also includes love and food. Cooper’s extremely human enjoyment of sweet Cherry Pie might even be some kind of flip side to the Black Lodge’s creamed corn thing (the garmonbozia, meant to represent literal pain and suffering)
And looking at food could further the point of how the differences between Twin Peaks and The Return give us insight into what Lynch is trying to say (if anything). The food in Twin Peaks has this wholesome and fresh quality to it. I would have to watch through The Return again to see if there’s anything actually significant to this, but I remember characters, especially of evil cooper’s sort, eating processed chips like Cheetos and fast food burgers. And then of course there’s Norma’s new profit-oriented boyfriend trying to get her to switch away from locally sourced ingredients.
Twin Peaks is such an incredible artistic accomplishment. A singular story that spans 2 seasons of network television, a feature film and an 18-episode streaming series is something that can and never will happen again. It is both "IP" and "anti-IP". It's incredibly accessible and light and also deeply weird and horrifying.
I was around for the first round of hype -- but the show really picked up its cult reputation in college, when people binged the VHS tapes. Lynch's POV is deeply weird, but resonates across the decades because it identifies "the evil in the woods" as the demons that feed on our pain and suffering.
In a world now obsessed with Lynch's visions of evil -- what is One Eyed Jacks if not Epstein Island? -- and filled with Garmonbozia and demands for EEEEEElectricity, Twin Peaks is the definitive horror/noir of the late 20th/early 21st century. The questions of: Who are we? What year is it? Can we save anyone? Is anyone worth saving? Are the core questions driving modern alienation and anxiety.
Twin Perfect’s exhaustive YouTube explainers of Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive are great masterpieces in themselves. Let’s petition him to do an explainer of Inland Empire.
It's not about the fact that he likes coffee, it's about the style in which he expresses it and the absurd extent of his coffee obsession. "Damn fine coffee... And HOT!"
It's Cooper's equivalent of all the scenes where the cops chow down on donuts, or the scene in an early episode where the Horne brothers stuff their faces with the sandwiches and can't talk. The show plays up for humor the idea that these archetypal "thriller" characters have over the top, silly appetites for their favorite foods. It's a clashing mix of themes from a serious thriller story together with an Andy Griffith show sort of comedy that works because it doesn't belong.
100%, I think that’s true. I think Lynch is also big on studying base instincts and human pleasures. That includes some of the darker things we see people do but it also includes love and food. Cooper’s extremely human enjoyment of sweet Cherry Pie might even be some kind of flip side to the Black Lodge’s creamed corn thing (the garmonbozia, meant to represent literal pain and suffering)
And looking at food could further the point of how the differences between Twin Peaks and The Return give us insight into what Lynch is trying to say (if anything). The food in Twin Peaks has this wholesome and fresh quality to it. I would have to watch through The Return again to see if there’s anything actually significant to this, but I remember characters, especially of evil cooper’s sort, eating processed chips like Cheetos and fast food burgers. And then of course there’s Norma’s new profit-oriented boyfriend trying to get her to switch away from locally sourced ingredients.
Twin Peaks is such an incredible artistic accomplishment. A singular story that spans 2 seasons of network television, a feature film and an 18-episode streaming series is something that can and never will happen again. It is both "IP" and "anti-IP". It's incredibly accessible and light and also deeply weird and horrifying.
I was around for the first round of hype -- but the show really picked up its cult reputation in college, when people binged the VHS tapes. Lynch's POV is deeply weird, but resonates across the decades because it identifies "the evil in the woods" as the demons that feed on our pain and suffering.
In a world now obsessed with Lynch's visions of evil -- what is One Eyed Jacks if not Epstein Island? -- and filled with Garmonbozia and demands for EEEEEElectricity, Twin Peaks is the definitive horror/noir of the late 20th/early 21st century. The questions of: Who are we? What year is it? Can we save anyone? Is anyone worth saving? Are the core questions driving modern alienation and anxiety.
Twin Perfect’s exhaustive YouTube explainers of Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive are great masterpieces in themselves. Let’s petition him to do an explainer of Inland Empire.