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This article originally ran on May 28, 2017.
Were republishing it followingDavid Lynchs death.
David Lynch rearranges your brain.
So I know this in my bones.
(These shows speak Lynch with an accent.)
Thats something any halfway ambitious TV-maker might say whether its true or not.
So I have to think of the entire project in those terms.
Theres something fundamentally unfair about expecting viewers, critics included, to withhold judgment for three to four months.
Its, well, Lynchian.
That sounds like an infuriating way to look at a painting.
You might even come away thinking the experience was not worth the time you invested.
This is not a stunt.
This is not a show you turn your brain off and enjoy.
This is a seismic spectacle.
And the 18-hour, super-slow-motion movie structure adds a new layer of oddness.
Whats going on, though?
But again, I dont know Im just guessing.
The translation is necessarily inexact, but we get the gist, perhaps more emotionally than rationally.
Lynchs staging is, agonizingly at times, protracted.
while Dave Brubecks Take Five plays on the soundtrack.
But again, its worth reminding ourselves of the relativity of storytelling time.
There arent many TV shows Ive said that about.
This is one of them.
