The cult series’ success in the US, and perhaps elsewhere as well, seems to be closely linked to the regressive importance to food. Not artful food but warming, sweet food: coffee, cherry pie, doughnuts-as if to domesticate the primitive wildness of the act of eating, and to regress by the way of the uniformity of sweets. The English language, and American culture in particular, connect the words ‘soft’ and ‘sweet’, giving them a sexual connotation. The world of Twin Peaks begins as sugary sweet, but it is from such tender kindness, which gently leads us toward old, apparently inoffensive memories, that the horror arises. This notion of ease is first of all entirely on the surface, in this case a somewhat cracked civilisational veneer.Michael Chion
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