I rewatched the original series not long ago and was surprised to find I was disappointed that it wasn’t quite weird enough. Other than that, all we really know about her character so far is she enunciates things sultrily and has an exaggerated sway to her walk. She also happens to share her initials with the titular town’s. We also meet new FBI agent Tammy Preston (Chrysta Bell), who, incidentally, is meant to be the agent who reviewed and wrote comments throughout Mark Frost’s The Secret History of Twin Peaks. Another welcome, familiar face is the sadly late Miguel Ferrer as Albert Rosenfield. Part 3 also sees the return of David Lynch as Gordon Cole and anytime Gordon Cole’s onscreen it’s an instant injection of joy into the proceedings.
It feels as though our experience may be mirroring Coop’s, being reeducated into the world as the influence of the Black Lodge ebbs away. Dougie commenting on what he witnesses in the Black Lodge mirrors what we’re all thinking (“That’s… weird”). Considering how often Lynch favors people speaking unnaturally in stunted sentences with lengthy pauses in-between, it’s worth calling attention to the naturalistic dialogue that he and Mark Frost are capable of when they’re so inclined.
What I love about these characters, and others we meet later, is they feel like normal people outside of the otherwise uncanny Twin Peaks universe. Then (after a lot of genuinely stomach-churning vomiting) we meet another Cooper lookalike, Dougie, and his prostitute friend Jade (Nafessa Williams). But it is deeply engrossing despite this and the pacing absolutely makes our time spent there all the more transporting. The sequence, in full, lasts a good fifteen minutes and-with all those banging noises and rewinding/fast-forwarding effects-tests the viewer’s patience at times. The purple environment Cooper drops into at the start is so simple looking yet so effectually otherworldly. But, to briefly comment on that opening sequence, some of it is just gorgeous.
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