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elfismiles » Wed May 24, 2017 4:15 pm wrote:Have only seen the first 2 eps so far. Wifey has imposed viewing restrictions to pace ourselves. Eps 3 and 4 on tap for this coming Memorial Day Weekend.
Lovin it!
brekin wrote:I haven't seen it yet.
But this sequence I just ran into/over is dog shit.
That simply will not come off my shoe.
Is this an anomaly or is the series like this throughout?
I mean, this is like a bad Wes Anderson fan parody on Youtube or Lynch trying to do a SNL skit.
I actually like Cera, (and Brando in the Wild Ones and The Godfather) but this is...criminal.
Sunday night's pair of new Twin Peaks episodes revealed Cera’s role, and I suspect it will be the most polarizing thing about this near-universally acclaimed series. Cera is Wally "Brando" Brennan, the child of Lucy and Andy. When we meet Wally, he’s dressed exactly like Marlon Brando in The Wild One (I mean exactly), straddling a motorcycle outside the Twin Peak’s Sheriff’s Department. For the next five minutes—five minutes!—Cera delivers a mumbly, lispy monologue punctuated by long, awkward silences. He’s talking about… Lewis and Clark? His own shadow? How he’s cool with his parents turning his bedroom into a study?
This scene is as interminable as it is baffling. We get a little important exposition. (Sheriff Harry S. Truman is ill, which is as logical a way as any to write Michael Ontkean out of the series.) But more than anything, this strange, digressive scene is here because it is so goddamn funny. I would watch an entire hour of this. Everything about Wally Brando is such perfectly calibrated nonsense (though Cera, to his credit, never winks). So why is this scene there? If I had to guess, I’d say it’s because it made David Lynch laugh too.
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