By committing to directing all of the episodes for this forthcoming Showtime mini-series, David Lynch is basically admitting he’s run out of ideas that have something to do with the here-and-now…right? Everyone will watch, of course, but this is what it feels like to me — a cash-in, a capitulation, a folding of the tent. The original Twin Peaks series went on too long as it was. What was that show about anyway? Unspeakable demonic evil in the rural Northwest takes the life of a perverse local lassie and….what else?
