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Beyond the End
David Lynch spent his five-decade film and TV career contemplating life, death, and the indescribable realms in between.
A larger version of this ghostly wriggler appears in the eighth episode of his last major work, Twin Peaks: The Return(2017), a collaboration with writer Mark Frost that recreates the detonation of the first atom bomb and implies (among other things) that the event caused a rupture in the universe and admitted evil forces into our world. It’s about an elderly Iowan and lifelong smoker named Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth) who collapses on his kitchen floor and is advised by his doctor to stop smoking, then learns that his estranged brother (Harry Dean Stanton) is terminally ill and makes a 240-mile journey by tractor to try to heal the rift before one of them dies. Some are extra-dramatic, and pack a punch only if you know details of the production: for instance, Lynch and Frost made a point of writing parts for original Twin Peaks cast members Miguel Ferrer and Catherine Coulson even though they were both nearing the final stages of cancer, as well as Stanton, a lifelong smoker who died of heart failure at 91 a few months after the series premiered.
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