S3E8 Part 8

Twin Peaks: The Return Season 3 Episode 8 'Part 8' aired June 25, 2017 on Showtime. Season 3 holds 94 percent on Rotten Tomatoes from 461 critics; IndieWire called it 'another meteor' for the medium. Part 8 is the episode that most challenged what television is permitted to do. The hour opens with a Nine Inch Nails performance at the Roadhouse, transitions to a 1945 nuclear test in New Mexico, enters a vast silent void, witnesses the birth of something monstrous, and constructs a creation myth for the entire Twin Peaks universe in pure image and sound - no dialogue for long stretches, no narrative scaffolding, no concession to narrative convention. The New York Times noted Lynch's capacity to 'produce images television had never seen before' - Part 8 is where that assessment was tested against the hardest possible evidence. Critics and academics have produced more writing about this single episode than most complete television series receive in their entire runs.