Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

David Lynch movies are not just terrible but interminable, which is what makes them works of genius: at various points people who ultimately can’t stand how slow paced and dreadful these bizarre slogs are will renew their interest in them, only to abandon them after a few weeks

Painful, throbbing banality that tricks the smart set into periodically claiming it is brilliant, even if they can’t finish them and can barely remember the point of the major set pieces in Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, and (especially) Twin Peaks, which briefly went mainstream