On the eve of a new Twin Peaks series, it's instructive to return to early scholarly attempts to make sense of the show.

The legacy of Jean-Paul Gaultier.

Mork, from Mork and Mindy, was "subversive with an anarchistic strain of defiance for convention" according to a scholarly analysis.

The awesome destructive power of the beast is widely understood to be a metaphor for nuclear weapons. Is this too facile an idea?