In what will come as a shocking revelation to absolutely no one, the Birth.Movies.Death. crew is full-on obsessed with Showtime's Twin Peaks: The Return. Oh, we may play it cool out here in public, but behind the scenes, away from prying eyes? We're as hopelessly addicted (and, yes, sometimes prone to theorizing) as the rest of you.

And so, yesterday, when a friend of the site tipped me off about a certain Twitter account that was digging very deep into Twin Peaks: The Return, I of course dropped what I was doing to investigate. What I discovered was the feed of Twitter user @ramontorrente, who has spent the last few months cataloguing some of New Peaks' most striking images...and comparing them to earlier David Lynch works.

What he's found is pretty cool, so I invited Ramón to select his top ten favorite 1:1 comparisons and to provide a little bit of commentary for each. Some are more convincing than others, but I think you'll agree that there are some striking similarities here, and that Ramón has definitely identified some recurring Lynch motifs in The Return.

Here are Ramón's favorites, in no particular order, along with his notes:

David Lynch:



- #TwinPeaks2017

- "Nude on a divan" (1979)



WOW LYNCH WOW pic.twitter.com/LCEDJ3ipPg — Ramón Torrente ♉ (@ramontorrente) July 30, 2017

Ramón says: "Meet Señorita Dido. She comes from some of Lynch's oldest drawings. Even the furniture's the same!"

Imagen 1 "The Grandmother" (D. Lynch, 1970). El "garden" que tenía el niño tras su ventana. De nuevo el cubo para delimitar lo infinito. pic.twitter.com/WdyxqmGNIM — Ramón Torrente ♉ (@ramontorrente) July 6, 2017

For this one, Ramón adds: "Boxes. There are so many boxes in Lynch's work, going all the way back to the beginning of his career. Influenced directly by Francis Bacon. A cubed space presented as the limits to ideas, imagination."

Insisto en la "Mujer Flotante" como idea continuada en Lynch. Decenas de ellas en sus obras. Y si hacemos caso a la anécdota presente en >> pic.twitter.com/pYSnIwzwHf — Ramón Torrente ♉ (@ramontorrente) July 6, 2017

Ramón notes: "Flying naked women. Just as it sounds! Many naked, floating women appear throughout Lynch's work. Some are seen here, but there are many more."

Ramón notes: "Floating figure (not women). The flying 'Fireman' from The Return, Part 8 is a visual that pops up in much of Lynch's art."

David Lynch y el "vómito demiúrgico". Desde 1967 a 2017. Cincuenta años con la misma idea.@ArgTwinPeaks @universoLynch @vigalondo pic.twitter.com/n9awLmmLVB — Ramón Torrente ♉ (@ramontorrente) June 28, 2017

Ramón: "Yes, vomit. Puking people. Lynch has been incorporating this imagery into his work for 50 years now."

David Lynch:



- 'Takin' it Down Low Insect is There' (2014)

- #TwinPeaks2017 pic.twitter.com/ciCmUf40G7 — Ramón Torrente ♉ (@ramontorrente) July 30, 2017

Twin Peaks S03E08 - Litografías de 2007 (David Lynch). "Insect and woman", "Insect by house with woman", "Insect bites woman". pic.twitter.com/CVGUkAeTk6 — Ramón Torrente ♉ (@ramontorrente) July 9, 2017

Ramón: "Insects and women. And, specifically, the idea of an insect going inside the mouth of a woman. Really."

David Lynch.



Twin Peaks (2017) / Litografía "Man and machine" (2007). pic.twitter.com/2sYDGmvups — Ramón Torrente ♉ (@ramontorrente) July 9, 2017

D. Lynch:



- Speakers from his own L.A. studio desk.

- Lamp sculture (undated)

- #TwinPeaks2017 pic.twitter.com/YWXnal1sOk — Ramón Torrente ♉ (@ramontorrente) August 5, 2017

Ramón: "This weird device or machine pops up somewhat frequently, as well."

Ramón: "Here we see Andy holding a strange, somewhat familiar object!"

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"Untitled, 1 Dark" (David Lynch, 1999)

Twin Peaks (M. Frost & D. Lynch, 2017)

----- pic.twitter.com/DTKljNPahJ — Ramón Torrente ♉ (@ramontorrente) July 14, 2017

Ramón: "A familiar, violet mountain."

Call me crazy. After months watching Lynch's pictures, I feel his childhood memories of Boise (Idaho) are in some #TwinPeaks2017 . (more) >> pic.twitter.com/7e3zoAoKNS — Ramón Torrente ♉ (@ramontorrente) August 11, 2017

Ramón: "And, finally: a satellite shaped liked Boise, Idaho."

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If you like what Ramón's done above, I highly recommend swinging by his Twitter feed and checking out some of the other lines he's been able to draw between Lynch projects. Does it all mean anything, beyond the obvious? I suspect not, but it's still really cool to see how Lynch has used some of his own drawings as the inspiration for some of The Return's most striking moments (I'm particulary fond of that bizarre gadget Andy's seen holding in the White Lodge).

What do you folks think? Pretty neat, eh?