Long before the filmmaker David Lynch died earlier this year, the term “Lynchian” had been so widely applied to movies and TV shows that it was drained of any meaning beyond “weird.”

But lots of things are weird. Lynchian, however, is a very specific kind of weird — one in which the hilarious and terrifying, the whimsical and dreadful, the ordinary and surreal, the tender and the sadistic all mingle in such a way as to become inseparable, and to induce in the viewer a constant state of both fascination and unease.

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