But we already know Laura Palmer is named after Gene Tierney’s character in the Otto Preminger noir Laura-I don’t think it’s all that far-fetched. My guess is that this is actually a reference to Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece The Glass Menagerie in which a mis-hearing of the word “pleurosis” becomes a weird southern-gothic motif of “Blue Roses.” Director Cole is hard of hearing and shouts things like “Cossacks? Cossacks are in Russia!” when someone says “Car sick.” And the southern belle in distress in Williams’ play is named… Laura.
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Red currants, oregano, thyme and tea show up, but for me the dominant note in all this delightful dissonance is chocolate.Įpisode 4: “Blue Rose?” “They don’t come any bluer!”įan Theory Alert: Lynch’s character, FBI Director Gordon Cole, uses the designation “blue rose” for paranormal cases, rather like “X-Files.” It’s never explained why, and it’s possible that it’s random (except Lynch never does random if he can do referential) or that it’s as simple as the fact that blue roses don’t occur in nature. It’s not sour-juicy it’s powdery and sugary, almost like cotton candy but… less pink? Anyway.) There’s also a light cherry note-not black cherry, a muted yellow-cherry thing, like a Queen Anne cherry versus a Bing (or, given the Washington terroir, I suppose Ranier is probably the varietal in play). Definitely milk chocolate, but also… some kind of weird candy note that is hard to pin down (“Cherry Jolly Rancher” occasionally comes up in Pinots, but that’s not what this is. In addition to the traditional Cab Sauv notes of blueberry, blackberry and vanilla, you will also detect… candy. Stranger Things has always combined science fiction, fantasy, and horror in a perfect symphony of 1980s nostalgia.Season 4 will be no exception, and it looks like it may even go further than any part of the show before. Like the episode, this wine has a lot of layers, many of them a little kooky. So, in honor of multiple entry points and definitely chocolate:Īlexandria Nicole Cellars 2009 Destiny Ridge Vineyard Estate a2 Cabernet Sauvignon, Horse Heaven Hills, $24
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Episode 3: “It’s not about the bunnies! … Is it about the bunnies?”Įpisode 3 is a paean to itself and to Lynch’s own freaky-deaky metaphysical sense of humor, with Kyle MacLachlan playing three separate iterations of himself, and without giving away the whole massively multilayered affair, ends with a contemplation of the chocolate bunnies Cooper logs as evidence in the very beginning of the first season.