Dark Neon: The Neighties

A Micro-Era Invisible to the Cultural Eye

Twin Peaks, “Beyond Life and Death”

June 10, 1991. My older brother took the TV over for the night. He took the TV over every night. I was six years old. He was 12. I had neither the intellectual nor emotional capacity to have taken in the entire run of Twin Peaks, but this was its grand finale, and it was expressed to me that this was a very. big. deal. My brother dimmed the lights and…