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Lost Highway / The Chair Company
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If you read this blog regularly then you know I hate the term “Lynchian” or when any recent movie/tv show/online skit/whatever gets compared to the work of David Lynch. I’m saying this as a fan of his work. It’s not just that the comparisons are usually bad, but it always gets whittled down and simplified to something “weird” or “goofy”. I don’t deny that there are in fact weird and/or goofy moments in Lynch’s work or that he played a part in his own memefication, but there’s so much more to what he does. There is some thought and a lot of craft that went in to his films but it always gets over simplified to something random or surreal as if David Lynch is the only filmmaker to ever explore surreality. He’s not. And the more people call something “Lynchian”, the more I’m convinced they don’t actually pay attention to his movies and only go off of out of context clips they see on Twitter, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram.
Recently I’ve seen a lot of people compare Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company to the films of David Lynch and I blindly protested against it in a very overly protective way on behalf of one of my favorite filmmakers. It’s not even that I dislike The Chair Company. I’m enjoying it so far. I love just about anything that Tim Robinson does even if I do feel the Tim Robinson fatigue slowly approaching. But comparing a comedy or anything that can be easily memefied to Lynch’s work always feels cheap to me.
But I went back and rewatched episodes of the Chair Company and now I’m starting to rethink my stance.
| Wild At Heart / The Chair Company |
The overall plot of the show isn’t really something David Lynch has explored, but isolated moments and sequences are starting to feel quite Lynch-esque.
I’ve compiled some visual comparisons below that I’ll be adding on to as The Chair Company isn’t finished yet. But for now I’d like to apologize for my cynicism and pushback. Maybe in this one particular case, the Lynch comparison actually makes sense…
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Lost Highway / The Chair Company
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Lost Highway / The Chair Company
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Lost Highway / The Chair Company
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Twin Peaks / The Chair Company
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Twin Peaks / The Chair Company
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Inland Empire / The Chair Company
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Mulholland Drive / The Chair Company
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Lost Highway / The Chair Company
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Blue Velvet / The Chair Company
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Mulholland Drive / The Chair Company
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Blue Velvet / The Chair Company
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