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  1. Maybe it's because I'm watching them in parallel but I see a lot of stylistic and tonal similarities between American Gods and Twin Peaks.
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      Both American Gods and Twin Peaks are best thought of as a loosely connected series of incredible and often beautiful scenes.
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        Like the scene of Jesus Christ helping Mexican immigrants cross to the USA. A brilliant stand-alone scene tied to loosely to wider narrative
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          Or the scene of the box in New York in Twin Peaks and what comes out. Brilliant and not overtly connected to a wider story immediately.
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            American Gods and Twin Peaks present slices of time and space from a world and allow the viewer to make the connections themselves.
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              To adapt Tarkovsky's framing of cinema as "sculpting time", these works are 'slicing time'. A distinct approach to long-form narrative.
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                Another parallel: both feel like they were made by an auteur (Fuller and Lynch respectively) in a way that serial drama often doesn't.