The Tim Dillon Show is disorienting and disturbing. It also has a massive audience, to whom it reflects back the disorientation and disturbance of contemporary society in pseudo-personalized form.
— Plato, Phaedrus
With his unique blend of craft mastery and psychosis, David Lynch produced films that were both immediately unintelligible and compelling. It’s the sign of good art — to elude the standard coordinates of interpretation and present something gripping to its audience, even if that thing is, at its very core, utterly horrifying.
Comedian Tim Dillon does not have the kinds of cinematographic tricks that Lynch used to conjure terrifying and hallucinatory scenes, but he manages to do so anyway. For the uninitiated, most episodes of the Tim Dillon Show feature Dillon talking at the