The subsequent two sections comprise spoilers for “Residence.”

“Residence” stays positively Lynchian in the best way it exposes the American dream’s darkish underside. Generations of inbreeding have left the Peacock household subhuman, rotting their brains the best way any trendy political echo chamber would possibly do. Possibly this is the reason they bury the run of their litter in a neighboring sandlot the place children collect to play pick-up baseball. Blood comes effervescent up from the bottom like oil, proper beneath dwelling plate.

The setting is the city of Residence, Pennsylvania, which FBI brokers Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) liken to Mayberry from “The Andy Griffith Present.” Residence even has a same-named model of the “sheriff with no gun,” Andy Taylor, although he is performed by Tucker Smallwood, and technically he does have a service weapon that he retains in a lock field at dwelling.

It is a city the place folks do lock up their weapons however do not lock their doorways, although they need to possibly do the alternative of each. Confronted with a murdered new child on his watch, Sheriff Taylor stands arms akimbo, musing:

“I’ve seen and heard a number of the sick and horrible issues that go on outdoors my Residence. On the identical time, I knew we could not keep hidden ceaselessly… that sooner or later, the fashionable world would discover us and my hometown would change ceaselessly.”

The backward Peacocks and horrifying trendy world not solely discover Sheriff Taylor in his dwelling; they beat him and his spouse to demise with golf equipment like cavemen, to the tune of “Great! Great!” (sung by a Johnny Mathis soundalike since the actual Mathis disapproved). “We have been beginning to get a bit of involved,” Glen Morgan instructed the NYT, “so I introduced in our broadcast requirements and practices govt once we edited [that] scene.”