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94% Avg. Tomatometer 99 Reviews 83% Avg. Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings In the 1990s, residents of quaint northwestern town Twin Peaks were stunned by the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer.
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- David Lynch
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- Kyle Maclachlan
May 22, 2017 · Ben Horne (Richard Beymer) is still running the hotel while ne’er do well brother Jerry ( David Patrick Kelly) has become a success selling cannabis derivatives. It is impossible to judge “Twin Peaks: The Return” on the basis of its story at this point as the various narrative strands are still being introduced and have yet to come ...
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Sep 11, 2017 9:37 pm
Posted: Sep 11, 2017 4:31 pm
Warning: Full spoilers for Showtime's Twin Peaks revival follows.
It might be safe to assume that many ardent Twin Peaks fans, if asked to choose between the tone of the original ground-breaking ABC series and the more disturbing "Rated M for Mature" vibe of David Lynch's Fire Walk with Me, would side with the TV show.
Not that Peaks fanatics can't, or don't, love and appreciate both, but when Showtime announced that Peaks was coming back, two and a half decades after it left us all hanging from a pretty steep cliff, the underlying and unspoken want was that we'd be getting more "show" and less Fire Walk with Me. Despite co-creator/directorDavid Lynch telling us all ahead of time that the Fire Walk with Me prequel film, and the happenings within it, would be crucial to understanding (hah!) the new series.
There are no renewal answers at this point, but something else to consider too is Showtime's actual frustrating M.O. as a premium cable network. Showtime, bless them, never met a hit show they didn't want more of. Even to the point where they don't even really like giving proper endings. Yes, I'm looking directly at you Dexter and Penny Dreadful - both of which were purposefully, to the detriment of the series, left somewhat open in case characters needed to be around for a spinoff and/or continuation. Showtime wanting more Peaks would not be a surprise at all and it just stands out to me so much, right now, that the final two episodes that aired together, went in two different directions.
The first was very tethered to the main plot and worked to sweep up a ton of story involving Coop's doppelgänger and the final destruction of BOB. The second one, "Part 18," took us into an element and world of the show that was never really discussed other than the word "electricity" and worked to try and bring Laura Palmer home - something that I didn't necessarily crave as closure. Laura was killed and I wanted her to be at peace (and not trapped for eternity in some trippy supernatural/alien prison), but I didn't need her resurrected. There was nothing in the DNA of Peaks that made me want her entire murder erased so that she could live again in the real world.
But there "Part 18" was, setting us up for an entirely new and different adventure. One that could possibly span an entire new season. It was a cliffhanger of a different breed. It wasn't just a cracked mirror and a "How's Annie?" tag at the end, it was a full on re-morphing of the show using elements already planted within Sarah Palmer's story. I'm just saying that the original show felt like it was cancelled on a regular cliffhanger, like many other shows over the years have been. The ending here, and Coop's unhealthy spell over in Odessa on the other side, surely felt like it was meant to take us into a new season.
And if it doesn't, though there's no reason Showtime would want this show "canceled," it can fall back on, if need be, Lynch's trademark proclivity to baffle and bemuse. There's certainly enough there for reddit threads to feast on for a few months, and people have already drawn up their own theories based on their assumption that the show won't be coming back.
Discouraging elements (purposeful or not) aside, there was a ton to love in this new Peaks - and yes, there's even room to appreciate the quiet majesty of something like a wonderful seven-minute floor sweep or a great five-minute shovel spray-painting. Fire Walk with Me was a massive part of this new series, connecting to everything from the Fat Trout trailer park to the Blue Rose case files to David Bowie's Phillip Jeffries (who returned as, or inside, a giant tea kettle type object). We learned about "Judy" (sort of), but mysteries still remain there about "her" and about who it was that was pretending to be Jeffries while ordering the hits on Evil Coop.
Outside of the Fire Walk with Me stories and the main FBI through line (which included the fun reveal of Laura Dern as Diane!), the show delicately dipped its toe into some really soft and sentimental things. Aside from the aforementioned Norma/Ed kiss and Bobby's redemption, the new Peaks acted as a wonderful swan song for actors Miguel Ferrer and Catherine E. Coulson, both of whom died after completing production. Coulson's death, as she was so noticeably physically ill while shooting, was actually written into the story and made for a very moving phone conversation between the Log Lady and Hawk.
Twin Peaks returned for a stupendous summer run filled with beauty, banality, and brutality. Each time it gave us something we may have wanted, it held something else back. Those wanting answers, or in the very least closure, might understandably feel a little adrift right now, but it can't be denied that Peaks came back as a true artistic force th...
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Sep 4, 2017 · A review of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s ‘Twin Peaks: The Return,’ and why the finale was a perfect non-ending for the series. The finale was a perfect non-ending to everything that came ...
- Matt Zoller Seitz
- Features Writer
May 22, 2017 · The same is true for the first two hours of The Return. The South Dakota sequences felt at times like a Twin Peaks pastiche with pieces of an unproduced pilot episode being stitched together to make this revival possible. The same goes for Sam and Tracey's fate, as the mysteriousness of Sam's job and its connection to the Black Lodge and Cooper ...
- Kevin Yeoman
May 21, 2017 · Twin Peaks: The Return was ghastly, comic, romantic, mysterious, and unlike anything ever to come before it. It was some damn fine coffee. Twin Peaks is a peculiar kind of game, one almost ...
Sep 12, 2017 · The Verdict. Twin Peaks returned for a stupendous summer run filled with beauty, banality, and brutality. Each time it gave us something we may have wanted, it held something else back. Those wanting answers, or in the very least closure, might understandably feel a little adrift right now, but it can't be denied that Peaks came back as a true ...
