Twin Peaks (TV Series) Part 1 (2017) User Reviews

It Is Happening Again

[ThomasDrufke · 8/10 · 21 May 2017]

I don't think anyone knew what to expect when Twin Peaks finally returned from a 25+ year hiatus. So many loose ends, so many questions left unanswered, and yet, the 2 hour premiere only proved to pose more questions that I'm sure we won't get answers for quite some time. The first part was filled with long takes of trippy Lynchian visuals and new faces. Without any real trailers or marketing material, this episode was very hard to follow. Not that I thought anything Lynch did would be easy to understand, but this was particularly incomprehensible. We began with Cooper in the black lodge, same place we left him at the end of the series' original run in 1991. Yes, it seems Laura Palmer was right in saying we would see her again 25 years later. With a welcomed brief appearance from the giant, the opening set the stage for what we were about to see. And I think what we saw is fascinating, because every single shot feels like David Lynch's true vision for this show. There's no way Showtime interfered at all. Both episodes felt like something straight out of Lynch's entire body of work. Without the second episode, it's hard to really dive into the specifics of what the premiere entailed. 2 people in New York City were seemingly murdered by a white blob, the log lady notified Hawk of something strange related to Cooper, and more murders in South Dakota where a Cooper Doppelganger seems to be linked to. It was quite the first hour.

8.5/10

Episode 1

[Prismark10 · 8/10 · 23 May 2017]

The final episode of Twin Peaks back in 1991 finished with a cliffhanger as Agent Dale Cooper was possessed by the evil spirit of Bob. The subsequent feature film did not resolve matters as it was a prequel.

Twenty five years after the movie, we return to Twin Peaks, back to the room full of red drapes and zig zag carpets but writers David Lynch and Mark Frost have expanded as we move to New York, Las Vegas and to South Dakota.

Dale Cooper is still in the black lodge talking to a giant. There is an evolution tree with a brain. More horribly, Cooper's doppelganger is in the real world and is a proper nasty piece of work.

The log lady has phoned Hawk and cryptically asked him to look to get to Agent Cooper somehow. In the town of Twin Peaks some of the people we met years earlier are now older and still weirder.

In New York there is a box which has to be watched to keep bad spirits out. Therefore do not invite a lady friend in for coffees.

David Lynch as director changed the landscape of American television back in the early 1990s. This episode continues in the same vein but as it is now on a cable channel, he can use more bad language and sex.

The first episode moved slowly, had bits of surrealism, strange humour, yet also darkly layered where it could suddenly shock you with violence. I liked it, I never thought I would ever return to the world of Twin Peaks.

Stick with it

[morrisman-jm · 8/10 · 4 June 2020]

The pilot seemed completely disjointed and felt like it was jumping from one place to another too quickly and was starting to out bizarre itself. That's until the last 10 minutes, when the pieces fall into place and the story begins to fully shape, like a lot twin peaks, you have to keep your attention and follow it properly, it's one very strange ride.

disturbing, surreal, and funny; David lynch is as good as ever!

[framptonhollis · 10/10 · 21 May 2017]

Lynch's return to filmmaking is better than it has any right to be, and there's still seventeen more hours to go! This episode may have started a bit slowly, which is fine, but soon it becomes action packed, filled with bizarre details, haunting sound design, absurd humor, and ruthlessly shocking/horrific imagery. This is one of the strongest episodes of the television that I have ever seen, and it is on par with some of Lynch's finest works of surrealism.

While some who are not used to Lynch';s heavy style will likely hate this, those who are familiar with his work will adore this fascinating, entertaining, and shocking return to form. Within this horrific surface lies not only engaging mystery, but brilliant humor.

Quite possibly the greatest TV episode of all time

[asda-man · 23 May 2017]

Before I start delving into the two-part premiere of Twin Peaks: The Return, I'd like to give you some context to my Lynch obsession. To me David Lynch is the greatest filmmaker that has ever lived and I mean no hyperbole by that statement. His films aren't for everyone but there's no denying that there's nothing like them around, he's simply incomparable to his peers. Watching his films is like viewing a painting or listening to a piece of music, there's something inside of you which either likes it and accepts it or doesn't.

I am definitely more of a David Lynch fan than a Twin Peaks fan. For me, the episodes directed by the man himself are by far the strongest and most ground-breaking, particularly the final cliff-hanger episode which stands as one of the most fantastically immersive things Lynch has ever done. I also much prefer the dark, horrifying vision of Fire Walk With Me which departed from the jovial tone of the TV series, signified by the opening shot of a television being destroyed. However, there are still hardcore Twin Peaks fans who consider the film an abomination due to how drastically different the story and tone is. These same people are going to be incredibly frustrated by the opening of season 3.

David Lynch seemingly (and tragically) disappeared from the edge of the Earth after the release of his impenetrable feature film, INLAND EMPIRE in 2006. So you can imagine my excitement when it was announced that Twin Peaks was going to come back with 18 episodes, all directed by David Lynch. That's almost 18 hours of pure magic after over ten years of nothing Lynchian on our screens. The announcement was made back in 2014 so we've been patiently waiting for what feels like an age for Twin Peaks to come back on our screens and the other night it finally appeared! No one knew what to expect when the two-hour premiere was about to start. The production has been kept absolutely top-secret and the teasers released by Showtime barely show more than three seconds of new footage at a time. However, I can guarantee that no one in the world would predict how the opener turned out as it did. In typical Lynch fashion our expectations were completely and utterly subverted within the first ten minutes. Those expecting a cosy rehash of the original series must be incredibly disappointed because this is not the old Twin Peaks we know and love, however it is unapologetically the David Lynch we know and love.

I was immediately reminded of Eraserhead in the opening five minutes which sees the kindly giant chatting with Dale Cooper in stark monochrome adjacent to a puffing gramophone. They're in the iconic red room which they've been sitting in for twenty five long years. Everything about the scene has the director's fingerprints all over it and it's beautiful to see. The giant spouts total nonsense to an aged Cooper to which he responds, "I understand" a hysterical in-joke for Lynch fans. Things don't become much clearer in the next 100 minutes.

Shockingly, the premiere spends barely any time in Twin Peaks and is more interested in startling events surrounding New York, South Dakota and Las Vegas. Old characters are met fleetingly and with more weirdness than usual. The structure and atmosphere of the show resembles Mulholland Drive more than the original Twin Peaks as there are so many strange strands and subplots which all somehow relate to each other in intriguing and inexplicable ways. It's interesting to think that most of the feature film, Mulholland Drive is actually a pilot episode; so this new season may give us a glimpse of what the shelved Mulholland Drive TV series could have looked like.

Like most David Lynch films, the best way to experience it is to just go with the flow and ask questions later because nothing makes sense. It feels like we're watching an explosion of Lynch's unconscious mind on film, only I do believe that there is a solvable plot in there unlike the anarchic madness of INLAND EMPIRE. There are some extraordinary scenes of pure cinema which cannot be explained with words. The New York segment, for example, is utterly hypnotic and finishes with one of the scariest moments I have ever seen on screen thanks to nightmarish imagery and a terrifying sound design. I literally flew out of my seat, something I haven't done since the tramp sequence in Mulholland Drive. There are also moments of surreal terror in the red room which go beyond anything we've ever seen in the world of Twin Peaks.

It's the most astonishing two hours of telly I've ever experienced. It's a true work of art and the directing is unparalleled. No other director can conjure up such an immersive dreamlike atmosphere quite like this. Detractors will moan about how they don't understand it but it isn't supposed to be totally understood. It isn't a Christopher Nolan sci-fi flick, it's a surrealistic painting designed to terrify and thrill. After watching The Return and being thrown back into normal life I stuck on an episode of Game Of Thrones (which I've just started watching) and was struck by just how ordinary it was.

The original Twin Peaks was ground-breaking stuff and The Return looks as if it's going to be no different. This is unlike anything that has ever been on TV before and is already way ahead of its time. Thank the heavens that Showtime have given David Lynch free reign to truly create what is bound to be a masterpiece. David is back with a vengeance and reminding us what we've been missing whilst he's been on hiatus for years. It's incredibly exciting to think that a whopping 16 more instalments are left. Who knows where they're going to take us, but it's going to be one hell of an unforgettable ride.

Twin Peaks, third season, first episode: My log has a message for you

[kluseba · 8/10 · 13 June 2017]

First episode: My log has a message for you / The Return, Part I

Content: Twenty-five years after the events of "Beyond Life and Death", Agent Cooper remains trapped in the Black Lodge. In Twin Peaks, Dr. Jacoby receives a shipment of shovels. At the Great Northern, Ben Horne introduces his brother Jerry to his new secretary, Beverly, and chastises him for consuming too much of the marijuana the brothers now traffic legally. Deputy Chief Hawk gets a call from the Log Lady, Margaret, who cryptically tells him something is missing, which relates to Dale Cooper, and the key to finding it has something to do with Hawk's heritage. In New York City, Sam Colby, a young man, has a peculiar job to pay for college, sitting in a large warehouse watching a glass box at the centre, periodically changing SD cards in the cameras monitoring the box as well. His girlfriend Tracey visits him with coffee. Though he is not allowed to let visitors into the room, the security guard is absent during Tracey's second visit. The young couple have sex in front of the glass box, when a faceless, translucent entity finally materializes inside of it, breaking out and mauling them to death. In South Dakota, the physical form of Dale Cooper—now a sinister, long-haired man with black irises—retrieves two associates named Ray and Darya for an unspecified task. Police find a local librarian in the South Dakota town of Buckhorn, Ruth Davenport, murdered with her decapitated head placed on the headless body of an unknown man. The fingerprints of the local school principal, Bill Hastings, are found all over the scene and he is promptly arrested. Bill denies any guilt but fumbles his alibi, casting further suspicion on him.

Analysis: I believe that the good Dale Cooper from the Black Lodge will try to face his evil doppelganger and that the Log Lady's message is a way to try to help the good Special Agent Dale Cooper to prepare his return safely. I think Bill Hastings is possessed by a similar entity as BOB and committed the two crimes without actually remembering them. Sam and Tracy must have been killed by an entity from the Black Lodge that has been provoked by their sexual intercourse. The evil Dale Cooper seems to plan a way to avoid going back to the Black Lodge and might try to use Darya and Ray for his plans. Only one of the two Dale Coopers might survive and they will probably try to exterminate each other or to fusion in a most schizophrenic way. This means that one might have to deal with at least three antagonists: the evil Dale Cooper, the possessed Bill Hastings and a violent entity from the Black Lodge. The main protagonists seem to be Dale Cooper, The Log Lady and Tommy "Hawk" Hill so far.

Description: Even though twenty-six years have passed since the last episode of the second season, the first episode of the groundbreaking television series picks the audience up where it was left such a long time ago. The episode even starts with a flashback of a conversation between Dale Cooper and Laura Palmer in the Black Lodge that took place in the previous episode twenty-six years earlier. Several mysteries from the past are resolved while the series obviously introduces plenty of new questions. The most important element is that Dale Cooper is still caught in the Black Lodge while his evil doppelganger has been on a killing spree. The first episode introduces new and mysterious characters like Darya and Ray who help Dale Cooper's evil twin. It also shows what has happened to several characters from the first two seasons such as the Giant and the One-Armed Man in the Black Lodge but also the Log Lady and Deputy Hawk in the real world who are still investigating the mysteries in and around Twin Peaks. The first episode also introduces us to strange events happening in the states of New York and South Dakota. A total of four characters are getting or are found murdered in the first episode. The tone is as sinister as it has always been. The images are gloomy, the camera work is hypnotizing and the soundtrack is numbing. The acting performances are memorable. Among the new characters, I liked Melissa Bailey's quirky character and among the older characters, a thoughtful Deputy Hawk has much more screen time than in the first two seasons. This opening episode isn't as memorable as the opening episodes of the previous two seasons but it comes quite close.

Favorite scene: There were many great scenes but seeing a terribly worried and very sick Log Lady calling Deputy Hawk sent shivers right down my spine.

i'm in

[debunkerboy · 10/10 · 21 May 2017]

I feel like I saw something on TV. It's been a while. We need to see how all this surrealistic mind fugg is going to come together but I think it will fall into place and we will see that somehow Lynch may have made something new. I grow tired of this golden age of TV we have been in which suddenly feels formulaic. Fingers crossed this pans out but Lynch may have done it again.

A somewhat frustrating opener, but it sets up a lot of important things for the phenomenal second part.

[TouchTheGarlicProduction · 8/10 · 21 May 2017]

There are many things that I loved about this first part of the new Twin Peaks, but there are also a couple of things that frustrate me. I hope that people don't stop watching it at this point, because all of the issues I had with this episode pay off very nicely in the next one. By the time I was done, I loved it. But I think many people are going to dislike it, particularly given the immense hype surrounding the new series.

Most of the episode seems totally unconnected to Twin Peaks. It takes place in other locations following other characters. Periodically, every ten minutes or so, scenes with Twin Peaks characters are sprinkled in. I enjoyed both these aspects of the episode on their own. The rare moments of Twin Peaks provided by the episode were very nostalgic and on point tonally. And the rest of it was very well executed generic David Lynch stuff. It's just... the two did not gel well together. The show is called Twin Peaks, and so those scenes in the town with the old characters are what we are expecting to see. By consequence, the other stuff feels like a jarring commercial break that we are waiting through so we can get back to the good stuff, despite the fact that it is good in its own right. On top of this, the transitions between the classic Twin Peaks stuff and the new stuff were not at all smooth.

As a result, I found this first part to be a somewhat unsatisfying experience. But, with that being said, the second part does a better job of this and shows why these things had to be the way they are.

Twin Peaks Has Returned

[bobcobb301 · 8/10 · 22 May 2017]

Like all hardcore fans I was glued to my seat waiting for this to begin. I was shouting at Showtime to wrap up the previews for other shows, get to the distinct opening theme and start the chaos.

And right off the bat they hooked us in. We got scenes from the mythical Black Lodge. We got confusing messages and we saw a few of the faces that were so memorable during the initial run.

And it felt authentic. It felt like the original show. That, and a little bit of Fargo thrown in too.

This did not disappoint.

A New Box of Nuts

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 10 June 2017]

Obviously, there is so much here that was not available 25 years ago. We are immediately introduced to a surreal environment. Where is Dale Cooper? Why is he doing what he's doing? We have two main elements here. The first involves a young man, probably making minimum wage at some scientific installation. His one task is to watch a large glass box and report if anything changes. One day, he makes a fatal mistake when his sexual desires get in the way of his diligence. The second concerns an overweight lady who is scatterbrained, but suspects something has happened next door. After the frustrated cops get the key, they find a dismembered head on a pillow above a bloated body. When the CI's come in, they find fingerprints all over the apartment, belonging to the local high school principal. He is summarily arrested and interrogated by a police officer who has, in the past, been a good friend.

Tickles my brain

[Br4ve-trave1or · 10/10 · 7 June 2018]

I believe strongly that Twin Peeks THE RETURN especially, and a few other series that can come close to touching it, should have their own genre that caters to specific fans that simply accept what it has to offer and loves it all or as people refer to as "someone who gets it" but it gets me too! There will always be the divisive reviews with this show because of the creative divinity executed imo just like art, either you love it or hate it, theres not much middle ground. There are negative reviews about the this return season just like the movie fire walks with me, two things I preferred better than season 2 of the original series. I love the tone and overall grittiness of it. I loved fire walks with me. If you liked FWWM chances are you're going to love this newer version of TP. I believe this is what Lynch intended without network restrictions and being in control of the whole series. I believe showtime did not interfere with this season at all and it shows with David Lynch fingerprints and DNA in all the right frames and shots. The inside jokes like Dale cooper telling the Giant in the very beginning he understands or when the two cops (one played by lynch himself) talks to the man at arrowhead behind the gate and he asks if hes free to go. Subtle things like that go a long way with me.

I preferred the newer season even more for its complex presentation and making my brain tingle while stimulating it every second of watching it. I'll get to every episode. The pilot was a flat out 10 imo. No one knew what to expect with a lot of anticipation and expectations and yet it didnt meet what anyone would have thought. Spending time less in Twin peaks? New York? South Dakota? The music is undeniably brilliant and the sound effects hieten this pilot. When Bob first enters with his drive in the night the music is fantastic!! All stories start in the middle and with Twin Peeks you bet each thing presented is going to feel like WTF but it pays off most of the time, the rest that doesnt is still worth it imo.

25 years later it starts with Laura Paulmer saying what she last said to Cooper. The black lodge is so incredibly surreal. What fascinated me was the glass box in NYC. That was intriguing and I cant wait to see what that's about. And of course the murder that's discovered was jarring. Forgive me for forgetting his name, but the actor who plays Bill Hastings does a brilliant job acting. The whole pilot is a masterpiece imo and surpassed my expectations letting me believe this season is going to be unlike anything on TV AGAIN! That's why a 10 too. It reminds me why this show is groundbreaking! I could go on and on about the stunning and how incredible the sound is and how it affects the experience of watching it or the many other brilliant things. They're like their own characters that play a huge role in the episode.

I know one thing for certainty!: this season and the few shows that can touch it, scratch that itch at the top of my mouth that my tongue cant reach!

A nice entrance to the surreal nature of Lynch.

[pantoleinasdimitris · 8/10 · 16 February 2024]

This episode is everything you'd expect it to be. It's much like the previews show premieres, an hour full of nice introductions to characters we will certainly enjoy.

The episode starts at a *supposed* grey room, where we get to see the Giant, played by the legendary Carel Struycken. As well as our Cooper, (or is he?), played by the also legendary Kyle MacLachlan. We get to also see Doctor Jacoby, and his whereabouts, but not much is shown. Throughout the episode we also see some othermajorncharacters from the old series, as well as locations we revisit and will be visiting this whole run. However, it is noted that the note and pace do feel different, perhaps more Lynch-like, exactly how he would want the original show to play out. The colors are more dull, more cold, chilling. Greens and blues play out on our major locations, such as the Twin Peaks town, as well as Buckhorn. Enjoyers of the original seasons will notice this, some enjoy it, some not so much, mainly because of nostalgia-driven reasons. All in all, a great introductory episode to a great season. The best has yet to come.

New York? South Dakota? Where are We?

[Samuel-Shovel · 7/10 · 20 June 2017]

Lynchy baby I love you but I got a few qualms with the series so far. First off, what are we doing screwing around in New York and South Dakota? I thought I was signing up to watch Twin Peaks. I want to go see the diner, what's Ed up to, is the casino still around? Maybe I came into it with the wrong mentality, like I was going back for a high school reunion to see what all my old friends have been up to the last 20 years, maybe that's my fault because it's clear that's not the direction you're taking Season 3 so I'll have to trust you on that. Jumping from one place to another randomly feels a bit jarring. I'm sure all these plot points will connect and make sense at some point, just like at the end of Season 2, right? Twin Peaks always ties up loose ends.

Okay, now that I got that out of my system, episode 1 was a promising start. That amorphous killer blob got my attention, so did the Face/Off-esque murder. Plus, any screen time we have left with the Log Lady I'll cherish dearly. Maybe Part 2 of the opener will fill in a few gaps for me, but for now, not up to snuff with the ole' Twin Peaks quite yet.

Complete and utter tripe.

[Bistoman · 2/10 · 23 May 2017]

I'm Lost trying to find how this first episode has gotten any more than 3 stars in its ratings, It's awful. I wanted to like it, I was looking forward to it, I have seen the first 2 seasons and " Fire walk with Me" , I found them worth my time. But This? Wow. A first year director out of film school could not make such a bad TV episode. Is It the Hype? Are they all caught up in the nostalgia of Lara Palmer? I don't know, But they forgot about acting,Directing and script. Incomprehensible, Mind Numbing C**P. This lame attempt of art-house drivel fails in every aspect.

Part 1

[TheDonaldofDoom · 17 January 2020]

This return of Twin Peaks could easily put a lot of people off. It's not the same Twin Peaks as the old one. It's more obtuse, weirder and a significant portion of it isn't set at Twin Peaks. And it doesn't have much in the way of a soundtrack, at least so far. Yet there is something of the spirit of Twin Peaks in it. This is Lynch when not held back by network TV. Part 1 introduces a whole lot of new characters, locations and questions, questions which knowing Lynch will only be partly answered by the end or not answered at all. And that's fine. This is something that you have to let wash over you, and when you do, there's a lot of wonder to be found.

Lynch has a way of making even mundane things intriguing. We're introduced to a guy in New York City whose job is watching a box. The slow way Lynch shows his routine could have been boring, but it's actually kind of absorbing. There's something about the dialogue and interactions between this worker and the girl who likes him that is just 'off' enough to be reminiscent of the awkward dialogue you'd find in the original Twin Peaks. But slowly, tension builds, culminating in a rather strangely shot sex scene and a pretty intense, horrific moment that reminds us you never know what to expect with Lynch.

Lynch's way of making common conversations bizarre is at its best with the lady who phones the police because of a bad smell coming from a hotel room. This plot in itself is another one set away from Twin Peaks, so I wonder how it'll be connected. The crime scene is very gory and further than I'd expected to see in this R-rated vision of Twin Peaks. The arrest of Macklay and his questioning are beautifully strange. His wife seems more concerned about how it will affect dinner with some guests than whether he might end up in jail, and Macklay seems confused about what he did. His confusion during the questioning is well acted and his realisation that he has some time unaccounted for. It seems he didn't remember what he had done until that moment, after which he was hiding something. So what made him kill Ruth Davenport and then forget about it? Something that has to do with Twin Peaks, I'll bet.

We get some weirdness in the Twin Peaks area too, where someone who looks like Cooper but clearly isn't gets up to some very strange business. I don't even know how to describe this scene because I don't know what's going on in it, but it involves him staring at some... strange people. Not that's he's not strange himself.

There's plenty else to like too, including the return of memorable characters from Twin Peaks, notably Ben Horn, Adam, Lucy and the Log Lady (with another mysterious message, of course). From this first episode it's already obvious that this season is even weirder, even more experimental, and possibly even more frustrating than the first two. And I'm down with that.

Part 1

[lassegalsgaard · 10/10 · 20 May 2023]

As someone who came into the "Twin Peaks" game in 2015, I can't imagine how it must have felt for people who had fallen in love with the original series to have to wait for all these years for a revival that had a very murky road to the screen. For years, there had been discussions about bringing the show back to the screen, and in 2014, Showtime announced that they had partnered with David Lynch to direct a nine-part miniseries that would be written by Lynch and his co-creator of the original show, Mark Frost. However, only a few months after the announcement, Lynch withdrew himself from the project because of budget concerns, and the show was to move forward without him. Then they quickly entered a new agreement that would see Lynch come back with a bigger budget and more episodes than originally intended, doubling the show's episode count. Most of the original cast members opted to come back and the show was scheduled for a release in 2017 with the first two episodes premiering at that year's Cannes Film Festival. It's now been a couple of years and this episode still stands as an eerie, yet fitting return to this incredible world. In a departure from the original series, Lynch sheds all the comfy tones off and dedicates himself to an hour of pure craziness that stretches far beyond the borders of Twin Peaks and sets up a lot of new mysteries that all seem to connect back to the titular town.

Lynch's approach to the storytelling of this show seems to be differ from a lot of legacy films that have been released in the last few years, as it doesn't rely on nostalgia. Its moments of fan service are certainly present, but they're incredibly sparse and only used to progress the narrative that Lynch is slowly setting up. Most of the episode's runtime is dedicated to new locations and new characters, only showing us glimpses of the characters that we have loved for the last many years, which ultimately serves the story better than another show reliant on pure nostalgia.

The new locations that we explore here are New York City and Buckhorn, South Dakota. Here we start to see new mysteries form, with the New York subplot being placed for one of the creepiest and goriest scenes in the show's history, while Buckhorn is giving us some pieces to the larger mystery that involves the murder of a woman, an idea that sounds familiar to a lot of "Twin Peaks" fans. While none of the characters are as interesting as the ones we know off the top, it sets the stage perfectly for their involvement later down the line.

The show has already managed to pull the excitement onto the screen, as Lynch's visual storytelling takes over every single frame. His imagination is incredibly fascinating and his mind works on such a different plane than the rest of us, so it feels like an adventure whenever he dives into another aspect of the world's weirdness. He rids the show of the soap opera elements that plagued a lot of the second season, and focuses on the storytelling devices that originally made fans like me fall in love with the show, finally delivering a full and unfiltered crazy Lynchian experience.

Kyle MacLachlan isn't all that present in the episode, but the presence of his character is undeniable. Some fans may not be happy with the show's immediate unwillingness to provide the answers that we've all wanted since the original show's finale, but in classic Lynch fashion, he doesn't really care. And in the scenes that MacLachlan are present, he delivers such a different performance as Coop's darker half Mr. C and it really puts his acting abilities into a different perspective. He's no longer the ever optimistic Cooper anymore, but someone much darker and much more dangerous than anyone else.

"Part 1" is a fitting return to the world of "Twin Peaks," and it provides that mystery that was lacking for a lot of the original show's second season. Here, he knows what to do to make the show he wants, and it's an unfiltered experience that feels even more like "Twin Peaks" than the original.

Strange start, I didn't expect less from David Lynch

[lareval · 8/10 · 5 October 2021]

After Season Two ruined most of the quality of the show, this kind of Season Three seems to engage me again. I don't know exactly what to expect but probably that's a good thing. A violent, explicit, enigmatic return.

Tough to rate in a vacuum.

[trbothrowaway · 7/10 · 3 October 2021]

The whole season builds and grows into a complicated and confusingly beautiful tapestry. But reviewing the first episode by itself is like reviewing the first few scenes of a movie, since this originally aired as a 2-part episode.

By itself this episode is nothing particularly special. But it is the first step on the epic journey of Season 3. It sets the tone and introduces some important plots. All the while we wonder: are we staring at a box of nothing? Or will something actually happen?

David Lynch - A Parody

[arfdawg-1 · 1/10 · 27 May 2017]

The plot. A man observes a mysterious glass box, South Dakota Police discover a hideous crime and Hawk receives a cryptic message about Special Agent Dale Cooper.

Let's be honest. David Lynch has long ago become a parody of himself. His recent (read that decade and a half) movies have been boring beyond belief with no plot and no direction. He likes scenes without purpose. He even re-creates the room with the rabbits talking if you remember that short.

I used to be a really bug fan of Lynch but he has done nothing of merit for so long one has to say he's a has been.

Now we have the Twin Peaks re-boot which is not interesting at all. In fact the original was only good until you found out who killed the chick and then it sucked.

Well this sucks from frame one. Don't bother.

Starts with half a bang, to fizzle very quickly

[dierregi · 6/10 · 3 December 2017]

Out of sheer nostalgia I decided to watch this series, knowing perfectly well that it could not compare with the mystery, ambiguity and cleverness of the first series (the second was already downhill).

The first episode dispenses a large dose of weird-Lynch for weirdness sake, jumping left and right, introducing new characters and disposing of them before we get too attached. Some atmospheric music, some shocking, inexplicable events, some reference to the past and it was intriguing enough to convince me I was not going to be - too - disappointed.

Ummm

[pmakauloski2312 · 21 May 2017]

Seems kind of far-fetched that there has been 110 ratings so far and 97 of them are 10/10. I mean...the show hasn't aired yet, strange. I am looking forward to watching the new episodes but i will also be honest with my rating, if it deserves a 7 i will rate it a 7. The fact that there is 110 ratings so far with no rating lower than an 8 is bizarre to me.

Can Lynch get away with anything because of his legacy?

[goran-771-582451 · 1/10 · 30 May 2017]

What !!!

What was that? I almost crawled out of my skin because of the awfulness of the episode. Maybe one needs to be under the influence to appreciate it.

I have seen a lot of different shows and often my ratings are along the lines of the masses. Not here.

This thing, the "new Twin Peaks" is just terrible. As someone else wrote. Not even a newly grad from film school could create something this bad.

I guess it is cool to like David Lynch's stuff, and by liking this one can claim to be "above others", "who doesn't understand the beauty of it".

If so, then I'm not cool. I just like great shows.

Walter White for President, with Hank Moody as VP. Ari Gold as Secretary of State.

Peace

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[formotog · 6/10 · 13 September 2020]

Well this was just unpleasant. It didn't feel like Twin Peaks at all, which surprised me because I thought this modern revival would be much closer to the original. For the most part, there was no soundtrack, and the humour is pretty much gone. It was a pretty dark, gritty episode. I get the feeling Lynch likes to do the complete opposite of what a pilot is supposed to do so that he can get rid of all the casual viewers. At least, that's the only explanation I can think of for coming up with something as tedious as this episode was. It was full of long silences, pauses, separate unrelated plot threads, and questions. Nothing made sense, which of course I've come to expect, but I mean give me SOMETHING. It wasn't even really set in Twin Peaks. I'm not too bothered because I know that eventually everything will make sense (in a way), but I don't see why this first part couldn't have been at least slightly engaging. The only thing that has caught my attention was the fact that Cooper appears to be stuck in the Dark Lodge while BOB is out there, but I could be horribly wrong

Low 6

Disappointment

[chalkidisavvina · 1/10 · 1 July 2019]

It reminds me of the story "The emperor's new clothes". Like we are afraid to admit that this was really bad,a parody of itself, boring..just because it is Lynch..I am fan of the old twin peaks but this one should have never released

Everything and everyone here 25 years later

[AvionPrince16 · 7/10 · 10 March 2023]

So i need to say before to start the review that it was a real pleasure to see all the original actors 25 years before in the Twin Peaks shows and this was really good. We saw that all the actors are here. It was a real pleasure to see that and all the nostalgia came back. We have also the dreams sequences with Cooper and the giant. A new plot is here with a mysterious murder about a glass box it was quite intriguing to be honest and we still dont know what killed Ruth Davenport. The message from the log lady is still here and they really kept all the vibe from the original show. Thats a good thing and they added a new plot. Great.