Twin Peaks (TV Series) Part 6 (2017) User Reviews

Diane

[ThomasDrufke · 7/10 · 11 June 2017]

Well, it wasn't the woman that I thought Gordon & Albert were after, but it sure was pretty cool to finally see who Diane was. She's flipping Laura Dern! It was a neat twist, considering I never thought we'd see her face, but sadly all we got was a few seconds. Knowing how David Lynch directs, I'm guessing we won't get a follow up to that scene for another 3 episodes, but it was the one big thing we learned from tonight. Other than that, we saw Dougie go through the motions for yet another day at work, a child be brutally killed in a car accident, and Hawk stumble upon some evidence involving his history. With Dougie, I just don't know if I'll be able to endure many more episodes of him struggling to do the simplest of things. I feel like this is a thing most TV shows do for one episodes, but Twin Peaks does it for several episodes just to drag it out. I keep saying this, but I sure hope it's over sooner rather than later. As far as the accident goes, boy was that difficult to watch. It's one thing to have it be a story point, but it's another thing entirely to have it be shown in full detail. Adding to the devastation, was seeing Carl witness this tragedy. For some reason, his reaction to the situation really moved me. Of course, I still don't really know how all of this plays into each other, but I guess it's just another case for Dale Cooper to solve once he actually comes back (if). Finally, I loved seeing Hawk figure out the first piece of evidence in Cooper's disappearance, relating to his heritage. Who knows what those papers said, but it sure seemed like a creative way to move the plot along. Until next week

7.7/10.

Twin Peaks, third season, sixth episode: Don't die

[kluseba · 8/10 · 20 June 2017]

Sixth episode: Don't die / The Return, Part VI

Content: Police takes Cooper to Dougie's home after he is found loitering outside his workplace. Janey-E receives a photo of Dougie with Jade and chastises Cooper for Dougie's infidelity but seems to be willing to support her husband. Cooper draws cryptic images of ladders and staircases on Dougie's case files, guided by lights on the pages. Mike from the Black Lodge asks Cooper to wake up and to not die. Dougie's boss recognizes a pattern in the drawings conveying information he finds disturbing. Meanwhile, Janey-E meets the two criminals demanding $52,000 from Dougie and gives them $25,000, calling it her "only offer." Duncan Todd receives a message and pulls an envelope marked with a black spot from his safe. A man with an ice pick receives an identical envelope containing photos of Dougie and Lorraine, then enters Lorraine's office and stabs her and two of her coworkers to death. Albert finds Diane, Cooper's assistant, in a bar. In Twin Peaks, Richard Horne meets a mysterious drug supplier named Red. He speeds recklessly in his truck, running over and killing a young boy. Hawk drops a coin in the bathroom and sees that the stall manufacturer's logo is a Nez Percé chief. Noticing two screws missing from the stall door, he finds several written pages inside.

Analysis: First of all, I think Dougie told the truth about one of his colleagues being a liar. The patterns he seems to discover with some help from the Black Lodge's residents seem to show that one of his colleagues faked wrongful insurance claims to get some cash and share it with two police officers who would approve his version of the events that never took place. However, giving this information to his boss could put Dougie in a very dangerous position because the behavior of his coworkers has grown more tense. The next thing to analyze is the targeting of Dougie and Lorraine. My guess is that Evil Cooper is behind all of this. He wants Lorraine to die because she knows too much about the device related to the Black Lodge in Buenos Aires as Evil Cooper wants to be the only one to possess, know and control everything. He obviously wants Douglas Jones to die because Dale Cooper is the only one who could bring Evil Cooper back to the Black Lodge or even harm him. Hiring a hit-man is Evil Cooper's way to protect himself and still being active despite being in prison. The third element to analyze is simple. Diane's appearance means that she is going to meet Evil Cooper to see what's wrong. My guess is that she will realize that he isn't who he pretends to be. The fourth element to analyze is Red's appearance. Is this guy just a drug lord or is he more than that? I believe there is more to him because his magic trick looks like a supernatural capacity. Red might as well be a demon from the Black Lodge and could be or become an associate of Evil Cooper. The fifth and last thing to analyze are the pages Hawk finds in the bathroom of Twin Peak's Sheriff Department. Where do these pages come from? There are two possibilities in my book. One could be that these are missing pages from Laura Palmer's secret diary or personal notes made by Dale Cooper. Anyway, I believe these notes are related to the fact that Dale Cooper is still caught in the Black Lodge. This is what the Log Lady wanted Hawk to find out. Who put these pages there? Could it have been Laura Palmer herself before she died? I don't think this is probable because she didn't get these kinds of instructions and couldn't have predicted what would happen after her death. Could it have been Dale Cooper? I don't think so either because he would have found another way to send his colleagues from Twin Peaks a message. Could it have been Leland Palmer? It's probable that he tore some pages out of his daughter's diary to blur the fact that he was controlled by BOB. Maybe Leland Palmer had a short and lucid moment and wanted to hide these pages in a safe place before BOB could possess him again and destroy them. Since there is no safer place than a police station, this theory seems likely.

Description: This episode is much better than the two previous ones. The start is a little bit slow with Douglas Jones' struggles but it quickens up the pace after twenty minutes. Naomie Watts' character Janey-E Jones gets more depth, John Pirruccello's character Deputy Chad Broxford becomes an interesting antagonist and we get some background information about Robert Forster's Sheriff Frank Truman and his deranged wife Doris Truman portrayed by Candy Clark. Many fans adored the short scene where Laura Dern is revealed to be Diane Evans, Special Agent Dale Cooper's former secretary. However, the most exciting moments for me are the appearances of two new creepy characters. First of all, we meet Balthazar Getty's Red, a mysterious drug lord who acts like a menacing sociopath. The magic trick he performs to confuse, dominate and menace Eamon Farren's Richard Horne, who is also a brutal psychopath, is both surreal and intense. The second new character is short-grown contract killer called Ike ''The Spike'' Stadtler, played by Christophe Zajac-Denek, who brutally slaughters one of his targets as well as two witnesses but only shows emotions when he realizes that his weapon broke. These two new villains, along with the developments of Chad Broxford and Richard Horne, are promising for the upcoming episodes.

Favorite scene: My favorite is the intense hit-and-run scene. The build-up is dramatic and tense, the climax is heartbreaking and horrifying and the aftermath is shocking at first but becomes almost spiritual.

What's to dislike?

[FlorianLaur · 8/10 · 30 September 2019]

I finished season 1+2 before watching season 3 for the first time now, having reached this episode. A lot of people seem to be up in arms about it, calling it boring or pointless.

In a way, I can see how one can find it boring or tedious. But so is looking at the Mona Lisa or the Pyramids. David Lynch is an artist. There is meaning in every scene, even if the meaning is just to poke fun at typical TV tropes.

Take for instance how NO ONE seems to really notice how Dougie/Cooper is out there like Pluto...do you really think that's sloppy writing? I don't think so. I think it's on purpose. Maybe to show us how most people are so focused on themselves that they don't even really realize other people's condition as long as they seem to function/appear normal. Heck, one of the girls at the office even seemed to be smitten by Dougie almost wetting himself like a little boy, needing help, since she offered him a kiss.

Speaking of the Dougie arc: Yes, of course it tests your patience. But you know what? The longer I see Kyle do this brilliantly, the more I wish there was a spin off, called "Life of Dougie" or something. There's just something calming and soothing about watching an innocent man child go through the motions with a child-like sense of wonder while "Windswept" by Johnny Jewel can be heard.

The new Twin Peaks is different, yes. It's because this is the show we would have gotten, had it been mostly Lynch with complete freedom to decide. Basically, I feel it's a lot like the once planned Mulholland Drive tv series that never materialized. Lynch did say it's the same TV universe and several of the actors are in it(although he does that a lot).

For sure, it's more "Fire, Walk with me" than "Nadine joins the cheerleaders". But with half the cast dead, how else could they continue? I accept that things are different. At its core, it's still the same show though and the same mysteries that draw me in.

Try to see it like a piece of art, open to interpretation. Don't over-analyse everything and just enjoy the ride, the images, the music, the impressions. Because that's how Lynch himself suggests we should do it. If you can do that, I think you'll enjoy the show. It's a bold show that no one else could pull off.

Half a nightmare, half nightmarish reality

[boudu_sauve_des_eaux · 16 June 2017]

Some sequences here look like deleted scenes from Blue Velvet. They are welcome.

Tragedy shows its ugly face in this episode, with two scenes that left me in the bitterest mood. The gloomiest episode so far. New additions of Laura Dern and a 90 year old Harry Dean Stanton (reprising his Fire Walk with Me character) may come to help and save us in this dark, dark age. As a character repeatedly says: Help is needed.

Rejected for nervous & impatient!!! Or "Thank You, Dougie"!

[inland-62603 · 10/10 · 19 June 2017]

Bad ratings depresses me too! Last time when I got such strong emotions from the movie, was 5th episode. Before that, 4th. And so on...

I like Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Martsin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Christopher Nolan (Prestige (2007) is enough to respect him) Luis Bunuel, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Pedro Almodovar, some Asian, European now/classic and so on. Those of them who is still alive and filming are not the same as before, sadly. David Lynch, is one of the lasts stand here, as far as "Tarantino's ass".

Also, I'm studying movies all my life, I know many great filmmaking people personally. I know what is real respect, art and humanity. And as for me (and this is not only me here where am I) such kind of directing as new TP episodes is really RARE piece of gemstone. Last time when I saw such level before "TP3" was Inland Empire (2006) and before that Mulholland Drive (1999-2001). It's such level of movie revolution as the Rosemary's Baby was in 1968 and Psycho was in 1960. But of course, there are many cool movies by other masters too.

Here is so much haters, who doesn't get the point of what's happening here, who prefers to squeeze inside all they got, instead of to think a little bit different for diversity. Also, I'm studying psychology, life and lie all my life. So, I perfectly understand you and doesn't blame for who you are. And I'm giving you a wise suggestion not to blame & hate Mr. David Lynch for production of such ratings level as "from 1 to 5", because that way, you hate yourselves only. You show that way, that your thinking level is between "1 to 5". Keep a close look for your prism, because you're destroying Real Art. Maybe on purpose!?

The atmosphere/acting/music/directing/writing of episode is still Great. Photography/editing/effects/production design still the way they should be here. The scenes with Dougie and his Thank once again David (and others) from the deep of my heart!

And I'll go watch Sir Charles S. Chaplin's productions such as A Woman from the Sea (1926), City Lights (1931) and The Freak (1966-1975).

'Kid?!'

[pantoleinasdimitris · 8/10 · 18 February 2024]

Part 6, a greatly done episode which could have used some more plot progressions, but otherwise pretty great.

We get introduced to what type of gang that young guy is affiliated with, weird stuff.

For a split second, we also get to see someone important to whoever watched the first seasons and kept wondering, 'Is she ever going to show up?'.

Dougie is getting all weird in his house, but not without sharing some pretty wholesome moments. He starts looking at his case files, and does some odd stuff.

We get to see a pretty gruesome scene, that really upset me and almost made me shed a tear, it felt too real, hats off to Lynch for that one.

We also hear some funny music that I could, sort of, bop to? Another gory scene follows up soon after, involving characters we barely know, so that's better than whatever else was to happen.

Back in Twin Peaks, Hawk makes an odd discovery in the station, which wasn't revealed what it was about.

All in all, a pretty straightforward episode, and a certainly good one, but could use some more progression, considering we are 6 episodes in.

Frustratingly cryptic, but still gripping

[TouchTheGarlicProduction · 7/10 · 11 June 2017]

This was probably my least favourite part in the return so far. It was drawn out, cryptic, and hard to watch, alternating between painfully long scenes and painfully violent ones. It was brilliant, but I didn't exactly enjoy it. We have a lot of ground to cover and only 12 more hours to do it, and a lot of this episode felt like it was just treading water. At this point, so many story lines are running that each one can only be nudged along a little each week. Heck, for most of them it's a matter of every other week. I hope they begin to converge soon, because right now it's starting to become a little too fragmented. I'm sure it will hold up a lot better when binged, but right now there are a lot of scenes dragging it down.

However, with all that being said, there were still a lot of things in this episode that I loved. I loved the grinning henchman. I loved the return of Carl Rodd. I loved the scene with Hawk. I loved Albert's scene. In fact, it probably has my favourite Albert moment of all time. And most of all, I loved Naomi Watts in this episode. Her performance was fantastic, particularly in one scene.

Overall, this is the weakest part so far in my opinion, but it was still really good. I just hope the plot threads start tying together soon.

Naomi Watts: Best Addition

[Samuel-Shovel · 7/10 · 24 June 2017]

One of the slower and non-eventful episodes of the new season. This wasn't a bad episode but it's definitely my least favorite thus far. How much longer do we have to wait to see Agent Cooper in his former glory?

Naomi Watts is currently stealing the show. Every scene she's in she absolutely owns and I sit up every time I see her on the screen. Great performance.

1x06

[formotog · 5/10 · 14 September 2020]

Sorry but my patience has run out. I can't imagine what Kyle MacLachlan thought when he read this script. A couple of episodes of Dougie would have been fine, but we're a third of the way in and there's no sign of him going anywhere. It's tired and tiresome at this point. The plot isn't progressing at all. The only semblance of plot progression we got was from Diane, who spoke two words and then that was it. I'm still confident that things will tie together and the ending may well be very strong, but I'm past the point of excusing this excruciatingly slow start. For a couple of episodes it was looking up but it's taken a massive fall back down. Bob Coop didn't even appear in this episode. Instead, we got cringe drug dealers, a kid run over for no apparent reason (I'm not against it in principle, it's just the fact that it added literally nothing, like most scenes). I'm not sure if this series is a satirisation of a particular subset of tv like the original was, but I'm pretty sure it isn't. That would mean that the bad acting, of which there is quite a lot, is genuinely bad. Even if it is satire, it's not being done well at all because it's not obvious like the original series was. At this point, I will continue but in 6 hours, the plot has barely moved in the slightest. My expectations are pretty much rock bottom

High 5

I Agree That This Episode Was Hard to Engage In

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 13 June 2017]

I have faith that at some point Lynch will pull things together. There are a lot of balls being juggled right now and I often don't get their relationship. We have that hard wired coke addict meeting with drug dealers, one of whom is pretty unbelievable. Then the kid takes off in a commercial truck and runs over and kills a little boy. Lynch probably felt that this was dealing with a sacred cow in a totally non-traditional way. Dougie (Dale Cooper 2) continues to wander about like a zombie, but he is being guided by lights that work to his benefit. He is also pulling together pieces of his former self (I think). Will there be a breakthrough? What about his wife? She is a firecracker. She is going to take him in for a mental evaluation. I wonder why? So now I have to wait another week for the next Showtime presentation and many weeks beyond that. Oh, well, I will get my bizarre fix watching the last two episodes of Fargo.

Episode 6

[bobcobb301 · 7/10 · 17 June 2017]

I am fine with violence and gore, but it didn't seem necessary here. Seeing a man running around stabbing people and a kid viciously hit by a truck. I have to wonder if there weren't other ways to arrive at where this storyline is going.

The Dougie scenes are still comedic greatness, but at some point he has to go back to being Dale, right? How much longer can this go on for, because this is not the Twin Peaks I think people were hoping for.

Funny, cute, tender, shocking

[TheDonaldofDoom · 23 January 2020]

Often with Lynch you just have to kind of go with it and this is definitely one of those episodes. It loiters even more than usual between silly and shocking, funny and sad.

This is the first episode where a score plays more of a role instead of just silence, such as in the first scene where a disoriented Dale Cooper is found by police and delivered home. It's sweet afterwards when he sits down by Sonny Jim, offering him a crisp and playing with the bedroom light. It's interesting that when he seems most human, most connected with the world around him, is when he's with a child. And then, Cooper starts working on the case files... and only David Lynch (helped along by the atmospheric score) could create such a mesmirising scene out of this.

Meanwhile a drug trafficking scene seems almost normal, although Red's unpredictability makes it pretty intense. But then he flips a coin, and it somehow manages to land in Richard Horne's mouth as well as in Red's hand.

I think the thing that makes this episode what it is is the part following Carl Rodd. It's so separate from the rest of the story that it could easily have been a short film, yet in the space of a few minutes it put me through several strong emotions. At first, it's confusion as to why Lynch has seemingly randomly decided to focus on Carl Rodd, Mickey and Bill and then cut away to the cafe and to Richard Horne madly driving his truck. Then, in a beautiful scene you see Carl Rodd finding beauty around him, in nature and in a mother playing with her child. And then, all the things introduced in these few scenes come together. When it cuts to Horne again you can start to see how it's going to end up, a slow motion car crash with all the pieces painstakingly laid out: the speeding driver and the boy crossing the road. In a few seconds, it went from beautiful to gut-wrenching. It ends up strangely tender, with Carl Rodd being the only person to go and comfort the mother. This whole part was so out of the blue coming halfway through the episode, and it felt so real, with the emotion heightened by the score. Everything in it is purposeful and neatly set up and I think it exemplifies Lynch's ability to introduce several seemingly unrelated threads and bring them together perfectly. It's why I have faith that everything we see in this season has purpose, even if it isn't always immediately apparent.

As well as the emotional, there is also the bewildering. The Spike's killings seem to come out of nowhere thematically, and it's hard to see exactly how he ties into the main plot for now, although I expect it'll be something to do with Dougie Jones/Dale Cooper.

Patience starts to run out

[lareval · 5/10 · 5 October 2021]

Another frustrating, unexciting outing. Some scenes (the boy) are thrilling, but I'm starting to get enough of Dougie (even being sympathetic) and I really miss the true essence of Twin Peaks. And the true Cooper.

Episode 6

[Prismark10 · 7/10 · 29 June 2017]

Janey-E what a woman. She has enough money due to Dougie's winnings to pay off his debts but she still goes out and makes a deal with the two loan sharks.

Dougie meanwhile is still trying to get to grips with everyday activities. Still Agent Cooper is still lurking inside somewhere and he still sees some flashing lights which leads to reveal some unsavoury activities from one of the insurance firm's investigators.

Gordon Cole alarmed that the man they saw in prison cannot be Cooper sends Albert to find someone close to Agent Cooper and he knows which bar she drinks in. Albert is right, singing in the rain is no fun but he does find the mythical Diane.

Evils still lurks though. Richard Horne meets a drug supplier named Red who rather demeans him. Driving his truck in anger he runs over a young boy who was playing a bizarre game with his mom.

A vertically challenged hit-man kills a woman with an ice pick and now has Dougie in his sights.

Meanwhile Hawk finds something important in the bathroom of the police station relating to Laura Palmer and Agent Cooper.

Harry Dean Stanton returns as Carl from the movie, Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me who comforts the mother of the dead child. We have surrealism with electricity crackling, a soul rising above with the juxtaposition of violence.

Insultingly stupid and offensive

[michael-54725 · 11 June 2017]

This show has no hope of being redeemed. David Lynch, please retire. You are devoid of ideas. Your characters are insipid. You try to make them intense, crazy, weird, and quirky, but they come off that way only if you have a mind of a middle-schooler. That whole scene between the drug dealers was laughably bad. Whoever was playing the older of the two is just a bad actor overplaying the part. "Look at me. I'm so crazy. I do karate moves for no apparent reason. That's how edgy I am." Nice directing there, Lynch. Oh, and that coin flip thing was so spooky and weird. No, not really. I'm sure Lynch fanboys will love the brutal scene of the woman being stabbed. Yes, nothing like gory graphic violence to help the show garner praise for being mature and intense.

For the 3rd or 4th episode in a row, we get the Dougie show. Yay! There's nothing more interesting than dragged-out nothingness. He has gone from being confused like a stroke victim to now just acting mentally retarded. "Kyle, let's do another 10 minute scene where someone talks to you and you just repeat the last three words they say. The audience will love it."

But what is unforgivable is the obscenely graphic way you depict the child's death. Hitchcock learned in 1936 that showing the killing of a child is taboo. It is something that is terrible and should not be shown for entertainment. Not only do you show it, but you show it in the most violent way. It was repulsive. But I know you wanted to show it to prove how edgy, intense, and mature your works are. Your fan boys probably enjoyed it. "That was so f'in cool the way he showed the kid being run over. It was awesome, dude."

The circus continue....

[AvionPrince16 · 6/10 · 11 March 2023]

I loved the strangeness and the weirdness of Lynch's movies. Almost all of them after i knew their meaning. Im a patient guy. But this show continue to make me think that Lynch dont know what he is doing or short of ideas. Dougie and the way he acts was funny at the beginning and let us see how he can adapt himself again in the modern world but now this become pretty ridiculous and dont make sense at all. The subplots are disconnected, the events become more and more randoms. I dont really know what to think. I will stay patient and see the whole sens of all this episodes together because for now it become weird but meaningless to be honest.

Twin peaks at the bottom of the hole

[casanis · 1/10 · 14 June 2017]

Season 3 starts with old elements linking the past 25 years ago and new interesting mysteries. But the show adds quickly too many directions and forgets the past. It will work if it was not so terribly slow. But here, it's painfully boring (I always have to watch one episode in three times).

Episodes 4, 5 and now 6 are very poor. In the last one, the scene with the child smashed by the truck is very very bad. Free violence (with a child) and no purpose, not realistic at all (at this speed, there are more consequences on the body) and awful acting (reactions after the accident illustrate perfectly what you can call amateurism).

Alphonse Allais, a french writer, wrote: « Coffee is the drink that makes you sleep when you do not take it. » I think I could say : « Season 3 from Twin Peaks is the show that keeps you awake when you do not see it. »

More plot-free gory scenes

[dierregi · 3/10 · 3 December 2017]

In this episode, we understand that the Watts' character - Janey-E - is so aggressive because she is forced by Dougie's passiveness to step in in all the situations Dougie's weirdness would be challenged. Besides, she clearly does not listen to anybody, also to cover up for the fact the Dougie has nothing to say. She is just a caricature, although she seems to have found lots of fans.

Then we have the stabbing dwarf - seriously - and a completely gratuitous hit and run. That moves the plot forwards … not at all. We're still stuck nowhere, not knowing what exactly is the plot and what story we're supposed to follow.

BTW, we "finally" see Diane: she's MacLachlan's sweetheart from Blue Velvet, Laura Dern in a bad wig (vintage Lynch, I guess)

Absolute pretentious nonsense and disgust

[thekmew-1 · 1/10 · 15 June 2017]

Right. first off the bat. The kids death was unnecessary. Completely shocked and sickened me and I am no snowflake. I can take killing and slaughter akin to American Werewolf in London, but this was just so wrong on many levels. I was giving you a go Lynch, in the desperate hope you would pull something from nothing out of the bag. You have manage to ruin all your great work. Dougie? really. What the hell were you smoking? Pretentious drivel. If I was your school teacher I would have you sectioned.

This is that , all the time bottom episode of twin peaks.

[suvechhabose · 5/10 · 12 January 2021]

People are rating it 7 ? 8 ? Why? This is the poorest episode of twin peaks (from s1 to s3) .the pacing is astonishingly slow and downright blantant. As expected , good episode is near so there is no need to provide any hint so just show woods and coopers disoriented state,its understandable for a director but from viewers point,its plain tedious.

Don't hate me for this review,i love twin peaks made an (8+ongoing) page note about characters and their hints.