Twin Peaks (TV Series) Part 16 (2017) User Reviews

Plot twists, gratuitous violence, and the moment we've all been waiting for; this episode gives new meaning to the word satisfying.

[TouchTheGarlicProduction · 10/10 · 27 August 2017]

This is without a doubt the most action-packed episode of The Return so far. It has two massive plot twists, delightfully gratuitous violence, and the scene that the entirety of The Return has been building up to. I'm referring not to Audrey's arrival at the roadhouse (although that plot was insanely drawn out) but to Cooper's awakening. I had feared that he would only be appearing in the very last scene of the season, so to see him not only appear, but play a large role in this episode as his old self (with two episodes to spare) is immensely satisfying. I was grinning like a fool every second he was on screen. Yet amazingly, despite how long we have waited and how gratifying it therefore is, the rest of the episode manages to match or exceed the heights of his scenes.

Aside from giving us back our favourite character, the episode also gives us a whole lot of violence and death. Most of the violence in the return so far has been disturbing and shocking, but in this episode Lynch goes the complete opposite direction ad makes it all gleefully gratuitous and over-the-top. It helps that the casualties were mostly unlikable characters, but it's also a matter of the execution. The violence in this episode, especially the insane shootout in Vegas, seems like a tribute to Tarantino in its escalation, gore, and comedy.

The episode also featured two major plot twists in two major stories. In both cases I had known for a while that there would be some sort of twist, but I had no idea what they would be and when they did hit me in this episode they caught me completely by surprise. Admittedly, they raise more questions than answers, but both these story lines have been going for so long that it was thrilling to get anything.

Overall, this may be the greatest part in the return so far. The slow burn of the middle section is finally paying off as these last three episodes have sped up to astronomical pace. I'll be sad to see it end next week.

I am the FBI

[alencar_darwin · 10/10 · 28 August 2017]

If I had a book length space I would try convince everybody that Twin Peaks is the very best show ever committed to television, but I don't, so I won't… instead I'll write this pseudo-review and post it on a site of questionable merits and nobody will read and if somebody read shall not care because the text is useless.

Cooper is briefly in a coma and then fully woke (I wrote last time that this would wake him, not smart of me, probably most admires of the show saw this one coming a long way); Evil Cooper most loyal minions die out of thin air (just like in life: you never know); Richard Horne dies or is teleported somewhere else; Diane was a tulpa; Audrey finally gets to the Roadhouse and… well, there is this brief dance (Audrey's dance, with Audrey's song!), but you know, just an illusion, she is in fact (as I and everybody who likes the show suspected) stuck somewhere, an asylum or another reality (she is probably there (wherever that may be) since the probable rape Evil Copper unleashed on her — he did called Richard his son —, nobody, even her dad, mentioned her, so of course she is not there in Twin Peaks, or at least not in the same reality: there's the sound and the lamp shadow in the hotel to suggest that she is in fact in another reality), the episode ended with a backwards song after showing her in some bright space, looking very confused, so lets start theorizing.

Overall a fantastic episode. I sincerely thought that the show would get lighter (my own stupid mistake). Lynch dislike most of the second season (and just have a look at how he finished that season; pure darkness).

I hope for another season or episodes of two hours long each to finish the series. (I just can't get enough of this show). I will have nothing to watch after this end. Nothing seems interesting after this. All insipid drivel.

Twin Peaks — I will be damned.

Part 16

[Prismark10 · 10/10 · 30 August 2017]

Sometimes you wait 25 years for an event to happen. When in actuality you had given up hope that it would ever happen. As the Twin Peaks series was cancelled in 1991 and the subsequent film in 1992 did not resolve the cliffhanger.

In the middle of episode 16 the Twin Peaks theme bursts out as a familiar character puts on a black suit and proclaims he is the FBI. I very nearly cried.

I liked the scene where the Mitchum Brothers thought Dougie spoke in a very assured manner and discarded it as a side effect of his coma.

Elsewhere Diane revealed to Gordon that she was raped by evil Cooper and then tries to kill Gordon but it seems this Diane was manufactured just like Dougie.

Meanwhile one thing that became increasingly clear that if the real Cooper ever emerged, there would be one sad boy and a distraught wife who would have lost a father and husband. However plans are afoot for another Dougie to be made hopefully with the good part of Agent Cooper inside him.

Audrey does her dance in The Bang Bang club, she still looks good for her age but the real question is, how long as she been going out with Mickey Rooney?

Guess who's back, back again...

[Rachel · 10/10 · 27 August 2017]

Well worth the wait, with only two episodes remaining the path for all to converge in Twin Peaks in the finale is set.

It was pretty emotional to see Dale awaken, and be A-OK and back to his old self. The moment he said "I am the FBI" and the Twin Peaks theme started was the moment we have all been waiting for.

I can't wait to next weeks two-part finale (but have to).

electricity...

[framptonhollis · 10/10 · 27 August 2017]

"Electric" really is the best word to describe this thrilling episode, not only because electricity itself literally plays an important role in Cooper's glorious return, but also because the show is electric in its excitement this time around! This episode is bound to be a favorite to those who watch it, and there's a multitude of reasons why. Not only is Cooper back and as good as ever, but all of the events his triumphant comeback are also startling, intense, evocative, and essential. Jam packed with plot twists and vivid sequences that just scream "surrealism!", this is a magnificent merging of art and entertainment, and perhaps the finest episode in all of Twin Peaks' glorious history! Well, maybe it's not as good as part eight, but my mind has sort of parted that episode from the rest of the series considering it's so unlike almost anything I've ever seen before. Anyway, I realize that that is a huge statement to make but seriously, this is a satisfying, brutal, and unique watch! It's one of the most pleasing and emotionally varied viewing experiences I have ever had, and I loved ever single solitary second of it!

An absolute gem...

[seanagass · 10/10 · 28 August 2017]

This was just brilliant and singularly the best hour of the return so far. Some have criticised this series in places for its alleged "slowness" (particularly Part 12, for example). Yet to me the whole series has felt like an exercise in delayed gratification and the parts where plot lines do converge and build momentum are sheer pleasure to watch.

And yet too there is the unpredictability of the plot - not just what will unfold but how. Dale Cooper's return is handled brilliantly here. "I am the FBI" he says in a cliché I found myself fist-pumping at, as the signature theme music rises. Despite the many podcasts dissecting the show scene by scene, it is the return's elusive and unpredictable nature that makes it about as far from formulaic television as imaginable. Things don't unfold on cue but in their own time, and often with their own internal logic that "feels right". That might be why I have not enjoyed an episode of a TV series this much in years, possibly ever.

One of my minor criticisms of the series might be that some of the major acting talent has felt in places under-utilised. Yet here, with a slightly smaller cast than usual, this part delivers on breadth and depth of development. Laura Dern gives a phenomenal performance in a scene that leads to one of the part's biggest reveals. Meanwhile the scenes with cooper's new family are genuinely moving, as is the Mitchum brothers' hospital visit.

After this, I may go delirious waiting for the finale. Yet although Lynch has commented that this is an ongoing story without perhaps a definitive end, I hope the finale follows the example set here, delivering on development rather than introducing too many new elements to be left unresolved.

My God, It's Great!

[mehrdadjg · 10/10 · 8 September 2017]

Oh my God! I just finished this episode and that's all I can say about it. In one word, it was great. After 25 years and 15 hours of waiting, he finally gave the fans what they wanted. Oh, and more! Thank you, chief. This was truly one of the best episodes of TV that I have ever had the joy of watching.

Four times during this episode, I said to myself "This can't get any better"; I was wrong the first three times. Maybe even the fourth, I'll have to watch the next episode to know.

Twin Peaks, third season, sixteenth episode: No knock, no doorbell

[kluseba · 8/10 · 28 August 2017]

Sixteenth episode: No knock, no doorbell / The Return, Part XVI

Content: Cooper's doppelgänger and Richard follow the coordinates. Jerry Horne sees the doppelgänger send Richard ahead to the site, where he is electrocuted and killed; the doppelgänger says, "Goodbye, my son." Chantal and Hutch are killed by an accountant they provoked outside the Jones residence. Cooper awakens from his coma after the electric shock he had received earlier, fully articulate and alert. MIKE tells Cooper that the doppelgänger is at large and gives him the owl ring. After confirming that MIKE still has the seed, Cooper gives him a strand of his hair, telling him to "make another one", then has the Mitchums organize a flight to Spokane, Washington. After receiving a text from the doppelgänger, Diane tells the task force that Cooper raped and kidnapped her at their last meeting. Exclaiming "I'm in the sheriff's station ... I'm not me," she pulls a gun, but is shot by Albert and Tammy. In the Black Lodge, MIKE tells Diane that she was manufactured; she dissolves into a seed. Audrey and Charlie arrive at the Roadhouse. A band begins playing "Audrey's Dance". The floor clears and she dances alone. When a fight breaks out, Audrey insists to Charlie that they leave, and is shocked to find herself shouting at her own reflection in a white room.

Analysis: The first thing to analyze is what happens to Richard Horne. Many people believe he is dead but I believe the rock was a trap to transport Evil Cooper back into the Black Lodge. My guess is that Richard Horne isn't dead but caught in the Black Lodge and could eventually play an important part in the final two episodes. After his father's betrayal, he could come back to get his revenge. The second thing to analyze is that Special Agent Dale Cooper asks Mike to manufacture another doppelgänger. Maybe the last two episodes could involve three characters looking like Dale Cooper (Special Agent Dale Cooper, Evil Cooper and the new tulpa). After Evil Cooper manufactured Douglas Jones to stay outside the Black Lodge, Special Agent Dale Cooper might now get his revenge by using another manufactured tulpa to set a trap for Evil Cooper. The third thing to analyze is what happened to Diane Evans. It seems obvious to me that Evil Cooper manufactured a tulpa when he raped and abducted the real Diane Evans. Since the tulpa was killed and returned to the Black Lodge, the question is where the real Diane Evans is. It's possible that Evil Cooper killed her back then but I believe that she's still around. Since she talked about the sheriff's station, her spirit could inhabit Naido, the mysterious Asian woman found in the woods of Twin Peaks. The fourth thing to analyze is the final scene involving Audrey looking in a mirror in a white room. My guess is that she's in an asylum and that she had severe mental issues after she had been raped by Evil Cooper. There are two possibilities of what awoke her from her state of confusion and illusion. The first one could be the fact that her son got electrocuted. A lot of people say that a mother and her child have a strong and almost supernatural connection. The second possibility could be that she was awoken by Special Agent Dale Cooper's return. Since she had been in love with him and had been raped by his doppelgänger, there is a strong connection between them as well.

Description: I was slightly disappointed by the beginning of the episode since a lot of time was wasted with filming Evil Cooper and Richard Horne driving around without having their much anticipated conversation. However, the episode got better and better after a weak start. The return of Special Agent Dale Cooper was refreshing after such a long time. Chantal's and Hutch's deaths came as stunning surprises. The final scene involving Audrey Horne was truly haunting. Everything is set for two spectacular final episodes in Twin Peaks.

Favorite scene: My favorite scene was at the very end of this episode when Audrey Horne was looking at Charlie and then realizing she was looking in a mirror. This scene was eerie, haunting and mysterious. I'm curious what is going to happen to her character in the last two episodes.

The best and most satisfactory episode since Laura Palmer's killer resolution

[lareval · 10/10 · 9 October 2021]

What an amazing episode! Even disliking most of the filler that came before, this installment really kicked it out of the park and felt appropiate after all this time with the original series aura. Perfect!

Where Do We Go Next?

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 27 August 2017]

Dale Cooper returns. It is obvious that he remembers the events experienced as the catatonic Dougie Jones. It's as if it was drawn out. We have an amazing scene in Dougie's neighborhood, as those to psychos get into a gunfight with a neighbor and end up on the short end of the stick. Dougie is in a coma with his wife and Sunny at his side. At some point, while the others are out of the room, he regains consciousness and heads for Twin Peaks. There are two more episodes and I can't wait. The two gangsters have become allies and will survive because they have "hearts of gold." Bad Cooper starts things off, sacrificing that dope peddling kid/murderer to check out some "coordinates." Wow. Two more Sundays.

Audrey's Dance Analysis

[jeremyfrydman · 10/10 · 10 September 2021]

"Isn't it too dreamy..."

In the pilot episode of Twin Peaks, we are introduced to Audrey Horne. Audrey goes through a pretty simple character arc over the original series, she goes from being a self-loving, cold-hearted, scheming daddy's girl to becoming an activist through civil disobedience.

Audrey is a character in love with herself who over-time realises there are more important things in life to fight for.

This idea of Audrey gaining her emancipation is first established after Audrey finds out that Ben Horne, (her father), had sex on numerous occasions with Laura Palmer during her time working as a prostitute at One-Eyed Jacks, a brothel that Audrey also later discovers Ben owns. Through this Audrey learns and becomes ashamed of her bloodline and rebels against them.

However, when you think about Audrey's character, her ark and finding of her emancipation is likely not what first comes to mind, is it?

The moment audiences alike fell in love with Audrey Horne is universal, her dance in episode 2 of season 1. But why is this moment so undeniably powerful? It's simple, in this scene we learn everything about Audrey's character. The music playing on the jukebox (composed by Angelo Badalamenti) has a deep effect on Audrey. "God, I love this music," she tells Donna, adding, "Isn't it too dreamy?" She gets up and slowly dances (more like swaying), lost in the beautifully woozy melody, here this character we've only really seen cold-hearted, has an innocence and real beauty to her. The customers at the RR Diner look at Audrey with pessimism but she doesn't care, it's almost as if she gets thrilled by it. Not just the dance reveals truths about Audrey, but her theme does too. The soft, jazzy, swing says so much about the person Audrey is, it's fitting this piece of music follows her around for the entire series. The rhythm is calm and seductive much like Audrey in the earlier seasons but it's also got this calm gentle sense to the tune. Audrey is one of the two characters (the other being Laura Palmer) to have a theme in Twin Peaks. The creative team, mainly Lynch and Badalamenti knew this theme was essential for the audience to connect with Audrey's character.

With Twin Peaks The Return, David Lynch brings Audrey Horne back to the spotlight and gives her character the conclusion that is not just fitting for the themes of The Return, but also for Audrey.

In Part 12 of The Return, we are finally introduced to Audrey again. She is a bored housewife unhappily married to a man named Charlie. Throughout episodes 12-15 we see Audrey argue with Charlie to take her to The Roadhouse where her lover Billy is waiting for her. Finally, in Part 16 Audrey arrives at The Roadhouse. The MC announces "Audrey's Dance" will be the next act and in an act of pure surrealism, the audience moves into a perfect circle to watch Audrey perform her classic dance as her theme plays in the background. However, a Roadhouse patron starts a fight interrupting her dance and in fright, Audrey runs to Charlie and yells to "get me outta here" only to wake up to realise that she is in some sort of delusion.

Audrey's dance in part 16 is the most terrifying realisation I've ever experienced in a film or series. Having to contemplate your reality and mindset in a setting you've been so familiar with and feel so welcome in is terrifying. Is everything Audrey has seen a dream? Is the entirety of the series Audrey's dream? Do we live inside a dream?

Lynch here openly breaks the fourth wall

Many people have come to the conclusion that Audrey is actually just trapped in the black lodge and that is why we've seen these scenes. This theory mainly comes for two reasons the first being that when the MC announces "Audrey's Dance" whooshing noises are heard therefore identifying that lodge spirits are at work and also that when she's transported to the white void, the classic Twin Peaks electricity can be heard. Secondly, after we cut to black the credits play Audrey's classic theme in reverse as to symbolize that she is in the black lodge. Further, it's an out-there theory but the MC does look and dress a whole lot like Jimmy Scott's character in the season 2 finale in that sings Sycamore Trees in the black lodge, perhaps this character was meant to be played by Scott if it wasn't for his death in 2014? I'm not sure, but it's interesting to think about it nonetheless. However, whether he is or isn't Jimmy Scott's character I am going to assume that the MC is a lodge entity. However, I don't necessarily believe that Audrey is in the black lodge.

Just because Audrey sees black lodge characters and hears noises doesn't necessarily mean she is in the Black Lodge. Not only would it not make any sense for her to be there seeing as she would've had to give birth to Richard Horne but it would also undermine what Lynch is trying to say here. Agent Cooper has visited and seen black lodge characters in numerous dreams, as has Laura Palmer, why can't Audrey? Lynch wouldn't be doing this all for a cheap "ha, she's here" reveal, if Audrey was in the black lodge, Lynch would've said as much. I think what Lynch is doing here is making a comparison to the theme he brought earlier in part 14 with Gordon Cole's dream. Who is the dreamer? And with this scene, it becomes apparent who the dreamer is, we are. Just like Audrey. We delude our own minds in our own constructs. This is existentialism 101 people.

In Audrey's dream, she is a bored housewife married to a short chubby unflattering looking man who she is only with really for what it seems to be, money and prestige and she is searching for an escape from this boring life, a strong new lover found at a hip club. Here Charlie and Billy represent the present (Charlie) and the past (Billy).

Audrey is obsessed with how people perceive her in The Return, she seems embarrassed whenever she is with Charlie (her present, real-life), she years to return to the past and relive those iconic moments that made people fall in love with her and she does. Audrey dances and people watch just as they did 25 years prior, they admire her beauty, her confidence, her stride but this time instead of fading to black she's interrupted by an act of violence. Almost in an act of desperation Audrey runs up to Charlie and tells him to get her out of these delusions, here Audrey returns to what is her real life, she escapes her dream.

Now to answer the question of where she is, the honest answer is that I don't have the slightest idea. I think likely choices are in a mental institute or the white lodge but it doesn't matter. Audrey's story shouldn't be reduced to a "SHE'S BEEN HERE THE WHOLE TIME" kind of story, if Audrey's location mattered, Lynch would've told us, as many people may not believe, Lynch isn't actually trying to confuse you. Lynch is showing a woman's struggle and yearning for the past, of course, the idea of lodge characters being at play during her dream is an absolute possibility, however, I think if any lodge entities are involved in this story it would be white lodge characters we haven't met yet. We know she is dreaming and that is enough to understand the significance of this moment.

In finality, Audrey's dance at the end of part 16 is a beautiful yet somewhat depressing send off to Audrey's character that continues to amaze me every time I watch it.

Part 16

[bobcobb301 · 7/10 · 27 August 2017]

It is rare that a show has two "What the (bleep)?" moments, but this episode gave us that. The shootout on the streets of a suburban neighborhood that I think has had bullets almost every time we show it was the first.

Then we got to Audrey's bizarre dance, something ripped from the old Twin Peaks in its awkwardness and exclusivity to mainstream audiences. We thought that was it and then we saw that Audrey may actually be in another universe! We got just enough of a glimpse before cutting to credits, just enough to make us count the hours until the finale next week.

A good episode at times, but the return of Dale Cooper was a little underwhelming.

Awful beyond belief

[alexx668 · 1/10 · 31 August 2017]

The plot: DoppelCoop and Richard Horne drive to where the coordinates lead them (DC has been given three sets of coordinates, one from Ray, one from Diane and one from Jeffries, two of them match, but not the other). DC sends Richard to investigate but it's a trap and Richard dies (it's also confirmed that Richard is his son). In Las Vegas, following his electrocution, Cooper is in a coma but abruptly wakes up, becomes his super capable old self again and immediately sets off to go to Twin Peaks. Subtle. In the meantime, Diane is revealed to be a doppelganger, while Audrey and Charlie make it to the Roadhouse where the whole thing is revealed to be dreamed up by Audrey.

Lol, this is so bad. The story is messy beyond belief. Really amateurish stuff. There are no developed characters, merely stereotypes (Hutch and Chantal) that die and nobody cares. Does anyone remember the junkie who was spouting some random numbers in the early episodes? What was it with that? Nobody knows. Why did DoppelCoop kill Hastings' wife? It was never explained and it had nothing to do with anything. Who was Mr. Strawberry? Pointless. What happened to Becky? Nobody's interested cause the character was superficial. Isn't it awful having a great character like Ben Horne and under-utilizing him to a horrible degree? Yes it is but the fans don't mind. To them it all smells like roses. What about the glass box from episode one? Forgotten. That's not a way to run a TV series. You need coherence, you need structure.

Isn't it cheesy how Cooper just wakes up and immediately is super-duper ol' Coop again? Yes! Won't it be lame if the whole thing ends up being Audrey's dream? YES!! Considering they never bothered to tell us what DoppelCoop has been doing for the past 25 years (which basically makes him as hollow a character as any in this show), and the plot is all about him not wanting to go back to the lodge, wouldn't it have made more sense to have the real Cooper wake up earlier rather than have 15 episodes of tedious back and forth? YES!!!!!!!!!! The whole thing is so ludicrous that parts of it feel like unintentional comedy and, no, I'm not talking about the bits that are supposed to be comedy (which are bad). The direction isn't any better. Did you see the effects when Diane "blew up" in the Red Room? Terrible and cheap looking (I know, I know, it's like that on purpose, lol).

I actually can't believe how poor the new Twin Peaks is. It's really bad. Really really bad. I find it even harder to believe the amount of praise it gets. The fans I can explain. The series has such low viewership figures that literally only the hardcores are watching. Therefore it's to be expected that they'll praise it to seventh heaven. What is not as easily explainable is the preposterous praise it gets from news outlets (thankfully there are exceptions), but that's hipster culture for you. The new Twin Peaks is trending.

Anyway, the way I see it, there are two explanations for what's happening here. One explanation is that David Lynch has gotten senile. It happens, he's 71. The other explanation is that he made a cash-grab and intentionally didn't bother to put any effort either in the writing or in the visual department, in which case the praise this gets is all that much funnier.

I am the FBI

[Ammar_Br · 10/10 · 28 August 2017]

Spoiler-Free review of one of the best episodes EVER !

Finally the old Cooper is BACK ...... i have been waiting for this moment since the beginning of the third season and i believe that they made it happen very well

Lynch still has it and he nailed it

my favorite part of this episode was the hospital scene when twin peaks music started while Copper was leaving and he turned and said......

" I am the FBI "

i had goosebumps allover my body .... man that was one the best moment in television history and i mean it

thank you for reading my review :)

Twin Peaks Delivers

[Samuel-Shovel · 10/10 · 15 October 2017]

If you've hung around this long, you finally received your reward with this fantastic episode! Lynch's shtick doesn't always work but when it's done this well, it goes down like a fine wine. The combination of quirky jokes, violent interactions, and general Twin Peaks-iness all came together perfectly in this one. This is my favorite episode of the season thus far.

Richard's transportation to the Black Lodge was something I assumed Evil Cooper would pull at some point, I just didn't realize it would happen so soon after the two came together. I don't think he's dead but time will tell. (Sidenote: How long has Jerry been wondering around? How'd he get to the desert?)

Chantal and Hutch's death came out of nowhere. I enjoy both these actors and am sad to see them go. However the comedy of the 2 stake out teams, plus the mobsters, plus the accountant reminded me of something out of a Guy Ritchie movie.

The return of Cooper is like a breath of fresh air in my lungs. We only get a few episodes with them but hopefully he'll garner a large amount of screen time.

So Diane was an evil spirit all along? I'm assuming she's a double so where exactly is real Diane? Also why did Cooper ask for 2 seeds? Is he going to make another double?

Last thing to talk about is Audrey. The more I watched her scenes, the more I realized something was wrong with her. Her dream sequence just confirmed this. But now it seems as if she might be snapping out of her delirium. Is it because Coop's back? That would be my guess. We'll see how she factors into the finale.

I'm excited for the final two episodes now. We have a lot to wrap up so let's see if Lynch can do it succinctly this time and not make us wait another 25 years.

Part 16

[lassegalsgaard · 10/10 · 7 June 2023]

David Lynch has always been someone who was interested in playing the long game, which is something that we knew he planned on doing with the original show, leaving the murderers identity up in the air for as long as he could, until he was forced by ABC executives to reveal the identity, which led to the show's early demise. However, with this revival, Showtime has given him free hands to do whatever he wants, and here, we see the impact something can have when Lynch is allowed to play that long-game and hide set something up for as long as possible. We're close to the finale now, and while Lynch has given us small hints about what the endgame is going to be, he's smart enough to not just give us all the answers, yet still keep us invested in the process. Now, he's ready to pull back the layers and give us some of the answers that we want. And we knew from the beginning that this show was not going to give us all the answers. That's simply not Lynch's style. But this episode finally gave us one of the things we've wanted since the show began. Cooper is back and with him one of the best episodes of the entire franchise, as it cleans up a lot of the filling that has been given to the show outside of its main characters, setting us up for a crisp return to the titular town in the two-part finale coming right up next.

With the grand return of Agent Dale Cooper, Lynch uses this episode to really disposition Cooper and his doppelganger. Despite having been out of the game for half of the show, Cooper is up for the task and ready to take up his role as leader. He treats everyone around him with kindness and respect, falling easily into the Coop that we've known and loved for over 30 years. However, the episode also showcases the true evil of his doppelganger, not only in the opening moments with Richard Horne, but through a harrowing retelling from Diane about their last meeting.

This show has always been about the fight between good and evil, and with "Part 8," Lynch gave us the creation of evil in the heart of man's most destructive invention, and otherworldly powers creating pure goodness to fight it. With this, we see the two halves of man and how they can work to destroy each other. Cooper is the embodiment of goodness and sees a lot of it in others, while Mr. C is corrupted by the most evil being of all: Bob, who still lives in him. It's a brilliant way of showing this through character studies.

The episode takes some time out of this brilliant study of good and evil to dispose of some of the characters it has been dealing with, mainly Richard Horne who just disappears in a flash of lighting, and the murderous duo Hutch and Chantal who gets violently killed in a shootout. The shock value is a big part of the show, and killing off someone who seemingly had a big role coming up here was a shocking turn of events, but it also seemed very tuned with the show, so it wasn't a negative. And the shootout scene was just fun.

The acting in this episode is spectacular. Kyle MacLachlan finally gets to give us another go-around as the classic Coop that we know and love, and he hasn't missed a beat. That good-hearted FBI agent is back and throwing out those compliments and epic one-liners like no other. The MVP of this episode, though, may be Laura Dern who gave a devastatingly real retelling of her encounter with Mr. C that just left me trembling. If you doubted that this woman was one of the greatest actresses ever, just watch this episode and that song will get a different tune.

"Part 16" is a brilliant study of good vs. Evil through the actions of two halves of the same person, brilliantly portrayed by Kyle MacLachlan. The episode is definitely setting up a big finale and whether all the answers are giving or not, this had been one hell of a ride and will end that way.

Pure brilliance!

[Nos2001 · 10/10 · 9 March 2022]

First and foremost, to all those talking about 'filler episodes,' David Lynch is telling a story. Everything contained in that story has meaning, which is relevant to the final chapter or chapters.

If you've watched Twin Peaks from the start, you should already know this, so please do prospective viewers a favour and quit complaining about integral parts which you may find pointless when, in fact, without them the story would not be complete.

So now that I've said that, I'll offer my adoration to David Lynch and Mark Frost for the excellence portrayed in this episode. This is one of the finest 58 minutes of television ever created.

To fans and lovers of Twin Peaks, prepare to be blown away. To the nay-sayers, or the 'I hate Marmite' people, (you know who I'm referring to,) stop watching; change channel; and bless the internet by abstaining from a review.

10/10. Lynch/Frost gold.

I Am the FBI

[ThomasDrufke · 8/10 · 28 August 2017]

So….Agent Dale Cooper is back! At least, it seems that he's back. He hasn't actually announced himself as Cooper yet, but he denounced himself as Dougie and said he's the FBI! For the 16 episode wait of getting rid of Dougie, I'll take it. Overall, this episode was way more of classic Peaks than it was revival Peaks. Just simply hearing the main theme as Coop put on his suit and drove away from the hospital was enough to bring goosebumps on my arms. As was the moment when Audrey did the Audrey dance! That was sure a moment for the fans, only to be succeeded by a shocking reveal that Audrey is somehow trapped in a white room with a mirror? Is that her version of the white lodge? Is this at all related to Dale's return? Does this mean that all those scenes with Charlie have been a ruse? Speaking of which, it sure seems like Diane wasn't really all there to begin with. Talk about fantastic acting, Laura Dern was phenomenal. Every second was unpredictable, and that's a testament to how good she can be when she wants to be. Elsewhere, Richard Horne appeared to be electrocuted by some unknown force and died? There was also a shootout on Dougie's block that took out Chantal and Hutch for good. Classic Peaks, classic Peaks. Overall, I quite enjoyed this week's episode and am looking forward to Coop actually making his way back to Twin Peaks and the sheriff's office! Dang that feels good to say.

8.2/10

delightful!!!

[briefexistance · 10/10 · 29 August 2017]

everything about this episode was pure gold. most important of all: COOP IS BACK!!!! the moment we all had been waiting for. Hly sh*t. Other highlights:

Eddie Vedder was on the roadhouse! Awesome voice <3 Audrey is probably crazy, but she made her iconic dance, again! We saw more Black Lodge mythology, which is always pleasantly aesthetic. COOP IS F*CKING BACK!! FINALLY! OMGGGGG

holy sh*t i cannot wait for the next episode! this was so much better than GoT end of seventh season, Twin Peaks showed the atmospheric mysterious surreal romantic and enjoyable aura we saw in season 1 and 2. Gold, pure gold.

Everything was worth it, even the episode 12, who to me was the worst of the show EVER, everything has come to the critic point with this episode, satisfying, electric and awesome gets short description to this. WORTH THE WAITING! THANK YOU LYNCH!

It is the matter of taste

[anmti · 10/10 · 31 August 2017]

(To alexx668. So you don't like the Twin Peaks revival. That's OK. My brain for instance find GoT extremely boring.) The 10 is mainly for story (suspense), directing, editing, casting (except James Belushi), acting, dialogue and sound. This show introduced us some very talented young actors.

1x16

[formotog · 9/10 · 16 September 2020]

Well what can I say. This was a truly brilliant episode of television, and the best of both this show and the original. Given how slow it's taken to get here, I would've been very disappointed had they not landed certain payoffs, but oh did they land them. I had chills throughout. Bob Cooper had a kid with Audrey, and is now heading straight for Twin Peaks. I don't know what that was that happened to Richard Horne, but his character does make sense. He's the offspring of an evil entity, so yeah I suppose his actions do make sense. The whole affair that occurred in suburbia was superb, and it felt very much out of a Tarantino. Now Cooper's awakening was the crowning moment of the episode. Simply phenomenal when the Twin Peaks Theme started playing, and he said "I am the FBI". Man I've missed this guy so much, he truly is such a joy to watch. Of course this came with him having to say goodbyes to his not really wife and not really son. It delivered a very emotional farewell, but in true Cooper spirit, he managed to communicate with Mike in the Black Lodge and will get them their own Dougie. The amazing scenes didn't end there. Diane, terrifically performed by Laura Dern, turned out to be another fabrication of the Black Lodge, and I'll bet Billy in the Sheriff's department is actually her. It's either her or the woman found by Andy. Diane's turn on the FBI was preceded by some amazing tension and we got more of an insight into just how sick Bob is. The use of music in this episode was just fantastic, and it continued as we got Audrey dancing to one of the most used songs in the original show. It was pretty hypnotic, and then all of a sudden she was ripped from it and placed into a completely white void. I have no idea what happened there but I'm dying to find out. Even the reversed music playing over the end credits was chilling. I won't say this has justified about 15 episodes of slow build up just yet, but this is one of the best episodes of television I've seen this year

High 9

Biggest Payoff in television history

[moritzherz · 9/10 · 17 August 2023]

Payoff only works with patience. If a story is rushed and lacks of detail, the payoff will suffer. However, waiting 25 years and 15 hours until payoff, is remarkable. In fact, I have never seen that before.

Twin Peaks "ends" in 1992 with a cliffhanger, haunting the audience over the next two and a half decades. When this long period of waiting finally came to an end in 2017, we got 2 versions of Cooper, but not THE Cooper.

David Lynch kept us waiting another 15 hours until he finally released us of our long wait.

Cooper is back and "100 percent awake". This whole scene is just perfect and satisfying in the highest possible way. Payoof never was that sweat.

Now everything is set for a grand finale. Lynch now has the chance to conclude his magnum opus, the mother of all series.

The moment we've all been waiting for

[DjDarkrai10 · 10/10 · 12 September 2021]

This episode answers a ton of questions and shows the plots finally converging.

The best part of this episode is for sure Cooper waking up. There's so much excitement in finally seeing him up and ready to go. It's pure fan service but it's also incredibly satisfying.

The opening scene with ray and evil coop is also pretty entertaining, and provides one of the funniest jerry scenes yet.

The sequence with Diane is also quite good and the ending of that sequence begins the unsettling nature of the final act to this episode, which also finally reveals that Audrey is, in fact, not in the same reality as everyone else (whether she's in a coma or some sort of purgatory is unknown.)

overall 9.5/10, i do prefer part 17 to this but this is still great.

Dougie out and Cooper in

[AvionPrince16 · 8/10 · 23 March 2023]

So i need to say thats a pleasure to see that Dougie get away and we can see that Cooper is coming in: i mean the real Cooper the agent of the FBI. So much time to now see it at the end. I think real things are going to happen now. We are back in business. Diane seemed to be possessed by something weird and was not really Diane. She said that she was raped? By Cooper? Weird as hell. So like i said the main event here is that Cooper is back and he is going to come back to Twin Peaks as the agent of FBI that we knew and abandon Jane-e and his son because they are not really their father . Good news. Audrey made a weird dance and land somewhere else. Weird as hell. The other Cooper made killed the Audrey son by weird thunder.? I dont really know what really happened. Ok we can feel that the end is coming and the revelations, surprises and mysteries will be revealed. Finally!

You were manufactured for a reason.

[pantoleinasdimitris · 9/10 · 24 February 2024]

Part 16. No knock, no doorbell, he just came in..

A great great GREAT episode! Feels like the new Twin Peaks finally looked in the mirror and realised what it really was all about, and what it promised.

Mr. C and Richard are up to something that doesn't resolve any matters, especially with Richard.

Diane goes through major mental breakdowns, and honestly, I do not blame her one bit. She went through some hard stuff I will not spoil. Anyway, it doesn't end too well for her either, but at least she 'feels' better now..?

Finally, we have our dear friend back and awake. Ready for action. And on the way to Twin Peaks!

Ladies and gentlemen, I present Audrey's Dance!

What a scene, nostalgic washed all over me.

Overall, a major and build up for the two next episodes, who will be the finale.