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A Game of Opposites (Clarisse Loughrey / The Independent) this episode bears perhaps one of the first examples of Lynch’s distinctive approach not being entirely successful, specifically in one scene that sees a violent rampage against a woman by a hitman, with Dougie next on his list of targets. h...

Grab a golden shovel and dig through part 5 of Twin Peaks (RoundTable / The AV Club) One of the biggest questions I had going into a new season of Twin Peaks was how the show would fare against the instant scrutiny of the recap age—whether the ambiguity that made the original series so memorable co...

Keeping Up With the Joneses (Sean T. Collins / Rolling Stone) The Wally Brando scene teaches us something else about Twin Peaks 3.0. With four hours of the The Return under our belts, it’s getting a bit easier to understand its overall approach. Is it leaning hard on all of the original’s most esot...

A Cry for Compassion (David Johnson /Cinematic Detective) “We’re Going Home” Why did Cooper choose the night of Laura’s death to intervene? He could’ve gone back years earlier and prevented her suffering. He could’ve exposed Bob before he did so much damage. https://cinematicdetective.files.wordpre...

2 Peaks 2 + 1 (David Phelps / Mubi) Changes to the past create ruptures into the present that result in multiple, simultaneous timelines in parallel universes. Just as different versions of Cooper can inhabit the same universe, the same version of Cooper can inhabit different universes simultaneous...

We're Noticing A Pattern With Twin Peaks & Sexual Assault (Rebecca Farley / Refinery29) In the Lodge, the alter-ego Diane literally rips to pieces and then disappears, leaving behind her seed. It's an unnerving metaphor for the reverberations of rape; the implications are that Diane, after being vi...

Romance and Death Are All the Rage on 'Twin Peaks' (Jess Zimmerman / Vice) "Who's Judy?" Doppelcoop demands of the bell-shaped, spouted device that seems to house the soul of Phillip Jeffries. (We've seen four of these so far: on the roof of the cube before Naido falls off into space, in the Giant'...

Fear in Letting Go ('Hulk' / Vulture) “I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return’d to me, And answer’d: ‘I Myself am Heav’n and Hell” — Omar Khayyám This quote kept coming to mind as I watched the 15th episode of Twin Peaks: The Retu...

Who Is the Dreamer? (Noel Murray / The New York Times) Several times during this season of “Twin Peaks,” right before an episode has ended with a musical performance, the show has featured brief scenes of young people talking at the Roadhouse. Sometimes these characters have returned later. But for...

Big Secrets Spill Out in ‘Part 14,’ But the Truth Lies Within David Lynch’s Dreams (Ben Travers / IndieWire) Monica Bellucci solves crimes in David Lynch’s dreams, Diane is Janey-E’s half-sister, and Andy is newly enlightened after taking a trip to the other side — phew! “Part 14” certainly isn’t s...