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Teach Me How to Dougie (Laura Hudson | Vulture) If the first four episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return were a mainline injection of all the most surreal Red Room madness of Fire Walk With Me, the fifth marks a modest return to vaguely conventional storytelling. It’s still full of outlandish non sequi...

The New 'Twin Peaks' Is Funny as Hell (Jess Zimmerman | Vice) Take the bit in Dougie's kitchen, where Dougie's kid Sonny Jim patiently teaches an ill-dressed Cooper how to eat pancakes. [...] I think this scene, in conversation with a similar scene in the original, is going to be the key to underst...

Naomi Watts Reunited With David Lynch After 15 Years, And It Was An Acting Powerhouse (Zack Sharf | IndieWire) It’d be a shame to overlook just how incredible Watts is in her “Twin Peaks” debut. In about four minutes, the actress runs the gamut of emotions and provides the revival with one of its b...

“The Stars Turn And A Time Presents Itself” (Russ Fischer | Birth. Movies. Death.) More than anything else outside of the shared work of David Lynch and Mark Frost, trust is the root of what makes TWIN PEAKS work. The series represents David Lynch trusting his instincts, following wherever his idea...

Sculpting in Time (Vadim Rizov / Filmmaker Magazine) Having to answer to no one, Lynch drags TV away from dialogue and into gallery-land: each room and space has been exquisitely color-graded, each signature ominous room tone/bass rumble personally sound-designed by Lynch himself. Confounding doesn...

Even Fire Walk With Me‘s Deleted Scenes Are Important to the New Twin Peaks (Soheil Rezayazdi / FilmMaker Magazine)

Lynch Unleashed (Laura Miller | Slate) From the opening shots, the series has the stretched-out rhythm of a Lynch film: dialogue scenes full of long pauses and repetitions, techniques that at first feel stilted then inexorably reshape your sense of how a story can unfold on screen. If you squirm at...

Welcome to Twin Peaks : The Return | The Return (Scott Wampler / Birth Movies Death) The Box is a perfect Lynch invention. It's something we've never seen before in the PEAKS universe, and to look at it is to have a million questions about it. What're those floodlights meant to illuminate? All thos...

‘Twin Peaks’ is Flying Into Its Finale: Why All That Action Could Lead to a Definitive Ending (Ben Travers / IndieWire) What Cooper went through as Dougie still matters. That life isn’t one to be tossed aside in favor of a larger plot. As much was made clear when he knelt down with Janey-E (Naomi W...

James IS still cool (Darren Franich | Entertainment Weekly) An arm-wrestling match! A sparkling gym set! A conga line! A back massage! The thirteenth part of the revival season of Twin Peaks had all that and a bag of chips, plus a returning character from the original series, plus a frank conversat...