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Twin Peaks brings new meaning to the idea of an “18-hour movie” (Todd VanDerWerff / Vox) This isn’t a suddenly plot-heavy hour of TV. It’s just plot-heavy for Twin Peaks. It’s still weird and wonderful and warped, with all sorts of strange little bits and pieces around its edges. It’s still the sho...

A Dark Age (Noel Murray / The New York Times) “We’re living in a dark, dark age.” It’s not just that Cooper is a shell of a man right now. He’s also wearing the clothes and living the life of a scoundrel, in a society that seems to shrug off Dougie’s misbehavior as acceptable. “Part 6” cuts deep in...

A familiar character makes a striking debut (Jeff Jensen / Entertainment Weekly) Part 6 of Twin Peaks: The Return was fascinating and frustrating, moving and confounding, often for the same reasons. Many of the negative things you could say about this installment reflect back its best meanings. Age...

As Dale Cooper wakes up, Twin Peaks dares us to make sense of it—or not (Emily L. Stephens / The A.V. Club) At times, it can feel like the Twin Peaks revival is daring viewers to make sense of its intricate obscurities and its patient, meandering pace. Like the numbed, muted version of Dale Cooper ...

‘Twin Peaks’ Looks At The Dazzling Decay Of America (Evan Davis / Decider) Lynch turns the tables on us to show us why Becky would be with Steven. Lynch enjoys distantiation. Long shots, long scenes, and raw sound serve to disorient the viewer. When he uses close-ups, they carry with them greater e...

Twin Peaks’ procedural is—and always was—a vehicle for a greater mystery (Emily L. Stephens / The A.V. Club) For people wanting a linear story from these long stretches of waiting, watching, and [...] driving, it must be brutally frustrating to see the atmospherics overtake the story, to see the se...

Dougie, Fresh (Sean T. Collins / Rolling Stone) It's funny to think about how just two weeks ago, a mainline dose of co-creator/director David Lynch's most abstract and brutal work in years made the goofball charms of Peaks 1.0 seem a million miles away – for three or so episodes, anyway. But then ...

The Return of Eraserhead (Jeff Jensen / Entertainment Weekly) A few things got lost in Cooper’s transmutation from pure spirit to flesh and bone: his memory, much of his personality, and his shoes. It was if Cooper 2.0 had been reduced to Cooper 1.0’s best essential traits: his simplicity, his dece...

‘Twin Peaks’ Trades Twists for Dream Logic (Alison Herman / The Ringer) “Four hours in, The Return feels true to director David Lynch’s stubbornly enigmatic persona, unclear and unhurried in its efforts to reveal itself. The pace is leisurely, luxuriating in the lack of commercial breaks Lynch famo...

Twin Peaks’ Fourth Episode Is an Absurdist Joy (Jen Chaney / Vulture) The original Twin Peaks evoked teen movie stars of the ‘50s, most notably through the James Deanish James Hurley and the Elizabeth Tayloresque Audrey Horne. Wally Brando is the 2017 Twin Peaks homage to that trope, and a wry ackn...