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Why this show is like nothing else on TV right now (Todd VanDerWerff / Vox) You can’t easily find its blend of existential terror, weird humor, and melodrama anywhere else, even though so much of modern television is heavily influenced by the series’ original two seasons. Something like Game of Thr...

Let’s talk about that Double R Diner scene (Nick Mitchell / The i Paper) Bullets are fired at the Double R, and Bobby swoops into action, scrambling out to investigate. Outside in the street a mother holds a gun, berating her husband for letting their young son get his hands on the firearm. It turn...

Candy-Colored (Noel Murray / The New-York Times) Candie’s best bit comes when the boys send her down to the casino floor to find out why insurance agent Anthony Sinclair is sniffing around. They watch her through security cameras, as what’s supposed to be a simple assignment turns into her inexplic...

David Lynch Finds Good and Bad Love in “Part 10″ (Chris Cabin / Collider) There’s a special kind of joy that comes from watching Gordon geek out over the cute date that Albert is on with Jane Adams‘ Constance, one of the lead investigators on the Hastings case. It’s moments like those that have con...

Chair Today, Gone Tomorrow (Sean T. Collins / Rolling Stone) If director David Lynch and co-writer/co-creator Mark Frost have proven anything in this inventive, powerful relaunch of their supernatural soap opera, it’s that they can do pretty much anything they damn well please. A show that spends m...

Think out loud with an exposition-heavy Twin Peaks (Emily L. Stephens / The A.V. Club) At the center of “The Return, Part 9” is Maj. Briggs’ message to his son. And it is a message to his son, though Garland told Betty Briggs (Charlotte Stewart) to deliver the little metal cartridge to Bobby, Hawk,...

Last Night's Nightmarish, Brilliant Twin Peaks: What Was That? (Scott Meslow & Joshua Rivera / GQ) I have long marveled that the original Twin Peaks finale aired on ABC at all. That’s the now-legendary episode that spent much of its runtime on a surreal descent into the Black Lodge, and ended w...

David Lynch Upstages Nine Inch Nails With Sprawling Nightmare Sequence (Josh Wigler / The Hollywood Reporter) Really, the eighth chapter of David Lynch's increasingly experimental revival can most accurately be described in two words: nightmare fuel. It begins with the aforementioned Cooper sequenc...

‘Twin Peaks’ Is More Satisfying If You Stop Trying to Figure Out What It Means (Eric Kohn / IndieWire) During his decade of absence, TV has become far more prominent than movies as the preeminent delivery method for moving image storytelling, and that has led to the assumption that audiences prefer...

Naomi Watts, the Quiet MVP of ‘Twin Peaks’ (Adam Nayman / The Ringer) If a narrative as oblique and outright experimental as The Return has an emotional center, Janey-E is it. On one level, her confusion with Dougie’s grueling, love-child-of–David Byrne–and-E.T. act is perfectly reasonable; after y...