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With so much ground to cover, the new “Twin Peaks” is soundtracked in large part by complete silence. Scenes where new characters are introduced [...] are all ambient noise and dialogue. Occasionally, the quiet hum of synthesizer atmospheres will make their way into a scene, but these moments tend to fade back into vast stretches of quiet. The lack of sound is occasionally overwhelming. From the scene in “Part 3” where the good Dale Cooper appears back in the real world, there’s over 15 straight minutes without any music—just uncomfortable sonic stillness as the fake Dougie Jones shuffles obliviously from place to place.

But silence is a perfect device for the show’s return, which requires focus (and multiple re-watches, honestly) to keep track of about a dozen loosely intersecting plotlines in a single episode.