Twin Peaks: The Return

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Season 1
  • Network: SHOWTIME
  • Series Premiere Date: May 21, 2017
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8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 464 Ratings

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  1. kuku
    Jul 20, 2017
    0
    Season 3 has made me feel like one episode takes 25 years to end. I hate that I have stuck with it for so many episodes. It is really awful and I just keep waiting for something to happen worth the invested time. The origianl 2 seasons were great, and the movie was terrible except it cleared up some stuff but mah...Season 1&2 at most is all anyone should watch. Ask your friends to giveSeason 3 has made me feel like one episode takes 25 years to end. I hate that I have stuck with it for so many episodes. It is really awful and I just keep waiting for something to happen worth the invested time. The origianl 2 seasons were great, and the movie was terrible except it cleared up some stuff but mah...Season 1&2 at most is all anyone should watch. Ask your friends to give you a run down if they watched it and save some hours of your life. It is like watching silent films and 5 minutes of it is someone singing, so if you like that sort of thing your in luck!! I've gotten to where I want to FF through all the overly silent scenes because it gets annoying! Disappointing.… Expand
  2. Thilus
    Jul 14, 2017
    2
    Oh, my goodness. This season is utter garbage. I am 8 episodes in and I just saw one decent episode (Ep. 7) that didn't seem like a bizarre dream of a drooling madman. Most of the time you just wonder, what the hell is going on, and where is the Twin Peaks that you used to love. I thought nothing would beat the crap-fest of "Fire walk with me", but I was very wrong. Season 3 of Twin PeaksOh, my goodness. This season is utter garbage. I am 8 episodes in and I just saw one decent episode (Ep. 7) that didn't seem like a bizarre dream of a drooling madman. Most of the time you just wonder, what the hell is going on, and where is the Twin Peaks that you used to love. I thought nothing would beat the crap-fest of "Fire walk with me", but I was very wrong. Season 3 of Twin Peaks is seemingly an equivalent of modern alt art. It is enough to take a dump on a table, or draw with your semen and suddenly people think you're making art. But all you are making is a fool of yourself. Dreadful, dreadful, dreadful.… Expand
  3. Valiantsin
    Jul 25, 2017
    1
    11 episodes that could've been fit into 3-4 episodes if you cut all unnecessary artsy stuff. But still, it will be too boring to watch because there is no movement or story progression at all.
  4. ScienceAdvisor
    Aug 1, 2017
    2
    For anyone not merely reviewing the season premier (which appears to be most), the reality of Twin Peak's return is far more bleak. While they opened on a very high note, the show then immediately devolves to some individually terrible acting, an overly bizarre script that stagnates and moves sideways instead of developing, and directing that can only be described as idiot-savantism.For anyone not merely reviewing the season premier (which appears to be most), the reality of Twin Peak's return is far more bleak. While they opened on a very high note, the show then immediately devolves to some individually terrible acting, an overly bizarre script that stagnates and moves sideways instead of developing, and directing that can only be described as idiot-savantism. There are brief glimpses of the original show, but none of the snappy dialogue, strange, yet coherently tied together story elements, that made the original a classic. Season three is just a painful show that we want to be far better than it is. Most disappointing of all is that this is Twin Peaks in name only, with most of the screen time devoted to anywhere else.… Expand
  5. dierregi
    Dec 11, 2017
    0
    It is funny and slightly pathetic to read the reviews of Lynch die-hard fans, who are bending over backward to explain every minute of this unfocused mess. “Did you hear what the Log Lady say? Laura is the ONE!!!”....Did you see how funny agent Cooper is as Dougie? Just hilarious, like watching a catatonic guy repeating the last two words of every sentence he heard ... that is SO funny.It is funny and slightly pathetic to read the reviews of Lynch die-hard fans, who are bending over backward to explain every minute of this unfocused mess. “Did you hear what the Log Lady say? Laura is the ONE!!!”....Did you see how funny agent Cooper is as Dougie? Just hilarious, like watching a catatonic guy repeating the last two words of every sentence he heard ... that is SO funny. And what about special agent Gordon? He’s just about in every other scene, instead if Cooper - but that’s just because Lynch is so great his crowd cannot get enough of him. Did anybody mention a complete lack of plot? No, I didn’t think so....… Expand
  6. Poirot
    Sep 20, 2017
    0
    Do not watch this show. This is perhaps the worst show in the history of television. After MASH. Better. There was no plot, there was almost dialogue. It appears as though David Lynch got high as a kite and ran with it. Acting was terrible, script horrible, There was not one redeeming quality about any point in the entire show. If you still decide to watch this even after thisDo not watch this show. This is perhaps the worst show in the history of television. After MASH. Better. There was no plot, there was almost dialogue. It appears as though David Lynch got high as a kite and ran with it. Acting was terrible, script horrible, There was not one redeeming quality about any point in the entire show. If you still decide to watch this even after this warning I would recommend that you start drinking now. Perhaps invent a drinking game. This was a shocking disappointment, I was enthused to for the return. I think David Lynch and the entire cast have absolutely lost whatever talent they had.… Expand
  7. hijosdelsiglo20
    Mar 11, 2018
    0
    Crap. Silence. Absence of direction. A completely waste of time, a 18-hours bad joke.
  8. NikolayG
    Jun 9, 2017
    0
    Horrible worthless garbage. Season 1 was fun and a phenomenon back in the day. Most don't remember, but David Lunch promised to resolve the story in 1 season, then didn't. When they dragged it out into 2 seasons people started getting annoyed and the story went downhill. This new version decades later is just awful. It's nothing like the original. No funny dialogue (not much dialogue atHorrible worthless garbage. Season 1 was fun and a phenomenon back in the day. Most don't remember, but David Lunch promised to resolve the story in 1 season, then didn't. When they dragged it out into 2 seasons people started getting annoyed and the story went downhill. This new version decades later is just awful. It's nothing like the original. No funny dialogue (not much dialogue at all), extreme violence, and an absolutely nonsensical story. They attempt humor at certain points but it falls worse than flat. And the look of the show is very different. The sets. It does not look or feel anything like Twin Peaks, or like a good show of any kind. There are also long scenes of nothing, like a man spray painting shovels. Some of the worst junk I've ever seen. The commercial breaks are refreshing. I'm half a dozen episodes in and at this point I'm just going to give up.… Expand
  9. FilippoAD
    Dec 12, 2017
    0
    Boring as hell. I had so much hope for the return of this amazing series but I was so disappointed when I watched the pilot. Just forwarding scenes by scenes to find something interesting. It remembers me too much the "awful" second season and I would have loved to get the magic of first one ...
  10. phunloving
    Jun 6, 2017
    2
    There are 2 David Lynchs and you often see both in one project. One is a creative narrative storyteller who draws intense performances from his actors and alternates relieves and heightens the mystery and tension in his work by speckling it with short bursts of deadpan absurdity and dreamworld horror. That's the good Lynch we see in Blue Velvet and TP season 1. The bad Lynch is a selfThere are 2 David Lynchs and you often see both in one project. One is a creative narrative storyteller who draws intense performances from his actors and alternates relieves and heightens the mystery and tension in his work by speckling it with short bursts of deadpan absurdity and dreamworld horror. That's the good Lynch we see in Blue Velvet and TP season 1. The bad Lynch is a self indulgent pretentious spoiler of his narrative work to let you know he's dedicated to "art" rather than a finished work of integrity and ideas. The perfect example of this disunity is Mulholland Drive which nosedives from great heights midway through to disappear up its own posterior with a nasty message that (hollywood? life?) is nothing but shallow people using and trashing each other just as I, David Lynch, just used and trashed you, my audience, by despoiling the great story and characters i built in the first half of the film by saying it was all a dream or some other nonsense. Mulholland Drive and to a much greater extent in Lost Highway, which is weighted more to the bad side of Lynch's creativity, also display a disturbing aspect of Lynch which is his often over the top brutality towards his female characters which contrasts strongly with his ability to tenderly draw strong sympathetic and realistic female characters. This is a weird tendency but not in a good way like the moose head on table in a bank kind of weird. A perfect example of this is the short lived character Daria in TP season 3 who gets punched in the face twice (once wasn't enough to show bad Cooper is bad?) and then gets shot through a pillow. THEN Cooper lifts the pillow so we can enjoy seeing Daria is shot in the head (was there any doubt from inches away?). The latter is just one example of how the show follows the bad tendency of the TP movie to shift too far into darkness without a sympathetic hook for the viewer to take that dark trip in any enjoyable way. Comic relief is also absent. Lovable goofy characters like Andy and Lucy seem to be jarringly brain damaged, maybe inhabited by spirits from a Dumb Lodge we'll find out about later? The pacing and delivery of the few "funny" scenes with both the old and new characters like the forgetful neighbor of the murdered woman is way off and the jokes go over like lead balloons. Even the pacing of interesting scenes like the photo box in NYC is way too slow and milks the tension from it. But it's hard to complain about episodes 1 and 2's flaws when we get to the unremitting boring nonsense that is episodes 3 and 4. While Albert has a few funny quips in these, they are almost hard to latch onto amidst the numbing tone of these episodes which are not leavened by music or some other aid this weak material sorely needs. I think any fan of TP's first season was excited by the news months ago that the original 9 hour run of this season was being lengthened to 18 hours, but based on these four episodes, we could be in for an exhausting 9 hours of ponderous noodling with bad special effects to balance out 9 hours of narrative storytelling. I'll keep watching to see if good Lynch winds but i'm not hopeful based on what we have seen so far.
    Having just watched the 5th episode, the prospects of recovery for this show seem even dimmer. Cooper continues to impersonate Dougie and his family, friends, and now co-workers are all taken in by the impersonation even though his speech is restricted to one or two word repetition of whatever is spoken to him. In the real world or an artistic one of integrity, all of these people would have driven Dougie to a hospital to investigate his serious cognitive dysfunction. This is not absurdist, it's just bad lazy writing that maybe could be excused if it was a one scene transition for Cooper, but can't be for 3 ungodly boring episodes of such drivel. What makes it worse is that one can easily see how very funny it would be to see Cooper having to impersonate a slacker like Dougie to find his way back into the world, but, you know, that would require Frost/Lynch to actually write some interesting dialogue and it's apparently 25 years too late for that. The lack of any creative effort in some scenes is often stupefying, e.g. Sheriff Truman's brother talks to his wife about a water leak in as mundane terms as you could hear riding a bus and then the scene ends. Later, a boy sees an object under a car that causes it to blow up. The jump cut from the object to the car in flames seems borrowed from a no budget straight to video film and the boy is mere feet away unharmed by flying glass, etc. If there were still newspapers around with wide audiences who paid critics to write literate reviews, this show would be rightfully vilified as junk patched together by 2 guys coasting off their prior reputations to cash in.    … Expand
  11. terrywinc
    May 29, 2017
    0
    I really enjoyed Season 1 of Twin Peaks back in the day but Season 2 of the series was where the show began its decline.It's very sad to see that Twin Peaks Season 3 has not rebounded with better story telling a la Season 1 but has wallowed in the show's penchant for weirdness to such a degree that the first 4 hours of the new season has been nothing short of an abysmal , painfully unfunnyI really enjoyed Season 1 of Twin Peaks back in the day but Season 2 of the series was where the show began its decline.It's very sad to see that Twin Peaks Season 3 has not rebounded with better story telling a la Season 1 but has wallowed in the show's penchant for weirdness to such a degree that the first 4 hours of the new season has been nothing short of an abysmal , painfully unfunny disaster.I can only hope that David Lynch has some master plan to right the ship before its too late but truly doubt that he can.… Expand
  12. Yonkiman
    May 24, 2017
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I loved the original Twin Peaks from the first 5 minutes of the pilot to a title bit into Season 2, when it went from being perfect to just better-than-average TV with characters I loved. It did NOT take 5 episodes before it started to get good.

    Season 3 is unfathomably bad. Sure, I don't know what Lynch's master plan is, but I CAN see horribly written dialog, failed attempts to recapture the spirits of old characters, scenes that are 2 to 5 times too long (and not in the good way David Lynch used to do). I started each of the first 4 episodes with my fingers crossed that it would be where some of the old magic returns. But after about 4 hours, the only bit of the old magic I saw were parts of the glass box thread and a new motorcycling character (not James).

    Maybe a miracle will occur in the remaining episodes but I feel more and more like a sucker for watching the first 4...    … Expand
  13. jetSetWilly
    Jul 7, 2017
    0
    Worst of Lynch by far. Avid fan of the first 2 series but this one does nothing for the show. Bringing back the old actors and giving them obvious token roles just added to the doledrum. The entire focus is on Bob and his arm, as far as interesting character developments as per original twin peaks, well there is none. Watching some brainless goon of Agent Cooper walking around like aWorst of Lynch by far. Avid fan of the first 2 series but this one does nothing for the show. Bringing back the old actors and giving them obvious token roles just added to the doledrum. The entire focus is on Bob and his arm, as far as interesting character developments as per original twin peaks, well there is none. Watching some brainless goon of Agent Cooper walking around like a douchbag for an entire series and with nothing at all interesting on the horizon for the show makes it obvious this is a cash grab moment.

    Got to congratulate Lynch on showing us all how stupid the average consumer is going by all these positive ratings. Most of these morons voted when the first episode aired. This review was written at the end so its covering the entire season proper.

    This, isn't not to say I don't mind the horror angle, being a horror fan and all but Twin Peaks is more than that and this series has been a total boring let down with mediore acting at best. It actually feels fan made to me.

    Nothing to see here, move along.    … Expand
  14. pepitohonguito
    Apr 19, 2018
    0
    Boring, tedious, slow, tacky effects and there's nothing to look forward to seeing from one episode to another. My favorite part of the show are the singers and bands at the end of every episode. Very disappointing, this season 3 was a terrible mistake it ruined the reputation of the show.
  15. LittleMato
    Nov 28, 2017
    0
    Even 0 is more than this "show" deserves. A total disaster from A to Z. Slow, nonexisting plot, bad acting (I wonder how did all these respectful actors and actresses like Naomi Watts or Tim Roth agree to play in it?), horrible dialogues where the words like fu*k and "sh!t" dominate (by which you can tell it is a "modern" series)... and lots of "shocking" blood scenes. The pinnacle ofEven 0 is more than this "show" deserves. A total disaster from A to Z. Slow, nonexisting plot, bad acting (I wonder how did all these respectful actors and actresses like Naomi Watts or Tim Roth agree to play in it?), horrible dialogues where the words like fu*k and "sh!t" dominate (by which you can tell it is a "modern" series)... and lots of "shocking" blood scenes. The pinnacle of stupidity and lack of any talent is Chrysta Bell, obviously the "muse" (you have to understand the GF by that) of David Lynch. I've never seen such a bad actor. Bad, bad, a million times worse than anything you can imagine.… Expand
  16. Oliviaf
    Oct 19, 2021
    1
    Twin Peaks ended in episode 9 season 2. Everything that came afterwards is a waste of time. The film was alright, although there was no real need for it as they were only telling us again what we had already deduced in the show.
    Season 3 was awful. The people saying it was great clearly have no taste at all and/or are nothing but David Lynch fans who think anything he puts out is    Twin Peaks ended in episode 9 season 2. Everything that came afterwards is a waste of time. The film was alright, although there was no real need for it as they were only telling us again what we had already deduced in the show.
    Season 3 was awful. The people saying it was great clearly have no taste at all and/or are nothing but David Lynch fans who think anything he puts out is "groundbreaking cinema" because being a Lynch fan has become an "edgy" personality trait for them.
    I wasn't looking for a trip down memory lane with season 3, expecting to see the exact same show only 25 years later. All I wanted was the same level of quality, mystery, subtlety, charm and brilliance from the original show, but sadly it wasn't there at all. It is now clear to me that season 2 killed Twin Peaks and season 3 buried it.
    I truly feel sorry for the original and new cast that had to put up with this mess...    … Expand

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 26
  3. Negative: 1 out of 26
  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    May 23, 2017
    75
    You got two hours that were often gorgeous, sometimes goofy, frequently disturbing and far more graphically violent than the original--filled with performances that ranged from amusing to disquieting to the flat-out amateurish.
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  2. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: David Sims
    May 22, 2017
    90
    These episodes scattered a lot of fascinating imagery, disconnected story ideas, and inter-dimensional nightmare antics in front of its audience; it’s up to viewers to try and put the pieces together, or (my preferred method) simply soak in every bizarre tableau with glee. ... Twin Peaks (subtitled The Return) is a worthy new entry in his canon.
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  3. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    May 22, 2017
    70
    Twin Peaks: The Return was creepy, surreal, bizarre, and often unintelligible. Just like its predecessor.
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