Twin Peaks (2017) TV Series

A continuation of the original Twin Peaks series (1990-1991). (by BeeDub)
Cast and Information
Seasons: 1, Episodes: 18 - Episode List
Created By: David Lynch, Mark Frost
Directed By: David Lynch
Written By: David Lynch, Mark Frost
Starring: David Lynch, Ray Wise, Naomi Watts, Laura Dern, Grace Zabriskie, Kyle MacLachlan, Miguel Ferrer, Mädchen Amick, Sheryl Lee, Michael Horse, Dana Ashbrook, Kimmy Robertson
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Franchise: Twin Peaks
AKA: Twin Peaks: The Return
Country: USA
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1. Favorite Film of Every Criticker Member (collaborative: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 95 stars)
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3. Surreal (collaborative - 47 stars)
4. Full Female Frontal Nudity (Yes, Bush!) (collaborative: moderated by iceblox - 26 stars)
5. Cahiers du Cinema: Best Film (collaborative: moderated by CCLZA - 10 stars)
6. Sequel (collaborative: moderated by td888 - 9 stars)
7. Paranoia (collaborative: moderated by djross - 8 stars)
8. Best by different standards (public: sesito71 - 6 stars)
9. TV - 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century (The Guardian) (collaborative: moderated by KasperL - 5 stars)
10. Belated sequel (collaborative: moderated by djross - 4 stars)
11. Town with a dark secret (collaborative: moderated by mattburgess - 4 stars)
12. Capsules, guest reviews, list candidates... (366weirdmovies) (collaborative: moderated by sesito71 - 4 stars)
13. TV - IMDB Top 250 (fiction) (public: KasperL - 4 stars)
14. Angelo Badalamenti (composer) (collaborative: moderated by djross - 3 stars)
15. Unconventional Cinema (public: holsgr - 3 stars)
16. Djross film as art (public: djross - 3 stars)
17. Doppelgänger (collaborative: moderated by Sunsplitter - 2 stars)
18. Djross best TV series (public: djross - 2 stars)
19. Sound Design (collaborative: moderated by paulofilmo - 1 star)
20. Jodie's Movie of the Year (public: jgreenwood - 1 star)
21. Cahiers du Cinéma's 2010's Annual Top 10 Lists (public: Thegoodboy - 1 star)
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backwardsuit | 93 99th |
Yes this is pure uncut Lynch heroin. My mind was in a state of perpetual blowing up & my face was frozen in a dorky grin. Meticulously unsolves Laura Palmer's murder & envelops it in beautifully layered mystery as it was always meant to be. Hilarious, intriguing, bewildering, horrifying, heartbreaking, pulpy & classy often simultaneously. A willful compendium of Lynch's most harrowing & dreamlike work that is as deeply human as it is absurd & bizarre. The finale is existential shock & awe.
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Mentaculus | 95 95th |
Every Sunday for 20 weeks, Lynch took my brain off its stem, grilled it like a hamburger patty at the RR and put it back where the hole in my soul happened to be. Often self-indulgent and always infuriating, this TP does something unexpected nowadays: it never met your expectations. Not once. That alone would be great, but I am touched by Lynch's humanism - how death, real and imagined, time that passes, is greeted with an open hand and generosity of spirit. Like Laura, it's our saving grace.
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djross | 82 93rd |
Herculean effort by Lynch to create what in some ways is a summation of his entire oeuvre. In 1990 something dark lay beneath the surface of Americana; in 2017 that darkness has spread and is far more out in the open. Many many excellent moments and aspects, and conjoins disparate elements in a remarkable way, Lynch showing (as he did in 1990) how much more is possible for TV than has ever been attempted. A second viewing could lead to a higher score. Demands to be seen on high-grade equipment.
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Alex Watkins | 6 98th |
Possibly the finest work of David Lynch's career, which means it ranks with the best film or television ever made. Frankly wipes the floor with anything else I've seen on TV. That ending is legitimately bone-chilling.
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Darkling | 100 99th |
Humanity's best achievement.
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Neonman | 90 91st |
An entirely different beast to the original show, Lynch and Frost shit on fan service with this TV-series adaptation of Lost Highway. This is a dark, labyrinthine, indigestible, and very often surreal experience with some semblances of storylines (some of which end questionably), but importantly all the while continuing on with the tale of good and evil followed on from Laura's story in the original show. Not everything is great (Monica Bellucci dream?!), but high quality Lynch is back.
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hellboy76 | 79 94th |
You can't go home again. I was confused and disturbed and angry and happy and bored but mostly I was entertained because I had no idea what was going to happen next. Not once. And I can't remember the last time that happened, particularly in a television series. Such a huge part of me wanted all my favorite characters to just pick up where they left off, but honestly, I think that show would have sucked. Lynch proved he is still no ones yes man, and blew me away, again.
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moonsmilk | 10 95th |
I don't know what I expected, but this is somehow even better than the original series. Lynch is here to punish prestige TV and I am completely on board.
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rosenritter | 10 98th |
It's self-indulgent and has little regard for the viewer's expectations and desires of a Twin Peaks continuation, and I'm iffy on some of the creative decisions such as the sparse use of music, but surely there is no arguing this return is the most fantastic television event of all time? I've come into every episode so far expecting anything and still been surprised, and left with images I never thought I'd see in my life.
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schnofel | 23 7th |
A stream-of-consciousness idea dump for Lynch, who flatters the audience's willingness to feel dark and edgy, as if a dive into a stale underworld excuses all of his mannerisms. Instead of the original Twin Peaks community we find what feels like the hallucinations of a dying man on his sickbed, remixing the horrors of his psyche. But if badly paced amateur theater and jittery, self-devouring faces are your idea of surrealism/a good time, have at it. (PS: Great last scene).
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TheDiceman | 90 99th |
Lynch unleashed,love it more. Gotta light? Complete series.
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overrated | 99 99th |
Raises more questions than it answers and confounds expectations. Events that were built up for 25 years are resolved anticlimactically, and characters that have nothing to do with the central plot are introduced & discarded. Time is more the focus than saving or defeating anyone, Lynch using the decades-long interval of encroaching wrinkles & haggardness to great effect. The whole experience is phenomenal, this new TP having more in common with LH, MD & IE than black coffee & cherry pie.
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KasperL | 85 93rd |
If theorizing about enigmatic puzzles such as 'Mulholland Dr.' and 'Lost' is your thing, then this might be the motherload. I was hooked!
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janus | 90 94th |
Sublime throughout. 25 years later it's the weirdest show on TV again; it remains to be seen if it will be likewise as influential. Despite modest viewership, TV bigwigs should take the hint that enlisting and trusting auteurs is the ticket to pushing the medium in new directions as crowd-pleasing, payoff-driven "prestige" shows written by a roomful of people lose their edge, become exceedingly common, and start to face backlash.
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bolivar | 90 98th |
only for the first few episodes I must give this a very high ranking. only in david lynches brain can something like this be imagined. sadly, it lost momentum about halfway. a stricter performance in the editing room would have done this season a service. gotta light?
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redacted | 96 98th |
Lynch takes us down a forever self-generating labyrinth where somehow things are tied together that should never be. This season exists somewhere between brave, confident & experimental filmmaking which works given the expertise at the helm. I particularly enjoyed the Dougie subplot, as it's so relatable to the sometimes mindless feeling day to day grind, as well as the various reintroductions of the characters from the original. Lynch given carte blanche is a gift for us all. Encore pls.
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deep_green | 75 75th |
I couldn't get on board with the instantaneous celebration of this as another Lynch masterpiece from the get go. I think there is a lot that went kind of awry here, and it's almost a mess, but a fascinating one. This is why I persist in my belief that people like Lynch should be allowed free reign, and proper megalomaniac artists should be set loose on the world, to botch their visions.
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3 | Pratchett3 | 10 96th |
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the ending of this was hauntingly sublime. I'm still not over it.
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frankswild | 100 99th |
My mind goes to this daily. There are things in it that come into my mind for reasons that I know and reasons that I don't know.
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chadisdanger | 95 99th |
In this golden age of TV, where we're oversaturated with boundary pushing shows to the point where it's impossible to keep up with it all, Lynch and Frost actually manage to fuck the game up all over again. Even as a huge Lynch (& Twin Peaks) fan I was confounded, challenged and mesmerized on a weekly basis. Daring, terrifying, hilarious, intimately human yet mind-fryingly surreal, sometimes all at the same time. The balls on Lynch, Frost and Showtime to make this. Incredible.
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Kebapche | 99 99th |
This was great. Some of the first episodes were really boring, but this modern day 2017 Twin Peaks feeling just grew on me. Coming back to the classical Twin Peaks format would have been a huge mistake.
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FrederikA | 90 96th |
Fucking glorious!
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loc42 | 95 96th |
Hello-o-oooooooo
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hisblob | 20 13th |
cinematic trolling via nonsense
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karamazov. | 33 42nd |
Mostly not good, but the Wally Brando scene was honestly some of the funniest shit I've ever seen tho'.
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Yiannos | 75 84th |
Primarily addresses the difficulty, even the impossibility, of the 'return', so fans who complain that it isn't like the original series are missing the point. There are some uneventful moments, but the temporal discontinuities create a strong sense of psychic dislocation, and the nightmarish black and white segment in episode 8 is full of striking images that rank among Lynch's best work. Ultimately, Season 3 is a testament to the unique power of his imagination that remains fertile in old age.
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JonnyHalftab | 96 99th |
Every scene that seems to be running long ends up paying off (NYC apartment, FBI cig break). Lynch's imagery is manically abstract but still coherent and tangible. Most human interactions are realistic and mundane while some surreal moments are beautifully romantic (Fireman creating Laura). Those inhabiting the other dimension are so powerful, but their existence seems so menial. Whose lives are more important, ours or theirs?
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JooJoo | 2 16th |
Episode 1 8 and some of the final episode are phenomenal. I am still shocked how poor the rest of this is. Comes close to a near total miss rate of attempted humor throughout this interminable series with the Catatonic Cooper bits possibly being my least favorite bits of all seasons. Justify this cringe cause I could just go on and on with how many moments throughout felt this awkward - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SfGOOL6j_F8
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Vandelay1 | 73 83rd |
good 3rd season
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XakkMaster | 90 88th |
It's unbelievably frustrating, but also impossible to deny how wonderful some parts are. Part 8 in particular is chaotic art of the highest order.
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snallygaster | 72 80th |
Well, it's over. I've never dove into the voluminous Twin Peaks analysis out there, so I'm very much a casual fan, but it seems to me that Twin Peaks 2017 isn't a continuation or sequel to Twin Peaks; it's a series *about* Twin Peaks (and more). Lynch is drawing on the world of Twin Peaks to explore something about... I'm not sure. Dreams, imagination vs reality, fiction and fantasy, myth-making & memory... Something along those lines. I'll write more when season 4 comes out in 2043.
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ZachReviews | 95 86th |
Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You know? This is...excuse me...a DAMN fine David Lynch production.
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Dumptruk4Lif | 82 57th |
Well, I could tell it was made by Lynch, but I ain't gonna see this shit again unless it's condensed down to 5 hours. What exactly was the point of all the characters meandering and taking forever to do the simplest of things? And now Twin Peaks is even more of a variety show by having a new musical guest each week, all of which are lethargic and moribund. There's cool Lynchian things in it, but it's purposeless, there's never going to be an explanation, so there's nothing to gain from it.
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TheEscapist | 31 0th |
Abysmal. Not a patch on the original series. What a waste of 18 hours. Almost all characters are annoying, boring, one-dimensional caricatures. Most scenes are completely pointless and infuriating. The humour falls flat 90% of the time and everything that was bad in the original series is amplified here to the max while everything that made the original so great is only sparsely used here and seldom reaches the same level of quality. Truly terrible, should've been 4 hours instead of 18.
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redflag | 99 96th |
The agonizing slow burn. The horrors in the darkness. The comedic triumph. Then everything turns itself inside out. A scream in the night. A house on a hill. "What year is this?" Then more darkness, nothing. "Is it past...or is it future?" "There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Anti-Proustian.
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Groovy_Souls | 90 90th |
Granted, I didn't wait 25 years for The Return, but what a return it is. Lynch proves that he's gone off the deep end, but that he's still interested in making film that breaks boundaries and explores the in-between places. Episode 8 alone is worth a million points. A fantastic continuation, even if it varies in quality from time to time. Everything is there for a reason.
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1 | 5Z5qjRCfM2 | 10 5th |
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Mistakes inscrutability for depth. Lynch's head is too far up his own ass with this one. Go watch The Cremaster Cycle if you're looking for an art film that takes a week to watch. At least Barney has a wealth of compelling images.
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1 | Zangin | 100 99th |
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The ending is very Lynchian to say the least, I'm still not sure how I think of it yet. Still, part 16 is easily the best episode of any work of television that I have ever seen. This series deserves a 100 for that alone.
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1 | hotdogdragon | 0 2nd |
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Fuck off, David Lynch
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1 | vv238 | 95 98th |
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I could spend all 500 characters on what is wrong or doesn't work. The Return is still brilliant because when it is great it sets a new standard for the small screen. Episode 8 is, in this humble reviewer's opinion, the single greatest achievement in the history of episodic television. Once a week for a few months David Lynch took me on a journey. I never knew where it started, how we would be getting there, what vehicle we were in, or the destination. I wouldn't have it any other way.
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mixmaxter | 95 96th |
The Good Shit. first person night headlight driving is iconic for some reason
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wasnotwhynot | 100 96th |
everything you ever loved was made by committee, so finally there's a committee to create a giant middle finger and jam it into your eye
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