Twin Peaks (2017) TV Series

Stars	User	Rating
21	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.
15	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.
6	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.
6	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.
6	Darkling	100 _99th
Humanity's best achievement.
5	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.
5	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.
5	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.
5	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.
4	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).
4	TheDiceman	90 _99th
Lynch unleashed,love it more. Gotta light? Complete series.
4	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.
3	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!
3	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.
3	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?
3	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.
3	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.
3	Pratchett3	10 _96th
the ending of this was hauntingly sublime. I'm still not over it.
2	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.
2	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.
2	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.
2	FrederikA	90 _96th
Fucking glorious!
2	loc42	95 _96th
Hello-o-oooooooo
2	hisblob	20 _13th
cinematic trolling via nonsense
2	karamazov.	33 _42nd
Mostly not good, but the Wally Brando scene was honestly some of the funniest shit I've ever seen tho'.
2	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.
2	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?
1	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
1	Vandelay1	73 _83rd
good 3rd season
1	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.
1	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.
1	ZachReviews	95 _86th
Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You know? This is...excuse me...a DAMN fine David Lynch production.
1	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.
1	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.
1	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.
1	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.
1	5Z5qjRCfM2	10 _5th
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.
1	Zangin	100 _99th
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.
1	hotdogdragon	0 _2nd
Fuck off, David Lynch
1	vv238	95 _98th
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.
1	mixmaxter	95 _96th
The Good Shit. first person night headlight driving is iconic for some reason
1	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

Average Percentile 81.41% from 811 Ratings