** TWIN PEAKS: EPISODE BY EPISODE **
07-21-2017
, 03:34 PM
08-18-2017
, 08:26 AM
08-21-2017
, 12:12 AM
09-01-2017
, 06:06 PM
09-04-2017
, 04:18 PM
I was several episodes behind and caught up on all by late last night.
Was getting mildly disappointed with some stuff in the late-middle; some scenes felt like bloat, the humor didn't hit as much as it did early on (I got few to no Albert laughs after the first half unfortunately), the Cole-Albert-Preston scenes were getting kinda bad (long info dumps that seemed meaningless or not all that interesting - more on that later).
Cooper's return episode was obv great and a lot of the episode seemed to indicate all these intricately woven narrative threads beginning to coalesce. This continued with the first half of the penultimate episode, and the tension at the sheriff's department clearly shows what a phenomenal director Lynch is even when he's doing a more "traditional" suspense narrative for a few minutes (as opposed to the pure "Lynchian weirdness" he's often written off for).
I was surprised how tidily things looked to be wrapping up already with 90 minutes of screen time left to go. Cooper is out and himself, doppelCoop/BOB are defeated, most of our beloved Peaksians are safe, Norma/Hank together, etc.
At first I'm thinking "what else does Cooper need to do?" and then I remember Laura, and that bit was brilliant although the penultimate ending was unclear to me at first (I guess he almost fixed the past, but time reasserted itself?).
Then that finale. Outside of the motel gave me my first pretty bonafide Lynchian fear in quite a while.
As things looked to be headed towards a potentially clean wrap I found myself almost disappointed with that. But then, my oh my.
I did not expect in a million years for it to end the way it did. When it went black, I was grinning from ear to ear and praying that was really it. When the credits started to roll, I clapped.
Mysteries have been resolved, but we're nearly back where we started at the season 2 finale, and that's so awesome. Dale and Laura stuck somewhere strange, Audrey's fate in the balance too. "It goes on and on and on and on."
The nature of the ending also recontextualizes much of what came before. The silly Gordon Cole explanations are revealed as largely meaningless. (Supposedly there are clues about the ending in the first episode as well, including a mention of the names on the note in the motel.)
I'd certainly welcome a season 4, but I'm totally satisfied as is. The meaning is so clear; cliffhangers were resolved, new cliffhangers happened, and we should not ever expect that to change. In a way, we almost needed the new season in order to tell us that we didn't need it (if what we were after was resolution).
Well?
Was getting mildly disappointed with some stuff in the late-middle; some scenes felt like bloat, the humor didn't hit as much as it did early on (I got few to no Albert laughs after the first half unfortunately), the Cole-Albert-Preston scenes were getting kinda bad (long info dumps that seemed meaningless or not all that interesting - more on that later).
Cooper's return episode was obv great and a lot of the episode seemed to indicate all these intricately woven narrative threads beginning to coalesce. This continued with the first half of the penultimate episode, and the tension at the sheriff's department clearly shows what a phenomenal director Lynch is even when he's doing a more "traditional" suspense narrative for a few minutes (as opposed to the pure "Lynchian weirdness" he's often written off for).
I was surprised how tidily things looked to be wrapping up already with 90 minutes of screen time left to go. Cooper is out and himself, doppelCoop/BOB are defeated, most of our beloved Peaksians are safe, Norma/Hank together, etc.
At first I'm thinking "what else does Cooper need to do?" and then I remember Laura, and that bit was brilliant although the penultimate ending was unclear to me at first (I guess he almost fixed the past, but time reasserted itself?).
Then that finale. Outside of the motel gave me my first pretty bonafide Lynchian fear in quite a while.
As things looked to be headed towards a potentially clean wrap I found myself almost disappointed with that. But then, my oh my.
I did not expect in a million years for it to end the way it did. When it went black, I was grinning from ear to ear and praying that was really it. When the credits started to roll, I clapped.
Mysteries have been resolved, but we're nearly back where we started at the season 2 finale, and that's so awesome. Dale and Laura stuck somewhere strange, Audrey's fate in the balance too. "It goes on and on and on and on."
The nature of the ending also recontextualizes much of what came before. The silly Gordon Cole explanations are revealed as largely meaningless. (Supposedly there are clues about the ending in the first episode as well, including a mention of the names on the note in the motel.)
I'd certainly welcome a season 4, but I'm totally satisfied as is. The meaning is so clear; cliffhangers were resolved, new cliffhangers happened, and we should not ever expect that to change. In a way, we almost needed the new season in order to tell us that we didn't need it (if what we were after was resolution).
09-04-2017
, 06:52 PM