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One last time, Twin Peaks takes your hand and walks you into the dark
“Once we cross, it could all be different.”
Twin Peaks
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Twin Peaks reaches an electrifying fork in the road
In “The Return, Part 12,” Sarah Palmer warns her young cashier, and us, “Things can happen! Something happened to me.”…
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When Twin Peaks gets moving, it runs like a jackrabbit
Viewers losing patience with the meditative pace of Twin Peaks’ revival should find some relief in the jackrabbit-fast…
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Twin Peaks is slowly taking us back to starting positions
Though last week’s cherry pie and champagne sounds like a pretty swell combination, any fan knows that the authentic…
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Twin Peaks says “Let’s rock” and lets it roll
No matter what you expected from the return of Twin Peaks, it probably wasn’t The Gordon And Albert Show. But for…
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Someone’s on the way to Twin Peaks, but there’s no road to the past
Looking at a digital map he’s compared to Maj. Briggs’ sketched-out directions, Sheriff Frank Truman tells Hawk, “By my…
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A stage-setting Twin Peaks tells a story about telling a story
Twin Peaks’ “The Return, Part 10” is a story about telling a story: what to include, what to leave out, and what gets…
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Think out loud with an exposition-heavy Twin Peaks
At the center of “The Return, Part 9” is Maj. Briggs’ message to his son. And it is a message to his son, though…
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Twin Peaks swerves into uncharted territory
One of these days, I’m going to write about David Lynch’s use of empty roads to spur uncertainty and dread. A few…
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Twin Peaks is showing us its strange, familiar face again
The most striking characteristic of the Twin Peaks revival is its patience. The series has always been more interested…
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As Dale Cooper wakes up, Twin Peaks dares us to make sense of it—or not
At times, it can feel like the Twin Peaks revival is daring viewers to make sense of its intricate obscurities and its…
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Twin Peaks’ procedural is—and always was—a vehicle for a greater mystery
Coffee. Agent. Case files. These are the words that Dale Cooper clings to as he’s pushed through the world in place of…
Twin Peaks turns nostalgia and garmonbozia up to the max, for good or ill
In “The Return, Part 3,” exasperated as Lucy and Andy get sidetracked by seemingly irrelevant evidence, Hawk blurts…
In its nightmarish two-part return, Twin Peaks is pure Lynchian horror
“Whoa! What is that thing?” asks the illicit visitor (Madeline Zima) to a super-secret room.
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Twin Peaks: "Episode 29"
And now, to borrow a phrase from the Log Lady's introduction to this episode, an ending. I think the wording's…
Twin Peaks: "Episode 27" / "Episode 28"
Note: The above image is the work of Houston-based artist Mark Lyons, whose work I found doing an image search for…
Twin Peaks: "Episode 25" / "Episode 26"
"Episode 25"
In the long, slow pan that will eventually find Sheriff Truman in bed with his would-be assassin in this…
Twin Peaks: "Episode 23" / "Episode 24"
"Episode 23"
Okay, raise your hand if you think the whole Josie-dies-and-gets-turned-into-the-knob-of-a-nightstand…
Twin Peaks: "Episode 21" / "Episode 22"
Just fair warning: I'm not going to dwell on these episodes too much since I think we can all agree that we've reached…