Twin Peaks: Season 3/The Return - 12/5/17 (slight spoilers within)
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Man, this show is getting a ton of flack in this thread. I didn't watch this season (yet), but ever other take I've heard on it (from friends and other sites) has been mostly positive. But they do all agree that it's weird as fuck, but that's to be expected.
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I'm sitting this one out. I may revisit the season in a few years, but I continue to feel it was a major swing-and-a-miss.
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The whole thing could have been condensed down to about six episodes and been really amazing. As is, it's incredibly frustrating.
Perhaps if you go into it with your expectations set accordingly, you may enjoy it more than some of us who watched it live.
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The season is all over the place. It has moments of brilliance, and does provide answers to some major mysteries that have been left dangling for decades. But it rarely feels like Twin Peaks and wastes a lot of time on characters and storylines that go nowhere. Imagine if the infamous "James' Road Trip" from Season 2 had taken up about 60% of screen time in the original series, because that's kind of what happens here with one increasingly pointless storyline that just goes on and on and on forever.
The whole thing could have been condensed down to about six episodes and been really amazing. As is, it's incredibly frustrating.
Perhaps if you go into it with your expectations set accordingly, you may enjoy it more than some of us who watched it live.
The whole thing could have been condensed down to about six episodes and been really amazing. As is, it's incredibly frustrating.
Perhaps if you go into it with your expectations set accordingly, you may enjoy it more than some of us who watched it live.
Watching it live made it worse.
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Waste of time. Condense down to 8 episode and it would be solid. But no. Lynch cried like a baby and got the episode count doubled so he could be the star.
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Go in with an open mind. I'm a huge fan of the original series and Lynch and I loved every minute of it. It's not perfect but there are amazing new characters, some great performances from old faves and some intense fucked up classic Lynch.
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The biggest problem with the new series is all the unresolved storylines. Lynch developed all these story arcs and - without giving too much away - abandons pretty much all of them. That doesn't mean the series isn't highly entertaining (I still think it's far and away the best thing to air on TV this year, and WAY better than Twin Peaks disappointing second season), but we basically get one cliffhanger answered in exchange for a ton of others.
Honestly, I think Lynch was still ticked he had to reveal who killed Laura Palmer back in 1990, so this Season 3 was his revenge. You want to know if
? Fine...I'll give you the answer to that, but not before I leave you with a couple dozen other questions you'll never get answered.
Honestly, I think Lynch was still ticked he had to reveal who killed Laura Palmer back in 1990, so this Season 3 was his revenge. You want to know if
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#33
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re: Twin Peaks: Season 3/The Return - 12/5/17 (slight spoilers within)
I agree with Shannon. Watching it live was incredibly frustrating, but I also can't remember the last time I was more excited for each new episode of a show.
Some of the stories that didn't go anywhere were still entertaining yarns (Chantel, the Mitchum brothers), but there were a lot of missed opportunities, Audrey being one of the biggest.
But I absolutely still want to add this to my collection and know I will revisit it. I also think it would play much better as a binge.
Some of the stories that didn't go anywhere were still entertaining yarns (Chantel, the Mitchum brothers), but there were a lot of missed opportunities, Audrey being one of the biggest.
But I absolutely still want to add this to my collection and know I will revisit it. I also think it would play much better as a binge.
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Lots of spoilers in here, not cool. The spoiler tag exists for a reason.
Can a mod please change the thread title to indicate SPOILERS INSIDE? thanks.
Can a mod please change the thread title to indicate SPOILERS INSIDE? thanks.
#35
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This is the work of the David Lynch who made Inland Empire, not the David Lynch who made Blue Velvet.
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That's harsh! Nothing in this show is truly Inland Empire bad.
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But to each his own. It's flawed, sure. You won't see me saying it's perfect and Lynch is perfect or anything like that. But I enjoyed it. I honestly did. And I thought the ending was good, too.
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It might be better than season 2 on balance, but anyone who thinks it's better than the Lynch directed episodes in season 2 is crazy.
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Honestly, this may be his masterpiece. I think time will treat this well (much like FWWM which was universally hated when it was initially released). There still isn't a day that goes by where I have not thought about this season since the finale.
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You could pretty much say the same for S3.
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Although I felt this season was 90% a burning train wreck, I am enjoying the hell out of Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series). It's got all of the great Roadhouse performances and some of the other music heard during the otherwise interminable 18 hours.
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You could pretty much say the same for S3.
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Although I felt this season was 90% a burning train wreck, I am enjoying the hell out of Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series). It's got all of the great Roadhouse performances and some of the other music heard during the otherwise interminable 18 hours.
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The idea that Lynch would end the TV show with a bunch of unresolved storylines, and then immediately go into production on a movie, yet not use that movie to give the show a proper ending, just seemed inconceivable to people. It made no sense to them why he would do that.