Twin Peaks: Season 3, Episode 8 “The Return – Part 8” (D)
Well, that’s it for me. I’m done with this show for good. I wasn’t sure about the idea of giving up before this, though I also didn’t realize that there were eighteen episodes commissioned for this season, which is a lot for a cable series. The opening scene was the only one that I could really comprehend or follow, with the recently-released bad version of Cooper trying to shoot his driver only to get himself shot, and from there it all went downhill. That scene with the spirits feasting on his body to the horror of his would-be murderer was odd and extremely off-putting, and that wasn’t even close to the worst of it! I don’t understand why we needed to see a Nine Inch Nails concert in the middle of this episode, and then literally nothing happened for minutes after that before we flashed back to 1945. After I wondered why we were spending time in 1947, I asked myself if it was really necessary for us to see people’s heads being ripped off in black and white and to watch bugs crawling into someone’s open mouth while she was sleeping. After a horrifically unbearable episode, I couldn’t even rely on the stable annoyance of a musical ending. This insufferable hour made me completely okay with my decision to say goodbye forever to this show. I can assure you – I will not see you in twenty-five years. I’m more than soured on this show now and look forward to forgetting in favor of far more consistent, gratifying television.
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Monday, July 10, 2017
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
What I’m Watching: Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks: Season 3, Episode 7 “The Return, Part 7” (B-)
I feel like we’re so close now to people realizing that there are not one but two Dale Coopers out there. A few are close to figuring out what happened to him and that he never left that room, but not enough people are talking to each other to put all the pieces together (not that a terribly coherent explanation for it all really exists). This show doesn’t contain all that much foul language, and therefore hearing Laura Dern’s Diane spout off profanity with every sentence made her seem especially harsh. Both Albert and Gordon held their own with her, and Gordon was able to convince her to come with her to South Dakota, where she very quickly came to agree with them that something really wasn’t right. The man who’s very much not the good Cooper wasted no time in scaring James Morrison’s warden into letting him go that very night with a chauffeur and a rental car, and something tells me that the FBI is going to pick up its search and find the other guy who looks a whole lot like Cooper did decades earlier. Seeing the mostly non-communicative Dougie spring into action when someone tried to shoot him and his wife was really something, and you’d think that in this modern age such a spectacle – with interviewed witnesses – would make its way to the internet very quickly and catch the attention of those who believe that he’s in prison in South Dakota. I wouldn’t expect any such luck, but again we’re getting closer.
I feel like we’re so close now to people realizing that there are not one but two Dale Coopers out there. A few are close to figuring out what happened to him and that he never left that room, but not enough people are talking to each other to put all the pieces together (not that a terribly coherent explanation for it all really exists). This show doesn’t contain all that much foul language, and therefore hearing Laura Dern’s Diane spout off profanity with every sentence made her seem especially harsh. Both Albert and Gordon held their own with her, and Gordon was able to convince her to come with her to South Dakota, where she very quickly came to agree with them that something really wasn’t right. The man who’s very much not the good Cooper wasted no time in scaring James Morrison’s warden into letting him go that very night with a chauffeur and a rental car, and something tells me that the FBI is going to pick up its search and find the other guy who looks a whole lot like Cooper did decades earlier. Seeing the mostly non-communicative Dougie spring into action when someone tried to shoot him and his wife was really something, and you’d think that in this modern age such a spectacle – with interviewed witnesses – would make its way to the internet very quickly and catch the attention of those who believe that he’s in prison in South Dakota. I wouldn’t expect any such luck, but again we’re getting closer.
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
What I’m Watching: Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks: Season 3, Episode 6 “The Return – Part 6” (B-)
It’s difficult to get into this show and the plot elements that are actually moving forward when it introduces so many random tangents that I can’t imagine are ever to going to make any sense or even matter to the grander picture at all. A handful of stabbings were plenty disturbing, and after a trippy magic show from Balthazar Getty, an innocent kid got killed thanks to some dangerous driving on the part of one reckless bad egg. It’s still not completely clear to me – nor is it to anyone else I imagine – what exactly is going on with Cooper and why he still can’t function as a human being, though something tells me that there’s not going to be some big “aha moment” in which he suddenly bursts free from Dougie’s body and asks for a nice slice of pie. It was intriguing to see Janey-E, upon receiving an incriminating photo of her husband, bring a wad of cash containing $25,000 to the men who Dougie owed, ready to confidently offer them half of what he owed to be done with it. I think they were more floored than anything, and while it might have done the trick, I wouldn’t mind if we got another chance to spend time with the eternally crazy-eyed Jeremy Davies, who looks just like he did in his Emmy-winning “Justified” role. Now let’s see if Albert is able to learn anything from Laura Dern’s Denise and if anyone inches closer to figuring out what’s going on with the two Coopers.
Friday, June 9, 2017
What I’m Watching: Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks: Season 3, Episode 5 “The Return – Part 5” (B-)
At least things are getting a little more focused now and not nearly as much time and attention are being devoted to the usual disorienting and infuriating tangents this show tends to feature. As has been the case with every episode thus far, we’re introduced to new characters played by familiar TV faces, led here by Robert Knepper of “Prison Break” and “iZombie” and Jim Belushi as two very intimidating men who were none too happy with Brett Gelman’s hapless casino manager, who has now been beaten and replaced by someone with considerably less personality. The man everyone thinks is Dougie continues to walk around not being a human being, and I like that he drank and loved the coffee, then taken from someone else, and that the blurted out that a man in the room was lying – to his face. He also knows exactly what to do when he needs to pee, look panicked and grab his crotch, but he hasn’t figured out the routine of actually going into the bathroom just yet. I guess it’s not in the cards on this show for anyone to point out that he’s not functioning at full capacity, or really any capacity. I’m not fresh enough on who the characters I’m supposed to recognize are, especially now that they’re twenty-five years older, but I did see a throwback to unfortunate themes of abuse in an unsettling scene in this hour. This show has lost its signature soapy nature, but at least we’re also getting away from the excessively supernatural and completely unexplainable elements as well.
At least things are getting a little more focused now and not nearly as much time and attention are being devoted to the usual disorienting and infuriating tangents this show tends to feature. As has been the case with every episode thus far, we’re introduced to new characters played by familiar TV faces, led here by Robert Knepper of “Prison Break” and “iZombie” and Jim Belushi as two very intimidating men who were none too happy with Brett Gelman’s hapless casino manager, who has now been beaten and replaced by someone with considerably less personality. The man everyone thinks is Dougie continues to walk around not being a human being, and I like that he drank and loved the coffee, then taken from someone else, and that the blurted out that a man in the room was lying – to his face. He also knows exactly what to do when he needs to pee, look panicked and grab his crotch, but he hasn’t figured out the routine of actually going into the bathroom just yet. I guess it’s not in the cards on this show for anyone to point out that he’s not functioning at full capacity, or really any capacity. I’m not fresh enough on who the characters I’m supposed to recognize are, especially now that they’re twenty-five years older, but I did see a throwback to unfortunate themes of abuse in an unsettling scene in this hour. This show has lost its signature soapy nature, but at least we’re also getting away from the excessively supernatural and completely unexplainable elements as well.
Thursday, June 1, 2017
What I’m Watching: Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks: Season 3, Episodes 3 and 4 “The Return – Parts 3 and 4” (C/B-)
I’m going against my usual rule here by tackling two episodes at a time since they’re airing that way (just for the first two weeks, of course) because I really couldn’t tolerate it any other way. I was actually ready to give up on this show altogether in the middle of episode three, which was a real struggle to get through, and then things started to get interesting at the end when a barely-functioning Cooper kept sitting down at each slot machine, yelling “Hellooooo!” and winning the mega-jackpot. It’s unbelievably irritating to me that no one realizes that Dougie is not a real person capable of doing anything other than mimicking what he sees or hears, yet life continues to proceed along around him. And somehow, the murderer that Kyle MacLachlan played in the first two episodes is simultaneously existing in a prison cell where he appears to be an undercover version of Cooper who also isn’t all there. It makes complete sense that Naomi Watts, an unforgettable part of David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive,” would show up on this show, and I’m far more impressed with her performance than Michael Cera’s. I’m mixed on Brett Gelman from “Married” as the casino supervisor. I’m also recognizing a handful of players previously featured on the original iteration of this show, like Dana Ashbrook’s Bobby Briggs, now a cop, the impossibly unintelligent Andy and Lucy, the late Miguel Ferrer as Albert, David Duchovny as Denise, and, of course, Lynch himself in a truly fitting role as Gordon, who was just the right person to communicate with his old friend Coop through the glass. I’m feeling more optimistic about and intrigued by this show, so I’ll tune back in for episode five.
I’m going against my usual rule here by tackling two episodes at a time since they’re airing that way (just for the first two weeks, of course) because I really couldn’t tolerate it any other way. I was actually ready to give up on this show altogether in the middle of episode three, which was a real struggle to get through, and then things started to get interesting at the end when a barely-functioning Cooper kept sitting down at each slot machine, yelling “Hellooooo!” and winning the mega-jackpot. It’s unbelievably irritating to me that no one realizes that Dougie is not a real person capable of doing anything other than mimicking what he sees or hears, yet life continues to proceed along around him. And somehow, the murderer that Kyle MacLachlan played in the first two episodes is simultaneously existing in a prison cell where he appears to be an undercover version of Cooper who also isn’t all there. It makes complete sense that Naomi Watts, an unforgettable part of David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive,” would show up on this show, and I’m far more impressed with her performance than Michael Cera’s. I’m mixed on Brett Gelman from “Married” as the casino supervisor. I’m also recognizing a handful of players previously featured on the original iteration of this show, like Dana Ashbrook’s Bobby Briggs, now a cop, the impossibly unintelligent Andy and Lucy, the late Miguel Ferrer as Albert, David Duchovny as Denise, and, of course, Lynch himself in a truly fitting role as Gordon, who was just the right person to communicate with his old friend Coop through the glass. I’m feeling more optimistic about and intrigued by this show, so I’ll tune back in for episode five.
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