![]() Sometimes you simply dislike a thing and you don't have to force yourself to like it to be "artsy" or "intellectual". Don't let people gaslight you into thinking "what you don't want is actually what you need". If you liked the dreamy, bittersweet feel, the woodsy aesthetic, the native symbolism and spiritualism, the characters and their interactions, the romanticism of it, Cooper's brotherhood with Harry and love for Annie, then The Return was not made for you.Īnd it's alright to be mad at that. It's very self-conscious, almost ashamed of being itself. The Return tries really hard to subvert what Twin Peaks is. You seem to like Twin Peaks for what it is. Just to offer a different opinion since this sub tends to get insufferably circlejerky when it comes to praising The Return as "the best thing any being in the multiverse has ever created": TLDR: I love The Return and FWWM, but it’s understandable being thrown by the shift between the OG and them. One episode would play as pokey and amateurish, the next like a masterclass in form and execution. Watching as it aired, it was literally impossible to tell where it would go narratively tonally or formally episode to episode. We are awash in normal TV, and even good “prestige” television strives for conventional intelligibility… The Return’s looseness of form creates actual surprise. As for The Return, the joy and beauty of it is having those desires for standard TV storytelling thrown out the window. It’s pretty normal to be thrown at first… I was pretty disappointed by FWWM when it came out, but it’s become one of my favorite Lynch films. If anything, they frustrate your TV-conditioned desire for narrative continuity and clear progression. They are not satisfying as continuations of the show’s format. The first two seasons of Twin Peaks mixed the conventions of network TV/miniseries/soap opera with Lynchian surrealism to create something surprising and innovative yet oddly comfortable/comforting. But it is true Lynchian cinematic art, not following the rules of TV at all, and certainly not the rules of TV series seasons And it is wonderful. Episode 8 alone is the best thing I have ever seen on TV. Things change in twenty five years, and The Return was worth waiting for. And it is indeed a work of art, not really a season 3 of Twin Peaks. The Return aired on Showtime, a paid subscription channel, and to my great delight, they seem to have given him full artistic license. ![]() It was widely panned at the time because people expected that quirky soap opera schtick to continue and were confronted with something else entirely. Lynch was not allowed to push the envelope very far, and the network forced his hand and made him do things with the story which he did not want to do.įire Walk With Me was a theatrical movie and is a lot more gritty with many scenes that could not have been shown on network TV, and more true to his real vision. Something to keep in mind - season 1&2 were shown on broadcast network TV in the early 90s.
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