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Anyone re-watch Twin Peaks: The Return? (Spoilers)
- Thread starter Taki
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aw yeah. i got the bluray box but i haven't watched it yet for a second time after the release. I'm gonna also watch the movie for the first time when i marathon the whole series soon.
I did a rewatch late last year and still loved it all unashamedly. The entire Dougie Jones plot being capped off with the punchline of "People are under a lot of stress, Bradley." is one of the most uniquely satisfying absurd payoffs in TV history. It didn't give me what I expected from years of guessing how a third season would go, and I'm glad it managed to keep me guessing even long after the final scene faded to black.
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To me the storyline was secondary to the show's portrayal of the moral demise and sheer griminess of rural America, with added notions of ugly misogyny.
I liked that it was more like an 18 hour lynch movie more than old refresh of a cult series
I'll rewatch the first two seasons another ten times before I'd decide to not ever watch The Return again. Waste of time.
I'm saving a rewatch for next year, I think.
The best single season of television, and it's not close.
The best single season of television, and it's not close.
I loved every second of it and it's the only time I've been obsessed enough with a show to deal with the slow burn of watching it weekly.
Incredible shit. The ending is phenomenal and I hope we see one more season.
Incredible shit. The ending is phenomenal and I hope we see one more season.
As a long time huge twin peaks fan from back when it first aired, the 3rd season worked me up but also broke my heart. But in the end this is Lynch's baby, not ours. So i respect it as another weird piece of work from one of my idols. My biggest regret is Audrey. It's like there was meant to be more, we just didn't get it.
In fact, even though Lynch supposedly loved the heck out of her character, i find everything that happened to her after season 2 to be pretty damn horrific and wish it wasn't so. Not what i wanted in those 16 years of waiting. :(
In fact, even though Lynch supposedly loved the heck out of her character, i find everything that happened to her after season 2 to be pretty damn horrific and wish it wasn't so. Not what i wanted in those 16 years of waiting. :(
An incredible season of television. I watched the first third as it aired and was disappointed that it wasn't more like seasons 1 and 2.
But I recently went back to finish it, and now that I was willing to accept it for what it was (its own thing, using the original show as a base to explore ideas such as societal decay), I ended up really enjoying it.
But I recently went back to finish it, and now that I was willing to accept it for what it was (its own thing, using the original show as a base to explore ideas such as societal decay), I ended up really enjoying it.
I've not rewatched it since it finished. But kinda tempted to again. Legitimately the single greatest season of TV I've ever seen and the third to last episode when Cooper properly returns is the most cathartic episode of TV ever. Hell, 'I Am The FBI' is one of the single greatest scenes I've ever seen on TV (that sounds a bit hyperbolic for me, but I mean it!).
Correct. I rewatched it all when the blu-rays came out and it felt even better because I wasn't trying to second guess where it was going and just marinated in each scene. Perfect TV.
I need to do a re-watch man, I should really get that box-set.
Seeing it live though, what an experience.
Not only was it the best season (IMO) it showed Lynch still has it.
Seeing it live though, what an experience.
Not only was it the best season (IMO) it showed Lynch still has it.
Rewatched it a couple of months back on the blu-ray and it solidified it as my favourite season of television. Watching the season weekly the first time around was incredible but I loved it even more now that I could go in without the huge expectations I had on it before it aired.
I was really satisfied with how season 3 ended but yeah, if Lynch and Frost want to do season 4 or a second movie I would be all over it.
Agreed. Watching this show as it aired was nothing short of a spiritual experience for me. It was, and still is, very dear to my heart. Finished my 3rd rewatch pretty recently.
Also agreed. I thought Audrey's story ultimately contained a great deal of hope. Grim hope, maybe, but hope nonetheless.
Recently got my fictive sibling into Twin Peaks, they're not very far into it yet but I'm eagerly anticipating their perspectives on The Return.
We both grew up as impossibly weird, severely abused kids in small, rural, conservative towns, places that prided themselves on the "wholesome White American Dream" image while being "full to groanin'" (as my Mother would say) with rottenness, decay, and bigotry underneath that thin veneer. Most folks never really looked past the pastoral fantasy, or became outright violent with denial when confronted with the notion that it wasn't such a happy dream for all of us. For some of us, it was truly a nightmare, and very nearly a fatal one. "Everybody knew she was in trouble but we didn't do anything. All you good people…you wanna know who killed Laura Palmer? You did! We all did."
The pain, dissociation, desperate despair, and fragmentation of the self at the heart of that experience is something Lynch totally nails. What I love most about the character of Laura Palmer -- what I identify with the most about her, what I think The Return illustrated magnificently -- is that she's special because of her suffering, not in spite of it. We can't simply "get over" or "move on" from these experiences. They're part of us. The darkness can't be banished or vanquished, it can only be faced with courage and awareness, and at best, integrated into an empowering narrative. These selves are a creative survival strategy in the face of overwhelming trauma and deserve to be valued as such. "One and the same."
I think that's a pretty damn powerful message for us weird, abused kids trying to navigate a way to live when it seems impossible to comprehend, trying to integrate trauma into their narrative when it's so abhorrent that we'd rather think it happened to someone else entirely. "I feel like I know her, but sometimes my arms bend back."
Laura's final scream, to me, is emblematic of the final shattering of the illusion of family and home, which for many people -- whether they're able to articulate it or not -- represents the core of what they consider "reality." She's no longer living in a dream, and that cataclysmic awareness feels like it breaks the whole world. It's how I felt when I finally broke through the notion that I was fine, that my family was fine, that my home town was fine. I realized all at once how terribly bad things really were, and what I needed to do to change a future filled with roles that had seemingly already been written for me. I'm nobody's everlasting gobstobber of garmonbozia anymore.
Thank Dougie, lol
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I did a year ago and I plan on watching it this year again. It was just as amazing second time around. You start noticing the budgetary restrictions a bit more now that the hype has died down and I think the show could probably have worked a bit better with a few less episodes overall (also ditch those terrible musical performances). But that said, I still rank it as one of Lynch's best works.