Review of Part 1

Twin Peaks: Part 1 (2017)
Season 1, Episode 1
8/10
Episode 1
23 May 2017
Warning: Spoilers
The final episode of Twin Peaks back in 1991 finished with a cliffhanger as Agent Dale Cooper was possessed by the evil spirit of Bob. The subsequent feature film did not resolve matters as it was a prequel.

Twenty five years after the movie, we return to Twin Peaks, back to the room full of red drapes and zig zag carpets but writers David Lynch and Mark Frost have expanded as we move to New York, Las Vegas and to South Dakota.

Dale Cooper is still in the black lodge talking to a giant. There is an evolution tree with a brain. More horribly, Cooper's doppelganger is in the real world and is a proper nasty piece of work.

The log lady has phoned Hawk and cryptically asked him to look to get to Agent Cooper somehow. In the town of Twin Peaks some of the people we met years earlier are now older and still weirder.

In New York there is a box which has to be watched to keep bad spirits out. Therefore do not invite a lady friend in for coffees.

David Lynch as director changed the landscape of American television back in the early 1990s. This episode continues in the same vein but as it is now on a cable channel, he can use more bad language and sex.

The first episode moved slowly, had bits of surrealism, strange humour, yet also darkly layered where it could suddenly shock you with violence. I liked it, I never thought I would ever return to the world of Twin Peaks.
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