After an episode full of filler, Twin Peaks sets itself into high gear with this glorious, entertaining, and tense series of essential and fun moments. It perfectly balances the show's weird comedy with its soapy drama and eye gluing mystery while also including some sequences akin to the best of James Bond as Cooper and Sheriff Truman raid One Eyed Jacks in a wild climactic scene that feels like some kind of surrealist comic book. Before this entertaining final showdown are plenty of important and engaging little moments, everything from Leland's court case (that is made surreal thanks to its setting being the Roadhouse, hardly the place for a court case) to Donna's erotic, mesmerizing, and uniquely disturbing girlhood story is riveting and strange to the very core. All in all, this is one of the second season's most successful and perfectly balanced episodes.
Review of The Orchids Curse
