As someone who came into the "Twin Peaks" game in 2015, I can't imagine how it must have felt for people who had fallen in love with the original series to have to wait for all these years for a revival that had a very murky road to the screen. For years, there had been discussions about bringing the show back to the screen, and in 2014, Showtime announced that they had partnered with David Lynch to direct a nine-part miniseries that would be written by Lynch and his co-creator of the original show, Mark Frost. However, only a few months after the announcement, Lynch withdrew himself from the project because of budget concerns, and the show was to move forward without him. Then they quickly entered a new agreement that would see Lynch come back with a bigger budget and more episodes than originally intended, doubling the show's episode count. Most of the original cast members opted to come back and the show was scheduled for a release in 2017 with the first two episodes premiering at that year's Cannes Film Festival. It's now been a couple of years and this episode still stands as an eerie, yet fitting return to this incredible world. In a departure from the original series, Lynch sheds all the comfy tones off and dedicates himself to an hour of pure craziness that stretches far beyond the borders of Twin Peaks and sets up a lot of new mysteries that all seem to connect back to the titular town.
Lynch's approach to the storytelling of this show seems to be differ from a lot of legacy films that have been released in the last few years, as it doesn't rely on nostalgia. Its moments of fan service are certainly present, but they're incredibly sparse and only used to progress the narrative that Lynch is slowly setting up. Most of the episode's runtime is dedicated to new locations and new characters, only showing us glimpses of the characters that we have loved for the last many years, which ultimately serves the story better than another show reliant on pure nostalgia.
The new locations that we explore here are New York City and Buckhorn, South Dakota. Here we start to see new mysteries form, with the New York subplot being placed for one of the creepiest and goriest scenes in the show's history, while Buckhorn is giving us some pieces to the larger mystery that involves the murder of a woman, an idea that sounds familiar to a lot of "Twin Peaks" fans. While none of the characters are as interesting as the ones we know off the top, it sets the stage perfectly for their involvement later down the line.
The show has already managed to pull the excitement onto the screen, as Lynch's visual storytelling takes over every single frame. His imagination is incredibly fascinating and his mind works on such a different plane than the rest of us, so it feels like an adventure whenever he dives into another aspect of the world's weirdness. He rids the show of the soap opera elements that plagued a lot of the second season, and focuses on the storytelling devices that originally made fans like me fall in love with the show, finally delivering a full and unfiltered crazy Lynchian experience.
Kyle MacLachlan isn't all that present in the episode, but the presence of his character is undeniable. Some fans may not be happy with the show's immediate unwillingness to provide the answers that we've all wanted since the original show's finale, but in classic Lynch fashion, he doesn't really care. And in the scenes that MacLachlan are present, he delivers such a different performance as Coop's darker half Mr. C and it really puts his acting abilities into a different perspective. He's no longer the ever optimistic Cooper anymore, but someone much darker and much more dangerous than anyone else.
"Part 1" is a fitting return to the world of "Twin Peaks," and it provides that mystery that was lacking for a lot of the original show's second season. Here, he knows what to do to make the show he wants, and it's an unfiltered experience that feels even more like "Twin Peaks" than the original.
Lynch's approach to the storytelling of this show seems to be differ from a lot of legacy films that have been released in the last few years, as it doesn't rely on nostalgia. Its moments of fan service are certainly present, but they're incredibly sparse and only used to progress the narrative that Lynch is slowly setting up. Most of the episode's runtime is dedicated to new locations and new characters, only showing us glimpses of the characters that we have loved for the last many years, which ultimately serves the story better than another show reliant on pure nostalgia.
The new locations that we explore here are New York City and Buckhorn, South Dakota. Here we start to see new mysteries form, with the New York subplot being placed for one of the creepiest and goriest scenes in the show's history, while Buckhorn is giving us some pieces to the larger mystery that involves the murder of a woman, an idea that sounds familiar to a lot of "Twin Peaks" fans. While none of the characters are as interesting as the ones we know off the top, it sets the stage perfectly for their involvement later down the line.
The show has already managed to pull the excitement onto the screen, as Lynch's visual storytelling takes over every single frame. His imagination is incredibly fascinating and his mind works on such a different plane than the rest of us, so it feels like an adventure whenever he dives into another aspect of the world's weirdness. He rids the show of the soap opera elements that plagued a lot of the second season, and focuses on the storytelling devices that originally made fans like me fall in love with the show, finally delivering a full and unfiltered crazy Lynchian experience.
Kyle MacLachlan isn't all that present in the episode, but the presence of his character is undeniable. Some fans may not be happy with the show's immediate unwillingness to provide the answers that we've all wanted since the original show's finale, but in classic Lynch fashion, he doesn't really care. And in the scenes that MacLachlan are present, he delivers such a different performance as Coop's darker half Mr. C and it really puts his acting abilities into a different perspective. He's no longer the ever optimistic Cooper anymore, but someone much darker and much more dangerous than anyone else.
"Part 1" is a fitting return to the world of "Twin Peaks," and it provides that mystery that was lacking for a lot of the original show's second season. Here, he knows what to do to make the show he wants, and it's an unfiltered experience that feels even more like "Twin Peaks" than the original.