The Return: Part FourJumping into Part Four, Laura's face appears as the opening sequence rolls. It's interesting to think about how the show was initially inseparable from Laura but if it did nothing else, the later half of season two set the tone of the show moving away from being tied to her to the point where seeing Laura gives me "oh yeah, her ( Read more... )

So The Return, I watched these episodes as they came out in 2017 and haven't watched them again since (this was also the last time I did a complete watch through). At the time there was a bunch of stuff that went over my head a bit. Panning forward to 2021, with the benefit of Twin Peaks eggheads doing the mental legwork for me, I'm quite happy to ( Read more... )

Aww shit, Showtime kicked this off as a double episode, giving us two hours in one hit to hook us back in.
It feels like Lynch had some shit to get off his chest in particular. It also feels like the network shackles are off.

Part OneThese are all written by Frost and Lynch and directed by Lynch. A great quality assurance right from the get go. We ( Read more... )

And so we make it to the season two final at last. Lynch and Frost's last ditch attempt to inject some life back into their baby in some vain attempt to try to garner enough interest to get this thing renewed for another season.
And it was a great effort, but it was already too late, the damage was done.

Episode Twenty NineWe jump into the ( Read more... )

Holy shit, for better or for worse, here we are at the last possible bad episode of the first run. Let's see what we get...

Episode Twenty EightWritten by Barry Pullman, directed by Tim Hunter. This is the last episode without our creators at the helm. Leo and Major Briggs still held captive in Windom's cabin. Leo needs to up his escape game. I ( Read more... )

That last episode sucked, but now we're on the last disc of my DVD set for season two. Three episodes to go including at least one that's a stone cold banger.

Episode Twenty SevenWritten by Harley Peyton and Robert Engels, directed by Steven Gyllenhaal. This writing team has been around a bit now, show-wise, not that that's a quality guarantee ( Read more... )

We're ramping up to the end the season now, some threads are starting to come together. LEts see what we get today.

Episode Twenty SixWritten by Mark Frost and Harley Peyton, directed by Jonathan Sanger. By now Peyton is a seasoned hand but it's nice to have Frost returning in a creative capacity to try and make some sort of sense of this. I ( Read more... )

Second day back in the saddle, as it were. In the final stretch of the initial run of the series. We're through with the worst of the worst, but there's still a few clunky story-lines left.

Episode Twenty FiveWritten by Harley Peyton and Robert Engels, directed by Duwayne Dunham, our creators are still MIA, but by now the creative team for this ( Read more... )

It's been a while! I was maybe halfway through this episode around two weeks ago when my TV died mid-episode. All that time and one new television later, I'm back.
Now where were we?

Episode Twenty FourWritten by, directed by Barry Pullman, directed by James Foley, nothing remarkable about this creative combo, but lets see what we get ( Read more... )

It is what it is at this point in the show.
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Episode Twenty TwoWritten by Harley Peyton and Robert Engels, directed by Diane Keaton. Our creators are nowhere near this, but at this stage, we do have two of our more seasoned writers handling the script at least. And we get Miguel Ferrer in the opening credits. We start with Evelyn providing ( Read more... )