John Holmes Motherfucker - 2017-08-28
There's never been anything better on TV than Twin Peaks. On last night's amazing episode, Agent Cooper finally returned to the world, and he was gloriously himself. It was a twenty-five year payoff.
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StanleyPain  - 2017-08-28
This was handled in a better, more Lynchian way than I expected. I knew in advance that Catherine Coulson wasn't really going to be in the show much; she was extremely ill, her scenes were essentially the first stuff filmed and she died only about a week or two into production. I know Lynch and Coulson were very close, lifelong friends (and Coulson was, of course, married at one time to Jack Nance), so it's very sad how the new Twin Peaks became a kind of surreal send-off for her and some other TP personalities (sometimes unintentionally, like with Miguel Ferrer).
I really like how this Return has subverted so many expectations while still, almost prankishly, still giving old fans some stuff to chew on (last night's episode being an obvious one). It sucks it's ending, but the fact that pretty much nothing in this season has turned out remotely like I expected has been so genuinely enjoyable and surprising that I can't think of any other show that's really satisfied on that level.
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John Holmes Motherfucker - 2017-08-28 The best part of Cooper waking up was his magnanimity toward everyone who had showed kindness to Cooper as Dougie, and his pledge to return to janey-E and Sonny Jim. It was a surprise, and yet it was completely in character. Magnanimity, now that I think of it, has always been Dale Cooper's most defining and endearing trait.
Cooper is now headed for Twin Peaks. One thing that I've been looking forward to for a while now, is Cooper teaming up with Sheriff Frank Truman. These guys are really going to like each other. And the reunions with Hawk, with Andy, with Lucy, possibly with Audrey... those are going to be pure pleasure. Oh, and the Mitchum brothers are going to be along.
Here's a prediction... Lucy and Candie are going to interact in a special way. They may turn out to be related, I don't know.
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John Holmes Motherfucker - 2017-08-28 It really is a shame that Jack Nance couldn't be with us this time, but Coulson's contribution is amazing. Like nearly everyone from the old series, there's something haunting and arguably beautiful about how she's aged. (Harry Dean Stanton looks downright gorgeous.) She only speaks to Hawk, and she only calls him at night. She looks like the moon: pale, framed by darkness, partly in shadow. She rarely appears, but her cryptic prognostications are central to everything. Lynch knows exactly what to do with her, but she deserves a lot of credit. To be a real person dying playing a character who is dying, to talk of fear and letting go on camera, it seems courageous, and it connects the supernatural fantasy to the underlying tragic reality.
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Nominal - 2019-03-07 It "subverted expectations" the same way Rian Johnson did with Star Wars.
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