In this season, just about everyone doubles down on the insanity – faked deaths, honest-to-god insanity, identity crises, all of which fly fast and furious, especially in the lulled mid-season. The rest of the cast can all keep going on their various unusual stories, many of which unfold this season in a way that feels like Lynch decided his show-within-a-show soap opera parody of the first season wasn’t riffing on the various ‘twist of the week’ style soap storylines enough. The show needs an excuse to keep Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks. Probably the biggest problem the back end of this season has is the fact that, once the murder is off the table, there’s something of a scramble to find a new main hook to work with. Then the show keeps going…and things get weird for a while. While the lives of the general folk of Twin Peaks go on, the main storyline is all wrapped up and the cast has their sense of closure. Watching the episode Arbitrary Law, one can see how it would have served as a season/series finale. The increase in clues delivered in an unusual backwards voice was just gravy I was actually pleasantly surprised at just how well it all came together.
Which, where the Palmer murder is concerned, is a credit to them as showrunners.Īs unusual as some of the elements got (most notably the supernatural entity known simply as Bob), the show’s internal logic actually holds up – particularly when it comes to Agent Cooper’s Sherlock Holmes style reveal, where they actually managed to make all of the surreal dream sequences over the past season and a half have meaning and purpose to the plot. They were making the plot as they went along. The problem comes after Laura’s killer is revealed around halfway into the season.ĭespite what many people thought, Lynch and Frost hadn’t actually worked out a plan for where this show would be going. In fact, the first half of this season that resolves the Laura Palmer mystery is a great David Lynch mystery with some supernatural elements. It’s actually not that bad to start with. The big hurdle of the second season reveals the ultimate Achilles’ Heel of its premise: if you’re going to make a murder investigation the focal point of your series, sooner or later you’re going to have to solve it. As season two shows us, the lessons it teaches are both for good and ill.
Not a moment too soon, because until revisiting this season I forgot just how much it needs that closure.Īs I said last week, Twin Peaks is one of those shows that’s fascinating to watch nowadays, if only to realize that many of what it did at the time that were seen as different are now fairly common place in the modern television landscape. We come to another Friday, and with it the second installment in Reruns From the Crypt…and I couldn’t have asked for better timing.įor those who haven’t heard: earlier this week, David Lynch and Mark Frost confirmed that – after all this time – Twin Peaks will be returning for a nine- episode run on Showtime.
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