Part 6

One of the slower and non-eventful episodes of the new season. This wasn't a bad episode but it's definitely my least favorite thus far. How much longer do we have to wait to see Agent Cooper in his former glory?

Naomi Watts is currently stealing the show. Every scene she's in she absolutely owns and I sit up every time I see her on the screen. Great performance.

I finished season 1+2 before watching season 3 for the first time now, having reached this episode. A lot of people seem to be up in arms about it, calling it boring or pointless.

In a way, I can see how one can find it boring or tedious. But so is looking at the Mona Lisa or the Pyramids. David Lynch is an artist. There is meaning in every scene, even if the meaning is just to poke fun at typical TV tropes.

Take for instance how NO ONE seems to really notice how Dougie/Cooper is out there like Pluto...do you really think that's sloppy writing? I don't think so. I think it's on purpose. Maybe to show us how most people are so focused on themselves that they don't even really realize other people's condition as long as they seem to function/appear normal. Heck, one of the girls at the office even seemed to be smitten by Dougie almost wetting himself like a little boy, needing help, since she offered him a kiss.

Speaking of the Dougie arc: Yes, of course it tests your patience. But you know what? The longer I see Kyle do this brilliantly, the more I wish there was a spin off, called "Life of Dougie" or something. There's just something calming and soothing about watching an innocent man child go through the motions with a child-like sense of wonder while "Windswept" by Johnny Jewel can be heard.

The new Twin Peaks is different, yes. It's because this is the show we would have gotten, had it been mostly Lynch with complete freedom to decide. Basically, I feel it's a lot like the once planned Mulholland Drive tv series that never materialized. Lynch did say it's the same TV universe and several of the actors are in it(although he does that a lot).

For sure, it's more "Fire, Walk with me" than "Nadine joins the cheerleaders". But with half the cast dead, how else could they continue? I accept that things are different. At its core, it's still the same show though and the same mysteries that draw me in.

Try to see it like a piece of art, open to interpretation. Don't over-analyse everything and just enjoy the ride, the images, the music, the impressions. Because that's how Lynch himself suggests we should do it. If you can do that, I think you'll enjoy the show. It's a bold show that no one else could pull off.

The first two episodes of the return of Twin Peaks were reasonably interesting. There was a lot of weird-for-weirdness sake nonsense but there was also a double murder and a few other intrigues to grab your attention.

Now it's all weird-for-weirdness sake pretentious nonsense. Worst of these is the third version of Dale Cooper, Dougie Jones. The fact that a few people are after him is interesting but everything else about him is irritating. His sudden too-many-blows-to-the head-like condition was never amusing nor engaging and by now it's taken up nearly three episodes!

The Dougie story exemplifies why this series of Twin Peaks is light years behind the original one in terms of quality. The original had these quirkinesses and folkinesses but didn't labour them. In the original a Dougie-like story would have been a brief incident lasting less than half of an episode, here it's three episodes and counting.

The whole things is so padded and drawn out and is going nowhere. It's truly becoming a grind to get through this series.

Bad ratings depresses me too! Last time when I got such strong emotions from the movie, was 5th episode. Before that, 4th. And so on...

I like Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Martsin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Christopher Nolan (Prestige (2007) is enough to respect him) Luis Bunuel, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Pedro Almodovar, some Asian, European now/classic and so on. Those of them who is still alive and filming are not the same as before, sadly. David Lynch, is one of the lasts stand here, as far as "Tarantino's ass".

Also, I'm studying movies all my life, I know many great filmmaking people personally. I know what is real respect, art and humanity. And as for me (and this is not only me here where am I) such kind of directing as new TP episodes is really RARE piece of gemstone. Last time when I saw such level before "TP3" was Inland Empire (2006) and before that Mulholland Drive (1999-2001). It's such level of movie revolution as the Rosemary's Baby was in 1968 and Psycho was in 1960. But of course, there are many cool movies by other masters too.

Here is so much haters, who doesn't get the point of what's happening here, who prefers to squeeze inside all they got, instead of to think a little bit different for diversity. Also, I'm studying psychology, life and lie all my life. So, I perfectly understand you and doesn't blame for who you are. And I'm giving you a wise suggestion not to blame & hate Mr. David Lynch for production of such ratings level as "from 1 to 5", because that way, you hate yourselves only. You show that way, that your thinking level is between "1 to 5". Keep a close look for your prism, because you're destroying Real Art. Maybe on purpose!?

The atmosphere/acting/music/directing/writing of episode is still Great. Photography/editing/effects/production design still the way they should be here. The scenes with Dougie and his Thank once again David (and others) from the deep of my heart!

And I'll go watch Sir Charles S. Chaplin's productions such as A Woman from the Sea (1926), City Lights (1931) and The Freak (1966-1975).

Some sequences here look like deleted scenes from Blue Velvet. They are welcome.

Tragedy shows its ugly face in this episode, with two scenes that left me in the bitterest mood. The gloomiest episode so far. New additions of Laura Dern and a 90 year old Harry Dean Stanton (reprising his Fire Walk with Me character) may come to help and save us in this dark, dark age. As a character repeatedly says: Help is needed.