dkwestbrook

Dreadful. Absolutely, irredeemably dreadful. Series 11 was awful but, based on this, Series 12 is even worse. Some of the worst characters I've ever seen on a TV series wandering around a boring, senseless plot. Poor directing that looks like it was filmed on someone's phone, but the acting and writing is the real problem. I've never been so bored by Doctor Who.

If you're not a fan of David Lynch then you're not going to like this show. End of story. Unless you've watched and loved Lynch's movies like Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire, then you're not going to like The Return. This is hardcore Lynch, challenging for even his biggest fans. I wouldn't call The Return a sequel to the original Twin Peaks. It's more a sequel to Fire Walk With Me than anything else, with a few elements of Twin Peaks sprinkled in. So, if you're just a fan of the original Twin Peaks and you're not familiar with Lynch's work, then The Return is not for you. You're not going to like it, I can assure you of that.

This is ARTHOUSE TV. It's not a murder mystery like the original. It's a hardcore surrealist midnight movie style psychological horror. And while I love it because of that, I can see why some people hate it.

From the twisted mind of David Lynch comes BLUE VELVET, a movie that was immediately controversial on release in 1986 with many critics (including Roger Ebert) calling it nothing more than a sick joke intended to shock and disturb, with an excess of gore, foul language and sexual violence. Over time, however, Blue Velvet has come to be remembered as one of the greatest movies of the 1980s and a nightmarish classic from the renowned director. Blue Velvet is a dark psychosexual horror movie about a teenage voyeur who finds himself drawn into an underbelly of crime, drugs and sex in his small town. As with Lynch movie, the true meaning of the film is up to each individual audience member to decide, but we can all agree this movie is beautifully directed, acted and composed, and is a stylish trip into the the depths of the human subconscious.