It's definitely different than anything I've seen on TV...broadcast or cable...and I couldn't be happier about that. It's pure, unfiltered Lynch. Disturbing, beautiful, haunting, terrifying, confounding, heartbreaking, and at times hilarious.
I only watched the first two episodes, because I don't want to wait three weeks for episdoe 5 to air. But I'm loving it so far. It's going to be awhile before I can shake the image of Grace Zabriskie as Sarah Palmer sitting alone at home watching a nature documentary. Haven't seen much of the new cast yet but I think Matthew Lillard is doing a great job.
It's a departure in tone from the original series, but it is over 25 years later and Lynch is no longer bound by any of the constraints of network television. So this feels more like one of his films instead of an early 90's television show. I'm glad it didn't go the route of the X-Files reboot and lean too heavily on the nostalgia button. It makes the glimpses of the "old Twin Peaks" that much more special. I loved the scene at the end of episode two at the Bang Bang bar.
I have no idea wihere these 18 episodes are going but I'm definitely going along for the ride.
‘Twin Peaks’ premiere is full of surprises, the biggest being how much fun it is
"If you gave David Lynch free rein to do whatever he wants on the TV screen for 18 hours, you might understandably brace yourself for the result to be either brilliant or excessively self-indulgent and perhaps even willfully inscrutable.
So the very good news about Lynch and co-creator Mark Frost’s revival of their cult classic supernatural mystery series “Twin Peaks” (four hours of which premiered Sunday on Showtime), is that it’s certainly watchable, visually delightful, sufficiently disturbing yet periodically funny and — yes — in moments, it can be brilliant.
There’s plenty here for serious fans to devour as well as those who just want to admire it for an episode or two and see if they get the hoopla. This new “Twin Peaks” comes with a little of that same sense of possibility that accompanied the original series’ 1990 premiere, a memorable event that inspired both viewers and producers to look at their televisions in a whole new way.
The new series could never replicate that influence, but Lynch and Frost have clearly been paying attention to the medium’s progress in the last two-and-a-half decades. The setup in Sunday’s two-hour premiere (followed by an early, on-demand release of episodes 3 and 4 for Showtime subscribers) offered a refreshingly linear and even disciplined set of plotlines as “Twin Peaks” demonstrated what seemed to be an admiring knowledge of the seediness and patience of “Breaking Bad,” the elegant oddness of “Fargo,” and an upgraded “Mad Men”-style eye for vivid color palettes beyond the piney gloom of its original locale."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/05/22/twin-peaks-premiere-is-full-of-surprises-the-biggest-being-how-much-fun-it-is/?utm_term=.7227794e6ae1
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