At any given minute, Lynch and Frost could swerve away from the narrative entirely to add a musical performance, or to spend a few poignant minutes with a recently departed castmember, or to mount an elaborately allegorical avant-garde exploration of how modernity has hastened humanity’s fall. Very little about this show was predictable, derivative, or too familiar. But as was the case with ABC’s Twin Peaks in the 1990s, the 2017 Showtime version benefited from its makers’ general lack of interest in current TV trends. Some of their subplots went nowhere, many of their comic interludes were clumsy, and even with 18 hours to play with, the series shortchanged some of the original series’ cast of ancient evil spirits, corrupt plutocrats, and mystically attuned champions of justice.
David Lynch and Mark Frost’s return to the strange, dangerous world of Twin Peaks was by no means a smooth ride.
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