Let Kyle MacLachlan talk you through it.
Then tune in every Monday beginning May 22 for a weekly after-show during the new season.
Tragedy pierces the ironic facade with the murder of troubled beauty Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee).
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Cooper shows a mystic side to his deductive technique in a sequence marked by absurd comedy.
But it’s a prophetic nightmare that steals the show.
It begins with a chanting one-armed man (“Fire, walk with me!")
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presenting denim-clad psycho BOB (Frank Silva).
It ends with an aged Cooper in an otherworldly red-curtained room receiving a whispered message from a backward-speaking Laura.
Says MacLachlan: “The show is adding a whole new dimension here, quite literally.”
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“We all did!”
screams Laura’s wild-eyed boyfriend Bobby (Dana Ashbrook), as the town gathers for her funeral.
This episode also pulls back the veil on the show’s deeper fascinations.
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Meanwhile, Laura’s cousin Maddy (Lee, with dark hair now) arrives.
We couldn’t possibly.
There’s a visit with the Tremonds, an eerie grandma-grandson pair with a creamed-corn fixation.
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And then Maddy has a vision of a sneering BOB climbing over the couch to claim her.
Witness the essence ofTwin Peaks: romantic nostalgia invaded by transgressive horror.
It’s Lelandand it’s BOB, a possessor-spirit symbolizing unfathomable evil.
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There’s a new, brutal killing, but the tone is ultimately elegiac.
Lynch cuts from the murder to the Roadhouse diner, where songstress Julee Cruise sings melancholic dream-pop.
It’s a farewell to the show’s defining mysteryand the last episode Lynch directed until the finale.
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In this reset-button episode, Lynch guest-stars as Cooper’s FBI boss.
His advice speaks meta-volumes: “You better dust off your own black suit.”
The show recovers its compass immediately, sending Cooper into the mysterious depths of the Owl Cave.
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BEYOND LIFE AND DEATH
Season 2, episode 22Another scary-trippy-WTH?
hour from Lynch ends the series with a brutal cliff-hanger.
Cooper, trapped in limbo, is replaced inTwin Peaksby his shadow self.
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“The show found traction again with a powerful new direction,” says MacLachlan.
“It would have been compelling to explore.”
Perhaps the new show will do just that.
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Lee’s bold performance brings Laura to vibrant life.
David Bowie as a teleporting FBI agent electrifies the Black Lodge stuff by re-mystifying it.
(Who the hell is Judy?!)
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And is Chris Isaak’s Chester Desmond real or just Cooper’s dream avatar?
