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Twin Peaks · Season 3 · ABC / Showtime

Twin Peaks Season 3

Twin Peaks Season 3 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.1/10. 18 episodes on ABC / Showtime from 21 May 2017.

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BollyMeter9.1/10Twin Peaks: The Return earned 94% on Rotten Tomatoes from 461 critics - one of the largest and most positive samples for any prestige drama - with IndieWire calling it 'a meteor' for the medium and the NYT's James Poniewozik noting its capacity to consistently produce images television had never seen before.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Twenty-six years after ABC cancelled the original run, Showtime handed David Lynch 18 uninterrupted hours and zero creative oversight. The result is Twin Peaks: The Return, scoring 94% on Rotten Tomatoes from 461 critics, one of the largest positive samples ever assembled for a prestige drama. The Log Lady returns. Agent Cooper spends the better part of 10 episodes as Dougie Jones, and the series asks how long viewers are prepared to wait. Part 8, structured around a nuclear explosion and the birth of evil, lands as one of the most formally audacious hours of television ever produced. The finale splits response with the same precision it builds toward throughout the season.

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The Room

94%critics positive · n=4618.5/10IMDb audience
  • 'Twin Peaks: The Return' feels like another moment of reckoning for the medium - another meteor. Where do we go from here?
    IndieWire
  • The Return made me say - over and over - 'I've never seen that before.'
    The New York Times

Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E8Part 810.0

    Part 8 is the episode that most challenged what television is permitted to do. A nuclear test in 1945. A vast, silent void. The birth of something monstrous. Lynch uses the hour to construct a creation myth for the entire series in pure image and sound - no dialogue for long stretches, no narrative scaffolding. Critics and academics have written more about this single episode than most entire series receive.

    The moment: The Nine Inch Nails performance at the Roadhouse transitioning into the nuclear explosion sequence - the moment the show declared itself to be something beyond television.

    Full review of E8 →

Season Over Season

The Return abandons Season 2's network compromise and operates as a 18-hour art film; far less conventionally satisfying than Season 1 but almost certainly more important.