{"id":152171870,"date":"2017-07-16T01:46:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T05:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2024\/11\/26\/twin-peaks-the-return-part-10-review\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T03:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:34:18","slug":"twin-peaks-the-return-part-10-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/?p=152171870","title":{"rendered":"Twin Peaks: The Return (Part 10 Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this series<\/a>, I continue to review each part of Twin Peaks: The Return, looking just at the stories pertaining to the FBI, Mr. C and the town of Twin Peaks. Peers covered the other plot lines separately on 25YL each week.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the big conversations I\u2019ve seen on social media since Part 10 aired is about the pacing of the hour and also of the season so far. Here are my two cents on the matter: What we\u2019re seeing right now has been described as an 18-hour film that we get weekly one hour instalments of. It\u2019s not episodic television, the way the original series was. It\u2019s also unlike every other film we\u2019ve seen before because we were able to see Blue Velvet<\/em> all in one sitting. The point I\u2019m trying to make is that what Lynch and Frost are doing here has never been done before. We will be writing about and studying this format for years to come and you can damn sure believe that someone else will attempt to recreate what they\u2019re doing here. I can\u2019t sit here and tell you that the pacing is good or bad. I have nothing to compare it to. I can tell you if I enjoyed the hour of television or not. I can tell you if it met my previous excitement levels or not. Before I get off my soapbox, I want to say this. Nothing annoys me more than when people compare their level of Lynch or Twin Peaks<\/em> fandom. Just because someone isn\u2019t glowing over every detail doesn\u2019t make them any less of a fan. It just means they\u2019re processing this completely new way of telling a story Lynch and Frost are using. In fact, I\u2019ll venture to say most of us will be processing this format for years. Let\u2019s all enjoy this wonderful moment in time without judging the next person\u2019s fandom. That\u2019s not what Twin Peaks<\/em> and art are all about. End of rant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how about that Horne family? We\u2019ve got Jerry, still stuck in the woods with no cell service, we\u2019ve got poor Johnny tied to a chair hanging out with the world\u2019s creepiest talking bear, Sylvia was choked, robbed and verbally assaulted by her less funny and whinier Bobby Peru of a grandson and then there\u2019s Ben, seemingly humbled by life. Maybe it was partly the divorce, maybe its the shape his family is in, maybe its guilt from his past actions but Ben doesn\u2019t have the swagger he used to. I don\u2019t know if I will call him a changed man but it does seem that life has caught up to him in certain ways. That really seems to be the case with the entire family. Which begs the question: what will Audrey be like when we finally see her? Will the emotional scars of her past, having a son like Dick Horne and all of her family baggage have taken a toll on her? Will there be physical repercussions from the explosion at the bank 25 years ago? I\u2019m not expecting to see an older version of the Audrey we knew from the original series. I am fully prepared to see Audrey impacted somehow from life, just like the rest of her family. Time has not been kind to Twin Peaks<\/em> version of the Kennedys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to Dick Horne. Young Richard has become one of the show\u2019s top antagonists and for good reason. He started Part 10 off by killing the sole witness that could connect him to the hit and run murder of that child and then used his inside man at the police station to make sure her words connecting him to the crime wouldn\u2019t haunt him from her grave. That plan, however, may be foiled by the deceptively sneaky Lucy, who in a nice callback to the pilot watched something unfold that will be helpful to the officers that she wasn\u2019t supposed to see. Horne made plans to skip town but not before terrorizing, robbing, physically and mentally attacking his own grandmother in a scene that very much reminded me of Wild at Heart<\/em>\u2019s Bobby Peru. One can\u2019t help but feel that Horne will not leave town but rather be a major part of the end game. Last week I stated a theory I had that Bob would inhabit Richard. Not ruling that out yet but Dick Horne is undoubtedly an evil character without Bob who is obviously capable of murder on his own. Could he take out one of our beloved characters leading to a showdown with the police before the year\u2019s over? I think it\u2019s likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one of the most powerful scenes of the evening, we saw the Log Lady once again on the phone with Hawk. This is purely speculation on my part, but I am still of the belief that this was prior to the conversations we saw them have in Parts 1 and 2. I believe what we saw in Part 10 was part of the buildup for the great act Hawk will eventually do, with a little help from his friends as alluded to by the Log Lady last night. What I got out of that phone call was that she was talking about the Bookhouse Boys, what better way for Big Ed and James to be showcased than in what seems to be the hero\u2019s mission: journeying to the entrance of the Lodge, like we saw Hawk do in Part 1\/2. If I had to make a guess, either Hawk goes back with his friends, or they were right behind him when he saw the red curtains and they were just off camera. There\u2019s something very exciting to me what the leaders of the town standing next to each other facing down an unknown evil and hopefully assisting Cooper in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Log Lady was who said, \u201cLaura is the one\u201d, and while I don\u2019t understand how Laura will fit into the big picture yet, you know that she will. Maybe it\u2019s her spirit, her memory and for the people of the town that lived there prior to her death its a chance to make amends to Laura for turning the other way when she was so desperately in trouble. I always think back to her funeral and how true Bobby\u2019s words were when he laid blame on everyone for her death. Perhaps by conjuring up her memory, the town can do right this time both against the forces of evil and then against the drug pushers. Or maybe Laura\u2019s involvement will be much more literal. Perhaps she will be walking and talking, seen by characters. How she factors in is anyone\u2019s guess but we do know she will. Laura is the one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could have watched Carl Rodd play guitar all hour long. Is he getting booked at the Roadhouse anytime soon? Unfortunately, an act of domestic abuse broke up the musical interlude. In a scene that brought visions of Leo Johnson to everyone\u2019s head, we watched Steven rough up and berate Becky, his wife and Shelly\u2019s daughter. While I\u2019m personally hoping Shelly still has the same gun she once shot Leo with and tells her daughter to do what she needs to do, the narrative is unclear. Is this subplot playing into the larger Red\/Dick Horne drug ring storyline? Is it a commentary on cycles of family dynamics and abuse?  Or is it world building, showing that despite all the time that has passed, some things stay the same and even when the final credits roll that these stories live on?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seeing how much Nadine loves Dr Jacoby makes me smile. I can\u2019t help it. Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve always had a soft spot for Nadine and even though I think Jacoby is exploiting people for money (which should come as no surprise) Nadine seems to be in a good place. With her dream business to boot! I\u2019m not sure how much more development either of those characters will get but if this is it, I\u2019m ok with it. These moments are great spent with familiar faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr C was on the bench for Part 10 except through mentions and pictures. Agent Preston showed Albert and Gordon a picture of Mr C at the Glass Box in NYC, making it certainly seem like he\u2019s the mysterious billionaire. The Mr C and Diane relationship is now on the FBI\u2019s radar. The question now, in my opinion at least, is Diane on Team Mr C or is she on a Lady Vengeance like quest for revenge? We shall see\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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