{"id":152420669,"date":"2017-09-03T22:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T02:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/2024\/12\/01\/twin-peaks-the-return-parts-17-18-instant-reaction\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T03:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:23:47","slug":"twin-peaks-the-return-parts-17-18-instant-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/?p=152420669","title":{"rendered":"Twin Peaks: The Return (Parts 17 & 18 Instant Reaction)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It feels like the \u201990s all over again, almost as if the ending of Season 2 and the public reaction to Fire Walk With Me<\/em> merged. I told myself I wasn\u2019t going to look at social media before I started writing, but when those ending credits rolled, my curiosity got the best of me. My gut reaction was right\u2014people are confused, angry, their expectations weren\u2019t met, and they wanted closure. I get that. People are calling it a set up for a fourth season. I get that too. That being said, I don\u2019t agree with any of those sentiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twin Peaks: The Return<\/em> is going to take years to unpack, in particularly the final two hours. Right now, I can\u2019t tell you what it all means. To speculate would be depriving myself the journey I\u2019m so excited to take to try and wrap my mind around it over time. Mulholland Drive<\/em> is one of my favorite films, and it took me three complete viewings to even begin to understand the final 30 minutes. Hell, I still don\u2019t wholly understand Eraserhead<\/em> yet I love the film because it dares me to dream. I don\u2019t think\u00a0Twin Peaks: The Return<\/em> ended on some big elaborate plea for another season<\/a>. I don\u2019t think Frost and Lynch were doing what they did in the season finale of the first season when they literally scripted every subplot to end in a cliffhanger. There is a story that was told in The Return<\/em>, a complete story that it\u2019s up to us who choose to do so to examine, study and dream about for years to come. It\u2019s televised art and to assume that it would provide the closure that other shows do is wrong. Nothing about Twin Peaks<\/em> is like other shows and that\u2019s what we love about it. Why should we expect the ending to be any different?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will there be a fourth season? Your guess is as good as mine. I can assume that Showtime wants there to be based on the numbers they and their parent company CBS have reported and not based on the outdated ratings that so many subpar journalists report on. Do Lynch and Frost want to revisit this world and tell more stories? I have no idea. Speaking as someone who is well versed in the works of David Lynch, I\u2019m quite confident that the ending of Part 18 was the ending that he and Mark Frost wanted to tell. Both Frost and Lynch have said numerous times over the past 25 years how unhappy they were with not being able to end Twin Peaks<\/em> the way they wanted to. They were given the gift of a lifetime by being able to revisit this material 20 plus years later. I can\u2019t even begin to imagine a scenario where they would end the story here anyway except the way they wanted to. Again, the ending is here; we just have to understand what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will not be going in depth as I said into what we saw. My head is spinning, just like most of yours probably is. I am one great big ball of emotions right now: happy, excited, sad that it could be over, exhausted, confused. That is what art does to us though. I\u2019m glad that I\u2019m not smiling ear to ear because Shelly and Bobby got back together, Cooper ate a bunch of donuts and asked Lucy about married life and everything got tied up with a nice pretty bow. Is Cooper caught in some loop where he\u2019s always trying to save Laura and fails? Did he actually course correct her death? What\u2019s the significance of the names \u201cChalfont\u201d and \u201cTremond\u201d being used in the final scene? What are we supposed to take away from that? Why did Cooper wake up in a different hotel room? Was that actually Cooper even? It seemed like him up until him and Diane drive through that portal or whatever that was. After that, his voice, his demeanor, really everything was different except for brief moments when he seemed Cooper-ish. I\u2019m starting to feel like I watched Mulholland Drive for the first time again. Who is Diane Selwyn again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To anyone reading this that might have had a negative reaction to what we saw tonight, your feelings are entirely valid. If you are interested, here on this site, we will be continuing to dive into what we saw for a while to come. We will theorize, speculate and try to determine what exactly Lynch and Frost were trying to tell us. We\u2019re not going anywhere. I hope you stick around too because just like with the original show and film, I have a feeling it\u2019s going to be a lot more enjoyable after some time has past and the shock has worn off. Until next time, thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It feels like the \u201990s all over again, almost as if the ending of Season 2 and the public reaction to Fire Walk With Me merged. I told myself I wasn\u2019t going to look at social media before I started writing, but when those ending credits rolled, my curiosity got the best of me. My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160502421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[112,39],"class_list":["post-152420669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-twin-peaks","tag-david-lynch","tag-showtime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152420669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152420669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152420669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160502479,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152420669\/revisions\/160502479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160502421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152420669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152420669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrevas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152420669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}