Are we ever going to have a show that makes you feel the way Twin Peaks does week to week? I can't imagine an auteur director at the top of his game ever doing something like this again in our "near" future.
Hearing the theme song for the first time when The Return came back was a genuinely emotional experience
I think the Return (with the context of FWWM and the original series included) might be my favorite work of art/entertainment ever. I just never stop thinking about it. It's like a well that never stops giving my brain new ideas or ways to think about it
There are shows that I like more, at least Mad Men, but very few things have made me feel the way I did after specific moments in The Return.
-The ending is the biggest because it impacts the rest of the series so profoundly. -The beginning of Part 3 with the purple ocean is surrealist heaven. -Cooper going back in time to FWWM and him and Laura's walk through the woods -The Chromatics performance and scene at the end of part 2 -The Laura Orb creation (but really all of Part 8) -Betty Briggs telling Bobby how much Garland believed in him (I can't handle anything with Garland Briggs, I get very emotional, was very happy how big of a role he had in the Return) -The cherry pie scene in the desert Honestly I could list 50 more haha but I'll stop
I love everything mentioned so far, but a few other specific moments: - The way Cooper (or whoever he is) lurches forward with a confused look on his face and his hands awkwardly move up in an odd stance before saying "What year is this?" - When Bobby sees the picture of Laura and all the stuff laid out on the table and he is clearly upset and the music. - The visual of Cooper's body going into the electric socket. This one feels like it was pulled right out of my own dreams I've had. - Wally Brando's monologue - It's over-the-top machismo stuff, but the whole arm wrestling match up to and including punching his face in. - Ed's face when Norma comes back into frame and hugs him
watching the first two parts was something else. I think I've never ever felt that way watching television before.
The whole scene of Carl having a peaceful moment watching the tree canopies move, then once the child is run over and killed, he goes to comfort the mother. Transfixed with both horror and awe, he witnesses the child's soul ascending into the sky and whispers, "God..." When Bobby is in the diner with Shelly to speak about their daughter's dangerous boyfriend, a very similar problem they had faced together as teens. Shelly then abandons Bobby for her new drug-dealing lover, all before we are met with a nightmarish turn of events as a child misuses his father's gun outside. Bobby runs out to confront them, but is soon distracted by a screaming mother and her sick/possessed/demon child in a car. The symbolism and horrific imagery here still stays with me. Beverly returning home and screaming at her handicapped husband. The humming scenes at the Great Northern.