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Is The Return actually worth watching?
I've read a lot about how and why it is so controversial and divisive and honestly it sounds like something I would not enjoy. The thing I love the most about classic Twin Peaks is the cozy warm vibe of the town and its soap opera elements, and I read that "season 3" basically abandons all of this and intentionally goes out of its way to be as dark, bleak and miserable as possible, and avoids any and all fan service and doesn't make any effort to be a true continuation of the original series, and is more like something like Inland Empire (which I hated). I love classic Coop, the warm tone and aesthetics, the cozy vibes and music, the basic humanity of the characters, the lightheartedness, the eccentric and random storylines, etc. I don't just want 100% dark intense bleak and nihilistic surrealness, which The Return seems to be.
Reddit absolutely adores The Return but every single thing I've read about it sounds awful and not what I'd enjoy. So I'm basically getting a "second opinion" here because I remember that back in 2017, when I first came to 4chan, it was talked about regularly on here, though I never watched Twin Peaks until this year.
What do you guys think?
I am honestly perfectly okay with leaving Twin Peaks with the legendary and iconic season 2 ending, despite it being very tempting to see what happens to Coop after (possibly my favourite non-Death Note character of all time), but from what I've read about "Dougie" it's not good. So..... maybe it's best to just leave it there and head-canon my own ending, I dunno. I really don't want to "ruin" my image of Twin Peaks with an awful soulless 2010s reboot.

>>213528082 (OP)
My nine year old sister just had her very first abortion.

>>213528127
Lynchian

>>213528082 (OP)
It's really hard going. I saw a few episodes and gave up. There's none of the wacky cosy charm of the original.

>>213528082 (OP)
>and intentionally goes out of its way to be as dark, bleak and miserable as possible
Absolutely not true. FWWM is still the darkest Twin Peaks ever got.
>and avoids any and all fan service
There is fan service, it's just done in an unconventional way. There's cherry pie scenes, there's coffee worship scenes, all of this is in there it just isn't done in the way a netflix audience would want it done.
>the cozy vibes and music, the basic humanity of the characters, the lightheartedness, the eccentric and random storylines
All of this is in there. The Las Vegas storyline and Dougie Jones has a ton of warmth, is super comfy and a lot of fun. Again it's unconventional and it's not the old show but its there.
> I don't just want 100% dark intense bleak and nihilistic surrealness
Again, it very much is not this. The thing I was most surprised by back in 2017 when it first aired was how funny it was. I more or less expected the show to be FWWM meets Inland Empire in tone, and it certainly has commonalities with both but it's not all bleakness, it's not all austere. It's a ton of fun, it's a wild journey that you will not be able to predict.

a reboot who's only ambition is to emulate the original is never going to be worthwhile, it is going to be forgotten the minute after its been "consumed" Twin Peaks The Return is something original, and yeah it won't be the same show but 30 years passed, it shouldn't be the same show. Watch it, there quite literally is nothing like it.

>>213528082 (OP)
I only watched it one. Rewatching OG Twin Peaks 2 seasons almost every Autumn/Winter

Accept that it won't be the old show and you will enjoy it. Season 3 is the greatest gift to television in many years

>>213528269
>>213528777
Okay you've convinced me to watch it
I love Twin Peaks too much, and respect Lynch as an artist too much, not to watch it
I am definitely more of a Twin Peaks fan than I am a Lynch fan, but still.
I have an enormous amount of respect for an artist that can make a sequel/continuation of a beloved classic many years later and genuinely do something new and bold and daring even if pisses people off. That's why I loved Alan Wake 2 when so many people on /v/ especially hated it, and Alan Wake 2 is basically the vidya equivilant of Twin Peaks: The Return (as even the creator acknowledhes).

>>213528924
You didn't mention Fire Walk With Me in the OP though, so just to make sure you have seen it, right? Because it is essential viewing for season 3. You don't have to watch the deleted scenes, but you can if you want to.

>>213528924
>Okay you've convinced me to watch it
based

Couple of good episodes but most of it was trash on par with everything else Lynch shat out in the last 25 years.

>>213528973
I have watched FWWM and liked it because everything in it was directly connected to classic Twin Peaks in some way, so I accepted it.
Even in classic Twin Peaks Laura's life and end was fucked up and dark and disturbing (the characters literally cry when they find out what happens to her being raped and tortured) so FWWM wasn't too much of a departure in tone.
It's just the total 100% dive into weird otherwordly surrealness in The Return that I'm not sold on because to me Twin Peaks is so much more than that, it's about people's daily lives and the funniness and silliness of that, not just "oh look at what this weird demon/spirit does now".
And yes my favourite storyline was the Ben Horne Civil War Confederate general arc, what of it?!

>>213528082 (OP)
>Is The Return actually worth watching?
How do you cross the road safely?

>>213528082 (OP)
>Satan worship: the TV show
>>213528127
>>213528166
Hello rabbi.