Comment by darkr
The first season is a masterpiece. Second season goes off the rails and loses direction fairly early on
The first season is a masterpiece. Second season goes off the rails and loses direction fairly early on
Part 8 of season 3 left a deep impression on me. I still think about it regularly.
Last few episodes are great again, and then we got Fire Walk With Me which is awesome. Also check out the feature-length The Missing Pieces composed of scenes cut from Fire Walk, if you haven't.
Frankly I find even the "bad" stretch of S2 better than more than half of allegedly-good TV, anyway.
James-hate is common even among the more devoted fans of the show, I think.
https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/why-we-hate-james-hurl...
I think about the "Watching Twin Peaks" comic around 2/3 down that page pretty much every time he's on screen. "Ugh yes please go," indeed.
Oddly, I liked him in The Return.
But it's very much redeemed by the third season, which is every bit as good as the first season, albeit rather different in tone.