Twin Peaks - A review 25 years later
When the original Twin Peaks came out I was just 11 years old. I finally saw it when I was about 14 years and remember loving it and having a huge crush on Agent Cooper. In 2017 the return came out and since my good friend Maik Lohse gave such an intriguing feedback (“I am not sure if it is brilliant or terrible”) I decided to rewatch the original show and the new season 3. It turns out that I pretty much shared Maik’s experience to the extent that I had to rewatch all 3 seasons 6 months later to finally make up my mind and with all the rumours about a possible fourth season it felt like the right time to write this review. The first two seasons were and still are mostly brilliant. Despite being almost 30 years old they still don’t look outdated but rather timeless. Why does it work like this? Because even the music played at the roadhouse is not particularly nineties. The styles are from various decades James Hurley is the 50ies biker, his uncle Ed Hurley is clearly a 70i...