A Japanese man has come to the Twin Peaks not for any other reason than to look for his missing girlfriend. He contacts agent Cooper who has to properly think through the clues he has to locate the missing woman.
Lynch's twisted brutalization of women likewise continues... It all seems to be part of the director's basic playbook. And it's past time for him to be called out on it.
Depending on your familiarity with David Lynch's body of work and your opinion of which, Twin Peaks' near-complete diversion from small town soap to full-fledged science-fiction horror will either come as a shock or natural progression.
From the first twang of Angelo Badalamenti's haunting theme music, it was as if Lynch was determined to remind all those shows indebted to Twin Peaks -- True Detective and Fargo, for example -- that no one does weird quite like him.
Twin Peaks: The Return jettisons the outdated premise of the white suburbs as a bastion of innocence. In fact, it leaves behind the series' namesake town for the bulk of the action -- and is much more compelling for it.
