Part 17

If it included one scene from the final episode concerning Dougie Jones, Part 17 would had been the perfect way to finish the Twin Peaks saga.

However it is the penultimate episode and includes the right balance of many of the narrative stories being wrapped up mixed with the bizarre and the surreal. We even get characters from the original Twin Peaks as footage is used from the original series and the movie Fire Walk With Me.

Everyone converges at the Sheriff's station as good Cooper and evil Cooper fight it out. It is all done so pacily with Lucy and an English drunk in the cells playing pivotal roles.

Good Cooper then enters his motel room where we revisit events of that night when Laura Palmer died, would he be able to save her from being killed?

David Lynch and Mark Frost knocked it out of the park with Parts 16 and 17.

The summary tells what's wrong with season 3. "Cooper arrives at Twin Peaks," which means that only the last two episodes were Twin Peaks. I really don't know what the 16 other episodes were about. All I remember is dougie. Also some creepy horror scenes which were kinda good, but most of this series is senseless and shockvalue violent.

I have the feeling almost everyone is going to hate Part 18. I myself hated it, though I can also recognize its artistic brilliance. It isn't just an abstract ending, but one that seems almost totally disconnected from everything that came before. Luckily, Part 17 works well as an ending, if an unexpected and strange one.

The first half of Part 17 builds the tension brilliantly with every plot converging on the Sheriff's Station and everything coming to a head all at once. It's really incredible how all the most major threads dovetailed into this one location at the same moment without it being obvious that it was going to happen. Once everyone is there and the tension has been built to to fever pitch, the whole thing climaxes with the strangest, most intense fight scene I've ever seen. My only real complaint about the first half of the episode is that it moves at such a breakneck pace that all the satisfaction of certain reunions is lost.

The second half of the episode is Lynch at full throttle, delivering surreal and unique visuals back-to-back at breakneck pace, building towards a surprising and ballsy twist that re-contextualizes the entirety of Twin Peaks in a way that I never could have expected. The use of archive footage in the end of this episode is stunning and unprecedented to say the least.

I might never watch Part 18 again. For me, this is the conclusion of Twin Peaks. Though there are plenty of massive loose ends (such as Audrey), Part 17 takes most of the major plots in The Return to their endpoint and closes in a way that is ambiguous but has specific implications.

This was absolutely insane. Certainly one of the most intense hour of television I ever experienced. This entire season is such a fever dream and I mean that in the most positive way possible. I certainly felt all the emotions I could feel- excitement, happiness, sadness, fear, just an accumulation of all the things that make Twin Peaks special.

This and Episode 8 were certainly some of the highlights in Lynchs' career. He just knows how to freak you out, keep you invested and actually play with around with the TV medium. A testament to let artists be weird in popular media, let them go crazy, let them experiment. That's what life is all about .

Just stop now! I'm watching the series to the end but suggest nobody else suffers in the way I am.