Masked Ball

Many questions that seemed to be the premise of the entire show seem to have been resolved and now new things start to happen. This show introduces new characters and new plot lines the may begin to set the premise for the rest of the season (I assume; I still haven't seen the shows beyond this one.) All the new characters in this episode, however, threw me off. Suddenly we have so many different things to consider and expect! The woman in the red dress excited my imagination of what possibilities might exist when you let yourself go outside the boundaries of town. Sometimes reality does match movies.

However, although I respect the show and the beautiful atmosphere it creates, this episode was a little much which is why I only rated it a six. This rating should not discourage anyone from watching the show further. I can't wait to watch the next one!

Overall, a pretty standard and boring episode, the highlight being the introduction of Denise Bryson, Coop's old colleague who has transitioned into a woman. At first I cringed, expecting a stereotypical 20th century negative mocking depiction of a transwoman, and while there are problems here and there ("...it suits him", "transvestite", Denise being played by a cisgender man) the overall positivity of Denise's character is astounding, being shown as a smart, hard-working woman who cares about Dale, whom is confused at first but almost immediately accepts her identity as soon as she says "I prefer Denise". It's heartwarming to see the main character in a show from the 1990s accept a trans character so easily. It's truly one of, if not the first portrayal of a transwoman in TV that wasn't used as a joke, in fact the wonderful David Lynch does not turn Denise's identity into a joke at all. Truly heartwarming, although the rest of the episode often felt quite lackluster overall.

Pouty James, biking away for no good reason, gets involved with an older woman whi apparently digs high school drop outs. Or does she have have an ulterior motive?

An ulterior motive? In "Twin Peaks"?

The problem is, we're not in Twin Peaks.

This episode makes the same mistake Lynch himself made with the later travesty going by the Twin Peaks imprimatur. Viz. It left Twin Peaks. Well, it was his baby. He could ruin it if he wanted to. And did.

It's possible the writers simply didn't have the imagination to further explore the town. But to me, the unity of place was vital to the series. True, the lawmen made occasional forays into Canada, but they had to go to solve plots hatched in town.

Frankly, as someone who grew up in a town 100 times smaller than Twin Peaks (according to the sign) I believe ciry-boy writers just wearied of the little town they created and wanted to bust out. Whatever made then take this direction, they went about it in the worst way. I never liked James and as he rides away I say Good Riddance. But who'll hump Donna?

To be honest, this is the worst episode of the show so far.

Frankly, both episode 10 and this one, are just plain right almost bad.

Currently, there is nothing that pushes the plotline of the show, there's nothing that keeps me hooked in, and frankley, it was boring.

I'm just so bummed out, because up until this point, the show was flawless, amazing, and masterpiece of television.

But after the plotline of the show resolved after episode 9 of this season, it seems the show's quality and entertainment has dropped massively.

I just hope to god that the show will get back to itself and will not continue with the level it had in those last two episodes, because to be honest, I was kinda bored.

I've heard that by the middle of the second season of "Twin Peaks" it becomes fairly worse. After watching this episode, I suppose this is true.

While it wasn't really bad, there's a lot of new subplots and characters introduced in this episode that I simply do not care for. While I really enjoyed the wedding scene near the end and watching Benjiman Horne's life become increasingly worse and more absurdly comical is rather entertaining, and the scenes in which Dale Cooper needs to defend himself are pretty great (if only because Cooper is just such a fun and interesting character to watch), there's also other subplots added on that aren't very good or interesting, most annoyingly the one featuring this random woman in the red dress whose literally just saying pretentious stuff to James. Where's that going?

Overall, there's some funny and entertaining elements to this episode, as well as a lot of pointless and bad subplots. Hopefully, the last couple of episodes make the show become as great as it was before.