Twin Peaks: the Return – all our coverage

How Twin Peaks stretches television into the unknown

The original Twin Peaks changed both series television and David Lynch’s own artistic outlook. Whatever we term the series’ recent extension, it surely shows that distinctions of format are only as important as we expect them to be, writes Brad Stevens.
Wednesday 31 January 2018

Wrapped in plasticity: Twin Peaks’ myriad Laura Palmers

Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin conduct a forensic examination of the slippages at play in David Lynch and Mark Frost’s surrealistic investigative series.
Friday 28 April 2017

Twin Peaks: the Return episodes 1-4 recap – so far, so wayward

David Lynch’s game-changing TV mystery show Twin Peaks is back on our screens after 26 years – and on the evidence of the first episodes, it’s a shiftier beast than ever. Tom Huddleston joins the investigation.
Thursday 8 June 2017

Twin Peaks: the Return episodes 5 & 6 recap – the good, the bad and the Dougie

Agent Cooper returns… as Señor Droolcup? With the testing fifth and sixth episodes of the new Twin Peaks running high on bloody violence, operatic tragedy and a preponderance of oddball slapstick, Tom Huddleston wonders if David Lynch is messing with us.
Thursday 22 June 2017

Twin Peaks: the Return episodes 7 & 8 recap – the extremes of experience

After seven episodes of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s cult series, things seemed to be slowly coming together. One more episode and they had entirely blown apart, says Tom Huddleston.
Thursday 29 June 2017

Twin Peaks: the Return episodes 9 & 10 recap – event horizon?

After the nuclear nightmare of episode 8, some semblance of normality is restored in Twin Peaks: the Return. But is that really a good thing, asks Tom Huddleston?
Wednesday 19 July 2017

Twin Peaks: the Return episodes 11 & 12 recap – bringing it all back home

As the series unfolds we’re spending more time in the town of Twin Peaks – but don’t go expecting easy nostalgia, says Tom Huddleston.
Wednesday 2 August 2017

Twin Peaks: the Return episodes 13 & 14 recap – the plot thickens

After weeks of diversions both delightful and disheartening, David Lynch’s extraordinary series appears to be sliding towards some kind of endgame, writes Tom Huddleston.
Wednesday 16 August 2017

Twin Peaks: the Return episodes 15 & 16 recap – back, in style

“You are awake. Finally.” The one-armed man speaks for all of us as Twin Peaks: the Return gets the hero it deserves, 16 episodes in, says Tom Huddlestone.
Wednesday 30 August 2017

Twin Peaks: The Return finale (episodes 17 & 18) recap – you can never go home again

The final two episodes of David Lynch’s epic, mind-altering anti-detective story gave us exactly what we expected, by giving us nothing that we expected, says Tom Huddlestone.
Friday 8 September 2017

Remain in light: Mulholland Dr. and the cosmogony of David Lynch

B. Kite considers David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. in the light of the Vedanta-inspired spiritual philosophy that underpins all the director’s work.
Thursday 1 March 2012

Through a bottle darkly: Blue Velvet’s Freudian beers

Do beers maketh David Lynch’s men, wonders Michael Zunenshine?
Monday 1 April 2013

David Lynch: The Art Life – first look

Art is where Lynch’s heart is in this open-handed portrait of the filmmaker in his element, says Nick James.
Wednesday 7 September 2016