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MovieMail's Review
At long last, Season 2 of this singular, innovative and downright daring series from David Lynch and Mark Frost sees a release. And it continues to amaze, says Mike McCahill.
Cause for cherry pie and another cup of coffee: the emergence of the complete Twin Peaks, one of the most singular and daring projects in American network television. The second season of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s surreal murder-mystery has long been unavailable on UK DVD due to rights issues almost as tangled as the show’s plotting - but hats off to Universal Playback for persevering: here, at last, is a golden opportunity to explore - or revisit - every nook and cranny of the small screen’s strangest-ever town.
For the uninitiated, these are the investigations of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), summoned to the leafy Northwestern logging hotspot after the body of prom queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) washes up, “wrapped in plastic”, on a nearby shore. Almost everyone - from bigshot hotelier Ben Horne (Richard Beymer) to leather-clad wild one Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) - is acting funny enough to count among the suspects, and Lynch’s hand keeps manifesting itself unexpectedly: in Cooper’s never-more-vivid dreams, the fixation with owls and sweetmeats, and a dragged-up David Duchovny.
The production-troubled Season Two - introducing rogue agent Windom Earle (Kenneth Welsh, terrifying) - has long been underrated; seen again, it offers several of the show’s most lyrical stretches, involving Cooper’s courtship of waitress Annie Blackburne (Heather Graham). Yet it’s the creative risks taken by Lynch and Frost throughout that continue to amaze, their gorgeous leads, astounding tonal shifts and unprecedented atmospherics reclaiming and rejuvenating so many primetime drama clichés. No Twin Peaks, in other words, no Sopranos, no Lost, no Glee.
The extras are, as Coop might say, damn fine, preserving Log Lady Catherine Coulson’s cryptic episode introductions. The Definitive gold box set is being releases alongside Series 2 and containing both series and a host of extras including deleted scenes, production documentaries, retrospectives, and the video for one-hit wonder Julee Cruise’s theme song “Falling”. Most cherishable is the inclusion of Lynch’s self-enclosed feature-length pilot, it’s a whole other way into (and out of) the woods.
English DD5.1 Surround and optional English subtitles.
Film Description
The second series of David Lynch and Mark Frost's groundbreaking TV mystery is far more original and adventurous than the first. The Laura Palmer murder is wrapped up disconcertingly quickly, after which it goes down some of the weirdest byways ever explored by mainstream American television, which probably explains why it wasn't recommissioned.
