Twin Peaks (TV Series) Part 11 (2017) User Reviews

All three main plots get equal attention in yet another quality hour of television.

[TouchTheGarlicProduction · 10/10 · 23 July 2017]

It took the first six parts of the return to establish all the characters and locations, and as a result each episode was entirely unique and unlike the others. It was thrilling to see something totally new each week, but also a little bit frustrating as the pace was rather slow and the wait between new scenes of a particular story were excruciatingly long. But after part 8, all of this changed. The last three parts (including this one) have been far more consistent, moving the plot along at a respectable pace and revisiting each of our three main story lines (Dougie, The FBI stuff, and the Twin Peaks stuff) at least once. This has made for a more satisfying viewing experience but also means that there's far less to say about it.

This hour of the return was in fact split pretty evenly between the three main plots. The first act dove deep into the Briggs family dynamic. I've been itching to know what the dynamic between Bobby and Shelly is and this episode finally gave me that. We also finally get to spend a chunk of time with Becky, who was introduced beautifully in Part 5 and then not really revisited properly until now.

The second act focused on the FBI investigation. This has been my favourite plot in the return so far, largely due to the excellent cast of characters involved (Gordon, Albert, Tammy, Diane, etc). It is also the fastest moving, taking us from the glass box to Yankton to Buckhorn. Every time the plot shows up on screen I get excited because I know that major progress is about to be made. This episode was no exception. Not only did we get some major plot motion, but we got both of the shots of Gordon from teasers (the shaky blurry screaming and the doughnut).

The final third of the episode focused on the most controversial plot in the return, the wacky misadventures of one Douglas Jones. This episode resolved one of the primary factors of tension surrounding him in the most unexpected and hilarious way possible. I enjoyed it immensely, but it also leaves me wondering where this is going because in one fell swoop all of the forces immediately threatening Dougherty have seemingly been nullified. It makes it seem like the buildup of those mobsters was ultimately all for naught.

All in all, this was another strong part in the return that continues the slow-moving fast- feeling methodical pace of the last two. I am really missing Audrey and Big Ed though.

Twin Peaks, third season, eleventh episode: There is fire where you're going

[kluseba · 9/10 · 27 July 2017]

Eleventh episode: There's fire where you're going / The Return, Part XI

Content: A group of children discover a severely injured Miriam crawling from the underbrush. Becky learns Steven has been cheating on her with Gersten Hayward. She drives to Gersten's apartment and shoots through the door, but the couple are elsewhere. At the diner, Becky's parents, Shelly and Bobby, chastise her over the incident. Red arrives and Shelly leaves to kiss him. After a child accidentally fires a gun through the diner window, Bobby discovers an anxious woman with a sick girl in her car. At the location where Hastings met Briggs, the FBI finds Ruth's body with coordinates written on one arm. Gordon sees woodsmen in a portal and is drawn back by Albert. A woodsman kills Hastings. While Hawk and Truman study an ancient map, the Log Lady calls Hawk and tells him "There's fire where you are going." Dougie's boss sends Cooper to give the Mitchums a $30 million check. The Mitchums plan to kill Cooper, but after Bradley has a prophetic dream, they decide he is not their enemy and take him for drinks and cherry pie.

Analysis: The killing of Hastings seems to prove that the otherworldly dimension related to the Black Lodge seems to open up more regularly which will probably lead to an important clash between both worlds towards the end of this third season. Since Hastings knows too much about this dimension, he gets killed just like the librarian and Garland Briggs before. Gordon Cole might also be in a dangerous position. He seems to be aware of both dimensions and even had a vision of Laura Palmer in the last episode and of the three murdering woodsmen in this episode. Gordon Cole was rather a side character in the first two seasons but his determination and knowledge could become a key factor in this season's finale. I also think that Gordon Cole and Albert Rosenfield are trying to trick Diane Evans and Evil Cooper. They show Diane Evans some coordinates that she could transmit to Evil Cooper. This place could be a trap since Cole and Rosenfield know that something is wrong with Diane. Another important element is one of the dreams one of the Mitchum brothers had that actually saved Douglas Jones' life. This dream isn't a coincidence and I believe that Douglas Jones got some help from Mike and possibly other helpful characters from the Black Lodge in this case. One last thing I was thinking about are the strange behaviors of several citizens in Twin Peaks. Think about the vomiting young lady, the aggressive woman in her car, the boy that accidentally fires a gun, an unusually aggressive Becky and so on. I'm convinced that these aren't just random stories but parts of something bigger. Since a portal to the Black Lodge will open up right there in Twin Peaks, these strange behaviors can be seen as elements of foreshadowing and prove that the entire town is in danger when Douglas Jones and Evil Cooper are bound to meet there.

Description: This eleventh episode is quite entertaining and fast-paced. The first half is rather gloomy as we witness a severely injured Miriam, an overtly aggressive Becky and the mysterious murder of Hastings. Things get a little bit more light-hearted towards the end when Douglas Jones becomes friends with the Mitchum Brothers that initially wanted to kill him. The closing scenes at the restaurant where a confused Douglas Jones meets a former slot-addict are beautiful in an almost optimistic way.

Favorite scene: This episode is filled with memorable scenes. The weirdest one involves a very convincing Bobby Briggs who meets an exaggeratedly upset elderly woman and a strange younger woman who pukes. This scene manages to be both strangely amusing and uneasily disgusting at the same time. This contradictory mixture seems to be one of David Lynch's specialities and goes back to his earliest films such as Eraserhead.

The real combination of everything great about Lynch.

[akoronthebastard · 10/10 · 25 July 2017]

This episode was an utter treat to watch in a three thirds package. The disturbing and dramatic events and mystery in the town of Twin Peaks, the scary and surreal moments around the FBI investigation in South Dakota with black comedy in there, and the hilarious and heartwarming trip of the awakening of Dale Cooper. Once again, I'll try to describe it without spoiling it.

The town of Twin Peaks third really shows how much it has changed over 25 years and the episodes so far. The change from a wacko light- hearted town to a dramatic place filled with traumatic circumstances building up to something even more sinister. I gonna be honest, this third was a drama through and through with mysteriously disturbing scenes sprinkled in, but it was the most well-made drama I've ever seen. The fantastic use of a sinister score and phenomenal cinematography during moments of shock and distress.

The FBI investigation stirs up tension in South Dakota with a amazingly surreal moment that takes up plenty of the third. A surreal moment that gives you a area of safety away from another area close-by that seems to be the source of scary uncertainty and, destroys it completely...then calms you down a bit soon after. This third also builds some tension the two main men and Diane as we try to figure out what's she's trying to do.

Next is the Dougie's Dale Cooper awakening that brings him getting closer and closer to being good ol' Dale Cooper again. While it builds tension on what the two men are going to do to Dougie, but I got very curious on what's going to happen next. The set-up and pay-off was absolutely marvelous to where I was laughing with a lot of joy and excitement inside me. Soon after, the pay-off leads to something so sudden, but warmed my heart so much that I nearly teared up a little. This leads to a amazing last scene that made my day with one quote and expression that told so much on what has happened to Dougie.

Overall, I loved it from beginning to end. It put together so many emotions that I didn't know what to do with myself. This was truly a emotional rollercoster.

Swirling Clouds

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 24 July 2017]

Why did I rate this a 10. I don't know, other than I could not take my eyes off the screen once it started. It starts with a three boys playing catch and seeing a bloody, obese woman crawling out of the woods Then we move back to Twin Peaks. Obviously, some things have transpired as Shelley's daughter grabs a gun, ready to shoot that drug dealing psycho with whom she is in love. He has taken her mother's money and treated her horribly. Later, they talk in the restaurant and the events that follow are nuts. The FBI takes a man who says aliens are after him and go to the site he suggested. Soon we have a crazy vortex appearing and shadow people moving around. The man meets a terrible fate. Finally, Dougie is about to be wasted because he discovered arson which cost the crime brothers 33 million dollars, but the company president has an ace in the hole. The final scene with Dougie and the guys drinking champagne and eating cherry pie is quite remarkable. I could allude to four or five other things, but it is so over the top, it won't make sense anyway. Suffice it to say, if you've not seen this show, there is no comparison to anything in existence (except for another David Lynch production).

Episode 11

[Prismark10 · 9/10 · 28 August 2017]

In some ways this is best structured Twin Peaks episode of the new series. Strange, surreal, violent, funny with plenty of plot developments.

Becky is indeed Shelly and Bobby Briggs wayward daughter and Steven is more than her no good boyfriend but her husband. He is cheating on her as well as taking money from her. When she goes on a shooting rampage, we get some character moments between Shelly, Bobby and Becky.

Indeed when we first encountered Bobby Briggs at the Sheriff's department, I thought he would be a crooked cop but now we know that the mouthy, cynical one at the Sheriff's department is bent.

When there is a random shooting incident through the window of the diner and Bobby Briggs discovering a distraught woman in a car with a sick woman, it seems that there is some dark cloud hovering above the town of Twin Peaks which has unleashed an explosion of violence.

The FBI investigation in Buckhorn is also gathering pace. Both Gordon and Albert are shown to have a supernatural edge which we so far thought only Agent Cooper possessed. They see a mysterious figure moving about which suddenly kills Hastings while Gordon has a vision where he sees those notorious woodsmen. They also discover the headless body of a woman with some coordinates.

The Mitchum brothers cannot wait to get their hands on Dougie Jones, Bradley Mitchum is just counting down the hours until he gets to kill their arch nemesis Dougie. Yet a strange dream Bradley has had means Dougie may not be their enemy especially as Dougie has been dispatched to meet the Mitchum brothers with a $30 million cheque as their fire was deemed to be accidental.

All of a sudden Dougie is having cherry pie with the Mitchum Brothers in a restaurant where Dougie meets the old lady he help win a jackpot at the casino. She thanks him for changing her life.

David Lynch has set a very high standard in this episode.

What are you Doing? We're Trying to Get Home!

[Samuel-Shovel · 9/10 · 13 August 2017]

After a few lackluster episodes (at least for Twin Peaks), this episode was a dousy! We really get to see all these subplots beginning to meld into one. Sooner or later, their convergence is imminent.

Dougie's scene with the Mitchum brothers was another classic Lynch scene and the scene with the lady honking the horn was somehow both hilarious and terrifying, something that only a few directors can pull off. Season 3 has been a bit of a mixed mag but episodes like this make it all worth it.

There's Fire Where You Are Going

[ThomasDrufke · 8/10 · 25 July 2017]

For once, this episode didn't feel like it was just delaying inevitable reveals and results. There was a keen sense of urgency for a good portion of the episode. That is, the parts that didn't involve Dougie. We FINALLY got confirmation that Becky is indeed the child of Bobby and Shelly, and she's in quite the pickle with her husband, Steven. At this point, I think it's safe to say that this storyline is going to be crucial come the later episodes. Albeit briefly, Amanda Seyfried has been a delight to watch even if her scenes rarely ever involve something good happening. The whole first half of the episode was so Lynchian, I loved it. Whether it be the log lady's ominous call to Hawk, that portal (which may link what happened in New York), Hastings' death, or the random gunshot in the middle of a traffic jam, it was quite the episode. Again, it's not like any of this is beginning to make sense, but Lynch is keeping my interest. I can't necessarily say the same thing about the Dougie stuff, but it's become clear that Lynch doesn't plan on giving us any sort of pay-off to that soon, so we'll have to continue to live with it. It's noteworthy that bad Coop/Bob didn't play a role at all this week, though his little minions did do some work on Hastings. Overall, it was an enjoyable week of Thrones, though I still wish there was more progress on the Dougie plot. I say that every week.

8.5/10

Hawk? Hawk?

[pantoleinasdimitris · 9/10 · 22 February 2024]

Part 11. What an episode!!

Wow, this really was a highlight of this season. So much wonky things I can't put them into words properly.

To begin with: we have some pretty disturbing stuff to start this episode with. Namely, children making a rather unexpected discovery, and Shelly trying to be there for her daughter. Both scenes were really stressful and outright scary.

Back in Buckhorn, our FBI gang discovers pretty startling stuff too. Gordon has a vision, Diane has one too that she doesn't elaborate till further. We see how it goes soon after. (Diane, you have a serious smoking addiction!)

By the end of the episode, we see Dougie in a strange meeting that ends really unexpectedly. We hear some beautiful piano tunes at the end though. Damn good pie!

Overall, a GREAT episode! Can't wait for more.

1x11

[formotog · 7/10 · 15 September 2020]

This was a relatively weird episode. It started off good, with Bobby and Shelly's daughter going nuts. I do feel bad for Bobby, but it is nice to see how much he's changed since the original show. There was that exceedingly strange and uncomfortable scene with the woman and the sick girl in the car, I have absolutely no idea what all that was about. I feel like every so often there's a scene that shows how dark/evil Twin Peaks is. If that really is the only purpose those scenes serve, it's very tired by this point. We know Twin Peaks is a weird place with lots of dark stuff happening in it, anyone who's watched even one episode of the original show knows that. Besides, the stuff happening with the Woodsmen does pretty much the same thing but is far far more interesting. The FBI investigates the weird gateway of sorts into another world which seems to be the dwelling place of these evil entities. If I'm really nitpicking, I'd say that crushing Bill Hastings' skull was a bit of a cheap way for Lynch to write himself out of a corner, because what on Earth would they have done with him after this? Either way though, it was a very tense, engaging scene and I can't wait to see more of these Woodsmen. I would assume this will coincide with the place that Hawk and Sheriff Truman are headed, the place with fire. It's been teased enough, though, so I'm hoping we see it next episode. As for the rest of the episode, we continue with the character assassination of Dale Cooper. I'm not even bored of that plot anymore, and it can even be funny at times. I'm just indifferent, and I've accepted that we probably aren't going to see Dale Cooper as he was in this show, which is a terrible shame because he's one of my favourite characters ever, and certainly the best character in this universe

Mid 7

For audience with serious attention span issues

[dierregi · 3/10 · 10 December 2017]

The most memorable scene of this episode was at the end, with a Roman Polanski-lookalike playing the piano. It was a nice surreal background bit scene in a nightclub, where boring catatonic Dougie shared a cherry pie with the Mitchum brothers.

Before that, we had hysterical Becky having a boring conversation about mad love, with mum & dad in the diner. Gordon experienced some weirdness, while Diane and her bad wig witnessed. Some sinister supernatural woodsman did evil deeds, announced by the usual creepy music.

This series starts to be a paint-by-number exercise: when the sinister music starts you know inexplicable events will take place, followed by silly conversation/event unrelated to main plot. Then, yet another minor character with no story arch will be thrown in, followed by comic relief of some sort, such as stupid Candie or another weird, catatonic character.

The good point is you do not need to remember what happened before. There are so many loose threads and secondary plots and no cohesive narrative that even somebody with the attention span of a fly can easily jump in an out of the "story".

Fire where you are going

[AvionPrince16 · 6/10 · 20 March 2023]

Im still pretty bored about the episodes to be honest. It have that slow pace but very slow. We dont really learn something new, we have some disconnected events. The only part who were really interested was with the FBI agents where we can see David Lynch and the whole weird thing that they saw with the prisonner who died by strange forces and they found Ruth Davenport body. Was pretty weird. We saw also that Bobby and Shelly have a daughter and now she is in trouble. But how thatkind of disconnected events can be told? Its so uninteresting and get pretty off topics. I mean yes its like a sub plot but really annoying. The FBI agents are the only one who have my interest and make the story go forward and reveal and let us understand the mysteries and discover the truth pretty slowly but surely. And Dougie revealed some organised crimes. What strange events here again. And Rodney dont kill Dougie because of the money and a cherry pie. What convenient the story it is. I cant understand the high ratings of people. And clearly let us see how they are not objectives and just let us the name David Lynch get to their minds without any real critics about the product: the tv show and the episodes.

As awful as the previous episodes

[alexx668 · 1/10 · 25 July 2017]

"Twin Peaks" continues it's slow journey into.. nothing really.

Cole and his troupe go to "the zone", where they encounter a huge Photoshop distort > twirl filter and a bunch of these black demonic hobos (one of them kills Hastings). They also discover Ruth Davenport's corpse, which means they now know the coordinates to Jack Rabbit's Palace, which sets the scene for a showdown between them, DoppelCoop (through Diane) and Truman and co.

In Twin Peaks, Becky has a marital crisis. She tries to solve it the American way (with a gun) but fails, which leads to a family meeting between her, Shelly and Bobby. Following Shelly's brief moment with her beau (the drug dealer Red) and Bobby's obvious jealousy, the meeting comes to an abrupt end when random gunshots occur. Bobby goes outside to investigate, and (long story short) comes across a hysterical woman beeping hysterically and a diabolical child vomiting uncontrollably. Kooky and spooky, woooooh (spooky voice).

Finally, the Dougie Jones saga continues unabated, but it's so absurd I don't see any point going into detail about it. For anyone interested there are a lot of detailed recaps online by way too many websites washing this series with preposterous praise and justifying it with pseudo-academic nonsense.

Part 11

[bobcobb301 · 7/10 · 29 July 2017]

After a couple of underwhelming episodes Twin Peaks finally got back on track here. Look, Jim Belushi's acting is awful, he seems less and less believable as a crime boss every second he is on screen, but it did not distract that much from the whole episode.

I am glad to see the show finally use Amanda Seyfried's character though. Her rampage was a bit odd, but the most exciting she's been on screen in a long time.

Stupid, once again

[mrdonleone · 4/10 · 21 May 2020]

Lynch is boring me by now. Twin Peaks used to be quality; now it's just nonsense. I really disliked this episode. Zombies and spirits and alternative dimensions... My ass!

Simply fun

[lareval · 6/10 · 9 October 2021]

Another episode that feels more like a filler than a killer. But I can't deny it was fun at least. As bizarrely fun as anyone could expect from Lynch.