Rebooting ‘Twin Peaks’
As an aspiring film director, I read with great sadness Robert Lloyd’s review, “Splendid ‘Twin Peaks’ Reboot Is Very Much Itself in Its Long-Awaited Return on Showtime” [May 22].
David Lynch is arguably America’s greatest avant-garde surrealist auteur, with trailblazing experimental films such as “Eraserhead,” “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive.” Unfortunately the premiere of “Twin Peaks: The Return” on Showtime lacks the creative originality of Lynch’s 1990 “Twin Peaks.” Tellingly, in the new first episode, when the one-armed man asks Agent Cooper, “Is this future or past?” the answer is the new “Twin Peaks” is stuck in the past. I cringed every time I watched the old, feeble, gray-haired original “Twin Peaks” cast members reappear as retro caricatures of themselves. John Lundin Oxnard