Episode: “Episode
29”, in which Twin Peaks exits the ABC airwaves by apparently killing off a half
dozen of its citizens before dropping our hero, Special Agent Dale Cooper, into
that nightmarish netherworld known as the Black Lodge. There he wanders from
room to room where he meets cataract-eyed versions of characters long dead,
arch-rival and psycho super-genius Windom Earle, demon serial-killer Killer
BOB, and his own cloudy-lensed dopplegänger. After a stretch of relatively
lackluster episodes, director and co-creator David Lynch returns to ensure that
TV’s greatest supernatural-police procedural-sci fi-horror-soap-sitcom goes out
with all the mesmerizing and terrifying power of its greatest episodes. The
final scene will make you crap your pants, weep, and wish that the Showtime
revival would just get here already, dammit.
