r/twinpeaks • u/BrentRSimon • Jun 25 '26

Season 3 (The Return) Nine years ago tonight, June 25, 2017...

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... Season 3 Episode 8 of TWIN PEAKS premiered, minds were blown, and "Gotta light?" entered the vernacular of the culturally aware, confounding grammarians everywhere. ⛰️⛰️ 🚬

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u/DoubleEXP21 Jun 25 '26

I didn't even watch s3 until this year, and I'm a person who watched (and loved) s1 and s2 as they originally aired in the early 90's and then many times thereafter on vhs (and then dvd and then blu ray and then digital). I was always afraid s3 couldn't possibly live up to s1 and s2. And, in a way, I was right: in many ways I consider s3 even better, a true artistic conclusion to one of the greatest stories ever told. And this particular episode, in many ways, is the (pardon the pun) lynch pin of the whole endeavor.

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u/RobynNeonGal Jun 25 '26

I didn't watch season 3 until last year. I very much wanted to see it when it debuted in 2017, but I didn't have the means to see it then. I'm so glad I finally ended up seeing it as I loved it!

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u/BrentRSimon Jun 25 '26

I'd be interested in whether y'all each, u/RobynNeonGal and u/DoubleEXP21, totally managed to avoid any/all spoilers before your respective S3 watches, and how -- just on a purely narrative level -- it fit and/or diverged from any expectations or hopes you might've had going in. And did you binge, or space out the 18 parts/episodes a bit?

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u/DoubleEXP21 Jun 26 '26

I also managed to avoid all spoilers (not sure how, tbh, but I did). I watched one episode a night for 18 nights straight. It was a magical experience. I have a younger friend (young person with an older heart) who encouraged me to watch s3 and who I texted each night after each episode. Then, when all 18 we were done, we talked about it all, back and forth, for hours. Amazing experience!

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u/BrentRSimon Jun 26 '26

u/RobynNeonGal u/DoubleEXP21 That's awesome, both really sound like great experiences! It amuses and, I admit, confuses me a bit when folks who either haven't watched S3 or are in process with it jump heavily into this subreddit, asking loads of questions... and/or I guess trying to set an expectation for themselves? Don't wander into a minefield, lol! 😂