Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

Twenty-five years ago, David Lynch and Mark Frost drove the whole world crazy with the cult TV series “Twin Peaks,” forever changing the way the public viewed serial culture. Together with FBI agent Dale Cooper, viewers tried to solve the mystery: “Who killed Laura Palmer?”—and clearly learned: “Owls are not what they seem.”

In the finale of the second season, cut off mid-sentence, Laura Palmer promised Cooper that they would meet again in twenty-five years. And now, a quarter of a century later, the legendary project has resumed: the same Mark Frost wrote the script for the third season of “Twin Peaks,” and the same David Lynch directed the entire season himself—from the first episode to the last. The series, where we saw both the actors from the first two seasons (Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, David Patrick Kelly, Sherilyn Fenn, David Duchovny) and new faces (Monica Bellucci, Tim Roth, Naomi Watts, Jim Belushi, Amanda Seyfried, Ashley Judd, Chrisia Bell), became unquestionably the main television event of 2017. The bridge from the classic seasons to the new one was built by Mark Frost’s book “The Secret History of Twin Peaks,” written in the unique genre of “datifiction,” packed with documents and rich illustrative material. Now, your attention is offered its continuation—“Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier.”

So, special agent Tamara Preston, who investigated the “Archivist Dossier” known from “The Secret History,” sends to the Deputy Director of the FBI, Gordon Cole, the final report on the work completed. She had to see a lot, and this is the conclusion she comes to: “Perhaps the truth is hidden beyond the border of our fear, and one can understand it only without looking away.”