Oddly enough this is one of the most dream-like scenes in the series. Unlike the scenes in the Black Lodge for instance, where everything is very outwardly bizarre, everything about this scene is off in such a subtle way that you feel a growing sense of dread without really even knowing why.
It's clearly off because the last episode takes place within a tulpa or dream realm or whatever. This is where the pieces come together and they attempt to lure Judy into the trap.
@KinziruOnoroi also the unnatural pauses between each line in the dialogue, and how everything aside from them and the house feels empty, dark, and lifeless
It's funny, it's very dream-like...but everything about the setting has changed. It's stark, cold, almost clinical. It feels very much like the "cinema" has been drained out of it. It's my contention that they have left the "dream world" of Twin Peaks and found themselves in our reality, the reality in which Twin Peaks was created as a fictional television show. I think they're realizing in that moment that they're fictional, and in doing so, like waking from a dream, they cease to be. Laura Palmer, that character who lived and died and continued on in that fictional world, heard the faintest last whisper of the dream before the dreamer woke up and they were all gone.
I've always felt that this ending is Dale Cooper and Amanda Palmer entering into our world. They've left their "dream world" of Twin Peaks and entered the reality in which Twin Peaks was created. I don't know what the final ending means...but I think it's something to do with these universes colliding.
@@MatsThyWitI think that's pretty accurate. The lady that's in the house is the actual irl owner of the Palmer house. Further cementing the idea that this is our reality, and Dale & Laura are now in our reality and not the reality of Twin Peaks. Further clue is that the current owners bought the house from someone who wasn't the Palmers. Because in this reality they don't exist.
Twin Peaks S3 was a miracle to happen at all, much less in the shape that it did. It’s an artistic anomaly in a sea of media that is almost banal by comparison. Nothing that strange has ever aired on modern television and frankly, it probably never will again, the way we’re heading.
@Kerunou Too bad you needed an interpreter to figure out the symbolism......but yeah......he knew how to cast, shoot an angle, and cover a story. Much of the hidden stuff was beyond 95% of the viewers who wanted to stare at Sheryl Fenn's tight sweater.
I watched his UA-cam channel every day and left a comment. I've tried to write something to my friends in out little Weather Report community, but I can't stop crying. RIP DAVID with blue skies & Golden sunshine alllll along the way🌼
From what he said about Angelo Badalamenti, I think if he was able to say something about being dead he'd probably say he never went anywhere and never will. It's hard to think that he isn't somewhere dreaming up things right now, so I hope he's right.
Its so crazy to see how coop feels in this scene. All throughout the show, he always had a plan, whether he had a dream show him the next step, the giant, mike, etc. he always knew that something came next. But in this final scene, he genuinely looks distraught that he doesnt know what to do.
@@antonioavitabile9957I don't think of him being a mix of those characters. I see this as the real Kyle McLaughlin acting as Dale, believing he's Dale, but being in the real world. On his travels before and after finding Carrie, we see tons of real brands like the gas station. Then there's the fact that this house they pull up to has the real life owner at the door instead of Sarah Palmer. It's like the actors lived a dream that they're these characters and now they're awake in the real world but still believing they're in their dream world. I also believe the real dreamer is Cooper/Kyle because he seems present while Carrie is just another character/actress, unaware of whatever Dale is talking about until the end when the dream for her crosses over into her reality, and all the horrors of Laura's fate come flooding into her mind all at once upon staring at the house and hearing Sarah call her.
@@darkl3ad3r Slight wrench in the theory. The previous owners were names of the people from the black lodge. Implying this is Judy speaking through them as well.
calabiyou Well, there's a few bits of nostalgia, and they're so rare they're really impactful, but yeah, this season was basically "we have a story to tell without caring about what you want, fuck your nostalgia" ... And that's not a bad thing. I actually love it. Lynch and Frost continued the story without caring so hard about what people expected and wanted from this. They had a vision and stuck to it, and it's better because of that. I hate it when old things are revived to just feed off of nostalgia and make more money. This show did the opposite of that and it's amazing.
The lady at the door, Mary Reber, is the real life owner of that house in Everett, WA, and she gives tours to Twin Peaks fans who reach out to her on Instagram. I went recently and she's a really nice lady who has all sorts of cool stories from when they were shooting at her house.
Dale asking that question and Laura realizing her life as Carrie isn't real, is like when you notice you're in a dream and the dream suddenly collapses.
What I love about the line it's that it was the first logical question the audience are probably thinking about. And then without a warning it just goes dark
Got this off a comment section on some article: Cooper saves Laura from being murdered by BOB an by doing so he alters the reality. Judy is pissed, she tries to destroy Laura’s portrait and then she snatches Laura from Coop (he knew that was going to happen, hence the “430” advice from the Fireman). She puts Laura in another dimension, some sort of a limbo. There Laura forgets her identity (in Richard and Linda fashion) and lives there for decades, as Carrie Paige. Time in Judyverse runs differently, years there is minutes in reality. In the meantime, in the “real” world Cooper won’t cease to bring her back. He comes back in Glastonbury Grove to a timeline in which Laura never died, she disappeard. How come Diane waits for him there? No idea. They immediately drive towards the crossing with Judyverse. Diane warns Coop that everything might be different there. They kiss for the last time as Diane and Cooper. As soon as they get to the Judyverse something changes. It’s not an alternate timeline. It’s not what the real world looks like after Coop changed history. It’s Judy’s locker, Judy’s microverse, Judy’s pocket dimension. And It’s absolutely empty. Coop doesn’t act like Coop. They check in the motel. Diane sees herself. I don’t think what she sees is a tulpa. My take is that she starts to question who she is, starts to lose her identity. Sex scene feels awkward and uncomfortable because they don’t know each other anymore. Cooper wakes to a letter addressed to Richard from Linda. Diane is gone, she forgot who she was. Cooper remembers, thanks to the Giant. He’s still on the mission. Exiting motel it’s worth to notice that it’s a different building. Coop’s car is also different, he notices it too. Judyverse keeps messing with his brain. He’s alone in the universe that wants him to lose himself. He stumbles upon “Judy’s Diner”, doesn’t get excited about coffee, shoots a dude and still holding his gun tells the waiter to give him Carrie’s address (totally not what Coop would do - but it’s still him). Carrie is Laura but she doesn’t know that anymore, she lives as Carrie for decades now. Body inside her house is yet another test for Cooper. Judy tries to show him that the life Carrie has is even more violent than the one from her past life, that he made a mistake. Coop mentions Sarah, something wakes up in her but it’s not strong enough. They drive to Twin Peaks. Next 15 minutes is heavily reminiscent of Lost Highway. They slowly succumb to the Judyverse, getting deeper into the dream. By the time Coop knocks on the door, he hardly remembers who he is. With uncertainty he presents the FBI badge to Mrs Tremont. He did what he could, but ultimately lost against Judy. Or he would if it wasn’t for Laura. Ultimately - and ironically so - her suffering, her infinite pain from another lifetime is what snaps her out of the limbo. She screams when she hears Sarah (or Leland) calling her. Lights flicker, electricity crackles, Palmer house goes dark. Judyverse is destroyed, Laura finally knows who she is. Cooper did it, he brought her back. Here it is, folks. Presented to you in a truly unnerving and terrifying package is The Return. To what world Coop and Laura wake up? White Lodge? Timeline in which Laura never died? Angels in the Red Room in the end of FWWM? It’s all up to you.
ThatHauntFreak2 - great post, like that theory. The whole conversation at the end with the homeowner really reminds me of Lost Highway as well. There's something dreamlike and totally "off" about it all - the way Mrs Tremont silently "talks" to someone out of shot feels weird, both her and Coop speak in a bizarre emotionless monotone as if what they're saying is meaningless and they both know it...and the whole time Carrie remains static. Not to mention, the fact Carrie seemingly doesn't register Coop's question at all when he asks for the year...implies time no longer has any meaning in this "fake" reality.
I think what really makes this scene so terrifying and disorienting is how close we get to something like a revelation, but it just slips from our grasp. "Tremond" and "Chalfont" are both names of one of the most enigmatic, mysterious characters in the series. She also has a strong connection with Laura. We've got so many important characters gathered at such an important place, right on the verge of some big reveal, but we only get more confusion. And that's really frightening. It's like you think you're a good swimmer, so you try to swim across a pond only to suddenly get sucked out to sea. And then you realize just how small you really are and how little you actually know.
@@hopebringer2348 leave it to Dave and the Gang to leave us on info that we recognize but know nothing about beyond that they might be important. They bring it up and then BOOM, see you again in 25 years.
Terrefying?🤦♂️😂😅Even the only thing of his that at least had some appeal and was engaging to people, he managed to destroy with that dumb ridiculous pathetic pretentious incoherent pile of boring garbage 😂🤣
Yes, well put. The unease which engulfs the narrative as soon as Cooper and Diane pass into this alternate reality becomes suffocating here, as the previous owners’ names hint at the beings from the other place but baffle this alternate world’s Cooper. Without the real Cooper’s intuition, he dangles helplessly, baffled by a banal, awkward questioning. Here again the logic of a dream thwarts our desire for narrative closure. The sudden call of Sarah-echoing the beginning of the series-triggers a terrifying final scream that crosses realities and brings a surge of the woodsmen’s electrical power to plunge us all into darkness.
Watched the original show, but ‘not able to watch season 3. With absolutely no context, this scene is still fucking scary & actually gets worse every time I replay.
What I love is that the “Laura” scream is from when Sarah is calling for Laura the morning after her death. So even though Cooper saved her from that in the previous episode, its like even this version of her is being pulled back to that fate, and she’s realising she’s not supposed to be alive
One night, my friend and I decided to randomly choose a show to watch on Netflix. We chose three random numbers, closed our eyes, and moved through the menu right, down, and then left, according to the numbers we picked. We pressed play without looking. It was the first episode of Twin Peaks, and in my opinion it was a perfect way to begin watching this story. Totally blind.
It’s amazing! Blind is truly the most enjoyable! Started the pilot thinking I had chosen ‘Northern Exposure’ (thank you edibles) since it was lockdown and needed a laugh. The ride that started that April night…
This finale is worse for me. In 90' ending, the last minutes leaves the feeling of bad ending but you know why it happened (Cooper failed to escape), but this ending (of 3S) just let you think some theories (It's another world or it's the future and Laura remembers her other life or she's dreaming or/and Judy's controlling everything, don't know rly). The point is that this ending is not clear at all, It's so confussing and unexpected and, after watching It, don't know what really happened. I don't know if there will be 4th Season, i believe there won't be. I really like S3 finale (The travel to TP in last ep is like a dream, love that). Both finale for their season are managed in different ways (with diferent results) but both give really creepy vibes in the last minutes.
I think Laura suddenly remembering who she was defeated Judy and destroyed her realm. Laura never dies, therefore Judy and the other spirits never get her garmonbozia and starve.
What type of tidy ending were you expecting: There is no Disney resolution in the Twin Peaks world; there's only mystery, despair, disquietude and permanent midnight on which to hang your hat if you're in Laura Palmer's place.@@OscarGb
@@axebomber2108 I watched the return's finale on 200ug acid and when the ending credits start and we see the fading image of laura whispering into Dale's ear, me and my SO saw a devil like figure. Its eyes was crawling and spiralling in the end. It felt like the ending was produced by the evil forces or something. And Dale's eyes were darkening and flowing out of his eye sockets. The devil like figure was abstract but it was red and had a eye and a horn like forehead. My SO saw it before i told her what i was seeing, so we both saw the same thing together. It was so weird, to this day i don't know what that was but i urge others to try it and see if they will see it too. LOL.
If you keep your eyes on Laura/Carrie through the entire scene, her facial expressions, looking back and forth between Alice and Cooper, and everything she does silently, before the scream... She kind of makes the entire scene work for me. Sheryl Lee is a commanding screen presence and a very sensitive, nuanced actor.
yes, and the pauses and the confused looks of both her and Cooper reminded me of the way they acted in the Red Room. It has that same eerie vibe... yet this time it's not backwards. It's like the Red Room versions of themselves found a way outside in the real world.
Describing this scene, as if you were Carrie/Laura, is like describing a dream that slowly dissolves into a nightmare but helps make sense of the ending: You are you but you're not you. You are in your house, but maybe it's not your house. Nooses litter the front yard. There's a dead man in the house that looks familiar, like he's from a dream. An FBI agent shows up at your door and says you are not who you think you are, but he wants to help you. He is not himself either. You might have also met him in a dream long ago, yet he hasn't aged a day. He says your mother's name is Sarah. Why is that familiar? You need to leave this place so you go with the FBI man into the night. He wants to take you to your real home to meet your mother. He drives you to an empty town far away. He asks if you remember anything. You're not sure. Then he brings you to a house and takes your hand as he guides you to the door. It's your house, but it is not your house. The woman who answers the door is not your mother. No one remembers your family having ever lived here. The FBI man who is not quite himself asks what year it is. He's made a mistake. You look at the house that is not your house. You hear a terrified voice call out a name. The voice is your mother but she is not your mother. The name is your name but it is not your name. Your father raped you and killed you 25 years ago.
I think sometimes very painful childhood memories are like a jigsaw puzzle. Fragmented bits and pieces we put in a box a long time ago, with no image to let us know what the puzzle is of exactly. Years later, we find the box all dusty in the back of the closet. It seems familiar, and we know it's a puzzle, but no what of. Slowly we make progress on it. It isn't easy without a guiding image, but like with all puzzles we start with the edges and match colors until it starts to be a little more clear. We begin to realize it's an image of us. It's an image of something horrible that happened to us a long time ago that we couldn't understand or reason with or fight against, so we broke it into pieces and put it in a box and hid the box in the back of a closet hoping to forget it and hope we never find it again. Yet here it is once again. The ugly truth. The thing we tried so hard to forget that it brewed and fermented in the darkest recesses of our mind without us even realizing it.
Now that I've had several months to process this---I must say that the ending creates a tense, forlorn, unnervingly strange mood that is extremely hard to describe. It's like being hit with some very, very bad news when all you wanted to do is go home. This was a brilliant ending and one that was impossible to predict.
I’ve had a recurring nightterror since childhood that revolves around this split moment of instant realization that everything, is about to be obliterated. It’s something of that nature but so abstract it’s just a horrifying feeling of pure dread after a split moment of realization. This scene is one of the closest things I’ve ever seen that helps describe it
I had to return here, because I coincidentally watched this again this morning, to give my deepest regards to the man: rest in peace David. Thank you for everything
This last episode left me so existentialy lost, it built up so brilliant. The long driving scenes at night, the desolate shots of the town especially the Double R deserted at night, everything we loved and hoped for is gone, never existed. If existential dread exists, I felt it watching this episode.
Perfectly put. The Return, and Part 18 in particular, felt exactly like how nightmares feel. There's something familiar, but that familiarity is also very distant because something about it is twisted or missing. It's like you know there's something wrong underneath it all but on the surface it seems... fine. That existential dread from nightmares is so perfectly captured in Part 18. That warm nostalgia S1 and 2 gives us is completely gone here; it's like it never existed and was only a dream. And the long, drawn out final 10 minutes of this episode was mostly consisting of pure silence and soft talk, until that scream cut through it all like a nightmare revealing itself at last. It was brilliant, and I will never get chills agan like I got when I first watched this
@@triplewarioExactly. Laura was never killed, so Twin Peaks never existed. These are totally different characters. What year is this? 2017, and TP is just a memory. Both the show, and Laura are officially dead and buried.
This last episode and the beginning had that great serious tone that I loved in the older Lynch movies (like Lost Highway), but the goofy, partly childish humor of many other episodes ruined "The Return" for me.
@SolidWorksCAD3D I mean, there was always a lot of humor in Lynch's stuff, in the original Twin Peaks especially, but also in Blue Velvet and even in Mulholland Drive. I do think that The Return could have been improved by cutting a couple of episodes but the way I see it, a lot of the humor comes from Lynch defying viewer expectations and playing around with genre conventions. I think the last thing Lynch wanted was to turn the 3rd season into some kind of nostalgic sequel where the viewers are given exactly what they hoped for, a quirky Special Agent Cooper drinking coffee and eating pie. It must have given Lynch a kind of sadistic pleasure to turn Cooper into a bumbling idiot for most of the season and as frustrating as that arc was sometimes, I appreciate it. You never quite knew what you were going to get each episode and that's part of the excitement. I also think that many scenes are genuinely hilarious.
"If we lived today in the golden age, we would be at the end of Twin Peaks ... But we do not live there, we are in front of the Palmer house" David on the finale.... Rest in Peace Mr Lynch
Though it is frustrating to not ever have a definite answer to any Lynch film, this ending is actually pretty telling. in that for years Cooper has been obsessed by Laura and Laura has needed the Guardian from the Red room to be there for her. Here we understand that Coop and Laura will forever be the attempted savior and the tragic victim throughout time and space.
Cooper was moreso obsessed in saving Laura less freaky than the other town folk obsessions, like Laura's psychiatrist. However, Cooper will never be able to rescue the Laura Palmer from the original twin peaks universe because she's already dead and it can't be change. Cooper essentially did more harm than good taking the alternate timeline Laura to a place that isn't her home in that world. Some things are better off not knowing and unfortunately that Laura perhaps saw what happened to her in a different world.
its about a trauma wound that can't be healed. the trauma that inflicted to you would never gone even if you live on any timeline it's always be your scar
@@Vingul You're too right. The rest of the cast isn't getting any younger, either. We've already lost Warren Frost, Miguel Ferrer, Catherine Coulson, and Peggy Lipton since season 3 was filmed.
I can't believe today news. I'm watching video essays and clips from his work, as if I was going to find some closure there. Rest in peace, David. There's never been, and there will never again exist a talent like yours.
The scream and final shot of the house is the only piece of media that no matter where I am, what I'm doing, or how long its been since I've last seen it, will give me physical chills whenever I think about it. It never fails. Truly is the definition of haunting for me
Michael Scott : Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone for any reason ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been... ever, for any reason whatsoever...
notice how Mrs. Chelfont was also the name of the woman who lived in the trailer, where FBI agent Desmond disappeared from in Fire Walk With Me, which is what lead Cooper to come to Twin Peaks to investiage the Laura Palmer murder in the first place...just love it when a show goes full circle.
At first i thought the scene went dark for dramatic effect. But the lights actually go out like an electrical outage. Electricity had a role in transferring Cooper in and out of the red room.
I see people say this a lot and at least for me it's nothing like it. When I have bad nightmares there is ALWAYS a clear real life fear that is behind everything. A loved one dying, me dying, losing the ability to walk, death being infinite darkness. The nightmare is always basically one of these things having occurred, me trying change it to no luck while jumping from one setting to another with random people from my life as well as random characters I don't know being loosely involved.
@@dreigivetimpoolmassivewedg7646 I think the difference is that you're thinking of nightmares. A night terror is similar to a nightmare, except you're half awake. There is no context to the fear you experience because (this is where it gets weird) your consciousness is not directly inside the nightmare. It's halfway in, halfway out. So you experience all the terror of the nightmare, with none of the context. It usually just devolves the sensation of some kind of immediate approaching threat and frantic screaming (the person will often scream physically, not just within the dream).
What a lot of us miss here is that this is NOT the final scene. The final scene is the first scene: Dale and Laura in the lodge. Cooper is sitting in the same chair he never left . The whole thing is an infinite loop playing itself out with every possibility and incarnation manifested. This particular incarnation is extinguished when Laura screams and wakes them out of that “dream” and they are right back where they started. “Starting position”. Maybe Cooper has always been trapped in the lodge. Maybe its future, maybe its past.
I think that cooper being forever trapped is hinted at in the episode before this when his blank face is shown over top the sheriff's station scene. The scene quickly fades to black as this one did, and he says "we live inside a dream". Additionally, his blank stare in black and white reminds me of his scene in the first episode of this season, when he's trapped in the black lodge.
@@blacklisted351 Oh I forgot about that part, Cooper's head superimposed on there, yeah seems clear now he’s probably viewing events still stuck inside the Black Lodge. How horrifying!
David Lynch took what initially seemed like a typical murder mystery show and turned it into this masterpiece. He revolutionized television multiple times. Now that he's passed away, there's no doubt that this is the definitive ending of Twin Peaks. The man left us with countless questions that will remain unanswered, an eternal mystery, and we'll continue to talk about his phenomenal work. Fifty years from now, people will still be asking what really happened at the end of Twin Peaks. Rest in peace, David Lynch. Thank you for everything.
I just binged the entirety of Twin Peaks for the first time and this scene will live rent free in my head for the rest of my days. THE CONSEQUENCES OF TRYING TO DO IT ALL, COOP.
The beginning quote of Alan Wake fits perfectly with Twin Peaks, especially season 3. "Steven King once wrote that nightmares exist outside of logic and there's little fun to be had in explanations. They're antithetical to the poetry of fear. In a horror story the victim keeps asking why, but there can be no explanation and there shouldn't be one. The unanswered mystery is what stays with us the longest and is what we'll remember in the end."
I know David Lynch is all about being open for interpretation but to me this ending was actually so cool especially as a fan because that woman is the actual owner of that home so by having those two iconic characters knock on her door it’s almost like a clash between worlds. The world of twin peaks and our world. Because in our world that woman owns that home, but in the world of Twin Peaks Sarah Palmer does. So at the very end when Laura hears that scream the world merge for a second and we get to physically experience the world of Twin Peaks as if it were real. But that’s just my take.
I also think the Richard/Linda universe might be our own universe. It's definitely scary since the evil Judy and Bob do is basically just the evil we do in the world so it kind of makes it more personal. What bugs me is why she's named Chalfont. Remember in FWWM that two Chalfonts owned the trailer spot in Harry Dean Stanton's trailer park. In Laura's house, Coop asks for the two previous owners of the house and of course, the Chalfonts have two names. Maybe the ending is not as bleak and dreadful as we originally thought. Alice (which means noble) Chalfont is one of the good spirits still living on even in Judy's dimension. Yet, Sarah (or Judy) still lives on and haunts Laura (maybe Coop too for trying to save Laura) forever.
"She's gone, she's gone" Cooper travels to the real world to try to save Laura but they find that the world has moved on. Laura's gone, no one even knows who she is anymore. The scream at the end is Laura anticipating the end. The lights in the house shutting off and the mechanical sound are the television being turned off, ending her story. Forever.
That's a really nice interpretation actually, that they've travelled to the future (it looks modern enough) and no one actually knows who Laura is anymore, nor cares. Laura was living on as a phantom, in the people of Twin Peaks' hearts and dreams, because they remembered and cared. Here, she is forgotten, and thus dies at the end of the series.
wrong. lynch has publicly stated that the ending was meant as a cliffhanger, and that nothing was over. but with half the cast dead within a few years and everybody else getting on, it doesn't look like we'll ever know what would have happened. or maybe we will.
In The Missing Pieces, which Lynch worked on right before making this series, Jeffries looks at Gordon's calendar and goes "February... 1989?" I think the implication is that Cooper might become hopelessly lost like Jeffries before him, but we will probably never know.
Honestly it's such an underrated horror scene. The sheer terror in that scream coupled with the sudden lights turning off and distant voice "Laura" convey a really deep sense of dread.
@@smellypatel5272 I think the key to its success is how vividly it invokes a bad dream. You think you’re in control and everything makes sense, then the world flips on it’s head and you have no context for it. The end of this episode makes me feel that loss of control in a nightmare just before you wake up with a beating heart.
@@lewiskazinsky7334 Yeah... so many things are off. From the moment Cooper wakes up from that coma, things become more and more dreamlike. First, the completely mundane and forgettable line about needing Bushnell's gun... except for the fact that if you think about it, he couldn't have seen it through the coat... especially in a coma and especially because that's an unexpected thing to be let into a hospital (showing that things aren't quite the way they would happen in reality)... then the "happy ending" scene with all the hugs and Bob dead and Cooper seeing Diane again finally, but with Cooper's quiet, still, contemplating, and in shock face superimposed ontop of the entire scene (showing that he's only a witness to this whole resolution to things and can't quite reach the people he loves, like it's only the meer idea of his deepest desire), and the clock in that scene glitching out (ever tried to read the time, or words in a dream and find that it keeps changing and you only subconsciously understand what it means?), then the fact that he already somehow knew the hotel room key would fit the storage closet door of all places for some reason... (showing that his decisions aren't conscious ones), then the fact that no matter what he did and how many times he stared back at Laura, she still managed to disappear right before his eyes (in most dreams, doing even the simplest of tasks can be almost impossible... running to safety, getting what you want, whether it be a piece of info, or a physical object), then Diane going missing and him just casually driving away and no mention of her thought the rest of the episode (big themes tend to just vaguely disappear in dreams), and the old, rundown motel becoming a more expensive hotel overnight/his car being different (ideas tend to blend to create new realities and themes and big changes often go without notice), then finally finding "Laura Palmer", it's not quite her but there are still traces of her reality and self present (people, places, and ideas tend to become randomized and mixed with new ideas), and finally... the terrified-shock and confusion about the simplest idea, time...: "What year is this?"... (nightmares/fever dreams can be extremely disorienting and anxiety inducing... and mess with your sense of reality, even after it's over) and the terrified scream along with the power in the entire house and even whole neighborhood going out. The realization that something is terribly not right here, that these events aren't only not what they seem... but in fact, aren't really happening. It's just the pure terror of imagination, of our powerful mind, of a spiritual evil... trying with all it's might to snatch our innocence, to suck out all the joy within us, and to just excruciatingly break the shell that's left of our soul... and then we wake.
Every time I watch this, I get chills all over my body. For me, this is the most beautiful scene I have ever seen. I am completely in love with David Lynch’s world. I intimately relate to all of its sounds, colours, moods and vibrations. They look very familiar to me, like a far and lost memory that subconsciously triggers my emotions and feelings. The house, the voice, the lights, the scream. I get it, I feel it, I remember it.
I am not sure it's possible to explain *why* the still image of well lit suburban home at night set to ambient reverb'd bass drone makes me feel half a dozen strong emotions at the same time, but it definitely makes me feel half a dozen strong emotions at the same time.
I think we all understand it but we just can't articulate it. It's like if someone asks you what it means to be human. That ending is amazing to me. Crazy how a show can make you care so much about a dead girl, I mean she's dead the ENTIRE show..but the show also goes deep into where life begins and ends or if it ever really ends at all.
@@youdbettertube I doubt she minded being brought there, coz after all she did have a dead guy with a bullet in his head and an assault rifle on the floor 😂
The very moment you hear Chalfont mentioned , your brain does an internal "oh dear". And then just wait for the miniscule mic pick up of "Laura?" and imagine that fan. Absolute genius
@@omegamanGXE The Chalfonts were another name used by the Tremonds. The Tremonds/Chalfonts were an old lady and her grandson who were also Lodge entities. They were the ones on Laura's Meals on Wheels route who mysteriously disappeared as another "Mrs. Tremond" took their place while Donna was working Laura's route.
laura's moving on...and cooper stops, turns around, stands in the street. laura can't move on. cooper won't let her. it's always the past. it's all about undoing trauma, never dealing with it. "what year is this?"
Laura can't move on and Lynch came back to possibly posit that we, as fans, can't move on and deal with the trauma of not having neat and tidy answers to the mysteries the show left all those years ago. "What year is this?" could be a statement about fans yearning for answers to something long since ended...almost in an insincere way like "People are still talking about this show and wanting to know how it 'ends?'...what year is this!?!"
Laura must die. The cycle must be broken so that the original Twin Peaks universe can go on as it should. "You're dead, Laura, but your problems keep hanging around! It's almost as if they didn't bury you deep enough!"
Revisiting this season in honor of Daivd Lynch. I remember originally being pissed off by the ending like "oh ANOTHER cliffhanger" but I now think this was the perfect ending to the show. Also it's genuinely terrifying
They're in our reality... That's why the real owner is at the door. That's why Audrey wants to know where Billy is (Billy Zane,) and that's why they announced "Audrey's Dance" as "Audrey's Dance" which is the name of the song in real life. It doesn't make sense, but then again, it does. They broke through the fourth wall and now they're stuck beyond the fourth wall.
No way. Tremond? Chalfont? They’re in the world of TP. There is no fourth wall “our reality” stuff in TP - there is meta stuff but the fourth wall is never broken.
I think the implication is that our real world is a pocket universe created to trap an evil entity. We are in the show...unfortunately its the dark reality we see in episode 18. When Laura screams the nightmare ends for them but we are left here, stranded.
Cooper being left so lost and confused after everything leaves such a pit in my stomach. And Sheryl's scream. It's like a part of Laura woke up inside her after hearing her mom calling from the house. And Laura being woken up into this different world causes it to implode on itself. Ugh. This scene is such a true existential horror.
honestly, rewatching the scream, it begins as the usual terror, but ends with anger. like she's finally letting it out after all these years and she's destroying her ties one last time to her trauma.
I love it when Laura blinks and looks up and then screams. Its the same as when Dale as " Dougie" hears Gordons name on TV and then wakes up a bit! I dont think it matters so much as what year it is as to Laura waking up and remembering the horror!
IMO the "surgery" scene in Eraserhead, the diner scene in Mulholland Drive and several parts of Inland Empire are scarier. This scene is definitely up there, though.
i once had a dream where i was little, in which i was on my way from the lakeside to my family's cottage, to which lead a completely straight path. you could see the house from the distance, with its patio and distinguishable green roof. it was a cold november evening, you could feel the summer had deceased and there are only grey days ahead of you. the sun was very low and the skies were crystal clear. the setting sun didn't feel like a wonder of nature, more like a prelude to the primal fear of the dark. the atmosphere in the village i knew so well was very eerie, the only sound i could hear was a slight breeze coming from the lake. it felt very foreign. as i was slowly coming towards the house i noticed smoke coming out of the chimney. i crossed the road and finally stood by the gate. suddenly i realised it isn't my family's house. and i was a little kid, standing in an empty village by the lake in the middle of nowhere, as the darkness was getting ready to swallow me i felt the same feeling of dread and emptiness once again just 5 minutes ago when i saw this scene. incredibly dreamlike. just too powerful
Fun fact, the woman who answers the door is the actual owner of that house. There’s some other evidence to suggest this new dimension of sorts is the real world
That is the best theory I know, by going back and undoing Laura's death, they literally wiped their universe out of existence. It is a meta story telling but no more weirder than any other Lynch's work. While Laura remembers all the events and screams in agony and Cooper is confused, he probably will never understand what happened.
I really love when they walk away from the house and Cooper turns around and starts to walk back like he's suddenly had a Holmes-esque epiphany and is about to say something that cracks the whole thing open... and then he asks what year it is. Feels like his mind has been turned off
RIP David Lynch. I just discovered Twin Peaks this year. I am 42 years old. It was shocking to me to see Dale Cooper ride into Twin Peaks on February 24th - my birthday.
I just remembered from the first 2 seasons that Laura let herself be killed to end her suffering. And now in season 3, Cooper brought Laura back to the root of her trauma.
I’ve seen few people point this out, but the way Cooper looks at Carrie is a mix of fear but also realization. That scream belongs to Laura Palmer and Cooper just realized that wherever or whenever they are, he in fact brought Laura back, just that maybe it wasn’t for good.
Rest in peace, David Lynch 🙏 This is the final scene of Twin Peaks, and after coming to grips with this being the ending, I have to say it's bone-chilling and quintessential David Lynch. The depths of the human capacity for goodness are present throughout this series. This scene, however, shows the complete opposite. The veneer is ripped off, and we are left in the lurch, completely consumed by the primordial darkness.
What I love about David Lynch - it looked like things were getting VERY neatly wrapped up - literally end-of-Wizard-of-Oz, fairy-tale style in the sheriff's station - and then Cooper goes back in time, changes history, gets dropped in f'n Odessa TX, and the rug gets pulled out from under us with a Chalfont/Tremond house flickering its lights.
@@youdbettertube Laura and Cooper never met before he time jumped in his mistaken(imo) attempt to rescue her. "Carrie Page" would have no reason to know who he is.
I want to get a happy ending with Laura being happy and smiling and making friends with Cooper, can you tell me how do I get that from this? All I can get that the world is surreal, time is not working, the magician kid's grandma was the original owner of the house and Laura is hearing her mom which makes her horrified. So the entire thing is probably a nightmare or a vision and they are both stuck in the red room.
This “reality” in the show, is the dream, and the dream is trying to solve and remember our unresolved trauma, for all of us. And when you can’t remember what actually happened, it would feel like this to re remember it. Lynch is a genius.
2025 A Sad Year Losing David Lynch! He's inspired me greatly as a filmmaker! This last moment of Twin Peaks: Season 3 is chilling and leaves you wanting more! I'm deeply grateful I had an opportunity to meet Mr. Lynch in person and tell him how much his work has meant to me!
just finished all of twin peaks and after watching this i just sobbed. i wasn't even sad, i was hopeless. confused, unsettled, and hopeless. it's literally the only show i've ever watched to elicit such a devastating, guttural feeling of loss in me.
Me and a few friends had gathered every week to watch the latest episode. On the night the finale aired we baked a cherry pie. I cannot begin to express how stressed I was when I realized that there were just a few minutes left. I was shocked by the ending, in the best way. I couldn’t wrap my mind around it and yet I found it to be utterly sublime. Horrific, but masterful. It’s one of the scariest scenes in Lynch’s canon, and also one of the most depressing because Cooper failed. We almost never see films or shows where the character fails at the end, where all hope is suddenly lost and then BOOM that’s it, it’s over. In my mind it solidified The Return as a groundbreaking masterpiece in its own right that has the potential to (once again) change television (and specifically revivals) as we know it.
Did Cooper fail, though? Everything going dark seems to connote that some alternate universe/timeline collapsed, and this seems to have been hinged upon Dale prodding Laura to recall her former life.
@@MarcEsadrian so i think Cooper definitely failed in the sense that despite trying, he could not cure Twin Peaks of the evil under its surface, nor could he save Laura. and Laura could not survive or reconcile her duality. BUT, and this is important, they both failed nobly as forces of good. the finale follows Cooper on two failed missions to save Laura (and the town). no matter how hard Cooper tries, Laura’s story in every universe is destined to be tragic. i think this could certainly all be Judy’s doing (that biatch) but i also think the message is that you cannot go back. you cannot undo the past (in a way this is also a commentary on revivals, right, because all the worst revivals try to recreate and recapture the feeling of the original, and Twin Peaks did the opposite by rejecting nostalgia). even in an alternate timeline, Laura Palmer would have had a tragic life. her fate is sealed and Cooper couldn’t undo it. but i still think there’s an optimistic angle here: evil sometimes does triumph in the end (something we almost never see portrayed in cinema), but good always endures, and never gives up. just because Cooper will continue to fail in future attempts to save Laura, that doesn’t mean he won’t keep trying to. and good sometimes triumphs too. just not in the case of Laura Palmer. the main theme of Twin Peaks is that evil is unavoidable, but good (and good people like Dale Cooper) always perseveres. there will always be people like Dale Cooper to stand against evil when it rears its ugly head.
@@gonzothecat5901 there are numerous ways in which the series was groundbreaking. but one of the most significant was its structure. in addition to the fact that non-narrative surrealism as a genre is almost never explored on a platform designed for mass consumption (television), and the fact that in the end, for now, evil prevails and the main character fails, the way the series blurs the line between film and TV (structurally/narratively speaking) is totally unique to the medium. Rolling Stone wrote a really great article about this subject and I’ll link it below. “… It’s worth digging deeper than the obvious ways in which the season broke ground: its wild shifts in mood and style, its avant-garde editing and effects, the atom bomb of an hour that was Episode Eight. Crucial to the show’s success was Lynch and Frost’s insistence that it wasn’t a TV show at all, but a film. This isn’t just about treating the season as “one film broken into 18 parts,” as Lynch put it, though that’s a welcome rejoinder to the voguish notion that any showrunner who thinks of their series in these terms is a pretentious doofus. Good television, like good cinema, can be made in any number of ways; Twin Peaks Season Three will become a textbook example of how a truly movie-like approach can pay off… particularly in its final episodes, the Return relies on a recursive, Möbius-strip structure, in which events echo and loop rather than proceed in straightforward fashion; these repetitions and reflections are distorted and gap-ridden enough, however, to keep the pattern intoxicatingly opaque.” in the way the original series broke ground by mixing genres, using television to tell one long extended story, and constantly upsetting audience expectations, this new series broke new ground by functioning as an 18-hour film. it also specifically broke new ground with regard to television revivals: rather than attempt to recapture its former glory, Twin Peaks: The Return did something totally new. it challenges the audience to alter their expectations for what a TV series should be, esp a revival. instead of attempting to recapture the magic of the original, it is a subversion of a series revival, basically forcing us to let go of the past and get used to something totally alien. it’s rejection of nostalgia is unique to revivals. it’s never been done before, but this is Lynch, so of course he refused to pander to audience expectations. i think we have to wait a bit before we see shows that take a page out of Twin Peaks’ book, though i would argue that “And Just Like That…”, as different a show as it might be, ran with the idea of making the revival completely different from SATC, to mixed effect for that show. time will tell how that method works for other shows. www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/why-twin-peaks-the-return-was-the-most-groundbreaking-tv-series-ever-115665/amp/
I will never, ever forget the night I watched this. Joined by a bunch of friends, coffee and cherry pie on the table, the penultimate episode was one satisfying payoff after the other. And then.. this scene. I looked at the clock and noticed that the episode had roughly one minute left. Laura screams, lights out, credits roll, and we were all just completely silent and *stunned*. Masterful.
SAME. Me and a few friends had gathered every week to watch the latest episode. On the night the finale aired we baked a cherry pie. I cannot begin to express how stressed I was when I realized that there were just a few minutes left. I was shocked by the ending, in the best way. I couldn’t wrap my mind around it and yet I found it to be utterly sublime. Horrific, but masterful. It’s one of the scariest scenes in Lynch’s canon, and also one of the most depressing because Cooper failed. We almost never see films or shows where the character fails at the end, where hope is suddenly lost. It solidified The Return as a masterpiece in its own right and changed television again.
@@sethd6485io bro sono al nono episodio prima stagione e credo sia stata Josie Parker con la complicità di suo cugino ad uccidere Laura Palmer e anche Hank😊
Oddly enough this is one of the most dream-like scenes in the series. Unlike the scenes in the Black Lodge for instance, where everything is very outwardly bizarre, everything about this scene is off in such a subtle way that you feel a growing sense of dread without really even knowing why.
It's clearly off because the last episode takes place within a tulpa or dream realm or whatever. This is where the pieces come together and they attempt to lure Judy into the trap.
And like most nightmares (or at least most of mine), it ends with a scream.
@KinziruOnoroi also the unnatural pauses between each line in the dialogue, and how everything aside from them and the house feels empty, dark, and lifeless
@@rickyricardo9710 I think the pacing of the dialogue here actually feels a lot like Lynch's "Rabbits" for that exact reason.
It's funny, it's very dream-like...but everything about the setting has changed. It's stark, cold, almost clinical. It feels very much like the "cinema" has been drained out of it. It's my contention that they have left the "dream world" of Twin Peaks and found themselves in our reality, the reality in which Twin Peaks was created as a fictional television show. I think they're realizing in that moment that they're fictional, and in doing so, like waking from a dream, they cease to be. Laura Palmer, that character who lived and died and continued on in that fictional world, heard the faintest last whisper of the dream before the dreamer woke up and they were all gone.
Nothing can match the stress I had when I checked the time on this episode and saw only 4 minutes left
especially the scene where they're just driving in the car, i was like "PLEASE SOMETHING HAS TO HAPPEN BEFORE THIS IS OVER"
@@CanalFMTV That was so painful
@@joelatino3748 at least something happened, we just don't know what it was yet 😅
I felt nauseous the entire time, and then it ended and I was like REALLY. I'm too smoothbrain for this show
im sure that final gave me permanent brain damage
This is officially the ending of twin peaks and the last thing David Lynch ever directed. Unbelievable. Transcendental
There is that short film on Netflix that he directed a couple of years ago. I'll have to finally watch it. A legend.
@@johnbook5545 Well, we could say this was his last movie.
@@johnbook5545The monkey doesn't count lol.
This is his final work
I've always felt that this ending is Dale Cooper and Amanda Palmer entering into our world. They've left their "dream world" of Twin Peaks and entered the reality in which Twin Peaks was created. I don't know what the final ending means...but I think it's something to do with these universes colliding.
@@MatsThyWitI think that's pretty accurate. The lady that's in the house is the actual irl owner of the Palmer house. Further cementing the idea that this is our reality, and Dale & Laura are now in our reality and not the reality of Twin Peaks.
Further clue is that the current owners bought the house from someone who wasn't the Palmers. Because in this reality they don't exist.
Rest in Peace David Lynch one of the most bone chilling scenes to ever be broadcast on tv
I watched that episode with the lights off. Scared the s**t out of me.
Agree one of the most chilling scenes ever.
@@edwardhannah8507I watched part 8 in the dark at 2am while it was foggy outside
Twin Peaks S3 was a miracle to happen at all, much less in the shape that it did. It’s an artistic anomaly in a sea of media that is almost banal by comparison. Nothing that strange has ever aired on modern television and frankly, it probably never will again, the way we’re heading.
@Kerunou Too bad you needed an interpreter to figure out the symbolism......but yeah......he knew how to cast, shoot an angle, and cover a story. Much of the hidden stuff was beyond 95% of the viewers who wanted to stare at Sheryl Fenn's tight sweater.
Nobody in the history of cinema has a scream like Sheryl Lee. She is a powerhouse and deserved a better career.
that scream is everything, patricia arquette is good too
No need to talk about her like a 3 legged dog
@@lucassaykitfoo That's tragic and all, but....
@@pinealdreams1064 there's no but to that
@@lucassaykitfoo ❤️
This really is the end of it. Rest in peace to a legend
Do you prefer McDonald's or Burger King?
@@HOTD108_mangio meglio a casa mia🤪😃🤣
I haven’t yet come to terms with the fact that he’s not here anymore. It’s so hard. He was the best filmmaker.
💔💔💔
I watched his UA-cam channel every day and left a comment. I've tried to write something to my friends in out little Weather Report community, but I can't stop crying. RIP DAVID with blue skies & Golden sunshine alllll along the way🌼
From what he said about Angelo Badalamenti, I think if he was able to say something about being dead he'd probably say he never went anywhere and never will.
It's hard to think that he isn't somewhere dreaming up things right now, so I hope he's right.
Its so crazy to see how coop feels in this scene. All throughout the show, he always had a plan, whether he had a dream show him the next step, the giant, mike, etc. he always knew that something came next.
But in this final scene, he genuinely looks distraught that he doesnt know what to do.
Cause, i think, in this reality coop is not coop. He is a bit Dougie, a bit Mr.C, a bit Dale. This is the alienating fact
@@antonioavitabile9957I don't think of him being a mix of those characters. I see this as the real Kyle McLaughlin acting as Dale, believing he's Dale, but being in the real world. On his travels before and after finding Carrie, we see tons of real brands like the gas station. Then there's the fact that this house they pull up to has the real life owner at the door instead of Sarah Palmer. It's like the actors lived a dream that they're these characters and now they're awake in the real world but still believing they're in their dream world. I also believe the real dreamer is Cooper/Kyle because he seems present while Carrie is just another character/actress, unaware of whatever Dale is talking about until the end when the dream for her crosses over into her reality, and all the horrors of Laura's fate come flooding into her mind all at once upon staring at the house and hearing Sarah call her.
@@darkl3ad3r Slight wrench in the theory. The previous owners were names of the people from the black lodge. Implying this is Judy speaking through them as well.
I feel so sad for Coop
@@darkl3ad3rThat's stupid...😂
I love the way this season didn't do any nostalgia and just sent things further.
calabiyou
Well, there's a few bits of nostalgia, and they're so rare they're really impactful, but yeah, this season was basically "we have a story to tell without caring about what you want, fuck your nostalgia"
... And that's not a bad thing. I actually love it. Lynch and Frost continued the story without caring so hard about what people expected and wanted from this. They had a vision and stuck to it, and it's better because of that. I hate it when old things are revived to just feed off of nostalgia and make more money. This show did the opposite of that and it's amazing.
You can't go home again.
Strange because that is exactly what I hated about it. Loved the ending though.
calabiyou
I like how it went outside of Twin Peaks which Seasons 1 & 2 didn't do. I found Season 3 the best.
The lady at the door, Mary Reber, is the real life owner of that house in Everett, WA, and she gives tours to Twin Peaks fans who reach out to her on Instagram. I went recently and she's a really nice lady who has all sorts of cool stories from when they were shooting at her house.
That’s sweet
This may be a clue to saying that we are seeing the real actors of Laura and Dale in the end
Having seen the whole series, I couldn't live in that house...
@@PedroLuiz-os2ec Considering what happened to "Audrey", this is a very solid theory/idea.
Clear of that breaking bad woman
Dale asking " What year is this ?" Breaks the final thread of time and space as Laura noticed she doesn't even know what year she's currently in.
Dale asking that question and Laura realizing her life as Carrie isn't real, is like when you notice you're in a dream and the dream suddenly collapses.
No, she does know, she just pities him.
off course, she doesn't know anything...
What I love about the line it's that it was the first logical question the audience are probably thinking about. And then without a warning it just goes dark
@@bearserk4151 exactly
The final moments of this scene will undoubtedly haunt me till my dying day.
No, he's right. I've been haunted by it since I saw it. It's a terrifying scene that encompasses all that is Twin Peaks.
Red Daikini yeah it makes me so anxious every time, like this dread that I can't avoid. Very off
Got this off a comment section on some article:
Cooper saves Laura from being murdered by BOB an by doing so he alters the reality. Judy is pissed, she tries to destroy Laura’s portrait and then she snatches Laura from Coop (he knew that was going to happen, hence the “430” advice from the Fireman). She puts Laura in another dimension, some sort of a limbo. There Laura forgets her identity (in Richard and Linda fashion) and lives there for decades, as Carrie Paige. Time in Judyverse runs differently, years there is minutes in reality.
In the meantime, in the “real” world Cooper won’t cease to bring her back. He comes back in Glastonbury Grove to a timeline in which Laura never died, she disappeard. How come Diane waits for him there? No idea. They immediately drive towards the crossing with Judyverse. Diane warns Coop that everything might be different there. They kiss for the last time as Diane and Cooper.
As soon as they get to the Judyverse something changes. It’s not an alternate timeline. It’s not what the real world looks like after Coop changed history. It’s Judy’s locker, Judy’s microverse, Judy’s pocket dimension. And It’s absolutely empty. Coop doesn’t act like Coop. They check in the motel. Diane sees herself. I don’t think what she sees is a tulpa. My take is that she starts to question who she is, starts to lose her identity. Sex scene feels awkward and uncomfortable because they don’t know each other anymore. Cooper wakes to a letter addressed to Richard from Linda. Diane is gone, she forgot who she was.
Cooper remembers, thanks to the Giant. He’s still on the mission. Exiting motel it’s worth to notice that it’s a different building. Coop’s car is also different, he notices it too. Judyverse keeps messing with his brain. He’s alone in the universe that wants him to lose himself. He stumbles upon “Judy’s Diner”, doesn’t get excited about coffee, shoots a dude and still holding his gun tells the waiter to give him Carrie’s address (totally not what Coop would do - but it’s still him).
Carrie is Laura but she doesn’t know that anymore, she lives as Carrie for decades now. Body inside her house is yet another test for Cooper. Judy tries to show him that the life Carrie has is even more violent than the one from her past life, that he made a mistake. Coop mentions Sarah, something wakes up in her but it’s not strong enough.
They drive to Twin Peaks. Next 15 minutes is heavily reminiscent of Lost Highway. They slowly succumb to the Judyverse, getting deeper into the dream. By the time Coop knocks on the door, he hardly remembers who he is. With uncertainty he presents the FBI badge to Mrs Tremont. He did what he could, but ultimately lost against Judy. Or he would if it wasn’t for Laura. Ultimately - and ironically so - her suffering, her infinite pain from another lifetime is what snaps her out of the limbo. She screams when she hears Sarah (or Leland) calling her. Lights flicker, electricity crackles, Palmer house goes dark. Judyverse is destroyed, Laura finally knows who she is. Cooper did it, he brought her back.
Here it is, folks.
Presented to you in a truly unnerving and terrifying package is The Return. To what world Coop and Laura wake up? White Lodge? Timeline in which Laura never died? Angels in the Red Room in the end of FWWM? It’s all up to you.
Starts out as a simple murder whodunit turns into a cosmic nightmare
ThatHauntFreak2 - great post, like that theory.
The whole conversation at the end with the homeowner really reminds me of Lost Highway as well. There's something dreamlike and totally "off" about it all - the way Mrs Tremont silently "talks" to someone out of shot feels weird, both her and Coop speak in a bizarre emotionless monotone as if what they're saying is meaningless and they both know it...and the whole time Carrie remains static.
Not to mention, the fact Carrie seemingly doesn't register Coop's question at all when he asks for the year...implies time no longer has any meaning in this "fake" reality.
I think what really makes this scene so terrifying and disorienting is how close we get to something like a revelation, but it just slips from our grasp. "Tremond" and "Chalfont" are both names of one of the most enigmatic, mysterious characters in the series. She also has a strong connection with Laura. We've got so many important characters gathered at such an important place, right on the verge of some big reveal, but we only get more confusion. And that's really frightening.
It's like you think you're a good swimmer, so you try to swim across a pond only to suddenly get sucked out to sea. And then you realize just how small you really are and how little you actually know.
That’s exactly what it felt like. I couldn’t have articulated it better
@@hopebringer2348 leave it to Dave and the Gang to leave us on info that we recognize but know nothing about beyond that they might be important. They bring it up and then BOOM, see you again in 25 years.
Hell yeah.
Terrefying?🤦♂️😂😅Even the only thing of his that at least had some appeal and was engaging to people, he managed to destroy with that dumb ridiculous pathetic pretentious incoherent pile of boring garbage 😂🤣
Yes, well put. The unease which engulfs the narrative as soon as Cooper and Diane pass into this alternate reality becomes suffocating here, as the previous owners’ names hint at the beings from the other place but baffle this alternate world’s Cooper. Without the real Cooper’s intuition, he dangles helplessly, baffled by a banal, awkward questioning. Here again the logic of a dream thwarts our desire for narrative closure. The sudden call of Sarah-echoing the beginning of the series-triggers a terrifying final scream that crosses realities and brings a surge of the woodsmen’s electrical power to plunge us all into darkness.
This ending reflects how I feel about his death. It's already happened, you can't return to the past, but you really really want to...
"Brilliant. I have absolutely no idea what's going on." - Homer Simpson
That haunting “Lauuraaaa” gets me every time, watching this is like living in a real life nightmare
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I recently started the series over and during the first episode when you hear that “Lauraaa!” it’s chilling.
@@HauntFreak13 Wait, first episode? When do we hear that in the first one? I must have missed it.
@@snuke37
After Sara calls for Laura and says “I’m not gonna call again..... yes, I am....”
We live inside a dream
@@snuke37 It's not the same "Laura!" I'm just comparing them right now hahah
The timings of the pauses between when people speak really make this scene…so unsettlingly good
Lynch is a master at pacing dialogue. Always makes his shows/movies feel like they're taking place in a dream.
This scene left me with an unsettled feeling for a few days.
@greenlantern699 better if you see the entire serie bro, is worthy
Watched the original show, but ‘not able to watch season 3. With absolutely no context, this scene is still fucking scary & actually gets worse every time I replay.
Same, I had to come back and HOPE to find closure but I’m suffering
We all live in a dream
A few years..
What I love is that the “Laura” scream is from when Sarah is calling for Laura the morning after her death. So even though Cooper saved her from that in the previous episode, its like even this version of her is being pulled back to that fate, and she’s realising she’s not supposed to be alive
jesus christ, what a cold ending
yes, God my blood ran cold the first time I heard that.
One night, my friend and I decided to randomly choose a show to watch on Netflix. We chose three random numbers, closed our eyes, and moved through the menu right, down, and then left, according to the numbers we picked. We pressed play without looking. It was the first episode of Twin Peaks, and in my opinion it was a perfect way to begin watching this story. Totally blind.
I just now realized that's Mrs. Tremont living in her house.
That’s beautiful
best way to go into anything art related
Kinda like the Tibet method where Cooper throws rock and lets his subconscious decide what person to explore
It’s amazing! Blind is truly the most enjoyable! Started the pilot thinking I had chosen ‘Northern Exposure’ (thank you edibles) since it was lockdown and needed a laugh. The ride that started that April night…
Now I know how people felt when season 2 ended.
yea they waiting a long time just to be left in the same place all over again
I think it is worse lol
This finale is worse for me. In 90' ending, the last minutes leaves the feeling of bad ending but you know why it happened (Cooper failed to escape), but this ending (of 3S) just let you think some theories (It's another world or it's the future and Laura remembers her other life or she's dreaming or/and Judy's controlling everything, don't know rly). The point is that this ending is not clear at all, It's so confussing and unexpected and, after watching It, don't know what really happened. I don't know if there will be 4th Season, i believe there won't be.
I really like S3 finale (The travel to TP in last ep is like a dream, love that). Both finale for their season are managed in different ways (with diferent results) but both give really creepy vibes in the last minutes.
I think Laura suddenly remembering who she was defeated Judy and destroyed her realm. Laura never dies, therefore Judy and the other spirits never get her garmonbozia and starve.
What type of tidy ending were you expecting: There is no Disney resolution in the Twin Peaks world; there's only mystery, despair, disquietude and permanent midnight on which to hang your hat if you're in Laura Palmer's place.@@OscarGb
It's like two super-fans going to a house they know from a TV show, and discovering real people live there.
Isnt the woman in this scene the actual owner of the house?
@@blacklisted351 I heard that somewhere. Fascinating.
@@blacklisted351 They crossed over to our reality
@@axebomber2108 I watched the return's finale on 200ug acid and when the ending credits start and we see the fading image of laura whispering into Dale's ear, me and my SO saw a devil like figure. Its eyes was crawling and spiralling in the end. It felt like the ending was produced by the evil forces or something. And Dale's eyes were darkening and flowing out of his eye sockets. The devil like figure was abstract but it was red and had a eye and a horn like forehead. My SO saw it before i told her what i was seeing, so we both saw the same thing together. It was so weird, to this day i don't know what that was but i urge others to try it and see if they will see it too. LOL.
@@axebomber2108no they didnt
If you keep your eyes on Laura/Carrie through the entire scene, her facial expressions, looking back and forth between Alice and Cooper, and everything she does silently, before the scream... She kind of makes the entire scene work for me. Sheryl Lee is a commanding screen presence and a very sensitive, nuanced actor.
You can hear Sarah yelling out Laura's name before she starts screaming
There's something wrong with the expressions and the blinking right ?
yes, and the pauses and the confused looks of both her and Cooper reminded me of the way they acted in the Red Room. It has that same eerie vibe... yet this time it's not backwards. It's like the Red Room versions of themselves found a way outside in the real world.
@@kitgusto2390 I reckon that's when everything comes back and she realises she's Laura and all that she went through....that scream is amazing...
@@juckjolly couldn't of said it better ✌️
I couldn’t think of a more poignant, haunting and perfect final scene to be the last that David ever created. RIP 🕊️
Describing this scene, as if you were Carrie/Laura, is like describing a dream that slowly dissolves into a nightmare but helps make sense of the ending:
You are you but you're not you. You are in your house, but maybe it's not your house. Nooses litter the front yard. There's a dead man in the house that looks familiar, like he's from a dream. An FBI agent shows up at your door and says you are not who you think you are, but he wants to help you. He is not himself either.
You might have also met him in a dream long ago, yet he hasn't aged a day.
He says your mother's name is Sarah. Why is that familiar? You need to leave this place so you go with the FBI man into the night. He wants to take you to your real home to meet your mother.
He drives you to an empty town far away. He asks if you remember anything. You're not sure.
Then he brings you to a house and takes your hand as he guides you to the door.
It's your house, but it is not your house. The woman who answers the door is not your mother. No one remembers your family having ever lived here.
The FBI man who is not quite himself asks what year it is. He's made a mistake.
You look at the house that is not your house. You hear a terrified voice call out a name.
The voice is your mother but she is not your mother. The name is your name but it is not your name.
Your father raped you and killed you 25 years ago.
This is one of the best comments I've ever seen on UA-cam. It gave me chills all over my whole body. Fucking brilliant!
This is a great take.
You’re a talented writer. Keep writing
I think sometimes very painful childhood memories are like a jigsaw puzzle. Fragmented bits and pieces we put in a box a long time ago, with no image to let us know what the puzzle is of exactly. Years later, we find the box all dusty in the back of the closet. It seems familiar, and we know it's a puzzle, but no what of.
Slowly we make progress on it. It isn't easy without a guiding image, but like with all puzzles we start with the edges and match colors until it starts to be a little more clear.
We begin to realize it's an image of us. It's an image of something horrible that happened to us a long time ago that we couldn't understand or reason with or fight against, so we broke it into pieces and put it in a box and hid the box in the back of a closet hoping to forget it and hope we never find it again. Yet here it is once again. The ugly truth. The thing we tried so hard to forget that it brewed and fermented in the darkest recesses of our mind without us even realizing it.
You’re not a talented writer. Stop writing
Now that I've had several months to process this---I must say that the ending creates a tense, forlorn, unnervingly strange mood that is extremely hard to describe. It's like being hit with some very, very bad news when all you wanted to do is go home. This was a brilliant ending and one that was impossible to predict.
The entire episode reeks of sleep deprivation
Dan S Fuck is your problem.
@@ericalexander6829 this comment is brilliant
@@skoozeblood ignore the meaningless trolls
I’ve had a recurring nightterror since childhood that revolves around this split moment of instant realization that everything, is about to be obliterated. It’s something of that nature but so abstract it’s just a horrifying feeling of pure dread after a split moment of realization. This scene is one of the closest things I’ve ever seen that helps describe it
I had to return here, because I coincidentally watched this again this morning, to give my deepest regards to the man: rest in peace David. Thank you for everything
So this really was the end of Twin Peaks. R.I.P. My favourite director and my favourite series.
This last episode left me so existentialy lost, it built up so brilliant. The long driving scenes at night, the desolate shots of the town especially the Double R deserted at night, everything we loved and hoped for is gone, never existed. If existential dread exists, I felt it watching this episode.
Perfectly put. The Return, and Part 18 in particular, felt exactly like how nightmares feel. There's something familiar, but that familiarity is also very distant because something about it is twisted or missing. It's like you know there's something wrong underneath it all but on the surface it seems... fine. That existential dread from nightmares is so perfectly captured in Part 18. That warm nostalgia S1 and 2 gives us is completely gone here; it's like it never existed and was only a dream. And the long, drawn out final 10 minutes of this episode was mostly consisting of pure silence and soft talk, until that scream cut through it all like a nightmare revealing itself at last. It was brilliant, and I will never get chills agan like I got when I first watched this
@@triplewarioExactly. Laura was never killed, so Twin Peaks never existed. These are totally different characters. What year is this? 2017, and TP is just a memory. Both the show, and Laura are officially dead and buried.
This last episode and the beginning had that great serious tone that I loved in the older Lynch movies (like Lost Highway), but the goofy, partly childish humor of many other episodes ruined "The Return" for me.
@SolidWorksCAD3D I mean, there was always a lot of humor in Lynch's stuff, in the original Twin Peaks especially, but also in Blue Velvet and even in Mulholland Drive. I do think that The Return could have been improved by cutting a couple of episodes but the way I see it, a lot of the humor comes from Lynch defying viewer expectations and playing around with genre conventions. I think the last thing Lynch wanted was to turn the 3rd season into some kind of nostalgic sequel where the viewers are given exactly what they hoped for, a quirky Special Agent Cooper drinking coffee and eating pie. It must have given Lynch a kind of sadistic pleasure to turn Cooper into a bumbling idiot for most of the season and as frustrating as that arc was sometimes, I appreciate it. You never quite knew what you were going to get each episode and that's part of the excitement. I also think that many scenes are genuinely hilarious.
I love this show. I don't know why. I don't understand it, but the part of my brain that doesn't talk to me understands it.
cannot relate more!
exactly this comment! you put it into words!
That is such an incredible way to describe how I feel about the return and Lynch’s movie eraserhead. I couldn’t put it better
Well said.
@MrFirehouse22, nah.
"If we lived today in the golden age, we would be at the end of Twin Peaks ... But we do not live there, we are in front of the Palmer house"
David on the finale....
Rest in Peace Mr Lynch
Though it is frustrating to not ever have a definite answer to any Lynch film, this ending is actually pretty telling. in that for years Cooper has been obsessed by Laura and Laura has needed the Guardian from the Red room to be there for her. Here we understand that Coop and Laura will forever be the attempted savior and the tragic victim throughout time and space.
But if together they can create the their avenger.
cooper was never obsessed by laura.
@@plasticweaponhe went back in time to save her. Obsessed much
Cooper was moreso obsessed in saving Laura less freaky than the other town folk obsessions, like Laura's psychiatrist. However, Cooper will never be able to rescue the Laura Palmer from the original twin peaks universe because she's already dead and it can't be change. Cooper essentially did more harm than good taking the alternate timeline Laura to a place that isn't her home in that world. Some things are better off not knowing and unfortunately that Laura perhaps saw what happened to her in a different world.
its about a trauma wound that can't be healed. the trauma that inflicted to you would never gone even if you live on any timeline it's always be your scar
Twin Peaks season 3 was a gift beyond words. If we never get another episode, I'll be a happy camper. Thank you Mr. Lynch & Mr. Frost.
Jeff Tate II : I feel you.
@Dan S "NNNOOOOO YOU'RE A FANBOY, OH MY GOD YOU'RE SUCH A FANBOY, GAWD!!". Get real.
@Dan S It is you who needs help. Seek some.
Amen
It truly is a gift. Right after it was all filmed...soooo many of those actors died.
Sheryl Lee have the best tv scream ever
MEANWHILE...
@@ziweiyuan meanwhile what?
@@Vingul I'll tell you in 25 years.
@@ziweiyuan suspense! I sure hope season 4 comes within DL's lifetime or not at all! I'm afraid he doesn't have 25 more years in him..
@@Vingul You're too right. The rest of the cast isn't getting any younger, either. We've already lost Warren Frost, Miguel Ferrer, Catherine Coulson, and Peggy Lipton since season 3 was filmed.
I can't believe today news. I'm watching video essays and clips from his work, as if I was going to find some closure there. Rest in peace, David. There's never been, and there will never again exist a talent like yours.
The scream and final shot of the house is the only piece of media that no matter where I am, what I'm doing, or how long its been since I've last seen it, will give me physical chills whenever I think about it. It never fails. Truly is the definition of haunting for me
Michael Scott : Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone for any reason ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been... ever, for any reason whatsoever...
it's like feeling someone walk across your grave
Wake up.
Serious chills
"Piece of media"? I think the phrase you're looking for is 'work of art'. Please don't let the bastards win.
notice how Mrs. Chelfont was also the name of the woman who lived in the trailer, where FBI agent Desmond disappeared from in Fire Walk With Me, which is what lead Cooper to come to Twin Peaks to investiage the Laura Palmer murder in the first place...just love it when a show goes full circle.
The final minute of this show is more chilling than any other modern horror film i've ever seen.
watch Burnt Offerings
@@kellymulderino7156 brilliant film
@@Lmarkot2 what’s it about
@@omegamanGXE burnt offerings or twin peaks?
@@Lmarkot2 Burnt Offerings
At first i thought the scene went dark for dramatic effect. But the lights actually go out like an electrical outage. Electricity had a role in transferring Cooper in and out of the red room.
Electricity is aspect of the dark lodge.
Electricity has that role because Twin Peaks is a TV show and Cooper is a character within it that is a stand-in for the audience.
Eeeleeeectriiiiciiiityyyy
This is the closest I've seen anyone capture the sensation of a night terror in cinematic form.
Hey yeah
Yes
It literally feels like this
I see people say this a lot and at least for me it's nothing like it. When I have bad nightmares there is ALWAYS a clear real life fear that is behind everything. A loved one dying, me dying, losing the ability to walk, death being infinite darkness. The nightmare is always basically one of these things having occurred, me trying change it to no luck while jumping from one setting to another with random people from my life as well as random characters I don't know being loosely involved.
@@dreigivetimpoolmassivewedg7646 I think the difference is that you're thinking of nightmares. A night terror is similar to a nightmare, except you're half awake. There is no context to the fear you experience because (this is where it gets weird) your consciousness is not directly inside the nightmare. It's halfway in, halfway out. So you experience all the terror of the nightmare, with none of the context. It usually just devolves the sensation of some kind of immediate approaching threat and frantic screaming (the person will often scream physically, not just within the dream).
This weirdly confirms Lynch's fear of Alzheimers.
Nah I feel like Lynch would actually enjoy alzheimers
@@isaiahromero9861 wtf are you talking about, it’s terrifying to have it no matter who you are
@@classicpinball9873 it was a joke, alzheimer's is a horrible disease
@@isaiahromero9861 alr cause i've heard people make similar remarks so i wasnt too sure
@@classicpinball9873 Thanks for making sure for everybody, you're a good pinball, Classic
im not sure there has ever been a more impactful single line delivery than “what year is this”
This scene left me devastated. Took days for me to get over it. I can't even bring myself to watch it again as that final scream chills me so much.
What a lot of us miss here is that this is NOT the final scene. The final scene is the first scene: Dale and Laura in the lodge. Cooper is sitting in the same chair he never left . The whole thing is an infinite loop playing itself out with every possibility and incarnation manifested. This particular incarnation is extinguished when Laura screams and wakes them
out of that “dream” and they are right back where they started. “Starting position”.
Maybe Cooper has always been trapped in the lodge. Maybe its future, maybe its past.
John Brandoli ayyyyye 😔 this explanation makes me more depressed lol
Her scream in the black lodge is also the same scream as her death and this scream. Weird.
I think that cooper being forever trapped is hinted at in the episode before this when his blank face is shown over top the sheriff's station scene. The scene quickly fades to black as this one did, and he says "we live inside a dream". Additionally, his blank stare in black and white reminds me of his scene in the first episode of this season, when he's trapped in the black lodge.
Meanwhile...
@@blacklisted351 Oh I forgot about that part, Cooper's head superimposed on there, yeah seems clear now he’s probably viewing events still stuck inside the Black Lodge. How horrifying!
David Lynch took what initially seemed like a typical murder mystery show and turned it into this masterpiece. He revolutionized television multiple times. Now that he's passed away, there's no doubt that this is the definitive ending of Twin Peaks. The man left us with countless questions that will remain unanswered, an eternal mystery, and we'll continue to talk about his phenomenal work. Fifty years from now, people will still be asking what really happened at the end of Twin Peaks.
Rest in peace, David Lynch. Thank you for everything.
I just binged the entirety of Twin Peaks for the first time and this scene will live rent free in my head for the rest of my days. THE CONSEQUENCES OF TRYING TO DO IT ALL, COOP.
The beginning quote of Alan Wake fits perfectly with Twin Peaks, especially season 3. "Steven King once wrote that nightmares exist outside of logic and there's little fun to be had in explanations. They're antithetical to the poetry of fear. In a horror story the victim keeps asking why, but there can be no explanation and there shouldn't be one. The unanswered mystery is what stays with us the longest and is what we'll remember in the end."
Sam Lake is a brain child of both Stephen King and David Lynch, he has been satisfying my need for Lynchesque story telling for sometime now.
hell yeah, great game
I know David Lynch is all about being open for interpretation but to me this ending was actually so cool especially as a fan because that woman is the actual owner of that home so by having those two iconic characters knock on her door it’s almost like a clash between worlds. The world of twin peaks and our world. Because in our world that woman owns that home, but in the world of Twin Peaks Sarah Palmer does. So at the very end when Laura hears that scream the world merge for a second and we get to physically experience the world of Twin Peaks as if it were real. But that’s just my take.
But in real life that woman's name is not Alice
I also think the Richard/Linda universe might be our own universe. It's definitely scary since the evil Judy and Bob do is basically just the evil we do in the world so it kind of makes it more personal. What bugs me is why she's named Chalfont. Remember in FWWM that two Chalfonts owned the trailer spot in Harry Dean Stanton's trailer park. In Laura's house, Coop asks for the two previous owners of the house and of course, the Chalfonts have two names. Maybe the ending is not as bleak and dreadful as we originally thought. Alice (which means noble) Chalfont is one of the good spirits still living on even in Judy's dimension. Yet, Sarah (or Judy) still lives on and haunts Laura (maybe Coop too for trying to save Laura) forever.
I love this take!
Its open to interpretation because he has no idea what his own movies mean. It works on a subconscious level.
"She's gone, she's gone" Cooper travels to the real world to try to save Laura but they find that the world has moved on. Laura's gone, no one even knows who she is anymore. The scream at the end is Laura anticipating the end. The lights in the house shutting off and the mechanical sound are the television being turned off, ending her story. Forever.
That's a really nice interpretation actually, that they've travelled to the future (it looks modern enough) and no one actually knows who Laura is anymore, nor cares. Laura was living on as a phantom, in the people of Twin Peaks' hearts and dreams, because they remembered and cared. Here, she is forgotten, and thus dies at the end of the series.
Its also the same mechanical story device used in literally Dark Souls, and the Neverending Story , as well.
wrong.
lynch has publicly stated that the ending was meant as a cliffhanger, and that nothing was over. but with half the cast dead within a few years and everybody else getting on, it doesn't look like we'll ever know what would have happened. or maybe we will.
@@DeadGuye1995 it's also not what happened here.
Still get the chills every time that final moment hits
Every.Single.Time.
Really? It... didn't do anything though?
@@UncleGhoulieTv313 lol
In The Missing Pieces, which Lynch worked on right before making this series, Jeffries looks at Gordon's calendar and goes "February... 1989?" I think the implication is that Cooper might become hopelessly lost like Jeffries before him, but we will probably never know.
The way her scream continues reverberating as the screen stays black is haunting asf.
Killer
This scene man, this is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen on film. Goddamn scarier than any horror movie
Honestly it's such an underrated horror scene. The sheer terror in that scream coupled with the sudden lights turning off and distant voice "Laura" convey a really deep sense of dread.
@@smellypatel5272 I think the key to its success is how vividly it invokes a bad dream. You think you’re in control and everything makes sense, then the world flips on it’s head and you have no context for it. The end of this episode makes me feel that loss of control in a nightmare just before you wake up with a beating heart.
@@lewiskazinsky7334 that's a good way of thinking of it. A nightmare where you have no control and nothing makes sense.
@@lewiskazinsky7334 Yeah... so many things are off. From the moment Cooper wakes up from that coma, things become more and more dreamlike. First, the completely mundane and forgettable line about needing Bushnell's gun... except for the fact that if you think about it, he couldn't have seen it through the coat... especially in a coma and especially because that's an unexpected thing to be let into a hospital (showing that things aren't quite the way they would happen in reality)... then the "happy ending" scene with all the hugs and Bob dead and Cooper seeing Diane again finally, but with Cooper's quiet, still, contemplating, and in shock face superimposed ontop of the entire scene (showing that he's only a witness to this whole resolution to things and can't quite reach the people he loves, like it's only the meer idea of his deepest desire), and the clock in that scene glitching out (ever tried to read the time, or words in a dream and find that it keeps changing and you only subconsciously understand what it means?), then the fact that he already somehow knew the hotel room key would fit the storage closet door of all places for some reason... (showing that his decisions aren't conscious ones), then the fact that no matter what he did and how many times he stared back at Laura, she still managed to disappear right before his eyes (in most dreams, doing even the simplest of tasks can be almost impossible... running to safety, getting what you want, whether it be a piece of info, or a physical object), then Diane going missing and him just casually driving away and no mention of her thought the rest of the episode (big themes tend to just vaguely disappear in dreams), and the old, rundown motel becoming a more expensive hotel overnight/his car being different (ideas tend to blend to create new realities and themes and big changes often go without notice), then finally finding "Laura Palmer", it's not quite her but there are still traces of her reality and self present (people, places, and ideas tend to become randomized and mixed with new ideas), and finally... the terrified-shock and confusion about the simplest idea, time...: "What year is this?"... (nightmares/fever dreams can be extremely disorienting and anxiety inducing... and mess with your sense of reality, even after it's over) and the terrified scream along with the power in the entire house and even whole neighborhood going out. The realization that something is terribly not right here, that these events aren't only not what they seem... but in fact, aren't really happening. It's just the pure terror of imagination, of our powerful mind, of a spiritual evil... trying with all it's might to snatch our innocence, to suck out all the joy within us, and to just excruciatingly break the shell that's left of our soul... and then we wake.
“What year is this?” is the most terrifying line, too.
Every time I watch this, I get chills all over my body. For me, this is the most beautiful scene I have ever seen. I am completely in love with David Lynch’s world. I intimately relate to all of its sounds, colours, moods and vibrations. They look very familiar to me, like a far and lost memory that subconsciously triggers my emotions and feelings. The house, the voice, the lights, the scream. I get it, I feel it, I remember it.
I am not sure it's possible to explain *why* the still image of well lit suburban home at night set to ambient reverb'd bass drone makes me feel half a dozen strong emotions at the same time, but it definitely makes me feel half a dozen strong emotions at the same time.
I think we all understand it but we just can't articulate it. It's like if someone asks you what it means to be human. That ending is amazing to me. Crazy how a show can make you care so much about a dead girl, I mean she's dead the ENTIRE show..but the show also goes deep into where life begins and ends or if it ever really ends at all.
Interesting how Laura's eyebrows raise when Coop apologizes to Alice for bothering her, good acting throughout the scene
"You brought me all the way across the country to have an unhelpful conversation with someone for 3 minutes?!"
@@youdbettertube I doubt she minded being brought there, coz after all she did have a dead guy with a bullet in his head and an assault rifle on the floor 😂
The very moment you hear Chalfont mentioned , your brain does an internal "oh dear". And then just wait for the miniscule mic pick up of "Laura?" and imagine that fan.
Absolute genius
Who were the Chalfonts again?
@@omegamanGXE The Chalfonts were another name used by the Tremonds. The Tremonds/Chalfonts were an old lady and her grandson who were also Lodge entities. They were the ones on Laura's Meals on Wheels route who mysteriously disappeared as another "Mrs. Tremond" took their place while Donna was working Laura's route.
@@aquamidideluxe5079 They also lived in Harry Dean Stanton's trailer park. Two Chalfonts. Weird, huh.
laura's moving on...and cooper stops, turns around, stands in the street.
laura can't move on. cooper won't let her. it's always the past. it's all about undoing trauma, never dealing with it.
"what year is this?"
Laura can't move on and Lynch came back to possibly posit that we, as fans, can't move on and deal with the trauma of not having neat and tidy answers to the mysteries the show left all those years ago. "What year is this?" could be a statement about fans yearning for answers to something long since ended...almost in an insincere way like "People are still talking about this show and wanting to know how it 'ends?'...what year is this!?!"
Laura must die. The cycle must be broken so that the original Twin Peaks universe can go on as it should.
"You're dead, Laura, but your problems keep hanging around! It's almost as if they didn't bury you deep enough!"
Revisiting this season in honor of Daivd Lynch. I remember originally being pissed off by the ending like "oh ANOTHER cliffhanger" but I now think this was the perfect ending to the show. Also it's genuinely terrifying
What a way to go! Not with a whimper, but a bang! Farewell, Mr. Lynch!
They're in our reality... That's why the real owner is at the door. That's why Audrey wants to know where Billy is (Billy Zane,) and that's why they announced "Audrey's Dance" as "Audrey's Dance" which is the name of the song in real life. It doesn't make sense, but then again, it does. They broke through the fourth wall and now they're stuck beyond the fourth wall.
If that were the case then Richard and Linda would be Kyle and Laura. Carrie Page's name would be Sheryl.
And the owner in real life is not named Alice Tremond. Nice try,
+YOur Welcome +Bruce Wayne exactly.
They are in the Black Lodge.
No way. Tremond? Chalfont? They’re in the world of TP. There is no fourth wall “our reality” stuff in TP - there is meta stuff but the fourth wall is never broken.
The beauty of this is that every single viewer has a different idea of what happened after this
I think the implication is that our real world is a pocket universe created to trap an evil entity. We are in the show...unfortunately its the dark reality we see in episode 18. When Laura screams the nightmare ends for them but we are left here, stranded.
Gabriel Priddy Great Interpretation !
Interesting..thats what great about this show its up for countless interpretations
Laura's nightmare is in the waking world.
Cooper being left so lost and confused after everything leaves such a pit in my stomach. And Sheryl's scream. It's like a part of Laura woke up inside her after hearing her mom calling from the house. And Laura being woken up into this different world causes it to implode on itself. Ugh. This scene is such a true existential horror.
honestly, rewatching the scream, it begins as the usual terror, but ends with anger. like she's finally letting it out after all these years and she's destroying her ties one last time to her trauma.
I love it when Laura blinks and looks up and then screams. Its the same as when Dale as " Dougie" hears Gordons name on TV and then wakes up a bit! I dont think it matters so much as what year it is as to Laura waking up and remembering the horror!
this is easily one of the most heartbreaking scenes I've ever seen, it really broke me
that's a shame, because nothing heartbreaking actually happens in it.
Greatest ending to a season/series ever. You can watch just this one scene and it helps you relive the 18 hours of the season. It gives me chills.
I'm crying now watching this.
Without exaggeration one of the greatest pieces of art ever made. It's so fitting that this was his last major work. Thank you for everything, David.
if this is Lynch's final scene ever its probably his scariest scene ever
IMO the "surgery" scene in Eraserhead, the diner scene in Mulholland Drive and several parts of Inland Empire are scarier.
This scene is definitely up there, though.
A lot of Lost Highway also.
@@andrewrabon that face that pops out in IE is pure nightmare fuel same with the winkies bum in MD
that weird homeless lookin woman suddenly staring back in Mulholland drive had me fuckin shook tho
The corridor confrontation with the Phantom from INLAND EMPIRE is Lynch's scariest scene, but this scene leaves me feeling completely nauseated.
i once had a dream where i was little, in which i was on my way from the lakeside to my family's cottage, to which lead a completely straight path. you could see the house from the distance, with its patio and distinguishable
green roof. it was a cold november evening, you could feel the summer had deceased and there are only grey days ahead of you. the sun was very low and the skies were crystal clear. the setting sun didn't feel like a wonder of nature, more like a prelude to the primal fear of the dark. the atmosphere in the village i knew so well was very eerie, the only sound i could hear was a slight breeze coming from the lake. it felt very foreign. as i was slowly coming towards the house i noticed smoke coming out of the chimney. i crossed the road and finally stood by the gate. suddenly i realised it isn't my family's house. and i was a little kid, standing in an empty village by the lake in the middle of nowhere, as the darkness was getting ready to swallow me
i felt the same feeling of dread and emptiness once again just 5 minutes ago when i saw this scene. incredibly dreamlike. just too powerful
Fun fact, the woman who answers the door is the actual owner of that house. There’s some other evidence to suggest this new dimension of sorts is the real world
That is the best theory I know, by going back and undoing Laura's death, they literally wiped their universe out of existence. It is a meta story telling but no more weirder than any other Lynch's work. While Laura remembers all the events and screams in agony and Cooper is confused, he probably will never understand what happened.
I really love when they walk away from the house and Cooper turns around and starts to walk back like he's suddenly had a Holmes-esque epiphany and is about to say something that cracks the whole thing open... and then he asks what year it is. Feels like his mind has been turned off
Rest in peace, legend. May your work be never forgotten.
Now this ending looks even more symbolic.
To hear that scream one more time as the end of this show though, CHILLS!
RIP David Lynch. I just discovered Twin Peaks this year. I am 42 years old. It was shocking to me to see Dale Cooper ride into Twin Peaks on February 24th - my birthday.
No one cares how old you are
@@justinmj6586 I care how old he is
Thank you David Lynch
in true David Lynch fashion, we’re forever left with more questions than answers
Rest in peace legend
I just remembered from the first 2 seasons that Laura let herself be killed to end her suffering. And now in season 3, Cooper brought Laura back to the root of her trauma.
È stata Josie Pakard con la complicità di suo cugino e Hank ad uccidere Laura Palmer 😊😊
R.I.P. David Lynch (1946-2025) 😔
I’ve seen few people point this out, but the way Cooper looks at Carrie is a mix of fear but also realization. That scream belongs to Laura Palmer and Cooper just realized that wherever or whenever they are, he in fact brought Laura back, just that maybe it wasn’t for good.
Great observation!
No other filmmaker has ever managed to evoke these emotions out of me rip the greatest to ever do it
Rest in peace, David Lynch 🙏
This is the final scene of Twin Peaks, and after coming to grips with this being the ending, I have to say it's bone-chilling and quintessential David Lynch. The depths of the human capacity for goodness are present throughout this series. This scene, however, shows the complete opposite. The veneer is ripped off, and we are left in the lurch, completely consumed by the primordial darkness.
What I love about David Lynch - it looked like things were getting VERY neatly wrapped up - literally end-of-Wizard-of-Oz, fairy-tale style in the sheriff's station - and then Cooper goes back in time, changes history, gets dropped in f'n Odessa TX, and the rug gets pulled out from under us with a Chalfont/Tremond house flickering its lights.
at least laura and cooper have each other and will always be together... no matter how dark the nightmare is.
ADAM it's not Cooper anymore, though...
In eternal darkness??
I don't know man. Maybe they ceased to exist when the lights went dark. Like, the final wake up from the dream that was twin peaks.
But Laura doesn't even know who Cooper is anymore. She doesn't recognize him.
@@youdbettertube Laura and Cooper never met before he time jumped in his mistaken(imo) attempt to rescue her. "Carrie Page" would have no reason to know who he is.
It's the perfect ending because everyone gets what they want from it yet they are not sure.
Exactly how i felt when i saw it
I want to get a happy ending with Laura being happy and smiling and making friends with Cooper, can you tell me how do I get that from this? All I can get that the world is surreal, time is not working, the magician kid's grandma was the original owner of the house and Laura is hearing her mom which makes her horrified. So the entire thing is probably a nightmare or a vision and they are both stuck in the red room.
You get your happy ending if you stopped watching before starting episode 18. @@tamasvarga9862
@@tamasvarga9862the ending of fire walk with me
RIP the greatest filmmaker of all time
Welles? Kurosawa? Ford? Bergman? Non sono esistiti?
Thank you David Lynch for all the great memories
Anyone else get depressed knowing this will never be topped?
Yes
No! I'm grateful I got to experience it😮🤍🖤
This “reality” in the show, is the dream, and the dream is trying to solve and remember our unresolved trauma, for all of us. And when you can’t remember what actually happened, it would feel like this to re remember it. Lynch is a genius.
2025 A Sad Year Losing David Lynch! He's inspired me greatly as a filmmaker! This last moment of Twin Peaks: Season 3 is chilling and leaves you wanting more! I'm deeply grateful I had an opportunity to meet Mr. Lynch in person and tell him how much his work has meant to me!
just finished all of twin peaks and after watching this i just sobbed. i wasn't even sad, i was hopeless. confused, unsettled, and hopeless. it's literally the only show i've ever watched to elicit such a devastating, guttural feeling of loss in me.
Me and a few friends had gathered every week to watch the latest episode. On the night the finale aired we baked a cherry pie. I cannot begin to express how stressed I was when I realized that there were just a few minutes left. I was shocked by the ending, in the best way. I couldn’t wrap my mind around it and yet I found it to be utterly sublime. Horrific, but masterful. It’s one of the scariest scenes in Lynch’s canon, and also one of the most depressing because Cooper failed. We almost never see films or shows where the character fails at the end, where all hope is suddenly lost and then BOOM that’s it, it’s over. In my mind it solidified The Return as a groundbreaking masterpiece in its own right that has the potential to (once again) change television (and specifically revivals) as we know it.
its was a good finale, but how did it change television? what examples post finale can you think of?
Did Cooper fail, though? Everything going dark seems to connote that some alternate universe/timeline collapsed, and this seems to have been hinged upon Dale prodding Laura to recall her former life.
@@MarcEsadrian so i think Cooper definitely failed in the sense that despite trying, he could not cure Twin Peaks of the evil under its surface, nor could he save Laura. and Laura could not survive or reconcile her duality. BUT, and this is important, they both failed nobly as forces of good. the finale follows Cooper on two failed missions to save Laura (and the town). no matter how hard Cooper tries, Laura’s story in every universe is destined to be tragic. i think this could certainly all be Judy’s doing (that biatch) but i also think the message is that you cannot go back. you cannot undo the past (in a way this is also a commentary on revivals, right, because all the worst revivals try to recreate and recapture the feeling of the original, and Twin Peaks did the opposite by rejecting nostalgia). even in an alternate timeline, Laura Palmer would have had a tragic life. her fate is sealed and Cooper couldn’t undo it. but i still think there’s an optimistic angle here: evil sometimes does triumph in the end (something we almost never see portrayed in cinema), but good always endures, and never gives up. just because Cooper will continue to fail in future attempts to save Laura, that doesn’t mean he won’t keep trying to. and good sometimes triumphs too. just not in the case of Laura Palmer. the main theme of Twin Peaks is that evil is unavoidable, but good (and good people like Dale Cooper) always perseveres. there will always be people like Dale Cooper to stand against evil when it rears its ugly head.
@@sethd6485 Wow! Brilliantly put together.
@@gonzothecat5901 there are numerous ways in which the series was groundbreaking. but one of the most significant was its structure. in addition to the fact that non-narrative surrealism as a genre is almost never explored on a platform designed for mass consumption (television), and the fact that in the end, for now, evil prevails and the main character fails, the way the series blurs the line between film and TV (structurally/narratively speaking) is totally unique to the medium. Rolling Stone wrote a really great article about this subject and I’ll link it below.
“… It’s worth digging deeper than the obvious ways in which the season broke ground: its wild shifts in mood and style, its avant-garde editing and effects, the atom bomb of an hour that was Episode Eight. Crucial to the show’s success was Lynch and Frost’s insistence that it wasn’t a TV show at all, but a film. This isn’t just about treating the season as “one film broken into 18 parts,” as Lynch put it, though that’s a welcome rejoinder to the voguish notion that any showrunner who thinks of their series in these terms is a pretentious doofus. Good television, like good cinema, can be made in any number of ways; Twin Peaks Season Three will become a textbook example of how a truly movie-like approach can pay off… particularly in its final episodes, the Return relies on a recursive, Möbius-strip structure, in which events echo and loop rather than proceed in straightforward fashion; these repetitions and reflections are distorted and gap-ridden enough, however, to keep the pattern intoxicatingly opaque.”
in the way the original series broke ground by mixing genres, using television to tell one long extended story, and constantly upsetting audience expectations, this new series broke new ground by functioning as an 18-hour film. it also specifically broke new ground with regard to television revivals: rather than attempt to recapture its former glory, Twin Peaks: The Return did something totally new. it challenges the audience to alter their expectations for what a TV series should be, esp a revival. instead of attempting to recapture the magic of the original, it is a subversion of a series revival, basically forcing us to let go of the past and get used to something totally alien. it’s rejection of nostalgia is unique to revivals. it’s never been done before, but this is Lynch, so of course he refused to pander to audience expectations.
i think we have to wait a bit before we see shows that take a page out of Twin Peaks’ book, though i would argue that “And Just Like That…”, as different a show as it might be, ran with the idea of making the revival completely different from SATC, to mixed effect for that show. time will tell how that method works for other shows.
www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/why-twin-peaks-the-return-was-the-most-groundbreaking-tv-series-ever-115665/amp/
I will never, ever forget the night I watched this. Joined by a bunch of friends, coffee and cherry pie on the table, the penultimate episode was one satisfying payoff after the other. And then.. this scene. I looked at the clock and noticed that the episode had roughly one minute left. Laura screams, lights out, credits roll, and we were all just completely silent and *stunned*. Masterful.
SAME. Me and a few friends had gathered every week to watch the latest episode. On the night the finale aired we baked a cherry pie. I cannot begin to express how stressed I was when I realized that there were just a few minutes left. I was shocked by the ending, in the best way. I couldn’t wrap my mind around it and yet I found it to be utterly sublime. Horrific, but masterful. It’s one of the scariest scenes in Lynch’s canon, and also one of the most depressing because Cooper failed. We almost never see films or shows where the character fails at the end, where hope is suddenly lost. It solidified The Return as a masterpiece in its own right and changed television again.
You and your friends sound like assholes.
@@sethd6485io bro sono al nono episodio prima stagione e credo sia stata Josie Parker con la complicità di suo cugino ad uccidere Laura Palmer e anche Hank😊
"If she says her name is Alice, she's lying."
One of the most unforgettable scene ever seen in my life.
Now *five* years later... and I still get chills watching this.
This never fails to give me goosebumps.
This scene will forever be both the most incredible and most horrifying piece of television I have ever seen
We'll never find out what year it was