My daughter and I finished all of the Twin Peaks episodes. It was really slow going there for a while and we had to force ourselves to get through several of the episodes because they were so silly.

I was totally into it the first 8 episodes or so, but got completely bored with it somewhere after the 15th. In fact, I could barely stand to watch it which is a good reminder of why I don’t watch television! The original concept is always far more interesting than the demand for subsequent seasons.

Possible SPOILER WARNING!! (But probably not).

ABC had required that David Lynch and Mark Frost create a closed ending and neither of them had intended to do that. Lynch said it saddened him greatly because the open ending was a sort of golden goose - but the television network got too nervous with it being left open. That must have been frustrating. Both Frost and Lynch got involved in other projects and left the series to other people. They tried to pull it back together at the end of the season and did a pretty good job, I thought. But it didn’t air again. The idea of people confronting their shadow sides was just a little to out there in the 1990s I suppose. Christian Nation though we are, I think most people still prefer the idea of evil being destroyed by good rather than accepted and embraced by it (and vice versa, of course).

It definitely had a strange ending, but it worked for me because I tend to lean toward a non-duality philosophy - what you see “out there” exists within as well or you wouldn’t be able to see it “out there”. It’s a matter of balance rather than one side winning out over the other.