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I love Twin Peaks a whole fucking lot, but the people who defend the latter half of season 2 are seriously out of their mind. Like sure it's annoying when all of season 2 gets thrown under the bus - the first half of it is every bit as good as season 1 and we don't even have to talk about the finale - but there's a good stretch of episodes after the killer is gone where it is clear none of the writers, directors or actors had any clue where the show was supposed to go and it turns into a completely rudderless mess. The original Twin Peaks was always about the impact that the death of Laura Palmer had on that small community. I don't know if you could have milked that for all eternity without release, like Lynch seemingly originally planned, but the way they dealt with it after they were forced to reveal the killer certainly wasn't it.
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There was certainly always an element of repression in Twin Peaks: Laura dies, so here is Madelaine. But when they reveal that it was not only her father who killed her and raped her since a young age, who then also brutally murders her doppelganger in her cousin, they immediately drop the entire Palmer family and anything that had anything to do with the original mystery. It's unbelievable how fast the show dives off a cliff: The very first scene after "Arbitrary Law" (already kind of a sketchy episode), Leland Palmers Wake: Even disregarding the fact that they most likely wouldn't hold a wake for a guy who murdered his daughter and his niece, the mood of the scene is completely off: It's clear the other actors besides Grace Zabriskie and Kyle MacLachlan don't actually know whose wake they are supposed to be at, so the mood is completely jovial and trivial. That they use the same scene to establish the Milford brothers plotline - a plotline no one has ever enjoyed or cared about - just further ridicules the whole thing. Maybe it would have just been impossible to actually grapple with the fact of a father raping and murdering his own daughter on television in 1991 (maybe you couldn't even do it today), but with the need to produce these episodes week-by-week it was certainly too much for the team that was left at that point.