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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 284532" data-attributes="member: 22">It&#039;s well over five years since I watched the original series so my opinion of it has officially expired, but this was pretty much my problem with Season 2 after Leland was gone.I&#039;ve just finished watching the second season of BROADCHURCH, which reminded me of this season of TWIN PEAKS in a way. The first season --&nbsp; a murder mystery in a small town where everyone&#039;s a suspect with a secret and the investigating detective is an eccentric outsider -- came out in 2013 and was a huge hit, but I only got around to watching it during lockdown last year. I knew that the second season hadn&#039;t been nearly as well received so I adjusted my expectations accordingly. In a way, the problems are similar to those in TP: once the mystery has been solved and the killer revealed, you&#039;re left a town full of characters with not much to do. So like TWIN PEAKS, BROADCHURCH comes up with a replacement (but not quite as compelling) mystery where the eccentric detective is forced to confront an unresolved case from his past that has haunted him ever since. However, as BROADCHURCH has much shorter seasons han TP (eight episodes) , there&#039;s kind of too much going on rather than too little. The murder trial resulting from the first season is also an ongoing storyline, plus you&#039;ve got big name guest stars who need storylines of their own even if they don&#039;t have much to do with anything (e.g. Charlotte Rampling as a prosecuting lawyer who is secretly going blind, secretly in love with the woman who runs the local newspaper and has an elderly mother whose care she secretly can&#039;t afford to pay for). But clunky as it sometimes was, I was still emotionally invested enough to stick with it.Season 3 is very much experience over narrative, and I absolutely loved it.Great! Fire Walk With Me is so good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 284532, member: 22"] It's well over five years since I watched the original series so my opinion of it has officially expired, but this was pretty much my problem with Season 2 after Leland was gone. I've just finished watching the second season of BROADCHURCH, which reminded me of this season of TWIN PEAKS in a way. The first season -- a murder mystery in a small town where everyone's a suspect with a secret and the investigating detective is an eccentric outsider -- came out in 2013 and was a huge hit, but I only got around to watching it during lockdown last year. I knew that the second season hadn't been nearly as well received so I adjusted my expectations accordingly. In a way, the problems are similar to those in TP: once the mystery has been solved and the killer revealed, you're left a town full of characters with not much to do. So like TWIN PEAKS, BROADCHURCH comes up with a replacement (but not quite as compelling) mystery where the eccentric detective is forced to confront an unresolved case from his past that has haunted him ever since. However, as BROADCHURCH has much shorter seasons han TP (eight episodes) , there's kind of too much going on rather than too little. The murder trial resulting from the first season is also an ongoing storyline, plus you've got big name guest stars who need storylines of their own even if they don't have much to do with anything (e.g. Charlotte Rampling as a prosecuting lawyer who is secretly going blind, secretly in love with the woman who runs the local newspaper and has an elderly mother whose care she secretly can't afford to pay for). But clunky as it sometimes was, I was still emotionally invested enough to stick with it. Season 3 is very much experience over narrative, and I absolutely loved it. Great! Fire Walk With Me is so good. [/QUOTE]

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