Parents' Guide to Twin Peaks

Menacing, atmospheric, and surreal to the point where it resists simple summing up (and straightforward reviewing), this rocket from the crypt captures the spirit of the original. The reboot takes its inspiration from the 1991 finale in which Laura Palmer told Agent Cooper, "I'll see you again in 25 years." Here we are, 25 years later, and Cooper is still receiving cryptic directions from Palmer, and we're still wondering what it all means. At least one thing seems clear: While the original focused mainly on Palmer's murder and the subsequent criminal investigation, Twin Peaks: The Return has no such central focus. Instead, several interconnected threads make up the story: Red Room Cooper has an evil doppelgänger loose on a killing spree, while somewhere in a Manhattan room there's a glass box kept under constant surveillance to see if anything appears (spoiler alert: Something does).

Meanwhile, South Dakota police have arrested a high school principal for a double murder, Agent Cooper is getting advice from a talking tree, law enforcement officer Hawk (Michael Horse) has found a mysterious portal in the woods, and Twin Peaks partiers are hanging out at the Bang Bang Bar roadhouse, where Shelly Johnson runs into her old flames James Hurley (James Marshall) and Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook), both of whom still carry old secrets. There are trains, there are neon signs, there is coffee, there is pie, there are diners and (gently aged) actors you used to know. OG fans are likely to be as confused and intrigued by this remake as they were by the original.