TWIN PEAKS Full Series Recap | Season 1-3 Ending Explained

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Relive the entire Twin Peaks series now! Seasons 1-3 and the film, Fire Walk with Me! This recap explains everything you need to know about Twin Peaks season 1, Twin Peaks season 2, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and Twin Peaks season 3, The Return.
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After homecoming queen Laura Palmer is murdered, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper arrives in Twin Peaks, Washington - a small suburban town where nothing is as it seems. The deeper Cooper gets into the investigation, the closer he comes to the network of secrets and mysteries surrounding the town and its eccentric inhabitants.
Twin Peaks stars Kyle MacLachlan as Special Agent Dale Cooper, Michael Ontkean as Sheriff Harry S. Truman, Mädchen Amick as Shelly Johnson, Dana Ashbrook as Bobby Briggs, Richard Beymer as Benjamin Horne, Lara Flynn Boyle as Donna Hayward, Sherilyn Fenn as Audrey Horne, Warren Frost as Dr. Will Hayward, Peggy Lipton as Norma Jennings, James Marshall as James Hurley, Everett McGill as Ed Hurley, Jack Nance as Pete Martell, Ray Wise as Leland Palmer, Joan Chen as Jocelyn "Josie" Packard, Piper Laurie as Catherine Martell, Kimmy Robertson as Lucy Moran, Eric Da Re as Leo Johnson, Harry Goaz as Deputy Sheriff Andy Brennan, Michael Horse as Deputy Sheriff Tommy "Hawk" Hill, Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer and Madeleine "Maddy" Ferguson, Russ Tamblyn as Dr. Lawrence Jacoby, Kenneth Welsh as Windom Earle, Wendy Robie as Nadine Hurley, Don Davis as Major Garland Briggs, Chris Mulkey as Hank Jennings, Grace Zabriskie as Sarah Palmer, Catherine E. Coulson as Margaret Lanterman / "The Log Lady", Ian Buchanan as Dick Tremayne, Frank Silva as Killer BOB, Al Strobel as Phillip Michael Gerard / MIKE / "The One-Armed Man", David Patrick Kelly as Jerry Horne, Miguel Ferrer as Special Agent Albert Rosenfield, David Lynch as Bureau Chief Gordon Cole, Heather Graham as Annie Blackburn, Dan O'Herlihy as Andrew Packard, Michael Parks as Jean Renault, Carel Struycken as The Giant, Phoebe Augustine as Ronette Pulaski, Lenny Von Dohlen as Harold Smith, Michael J. Anderson as The Man from Another Place / The Arm, David Duchovny as DEA Agent Denise Bryson, Walter Olkewicz as Jacques Renault, David Warner as Thomas Eckhardt, Michael Cera as Wally "Brando" Brennan, Robert Forster as Sheriff Frank Truman, Jake Wardle as Freddie Sykes, Harry Dean Stanton as Carl Rodd, David Bowie as Phillip Jeffries, John Pirruccello as Deputy Sheriff Chad Broxford, Chrysta Bell as Special Agent Tammy Preston, Laura Dern as Diane Evans, Jim Belushi as Bradley Mitchum, Robert Knepper as Rodney Mitchum, Patrick Fischler as Duncan Todd, Pierce Gagnon as Sonny Jim Jones, Naomi Watts as Janey-E Jones, Tom Sizemore as Anthony Sinclair, Don Murray as Bushnell Mullins, Matthew Lillard as William Hastings
This is a recap of some of the biggest and best moments from Twin Peaks season 1, Twin Peaks season 2, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and Twin Peaks season 3: The Return, including BOB explained, the Arm explained, MIKE explained, Judy explained, Jowday explained, the doppelgangers explained, Naido explained, Diane explained, who killed Laura Palmer, Laura's killer, Leland kills Laura, the red room explained, the Giant explained, the Black Lodge explained, the White Lodge explained, the Purple Sea explained, Carrie Page explained, the series finale ending explained, and so much more!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Season 1
13:00 Season 2
29:52 Season 3: The Return
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[@RecapAndChill]

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[@NekoHibaCosplay]

I appreciate so much that despite being done 25 years later, with much more advanced VFX technology available, Lynch still resorted to unsettling bad CGI and practical effects to better drive the audience about this being a direct sequel to the original and not just a nostalgic cash grab.

[@Bloodonthepick]

There’s something about the cgi in the show that is actually perfect for the show itself. It is Uber surreal and I’m not sure a more modern use of it would be applicable in the setting and motive of emotions lynch wants us to feel. It’s really more like experimental cinema the entire show which is totally unheard of.

[@nightbirdgames]

Everywhere Judy goes electricity follows so I like to think Laura's screaming somehow stopped Judy and "kills" her, hence the electricity going out. Interesting to think that Leland and Sara were both possessed by black lodge entities.

[@trevor_r]

the headline "Asian Man Killed!!" gets me every time I see it lmao

[@karenm.2185]

Still one of the best shows I have ever seen.

[@carolineduliat]

Where can I watch this series back?

[@mihirshetye4624]

@@carolineduliat Paramount Plus,you will need a subscription though.Otherwise use bit torrent,its piracy,but we will let it slide this time around.

[@xx_j_xx8648]

@@carolineduliatI watch on paramount

[@scottyoshihara2458]

I love on how this inspired Deadly Premonitions and loosely inspired Alan Wakes

[@joanna4289]

Your explanation is way better than another one I have watched which went all around the houses and Never got to the point which was incredibly annoying and confusing!!! Kudos 😊 I knew who murdered Laura before the first season ended!!!

[@riaglitta]

Coffee percolator, not steam kettle. Means a lot more with it being coffee, with coffee's eternal involvement in this show! :)

[@PrettyTigerlilly]

I appreciate you adding the movie "Fire: Walk With Me" to this recap.

[@unseenfool]

the idea of the ending being a dark one is both amazing and horrific, i recently watched s3 for the first time (i had seen s1 many times and s2 less ) and WOW oh wow. wild roller-coaster this show is

[@jaba134]

3 is to dark.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

THANK YOU FOR RECAPPING THIS!! I know it's a really iconic series and it's inspired a lot of shows but i just dont have the time to sit down and watch the full story

[@staceyboomboom8031]

MAKE TIME!!! It's worth it!!!!

[@grundlebutter5624]

This channel is freaking amazing, each clip and series recap is so well done... Thank you...

[@ShinySephiroth1]

Ah, so *that's* why Janey-E (sp?) was targeted! Mr. C came back and expelled Diane to the Zone (altering her appearance and blinding her in the process just in case someone like Briggs came across her so they wouldn't readily save her), then creating a tulpa of her so he would have his own assistant (he still has Coop's mannerisms and would "need" a Diane). With her memories of her inherited life, while planning to create Dougie as a back-up in case Coop tried to come back, Tulpa-Diane suggests to Mr. C that they hide Dougie by having him live an unassuming life with her unassuming half sister. I'm actually impressed at how much is alluded to in the show but not outright said, as it shows Frost and Lynch heavily discussed the backstory behind everything prior to making this. Thank you very much for helping make S3 more digestible!

[@GHO5T3DFreelance]

i didn't understand any of the season 3 explanation ....i might need a pie chart or extensive mental diagnosis.

[@DennyDavis-yq8tp]

Agreed

[@Missathena918]

You can’t convince me this isn’t the original Riverdale

[@maxalvarez5223]

Also original stranger things although I haven’t seen riverdale at all so i don’t know how similar they are but stranger things is the show I thought of when I heard that twin peaks was really influential

[@ShinySephiroth1]

This is such an amazing rundown of S3, piecing the disjointed story together. I think your work here is VASTLY underrated.

[@1chiefg]

I just finished watching all 3 seasons for the first time a few days ago and I watched Fire Walk With Me last night. I had pretty much no idea what was going on at all and this video has cleared so much up !

[@ShinySephiroth1]

Homer Simpson: "Brilliant! ... I have absolutely no idea what is going on." I think this sums up all of us trying to piece the lore together 😅

[@Webtalkshow]

Unglaublich wie strukturiert und gradlinig LOST im Vergleich zu Twin Peaks wirkt. Freue mich auf dein X-Files / Akte X Recap!

[@Jan_ne]

Aber wieso schuldet Cooper Daniel Faraday 20,000?

[@Adam.Langton]

Great show. One of my favorites. Very nice summary!

[@quincybattieste]

I think you guys saved me for watching a tortuous 18 hour third season. LOL.

[@hollyg5924]

Yayyyy, thank you for this vid!!!

[@daddyteddy85]

This has to be the most confusing show ever made

[@sammykitro2164]

what is Dark? confusing as hell

[@Brian79]

This is amazing. Thank you!

[@juliandevita3304]

Thanks man! This was an awesome job!

[@ghandibanks]

This channel is so great

[@toddunctious614]

Top quality analysis, Sir. I feel inspired to create a five and a half-dimensional Venn diagram to summarise what I have just learned. I will then colour it with crayons.

[@destinyhntr]

Thanks for summarizing. I could immediately tell an episode in that this show wouldn't be enjoyable for me, but I wanted to know what happened to the main mystery. Appreciate you being so concise and straight-forward.

[@stevenstewart6349]

This is tremendous work. Thank you.

[@AlicjaChojecka]

Thank you :)

[@psych060]

Best and most accurate/make sense recap out there

[@pittcitywhat4424]

SPOILER: IMO I think it’s clear Cooper/Richard with Laura/Carrie defeated Judy bc once Laura screamed the electricity at house went out, and the black lodge was also out of power/no more juice…hence no more evil spirits/dopplegangers

[@user-oo9lz5rz4r]

Agreed

[@joshuamccartney7712]

Perfectly summarized!

[@krishthakkar2327]

Hello @RecapAndChill, marvel released the trailer for X-men '97, it releases on 20th March and it is a continuation of the original X-men: The animated series, so can you please make a recap video for that X-men: The animated series. It would be a great help for us from you.

[@RecapAndChill]

No promises, but I'll see what I can do!

[@user-yw8pb3sd8j]

I love this channel.... if you take suggestions??? the following, the magicians

[@anuragjain464]

Please do mentalist full series recap

[@jackkelley7291]

Love your content! Can you do Mad Men?

[@RecapAndChill]

It's coming!

[@oOHoltbyOo]

thanks for the recap. i watched the first 3 episodes and jesus...

[@imwithname843]

I am and always was BOB.

[@kuutti6777]

"P.S. It just struck me that BOB's name is a warning in itself . . . B. BEWARE 0. OF B. BOB"

[@benjaminfeld6388]

It were doing old classics now, might I recommend Buffy the Vampire Slayer at some point in the future?

[@RecapAndChill]

It's on the (long and ever-growing) list!

[@benjaminfeld6388]

@@RecapAndChill That's fair

[@dannialexander4160]

Spartacus would be a good one too

[@benjaminfeld6388]

@@dannialexander4160 I agree

[@edgarassalk2935]

my fingers hurt from rewinding xD

[@anaraalimbayeva373]

Please, do the recap for "The Originals". I can only watch your recaps!!!!

[@nettieforce1]

They should have done an exhaustive search in the woods!

[@swiftysnail9053]

I watched 2 episodes, thank you for this because there's absolutely no way I would've finished it

[@Aneesrao9]

Same bro 2eps

[@msw8839]

It is worth watching.

[@destinyhntr]

@@msw8839 Some people, like myself, aren't into the slow and meandering, soap-opera-like types of shows. I'd rather watch a summary because I know this isn't a show I'll enjoy (watched the first episodes and it wasn't for me).

[@msw8839]

@@destinyhntr I do the same with other shows. To each his own.

[@munashengulube6852]

@RecapAndChill what’s the name of the background song throughout the recap ?

[@NetiYeti]

The population of Odessa, Texas was 99,940, according to the roadsign on the edge of town - and according to the decennial US Census of 2010. Therefore Richard aka Cooper comes to Odessa, finds Carrie Page aka Laura Palmer, and takes her back to Twin Peaks, Washington, sometime between the years 2010 and 2020. So a reasonable answer to Cooper's rhetorical question "What year is this?" might be "2015 ± 5". But, since the bereft Sarah Palmer still lives in the Palmer house in the "normal" timeline, Cooper/Richard and Laura/Carrie, are visiting the Palmer house in an alternate timeline, not in the future per se. My question is, does the Carrie Page timeline now collapse and catapult Cooper and Laura back to the "normal" timeline, or does the "normal" timeline collapse leaving Cooper and Laura stranded in the Carrie Page timeline?

[@daddyteddy85]

Please recap Six Feet Under

[@brianweatherwax4621]

im still confused...

[@ShinySephiroth1]

I thought you'd talk about the mysterious Leland spirit at the end of Season 2. Is he the spirit of Leland, or Leland's doppelganger? Heck, he could even be a Leland tulpa! With that, what was the role of the Laura doppelganger in S2? So many unanswered questions!

[@satiricgames2129]

One if the best shiws ever . So freaking good

[@imonymous]

A cultural milestone.

[@br1ella129]

Amazing series, pure art. But this recap only scratches the surface, I'd recommend TwinPerfect's review if someone wants to dig deeper.

[@RecapAndChill]

Twin Perfect is great, but I see our videos as serving different functions. Mine is an overview that hopefully helps people understand the overall plot of the series, including the ending. And I made a concerted effort to use as little personal theorizing as possible and stick solely to the metatextual facts of the series. But that can be really difficult in a show like Twin Peaks, so Twin Perfect's 4 hour+ deep dive is also a good resource for the more minute details and explorations of themes. Consider my video to be the Albert Rosenfield and Twin Perfect's to be the Phillip Jeffries.

[@jaythoven_]

twin perfect’s video is an interpretation not a summary/explanation of the in universe and he focuses too much of his meta narrative interpretation it takes away the value of the story

[@msw8839]

@@RecapAndChill You did a wonderful job! Thank you.

[@rentstoohigh1587]

Shut up nerd

[@jaba134]

First season: 9, second season: 8, third season: 5.

[@headlessnedstark]

Love the recap - I am currently doing watch parties on my channel and tomorrow (Twin Peaks Day!) I am dropping a video essay 8 months in the making! #headlesshorde

[@jeraimee]

Is this video quieter than normal?

[@lavishmisfittink3214]

After watching this show I was confused scared and felt weird asl I have a reoccurring dream about that red curtain place and I always run away from it

[@redquoter]

Thoughts on Twin Perfect's analysis?

[@iatethebenjamin]

I really tried to understand and watch this show . Super confusing

[@jay_nyc10]

Please Recap & Chill do Gotham

[@Vulioll]

Good video, but Leland was never a good person. That is made clear by the movie, which shows that Leland himself abused Laura (by his own will).

[@barkeyes8592]

After watching this I can totally understand why I had no interest in watching this show. 😂

[@juanita-dark]

Watch up until Leland dies and then the S2 finale, then FWWM, and then stop. It's a great show if you do that.

[@markvanderwerf8592]

​@@juanita-darkdid that but did feel I was missing a ton of stuff. Watched up till S2 E10 then skipped to S2 E20 after reading up the wiki synopsis for those 10 episodes. Just couldn't get through them so boring. But the last 3 episodes then have whole bunch of characters hadn't seen yet etc so didn't really like them. Couldn't care for Annie for example nor the whole Windom Earle thing.

[@chch359]

Show produced from the sick minds of David Lynch and Mike Frost.

[@ScreamQueenObv]

I named my son Cooper because I love this show sooooo much x

[@rentstoohigh1587]

Your husband is a simp for letting you do that

[@EnliveningJustice]

@@rentstoohigh1587 that's an overly emotional response for what a stranger named their kid. Damn, you're miserable.

[@villevanttinen908]

The basic idea is stolen from Gerard Nervals book Aurelia.

[@blahanger4304]

LMAO FüM.......

[@mariosolis4337]

lol dude just watching clips of this show im just like wtf lol Twin peaks is a show thats cool to hear about but i think unless its your thing not necessarily to watch

[@riaglitta]

He did this very linearly, but it's not a linear series - and a lot of this has many many layers that do not come through with a superficial recap of just the events as they are.

[@staceyboomboom8031]

I grew up when this came out in the 90's. It was groundbreaking. Without Twin Peaks, there would have been no X Files.

[@colinbaird7825]

dude....I normally love your recaps and I know you have to introduce characters but there was like 40 people you set up in 3 minutes lol

[@Shahzeb1988]

Great recap, but this show was a bunch was mumbo jumbo, like any other Lynch vehicle. Anyone can put together random scenarios and call it a great puzzle to uncover

[@gestefanobriones]

I've heard of twin peaks being a classic but it seems terrible lol to much going on. And was that Agent Molder from the X-files dressed as a woman?

[@JamesCasatelli]

Minor correction: The FBI was brought in specifically because Ronette crossed a state line, not because the locals were in over there head (although they were, in reality).

[@willholly1844]

After watching this I'm glad I never watched any of the related media this video recapped. Anyone ever participate in that exercise where someone starts a story and passes the paper to the next person to write the next paragraph and the next person and so on until every one in the group takes a turn and you end up with a story of great ridiculous nonsense. That's exactly what this series seems like. Every week they hired a new writer to create an episode until they produced this crap.

[@jamesn7156]

I gave up after season 9. Just watched this and so glad I did. Season 5 was the last enjoyable season. The stories just got too whacky. Too many characters and cheap storylines. Thanks to this though, glad I’m caught up for The Ones Who Live. Apparently I didn’t miss much, but episode 1 of the Rick show is really good so far.

[@Ryan_404]

self-indulgent, meaningless slop

[@NickelAntonius]

First

[@dannyknightblade4592]

The first season of Twin Peaks was solid; but the show started to go downhill afterwards. Especially the third season. Twin Peaks: The Return was very poorly written. Hardcore David Lynch stans refuse to admit this; and they create their own creative and interesting theories to make up for the third season's incoherent writing.

[@kkuwana]

Says the guy who never written anything in his life. Enjoy getting paid minimum wage

[@dannyknightblade4592]

@@kkuwana Dude, there's no need for you to polish David Lynch's b@lls. He doesn't need you to defend his piss poor writing. I'm sure he makes a lot more money than a lot of people for producing the trash he produces. Also, you don't know me personally, so it's quite presumptuous of you to assume I've never written anything; as well as you assuming how much money I make.

[@Artur-Itas]

IT WAS KRAP!!!!!!!!!! PRETENTIOUS AND POMPOUS TO THE CORE. AN ACID TRIP OF NOTHINGNESS.

[@juanita-dark]

​@@dannyknightblade4592I actually think that Lynch let Mark Frost take over the writing for the most part, to make up for missing most of S2. Unfortunately, Frost has certain propensities and Lynch wasn't interested in revisiting nostalgia, so we got what we got.

[@scrollmadnessmedia]

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