Here's my humble opinion, once again it's a slow burner that becomes more interesting, under the described circumstances, the events leading to the unveil of the murderer got me more hooked, and contrary to what is popular opinion, the last half of the second season was actually very enjoyable, sure it seemed a bit like "filler" and focusing majorly on the sub-plots, however for me even with the disclosure of the murderer there were clear questions to be answered and I wasn't satisfied so I wanted to see more and to know what exactly are we dealing with here? Another issue was that apparently once the murder was revealed, Lynch distanced himself from the project and audiences dropped dramatically.
Some of the most crucial demands were for instance, Lynch didn't want to reveal the murder, but the channel put pressure in avoiding this (personally I wouldn't have liked an unsolved mystery, no matter what people say I hate those types of scripts, the ones where you "leave it to the imagination of the viewer" sound simply lazy).
It seems however that in the "backstage", more specifically on the production of the series, a lot of things were happening, apparently there was a constant "fight" between Lynch and ABC (the channel where the series were being broadcast), and since Lynch has such a unique approach to the movie industry apparently his ideas didn't go well with the people on ABC, so a lot of his creativity was blocked.
So for the standard of the 90s this was some groundbreaking television series that set the tone for nowadays approach for the best TV series, and in that regard it has my absolute respect. Somehow as the series progresses these characters who I might say are the heart of the show, start to grow on you, and also not less important, the atmosphere around this small town has an hypnotic attraction to it, with the help of the soundtrack and the unconventional style of David Lynch, it becomes more and more engaging as the story unfolds. Sure there are a lot of quirky characters and innovative direction going on, yet not enough for me to care, at least at the start. The show didn't hook me from the start, it was a slow burner, and with all the amazing crime mystery genre content that has been going around these days (yes I am looking at you season 1 of True Detective) I didn't find the story that interesting in the beginning. The premise of the show seems very simple, a high school girl is murdered under very disturbing circumstances, so everyone is eager to understand what happened, who did this? And this is where agent Copper (played amazingly by Kyle MacLachlan) enters the picture, an FBI agent sent to the small town of Twin Peaks, where the murder occurred and his journey to unveil this strange mystery with the help of local police. Also this was my first exposure to David Lynch, so cut me some slack in getting use to his approach of cinema and television.
I am not sure how to divide this review properly so I'll start by addressing the fact that this will be for the first 2 seasons of Twin Peaks, and the third season (that came out 26 years later in 2017) will get a review of its own. All right, I was caught off guard on this one, I had no background or knowledge of all the events and cult following phenomenon behind this show, and there's a lot to tell about Twin Peaks.