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A review by canadiantiquarian
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost

1.0

The Final Dossier is nothing more than an embarrassingly half-arsed attempt at more fan service and more money. It is a series of short, sometimes incomplete summaries about what happened to some (not all, sorry Andy/Lucy fans) popular characters from Twin Peaks (mixed with a few confirmations of theories about The Return, like the identity of the black and white girl). This is pure fan fiction without any attempt at replicating the art it's trying to honour.

The Final Dossier reads like Frost sat down with a few stiff drinks and amused himself with daydreams about how Twin Peaks characters would interact with our modern world. It doesn't read like a damn fine attempt to put a blue rose on top of this mystery.

Once upon a time, there was a hit show called Twin Peaks. Years later, it returned and was torn apart by loyal fans desperate for more, the director's disinterest in the old story, and the co-creator's penchant for over-explaining. They once came together to make a strange, thoughtful, and wonderfully surreal whole; now they use their Twin Peaks instalments to argue back and forth about how to build and tell the story... and hell, even what the story actually is.