Much like the show itself, your appreciation of
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier - by the show's co-creator Mark Frost - will vary wildly, depending on what elements of
Twin Peaks you enjoy.
For me, I'm all about the weirdness and mystery, so I was largely disappointed by this new publication (which I consumed as an audiobook), but still found some elements to spark my curiosity.
Annie Wersching returns from The Secret History Of Twin Peaks audiobook to reprise her role as FBI agent (and now Blue Rose Task Force member) Tamara Preston, a role played on the show by Chrysta Bell.
Unlike the previous tome, there are no additional voice actors here, it's a straight three-hour reading of the 160-page book, which comprises 18 chapters - case files - compiled by Agent Preston after the events of the most recent season of Twin Peaks.
And therein lies the rub.
Given what happens at the end of the third season, you'd expect a book calling itself The Final Dossier to address those issues with great gusto.
And it does. Eventually.
Almost three-quarters of The Final Dossier is devoted to exploring the soap opera lives of the supporting characters of Twin Peaks , delivered in a style that, to be honest, reminded me of text book plot summaries of novels or movies.
Or a writer's bullet point character notes that he refers to when penning his magnum opus, but are generally too mundane to include in the finished work.
Did we need pages and pages on the life of Donna Hayward or Norma's step-mum? Or Dr Jacobi's journey from the original series to his life as an online self-help guru?
Sure, there's some nice stuff on some fan-favourite characters, but the meat comes with the occasional (but often brief) entries directly related to the core mystery of the show, such as rogue FBI agent Windom Earle, Major Briggs, and, of course, David Bowie's memorable Phillip Jeffries.
It's only really in the last few chapters, that address the events of the series - as seen from the FBI perspective - that things get really good.
The Final Dossier doesn't give answers (I wouldn't expect that from anything officially connected to the show), but it gives some strong hints, and useful additional details.
The afterword - in particular - dealing with the real world effects of Agent Cooper's second mysterious disappearance are subtly heady.
It's these final chapters that, ultimately, elevate The Final Dossier above a hard-back edition of Soap Opera Digest and make me wonder if we will ever find out what has become of Cooper and Laura Palmer?
More than ever, your mileage may vary...
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