17 tweets that perfectly sum up the reaction to the new Twin Peaks

TV doesn’t get more brilliantly confusing than this. Last night (or very very early this morning for the 2am simulcast, we should say), the first two episodes of the new Twin Peaks finally aired, set a whole 25 years after the original mystery drama finished.

And straight from the goosebump-inducing titles, fans were swept away with Peaks fever…

https://twitter.com/BriNott/status/866461750442569728

Which quickly gave way to the show’s default emotion: sheer terrifying confusion…

https://twitter.com/DirtyDarnow/status/866462767338967042

Why? Well, firstly it turned out that Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) hasn't exactly been his old self for the past 24 year; the slick FBI man has been replaced by his evil doppelganger, a long-haired, grubby-shirt-wearing man.

https://twitter.com/wolffgirrl/status/866464815170162689

Yes, you heard: long-haired.

https://twitter.com/HotelFoxtrot/status/866485224145866756

But fear not, as the real Agent Cooper was trapped in the lodge from season two all this time. And the Lodge Cooper has been keeping his hair in fine condition…

You vs. The man she tells you not to worry about #twinpeaks pic.twitter.com/CVq58MXbQH

— Burning in HECK (@DeadBologna) May 22, 2017

cooper: is sittin' in the lodge with his sweet little suit
me: ??????
cooper: possessed by BOB with ugly ass lennon hair
me: pic.twitter.com/QcyVsZAzr3

— baby quinn (@prismobot) May 22, 2017

But this Lodge Cooper wasn’t just sitting around all nice and short-haired. He was chatting to a mysterious entity...

Not the suited dwarf played by Michael J Anderson, but a brain on a tree that sparkles with electricity. Of course.

https://twitter.com/theGiftHatch/status/866516687763406848

And he also got chatting to an older version of a certain Laura Palmer…

https://twitter.com/NevAriJason/status/866492913659789313

Who revealed the light with her face. Nope, nobody else understood that either.

https://twitter.com/icequeentt/status/866486755565940737

And then came a cube. THE cube. Somewhere in New York City, a young man was tasked to watch over a large glass box. What’s inside it? Nobody knows…

https://twitter.com/KittySmores/status/866466557224005633

Which was all part of an off-beat opening, one that made viewers remember why Twin Peaks creator David lynch is king of surreal TV.