Yeah, ultimately, solving the mystery was a mistake and it's the kind of seismic shift that's really hard for a show to just kind of... keep going after.

But I really think that season 2 gets a lot more hate than it deserves. There's definitely a rough period after they wrap up the solving of the mystery, but I think they did manage to rebound after a certain point, and there's a lot of good after that point. There are still flaws, and it's not as good as season1, but it's still pretty good television. The stretch of episodes that really struggle is not as big as many make it out to be.

And yeah, The Return is fantastic. The Secret History of Twin Peaks and The Final Dossier are also a lot of fun. They work as a great story, and the format, the structure of how the story is told, is so interesting and works so well. They do, of course, work best in tandem with the series. There are some bits in the book that can make you kind of obsess over "is this just a mistake, or is Frost trying to tell us something about what's happening in canon" that end up being kind of frustrating, though.

The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer and The Autobiography of Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes are also really interesting additions and quite good.