The second season of Twin Peaks is… yeah.

Though the finale is quite special. Try to power through to it. Best of luck making it through the James Out of Town Fieldtrip.

The thing with Twin Peaks is the people who love it recognize some of it is bad. It’s a bit like Doctor Who in that you’ve got moments of brilliance mixed in with some real dreck. But when it’s good… there’s really nothing out there like it before or since.

The other issue you’re likely running into is that if all you got out of s1 is that the storylines are good… you’re likely missing all the stuff Twin Peaks is doing under the hood. There are many hourslong youtube video tongue baths that will make their cases on what Twin Peaks is “really”about. But, personally, I’ve found it hard to ignore that a LOT of the “random” shit in Twin Peaks concerns itself with criticizing modern (well, 90s) television storytelling sacred cows as well as the average television viewer themselves.

Anyway, tl;dr: Twin Peaks is both amazing and awful. It invites and requires flexing some critical thinking meta analysis muscles most prestige TV, even the quality shit we churn today, does not require.