"Set during the last week of Laura Palmer’s life, Fire Walk With Me finds Sheryl Lee giving a wrenching, largely unsung performance as the wayward homecoming queen, with her Laura going through cycles of abuse at the hands of her father Leland and the malevolent spirit possessing him known as Bob. It ends moments before the show begins, with Laura’s brutal murder and subsequent embrace by the angels that were absent throughout her brief life.
"The point of this strange prequel was never to let us in on what became of these characters after the show ended. It was to clarify how they came to be in the first place and serve as an after-the-fact manifesto. Even more than most of Lynch’s films, Fire Walk with Me requires the viewer to get on its wavelength — in addition to being characteristically strange, it thoroughly resists being the exercise in fan service that so many craved.” - IndieWire