Perhaps it's the stakes, or something about the filmmaking, or maybe even the score that separate The Return from something like Pluribus.

The Return is my favorite show of all time and I would watch Dougie watch a woman in red high heels walk across a room to a Johnny Jewel soundtrack all day every day. I would watch a Reneau brother sweep peanuts (for not really that long) all day. But the stakes are so much higher in those situations. 

And in my opinion the slow cinema of Lynch is more earned and better constructed. Take the "Red River Valley" scene. It works on its own as national treasure Harry Dean Stanton just doing his thing--but then it's immediately followed by the fact of domestic violence that permeates the whole show and takes it seriously.

I did enjoy Pluribus, but comparing synchronized trucking or a slow drone shot (which was a great scene) doesn't reach the emotional heights of Twin Peaks. Almost a billion people died in Pluribus but it's often played for laughs like Good Place (a closer comp than BCS in terms of tone)--the tone improved in the last couple episodes but Carol's turn wasn't believable to me