If you think you hate Season 2 of Twin Peaks—or at least the goofy episodes that aired after the show revealed who killed Laura Palmer—allow us to introduce you to David Lynch. The auteur filmmaker, who co-created the cult hit, has long been the show’s greatest critic, and he’s proving that once again on the press tour for the show’s upcoming revival. In a recent interview with TVLine, Lynch was characteristically frank, as usual, about his thoughts on the series.

“The pilot is the only thing I am particularly, extremely proud of. There were great moments along the way,” he said. “The second season sucked.”

For Twin Peaks neophytes, Season 2 is widely regarded as an absurd derailment of the show’s excellent first season, a campy affair that has long been ridiculed by critics. Lynch, who was still attached to the series at that time, directed Season 2’s first two episodes and the finale. He largely blames the show’s original network, ABC, for ruining the second season. The premise of the entire series revolved around the murder of a high-school student named Laura Palmer. The first season kept the killer a mystery, but by the time the second season rolled around, network execs were pressing Lynch to reveal who the killer was.

“‘Who killed Laura Palmer?’ was a question that we never really wanted to answer,” Lynch explained earlier this year. “That was the goose that laid these golden eggs. And at a certain point, we were told to wrap that up, and it never really got back going after that.”

The killer—Laura’s father, Leland Palmer—was revealed in the seventh episode of the second season, which is when Lynch believes the show began its downward spiral. In a recent interview with The New York Times, he eviscerated the second season even more:

“It got very stupid and goofy in the second season; it got ridiculous,” Mr. Lynch said. Per the Times, Lynch “was not involved with the show after Laura’s killer was revealed.”

“I stopped watching that show because it got so bad,” he admitted.

And in another interview with Vulture, Lynch again addressed the second season, saying “we were never able to get going creatively” after Laura’s killer was revealed. It echoes a sentiment he gave the Daily Beast in 2014, promising he “had very little to do with Season 2, and I’m not happy with it.”

David Lynch—the undefeated champion of hating Season 2 of Twin Peaks! The director will get his chance to set the record straight, however, once his 18-episode revival of the cult series begins airing May 21 on Showtime. Fire up a cup of coffee and get yourself a slice of some damn fine cherry pie in order to more perfectly witness Lynch’s ultimate redemption.