After several months, I finally finished watching the entire Twin Peaks series and the movie Fire Walk with Me. For me, there’s no doubt that it’s a masterpiece, in fact, I think the movie can only be understood after watching the third season. What do you think of Twin Peaks? Do you think you understood it? What’s your take on it?
Believing I was watching Fire Walk With Me, I was actually watching the extra scenes. Given TP is TP I just thought “what the hell”. Watched all seasons but not fwwm. Yet.
It’s probably my favourite piece of media ever. I’ve never seen anything else that is able to blend comedy, surrealism, horror and satire into one thing the way twin peaks does. I’ve definitely allowed to become a core part of my personality.
Love the music, and liked what i saw of the first season, but I haven’t continued watching it for whatever reason; I typically do not watch television in general though.
That it’s probably time to go watch it again and see if it holds my interest well enough to watch the third season. I’ve seen the first two and maybe the movie? But that was easily 15 years ago.
If nothing else though, Kyle MacLachlan is a treasure to watch and an absolute dreamboat.
Be aware that season 3 is completely different. In fact Lynch considered it a separate thing (The Return) instead of season 3. While The Return has great moments and ardent fans, I think it’s good to know you’ll be in for a different ride.
Would strongly advise watching the movie before S3 (but after S1 and 2) to get the most out of the final season.
Likewise in fallout; he’s aging REALLY well and I hate that he looks younger than I do despite me being literally decades younger. Lol
Whenever I see him, I always see The Flintstones and think he hasn’t aged a day.
Oh my. I’ve only seen like 2 episodes of fallout and forgot he was in the first one, so I just looked him up and other than some extra silver he appears to have barely aged from when he played the mayor on Portlandia 10-15 years ago.
I forgot that he was on the Flintstones and now I feel like watching it. Lol
Hot damn, so he was! I had completely forgotten that too until you said it.
EDIT to add that there’s a TP community here on Lemmy. It’s quiet, but it’s a place folk on this thread might find both wonderful and strange…
https://lemmy.world/c/twinpeaks [email protected]
At its frequent best, it’s the finest TV around. It had a very rocky spell in the second half of season 2, but the final episode of that season was a masterpiece.
I absolutely love Season 3 as well.
IMO though, the film, Fire Walk With Me is the absolute pinnacle of the world of Twin Peaks, and indeed of Lynch’s output. I don’t really agree that you need to see Season 3 to understand FWWM, it’s pretty straightforward if you know the first two seasons fairly well, but I certainly think it adds an interesting further dimension to the film.
I’ll take this opportunity to plug a SUPERB video series on the show from a creator called Joel Bocko, who goes by Lost in the Movies on YT. His work is always fascinating, but the thing he’s best known for is his absolutely epic series Journey Through Twin Peaks. It’s a 40-chapter (and still growing) series covering the show, less from a “let’s work out the puzzles and clues” point of view and more from a cinematic, thematic and emotional perspective, including comparisons with old movies which may have influenced Frost and Lynch.
It’s marvellous, and deserves a hell of a lot more attention than it gets (and certainly more than the notorious 4 hour Twin Perfect video)
Season 1 is excellent. I rewatch it every year or two.
Season 2 is a struggle at times. I do rewatch it, just not as often.
Season 3 I’ve only watched once when it aired, but remember liking it. I’m due for a rewatch of it soon. It however didn’t capture the same kind of magic as Season 1.
Fire Walk With Me is a necessary viewing, but I’ve always been on the fence about how I felt about it. Or rather, if I felt it was a necessary installment.
I find season 1 to be consistently great.
For me season 2 lacks the consistency and it’s quality varies a lot. I find the best of season 2 to be incredible, but I also find the worst of season 2 to be drab and poor.
Look up which season 2 episodes Lynch was involved in, and which ones he wasn’t. For me, the drop in quality perfectly aligns with his brief departure.
And his comeback on the show is epic!
That’s true, but also it suffers from the fact that they were forced to reveal the killer mid season, thus robbing the show of its core dramatic driver. For a while they just didn’t know what to do with the world they’d built.
It didn’t age well.
Peak television
“Oh Mr Jeffries, the shit it come out of my ass!”
“This is the water, this is the well. Drink deep and descend.”
It was fascinating in its time. I never finished it though, despite being a David lynch fan
It was filmed super close to where I live so that’s cool. I wasn’t able to get into it as a show though
Masterpiece. Enough said
Even Lost wasn’t that ridiculous.
Lost wasn’t trying to be ridiculous, but got close. Damon Lindelof is a terrible writer who thinks “mystery” means “random unexplainable bullshit”.
David Lynch was doing it on purpose.
David Lynch isn’t for the literarily ignorant.
It was intended to be so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_realism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective “Lynchian”. He is often credited with bringing surrealism and experimentalism to mainstream media in the late 20th century.
I guess I like the plaid tops more than the hooters tank tops, but otherwise it’s just standard chain restaurant food. Nothing too special.
Damn fine piece of art!
