I would like to say I have some standards, but I would watch whatever Twin Peaks product is put out there – good, bad, indifferent, a prequel, a sequel, a reboot, some completely different story set in the universe of Twin Peaks, whatever.
I know it makes me sound like a crazy geezer, but DANG, THESE KIDS TODAY, they have no idea how completely different Twin Peaks was when it came out. It was like utterly new television. Even at its worst, what it was trying to do had a million more levels than just about anything else out there. And the fandom, on the fledgling internet, was like a whole new on its own.
There does seem to be some interest in it among younger people, especially since it’s been on NetFlix.
There was a Red Room recreation at the 2014 Burning Man festival.
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen the two shows compared, but I honestly don’t get the connection. Is it mostly because Michael J. Anderson is in both? Even though they both deal with demons and the supernatural, they are so tonally, narratively, and visually different from each other.
Wouldn’t it be cool if it could pick up where it left off 25 years ago? I can imagine a network like Showtime sinking money into the process because of how much it could save them in the future by not having to use real actors.
I saw a young woman in Greenwich Village last Halloween wrapped in plastic. I spoke to her and she said I was only the second person who knew what her costume was. Sad.
Don Davis, who played Major Garland Briggs, died in 2008.
Exactly! I loved the first season and thought they should’ve just wrapped it up then. Stretching it out to two seasons just made it veer into camp and self-parody. And that ending - ugh! How cruel to do that to Agent Cooper. Hated hated hated it.
But I’ll probably check out the new series for completeness’s sake.