I just went on a Netflix “Watch Instantly” binge to see the entire Twin Peaks series (all 30 episodes) in just over a week!
The ending sucks at least as bad as it did back in 1991. But the show makes much more sense than it did and the characters are just as weird.
Anybody else done the Netflix thing yet? If not, I recommend it!
In the extreme unlikelihood that somebody does want to watch it for the first time, and doesn’t want to know what happens, please spoiler anything specific you may want to discuss in this thread.
Otherwise, generic reviews and commentary ought not need spoilers.
I still think the main reason to watch the show is Sherilyn Fenn!
I have it on DVD, and I keep wanting to watch it through. I never seem to find the time though, and I don’t know if the roomie would be interested. Sometime though, I’m going to sit down with some cherry pie and a damned fine cup of coffee and watch them again.
I think what lit the fire (walk with me) under me this time was the discussion of the AMC The Killing series and how similar the mood and setting are to TP.
It was so easy to watch on Netflix that I just got into it and couldn’t stop.
I find that I have much more affinity for Lynch these days than I did back then.
I remember hating that aspect of the show back then. The long delays between episodes were also downers to the enjoyment of what was left. To my way of thinking the silly running around in the drapes in the last episode sort of screamed out, “Fuck you, America, and especially you asshole network dweebs!”
I just watched the pilot on Netflix streaming as well, but haven’t had time to go past it. I am impressed with how well the pilot, at least, holds up. Really well done television. I remember being disappointed in the ending to the series, but honestly, it’s been so long since I’ve seen it, I forget the exact details. Hopefully I’ll be able to watch the rest of it over the coming weeks.
But wow, that’s a great soundtrack. I need to pick that up again. My CD of it is long gone, apparently.
Is that what it was? I just remember him saying he really didn’t have much interest in the stuff that happened after the reveal and that the show was all downhill from there.
The series had no ending – it had a season-ending cliffhanger. The last episode broadcast was not intended to be a final episode, but was setting up the plot for the next season.
An analogous case was the TV series Galaxy Quest.
The show did stall after the first season, but picked up about halfway through. Diane Keaton directed a couple of excellent episodes.
One thought that occurred to me as I was racing through the episodes was how much fun it might be to make a list of all the plot threads that were just turned loose of. The idea that a third season may have been in somebody’s mind might help explain why so many things are just left in mid-thread.
About all we know for sure is that Cooper probably would have a headache in the next episode.
That damn nested Chinese box bothered me for a long time!
Did anybody else have a real laugh over “the sycamores”?
This show was always about the journey, not the destination. Regardless of the overarching plot of the series, each individual episode had enough quirks to keep me watching. I really loved this show and have watched the series in its entirety twice. And I always enjoyed the bizarre sub-plots.
Angelo Badalamenti is great. In addition to all of Lynch’s movies, he also did the music for the hilarious Secretary with James Spader + Maggie Gyllenhall.
I just did the same thing a couple weeks ago, but I had never seen it before. I love it, but the ending was definitely a cliff hanger that was never resolved.
I think that I read somewhere that David Lynch never wanted the murderer to be revealed, but was pressured into it by the network. I think he really stopped caring much about the show after that.
I thought the ending was perfect–you don’t need to know what happens next, the imagination is quite sufficient. Admitted, getting there started to seem a little slow in spots…
I didn’t watch the series when it first came out. I watched the whole lot right through recently when my wife bought me the full gold boxed set. I thought it sheer magic in parts particularly at the beginning but then patchy and then just awful. It was only dogged determination to see the series through that got me to the end.
The first series is just brilliance but part of the brilliance IMHO is that it is intriguingly weird and mysterious, yet done in such a way that you feel that it is all going to have some interesting and satisfying resolution.
[spoiler]Then you gradually realise that the writers are basically doing quirky with no frickin’ idea where they are going with it all and so the endings they then have to write are lame and unsatisfying.
I agree with AT that the show was a journey not a destination, but it seems like a journey that is going to have a destination and it’s disappointing when you realise that it doesn’t.
I’ve spoilered this whole bit because it’s a paradox: if you know that it is going to be a journey without a destination, you won’t be as frustrated when it turns out otherwise, but then I don’t think you will enjoy the journey as much while taking it. So I guess it’s probably more fun to just enjoy the dream while it lasts, even if it is frustrating when you wake up, than to know it is a dream all along and consequently never be able to enjoy it.[/spoiler]
I did not watch TP when it was on TV, but I own the Gold Box. I liked it all the way through, but yeah, a 3rd season would have been nice. It goes a bit downhill after the big revalation, but the final episode was pretty great. And Agent Cooper is one of my favorite TV characters ever.
