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?
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)
I like it mostly because the characters are incredibly easy to care about and connect to, and the depiction of a small town in the pacific northwest is so enchanting. It feels like a soap opera at times but in the best way possible.
The rest of it is incomprehensible but it really adds to the dreaminess of it all.
I respect any piece of media that executes on an artists vision, and twin peaks is so Lynchian that it deserves at least a try.
Also find it interesting how it’s almost impossible to fit it into an archetype. You can almost never guess if someone will like Twin Peaks or not.
I’ve only seen bits a and pieces of it and so this is what I know of:
1990s show with 1950s aesthetics and pacing.
The mystery message explained after 200+ episodes of 20+ minutes:
“TV is bad y’all, go read a book”I don’t think that’s the message of the show at all tbh.
/u/folaht woke up this morning not realizing that their book report was due and hadn’t got around to reading past the first page.
I think anyone who claims to fully understand it can be safely ignored. It’s not supposed to be understood, it’s supposed to be felt. Lynch intentionally tries to invoke a dreamlike feeling, where things simultaneously feel internally consistent and incomprehensibly bizarre. There are certainly things to understand, but there are also things which are meant more to inspire an idea of something that could be understood, without having a concrete explanation. That’s part of the magic.
I think the middle of season 2, when he stepped away
to work on Blue Velvet, is frustratingly weak, but they got there in the end. I think The Return was good, but not quite as good.Overall I love it and reference it frequently.
Blue Velvet was released in 1986, years before TP. I think you mean Wild at Heart, as it’s frequently said that he left the show to work on that. However that’s not actually the case either. He just stepped back from the show because he was unhappy with being forced to reveal the killer.
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
I’m not a fan. I just don’t like anything David Lynch has made outside the original Dune movie. I can’t really defend my position, it’s just a personal taste thing.
If it helps, David Lynch would appreciate and enjoy that you don’t feel compelled to defend your position.
I think I’m in the same place. I live in the PNW and whenever I tell people I haven’t watched Twin Peaks it feels like a sin. But I recently regretted watching Blue Velvet and can’t manage to get more than a few episodes into Twin Peaks, thinking his style is just not for me.
I feel the same way
Peak television
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.
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 guess I like the plaid tops more than the hooters tank tops, but otherwise it’s just standard chain restaurant food. Nothing too special.
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,[a] 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.
