Members Sylph Posted March 20, 2010 Members Share Posted March 20, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted March 21, 2010 Members Share Posted March 21, 2010 One of my top 3 shows--but I wish Frost would get as much credit as Lynch does for the show... As the Gold Box makes clear, the show woulda become derailed much much sooner without him there doing the episodic plotting. Frost did the framework--Lynch coloured it in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted March 21, 2010 Members Share Posted March 21, 2010 God how I love TWIN PEAKS. Working my way through Season 2 right now. That's the notion I always had as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bright Eyes Posted March 21, 2010 Members Share Posted March 21, 2010 I only watched the first season. I don't know why I'm so lazy to watch the 2nd/final one. The show is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted March 21, 2010 Members Share Posted March 21, 2010 Twin Peaks remains one of the finest things on television, ever. Very little made since touches it; it was way ahead of its time, ahead of the medium, still is. Pathetic junior high imitators like Lost are excrement on its heels. There's nothing organic or inspired about those shows; they're constructed from spare parts and instruction manuals on "how to be like Twin Peaks." Lost and its ilk are Twin Peaks for underachievers who think it would be much improved by more slow motion, twinkling piano music, shipper fanbases and Coldplay. I happen to think Season 2 is very good, and it's actually my favorite for the wild confluence of ideas and directions. Even the "bad" episodes are far better and more wildly creative than anything currently out there. Meanwhile, maybe someday Sylph will post a soap opera thread at Soap Opera Network in which he discusses a soap opera he enjoys and admires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted March 21, 2010 Members Share Posted March 21, 2010 YRBB, have you, in a weird way, gotten a TP vibe when watching Peyton Place? I know it was a bit of an influence, but, that was one of the appeals to me. Amello Season 2 has a LOT of great stuff in it. Some genuine lame-ness, but it's more than worth watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted March 21, 2010 Members Share Posted March 21, 2010 Sylph only likes to argue in the negative, and then see what others post I like Lost, but do largely agree. Amazing what ABC let them get away with (and the fact that it went from such a ratings powerhouse to a flop so quickly). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted March 21, 2010 Members Share Posted March 21, 2010 Hmmm... perhaps the fact that they are both shows about very closed up, almost suffocating communities... and they're both very atmospheric, they both have this wide selection of characters that can be sinister yet lovable. Yes, I kinda see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alexisfan07 Posted March 21, 2010 Members Share Posted March 21, 2010 Twin Peaks LOST is one of my favorite shows. As much as I love Twin Peaks, LOST is more well-rounded in terms of storyline potential. Twin Peaks, while it had its humor, was largely dark and violent and I could see an argument for misogynistic, though I won't go there. LOST plays at love, redemption, and while strange, doesn't dabble into Bob and Red Room strange. Side comment, I would love to hear everyone's least liked character and plot line from Twin Peaks. I'd have to say that James is easily my most hated character and his storyline with the woman with the husband was horrific, though he and Donna easily win worst couple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnCCorinthos4ever Posted March 21, 2010 Members Share Posted March 21, 2010 I loved Twin Peaks. For me it was a much watch show. I even got the book "Laura Palmer's Diary" Watching Desperate Housewifes it is hard to image that Orson was Agent Cooper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dm. Posted March 21, 2010 Members Share Posted March 21, 2010 I have this TV show on my DVD, yet I never got around to watch it. Same thing happened with Veronica Mars, but once I started watching that series I couldn't believe I didn't watch it before because it turned out to be one of the best TV series ever made in the US. So maybe I should give Twin Peaks a shot... if I find time, heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted October 23, 2010 Author Members Share Posted October 23, 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/oct/22/twin-peaks-battersea-festival Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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