Twin Peaks

[Goliath]

Best stunt casting since they had Leonard Nimoy on T J Hooker.

 

[Kegg]

I actually watched Twin Peaks a month or so ago, after giving up on the show after I saw the first season a year prior to that.

The short version is I like a lot of the show's more unsettling and surreal elements (typically the stuff David Lynch was actually involved on, there's episodes in the series when he's away where people try to be Lynchian and fall flat), I liked Dale Cooper a lot - he's an unfailingly earnest Boy Scout and the centerpiece of the show; and there's some other stuff, Ben Horne typically, uh...

But... so much of the actual series - and I include the first season here - wallowed in some really dull soap opera plotting. Most of the show's relationship material, for example. I just couldn't care less for the majority of the program. I understand this was the age of Dallas and Twin Peaks was screwing around wih that notion a little, but it often just seemed to be a self-aware soap opera with some weirdness on the sides more then it was a fun TV series.

 

[Aragorn]

Bump to remind Twin Peaks fans about tonight's Psych.

Episode is called "Dual Spires."

 

[DevilEyes]

I actually watched Twin Peaks a month or so ago, after giving up on the show after I saw the first season a year prior to that.

The short version is I like a lot of the show's more unsettling and surreal elements (typically the stuff David Lynch was actually involved on, there's episodes in the series when he's away where people try to be Lynchian and fall flat), I liked Dale Cooper a lot - he's an unfailingly earnest Boy Scout and the centerpiece of the show; and there's some other stuff, Ben Horne typically, uh...

But... so much of the actual series - and I include the first season here - wallowed in some really dull soap opera plotting. Most of the show's relationship material, for example. I just couldn't care less for the majority of the program. I understand this was the age of Dallas and Twin Peaks was screwing around wih that notion a little, but it often just seemed to be a self-aware soap opera with some weirdness on the sides more then it was a fun TV series.

I agree with that. I loved the plot about Laura, and Cooper and all the dreams and weirdness, and it had some of the most memorable scenes in the history of TV, such as the one where we find out who the killer is, and the episode where Cooper uncovers the killer... But most of the other plots and all of the relationship stuff is really bad. I remember when I first watched the show, the character I cared for the most was Laura, and she was dead all the time. It was really hard to care for most of them. And it gets really bad in season 2 after Laura's murder is solved and the show becomes aimless. I gave up watching the show at that point, twice. I finally saw the last few episodes only because I was told that this is where it picks up again and where Lynch comes back... and those last couple of episodes and the ending are really exciting, too bad there has never been a resolution.

Overall, Twin Peaks was a very important and innovative show that changed TV and paved the way for so many of the later great TV shows of the 1990s and 2000s, but in itself I can't say that it's one of the best shows of all time - I'm not sure if I can even call it that good... It's just too inconsistent in quality, some stories and episodes and scenes are completely amazing, while others are mediocre or just bad.

 

[Kirkman1987]

So did anybody watch The Psych episode? I'm watching it right now, real cool tribute. I especially like The Peaks styled version of the Psych theme.

 

[the G-man]

‘Twin Peaks’ Creators Lynch and Frost Tease Potential Return

 

[publiusr]

One can only hope. Fenn was also in Ray Donovan.