Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

or he's in the red room

is this the hot or not thread now or

The fuck?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks_(restaurant_chain)

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118085/twin-peaks-foodie-breastaurant-how-it-compares-hooters

mary jo deschanel was also a regular cast member

Rashida Jones' mom was a cast member, too! Peggy Lipton. I wonder if any other parents of sitcom staples were on Twin Peaks?

"breastaurant"

This is the most disgusting word.

that he was distracted from TP by making the slop that was Wild at Heart is tragicomic, tho

Isn't this all a bit of a myth about TP? Something that people use to explain away the drop in quality in S2? I thought he'd already started to step away by midway through S1 and that Frost drove a lot of the actual writing. I don't think he was considerably less involved in mid-S2 as he was in the latter half of S1. And of course Lynch actually turns up onscreen in a chunk of S2.

There's one of those Twin Peaks breastaurants around the corner from my work, but I've managed to avoid it so far.

Lawsuits[edit]
In 2009, the parent company of Twin Peaks sued a competitor in a Texas Federal Court. The plaintiffs alleged their competitor planned to open a chain of competing "breastaurants" named "Northern Exposure" which used waitress uniforms similar to those of Twin Peaks.[11]

terrible, now if there were a One-Eyed Jack's chain....

my sincere hope for this new series is that Lynch and Frost don't bother too much with picking back up on the various plot threads from the original series. I would much rather they use the freedom and budget afforded by a modern-day cable drama series to just go wild and make something much more in line with Lynch's film work stretched across 9 hours.

mary jo deschanel was also a regular cast member
Rashida Jones' mom was a cast member, too! Peggy Lipton. I wonder if any other parents of sitcom staples were on Twin Peaks?

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Amber (daughter of Russ) Tamblyn is on Two and a Half Men

Miguel Ferrer's cousin George Clooney was on The Facts of Life

and jose's his daddy

alas Jose was never spun into a Cyrano sitcom.

Jose's role in Otto Preminger's Whirlpool as a quack hypnotist is rich in acidic one-liners, a preview of Albert Rosenfeld's dry disdain if not his professional acumen.

Has anyone made a Robocop/Twin Peaks mashup yet? Would be fun to splice in "Bitches, leave!" or whatever then Alfred wipes coke from his nose, exits the room to talk shit to Harry Truman.

I think Laura's sunglasses are implicated in her behavioral shift.

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oh shiiiit yeah i'd forgotten they were laura's sunglasses--she's always got them on or just taken them off when she's in Bad Girl Mode

twang paeks

Isn't this all a bit of a myth about TP? Something that people use to explain away the drop in quality in S2? I thought he'd already started to step away by midway through S1 and that Frost drove a lot of the actual writing. I don't think he was considerably less involved in mid-S2 as he was in the latter half of S1.

Lynch was considerably less involved in S2 due to his work on Wild at Heart (underrated imo). He's talked about this before in various interviews.

(apparently he was in the descendants? don't remember him in that at all)

Ontkean didn't even have a speaking role! I assume his character must've been trimmed way down.

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there's a weird scene in the descendants where there are a few pointed reaction shots of Ontkean's character in close-up that really make it seem as though he had a more significant, speaking role that got trimmed out of the final cut. the shots that remain in the film are kind of jarring--how often do you get those kind of soulful reaction shots of someone who is essentially an extra?

ontkean lives in hawaii now so i assume he was cast as a local. i think he's been notably absent from nearly all of the retrospective twin peaks activities--perhaps because he lives in hawaii, perhaps because he just doesn't care, perhaps because there are some hard feelings there. i wouldn't blame him for the latter, since he got very little of the attention that maclachlan et al got. that's what you get for playing the straight man. as remarkable as the character that maclachlan created was, i do think that ontkean didn't get enough credit for creating a very believable and distinctive character.

flynn boyle wouldn't appear in Fire Walk with Me -- I've heard either because she was busy shooting another film or because she demanded too much money and they called her bluff (a la Crispin Glover in the Back to the Future sequels). as a result I think there was bad blood between her and Lynch. I'd be perfectly happy with a new season without her, but then again I think I'd be (potentially) happy with a new season without any of the original cast. I'm mostly happy to see Lynch in the director's chair again.

I thought I'd read something about Lara Flynn Boyle not wanting to do the nude scene in FWWM.

really exciting that we're getting a new chapter of the twin peaks story after all these years. let's just hope it's better than mid season 2 of the first season though, huh fellas? talk about a drop in quality!

just my $0.02

I read that she ended up getting nekkid for another movie she did after FWWM came out. xp

well the nude scenes in FWWM are of a certain... tone, you could say.

i imagine the whole "won't do nudity" thing, if it was ever brought up, was a cover for "i asked for too much money" or "i thought i could do better"

I rewatched the pilot and first few episodes yesterday and I love how the show doesn't waste any time with skepticism. Cooper is on board with Twin Peaks' weirdness right away and vice-versa. No Scullys.

Only Mulders.

Lara Flynn Boyle and Kyle MacLachlan had dated throughout the show's run and then had a rough break up before FWWM.

She also was jealous of the relationship that the writers were suggesting between Audrey Horne and Dale Cooper, and had threatened to quit the show because of it.

oh what a fun idea

twin peaks as mulder run amok

It would be amazing if Flynn Boyle came onboard for the revive and no overt todo was made in the show regarding her appearance. Donna has already had two faces, this could be the third.

Ha I also watched the X-Files pilot the other day and it felt very Twin Peaks-y, mainly because they go to Washington (state) for their investigation.

someone photoshop this

http://www.thepaepae.com/wp-uploads/2012/02/three-faces-of-eve.jpg

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Having only seen series 1 and FWWM, I don't remember most of these female characters. Were there lots of characters exclusive to series 2?

Who is the actress on the right of the rolling stone cover?

Sherilynn Fenn was not in FWWM due to shooting conflicts with Gary Sinise's adaptation of Of Mice And Men (w/ Malkovich as Lenny).

Who is the actress on the right of the rolling stone cover?

The actress is Madchen Amick, we don't meet her until the pilot episode.

I hope Bobby Briggs comes back. He was a hilarious character and very well acted.

(Now somebody's going to tell me that he died in one of the later S2 episodes that I haven't seen.)

the guy who played major briggs died btw

as did the guy who played bob

and the guy who played the mayor

and the guy who played the giant (I think)

and the guy who played the old waiter (who is hank worden, and was over 90 years old at the time of filming IIRC)

they will all presumably be resurrected via CGI

the guy who played major briggs died btw

oh man I didn't know this. that is a bummer. great character.

thank god Billy Zane is still alive

i think

RIP Don S. Davis (General Hammond, Major Briggs, Scully's father)

thank god Billy Zane is still alive

i think

I hate to break it to you, but there is no God.

I hope Bobby Briggs comes back. He was a hilarious character and very well acted.

waaaaaaat i get so annoyed every time bobby is on screen

i so lost interest in the leo subplot by the halfway point of 2

and the guy who played the giant (I think)

I thought so, too, but I checked the other day and he's still kicking.

Just realized that post makes it sound like I have him chained in my basement.

Bobby was the best

of the teenagers I'd rank em Audrey>Bobby>>>>>>>>>>>>>>everybody else

well excluding Laura there (didn't really care about Maddy)

Dana Ashbrook was def the cutest boy. (I missed his appearance here before a FWWM screening couple years back)

after all these years, i wonder how many of us have either read or seen the movie of Peyton Place, obv a huge takeoff point for both Blue Velvet and this. (Not me)

what other explicit refs are there besides Vertigo and The Patty Duke Show?

Well theres one eyed jacks