― Ally, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sam, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ethan, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nude Spock, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― JM, Sunday, 9 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Queen G, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan I., Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Whilst still a student I lived with someone who had all the episodes on video. In our third year, due to freak timetabling I finished my exams earlier than everyone else I knew. For three days I sat on my own and watched series one and two back to back, only speaking to stressed flatmates when they came down to make coffee.
By all accounts I was a little odd at the end of it.
I *knew* there would be a Twin Peaks thread on here somewh
― Anna, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sean, Monday, 1 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I know what you mean, but seeing as there is no ending it's a bit unfair to pick on it for being a crap one. "Nonexistent" would be better.
Last week I watched episodes of On the Air, the surprisingly sitcommy show Lynch developed after Twin Peaks. Slapstick. Most of it played out like the Twin Peaks beauty pageant. Very torn as to its classicness versus dudness.
― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Queen G, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Classic, of course. I wish David Lynch had the energy to involve himself in each episode, however. The ones he directed are a world apart from the rest of the series.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 19:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 19:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 13 January 2003 20:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 13 January 2003 20:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 20:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
The actor who played BOB (Frank Silva) died not long after Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me came out, so no danger of spotting him on the street. The scene where he crawls over the coach to Maddy's horror is terrifying.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'll try and chase the second season.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 13 January 2003 21:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
Classic. Classic. Classic.
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
the seldom seen Hayward sisters Harriet (twee and so hilarious - 2 scenes) and her piano playing sister Gersten (awesome boogie woogie retainer speech affect - sadly one scene).
― gygax!, Monday, 13 January 2003 22:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
Another continuity error that sticks in my craw was how in the last episode, Norma and Ed repair to her home to look after Nadine (thwacked by a sandbag during the Miss Twin Peaks contest), but make no mention of Norma's sister Annie who has been kidnapped by Wyndam Earle. My guess is that David Lynch (who wrote/directed the final episode) was not too fond of the plot contrivance that was Annie and just acted as though she were marginal to the story.
I haven't even watched this series for years, but such was my devotion to it that I remember such minutae even now. Embarrassing, isn't it?
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 13 January 2003 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 03:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 03:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 04:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Twin Peaks: mostly Classic. Faltered a lot in the middle, and then got canned just as things were really picking up at the end. Lynch had pretty much left the other writers to do as they please, if I remember right, only to come in and ditch their plans for the last episode, leaving us with ... well, that.
I spent a month in college doing nothing but watching David Lynch stuff, for a paper. I can never watch Eraserhead again.
― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 04:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 09:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
It's hard to believe this was ever a network television show, I can't imagine any of the networks airing something like this now (I think the failure of Mulholland Drive as a series confirms this).
― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 13:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 14 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
I always felt like Lynch just ran out of ideas or something.
We own the DVDs for the first episodes - they're great and the "extras" aren't bad, either. Purchased the vidoes from Amazon - quality so horrid that toward the end we could not hear the dialogue. But the creepy music came through.
I liked that I kept being thrown for a loop with the plot lines. I hate it when things are predicatable. (And, well, I thought that the sheriff was a hottie - but I found Audrey more enticing. Never understood how Cooper restrained from kidnapping her and showing her the error of her ways, or something equally as entertaining.)
― LCD (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 07:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
my other theory is that lynch, with TP, had an almost perverse understanding of what makes teenage girls with a certain disposition tick. as a dude, i can be a fan of course, but all the sinister, hidden shit going on with mom, dad, boyfriends, sisters, etc., ... everything is not okay! anyway, these theories are, like, quarter-baked, obviously.
i like the show. it's weird!
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Friday, 8 October 2004 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link
I always thought that was part of the point. You have to remember this came on toward the end of the primetime soap era (Dallas-Dynasty-Falcon Crest). I remember an interview where Lynch, typically deadpan, said he didn't see why people thought it was weird, it looked just like a regular TV show to him. A lot of people took that as a put-on, but I think he was just acknowledging how weird "normal" TV shows really are.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 8 October 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
There seemed to be such a horrible spate of Twin Peaks actors dying in the aftermath of s3. Piper Laurie's passing reminds me that it has thankfully slowed, but maybe that's just cause so many are gone.
It was pretty sad how many who actually appeared in The Return died before those episodes were even broadcast. And even new cast members like Robert Forster passed away after the series finished airing.
FWIW, my favorite Piper Laurie performance is still Sara in The Hustler, one of my favorite films, period.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 23:31 (six months ago) link
Agree! One of my favourites for close to 50 years. (And she's amazing.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 02:00 (six months ago) link
well into the return now, episode 5. Struck this time by the sensitivity and pathos of Coop-as-Dougie. The breakfast scene was actually rather hard for me to watch as it reminded me so much of trying to feed my mother in the last week of her life, her mind just completely gone. I can't believe he didn't get an Emmy for this.
The purple room/eyeless woman/not-ronette scenes were terrifying when I watched them this time, I don't remember being so viscerally horrified the first time through. This stuff really recalled Eraserhead.
My only complaint is that some things actually make too much sense; the Mike/Dougie scene in the red room, for example. It's so expository ('someone manufactured you") I have to think Mark Frost wrote that.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 19 October 2023 20:30 (six months ago) link
I think that line is a useful grounding point for the viewer... it also shows that Mike (apparently) wasn't the one who "manufactured" Dougie, although I suppose even that is open for debate.
Outside the opening scene of Part 17, I can't think of many lines that I thought were too expository; one or two plot aspects are sort of presented as initially unclear and then are revealed to be what you thought they would be (but this is more the exception than the norm, ha ha).
― strawberry ice cream, one scoop or two (morrisp), Thursday, 19 October 2023 20:45 (six months ago) link
xp yes I’ve always felt this series was primarily about ageing and the changes it wreaks.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 19 October 2023 20:51 (six months ago) link
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― scott seward, Saturday, 30 March 2024 00:59 (one month ago) link
aw. lynch looking very guru-like in his robe
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 30 March 2024 01:33 (one month ago) link
Very david lynch voice “I SHOULD. HAVE. DIRECTED. JEDI. “
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 30 March 2024 03:35 (one month ago) link
my biggest problem with the revive was that hawk wasn't sheriff. my other quibble was the "cherry pie" issue: i wouldn't have minded if it just stayed local and picked up where the og series left off and stayed in twin peaks altogether but in the future but the expanded universe way of exploring core concepts vis-a-vis judy and whatnot was ok too but they took too long to return cooper to his true self imo. other than that, all michael horse all the time.
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 30 March 2024 09:04 (one month ago) link
my recent rewatch of the Return (the first time I'd rewatched the entire thing), I was much happier with the pace and the amount of time spent with Cooper as Dougie. But it was frustrating when these were coming out week by week.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 30 March 2024 16:44 (one month ago) link
New Frost interview: https://variety.com/2024/tv/features/twin-peaks-mark-frost-david-lynch-laura-palmer-mulholland-drive-1235955147/
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 8 April 2024 23:39 (one month ago) link
April 8, 1990: "She's dead...wrapped in plastic."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:09 (four weeks ago) link
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/112/238/312/179/988/757/original/31fb1cc1cddf0e1e.jpeg
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:20 (four weeks ago) link
It first aired in Australia a little later in Feb 1991 - I was 14 and Twin Peaks + Northern Exposure was my ~entire~ personality in high school
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:25 (four weeks ago) link
I basically dressed and wore my hair like Bobby Briggs for a year or two
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:28 (four weeks ago) link
My friend's band played their first show on 4/8/1990* and THEIR 2ND GUITARIST stayed home to watch Twin Peaks instead lol.
*openers: The Melvins & TFUL282!
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:30 (four weeks ago) link
for my 15th birthday that year my friends gave me THE SECRET DIARY OF LAURA PALMER
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:44 (four weeks ago) link
xp The second guitarist, in his final moments:https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/twinpeaks/images/8/8e/Rusty_Tomasky.jpg/revision/latest/thumbnail/width/360/height/360?cb=20161029002620
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 02:10 (four weeks ago) link
my mom watched the pilot and immediately roped me in for the first real episode. i was obsessed with Bobby and fancied myself more of an Audrey Horne type which, in retrospect, is kind of disturbing. But not surprising.
To this day I am spooked by men who look even remotely like BOB and I think it's because I was 14 when I saw him for the first time creepin out from behind the furniture
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:01 (four weeks ago) link
Imagine being the copywriter who had to figure out how to try to explain what Twin Peaks was in a newspaper ad.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:09 (four weeks ago) link
I was 11 when I first watched the show and I literally threw the remote control out of my hand at BOB's first appearance.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:15 (four weeks ago) link
The owner of the Palmer house is now doing paid tours of it, and has set up a BOB mannequin looming inside a cracked-open closet door.
― bae (sic), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:27 (four weeks ago) link
She seems cool, I've seen her social media postings and whatnot
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:28 (four weeks ago) link
My wife and I stopped outside that house several years ago. Her license plate is TREMOND.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:47 (four weeks ago) link
Did you see creamed corn on that plate?
― subpost master (wins), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:51 (four weeks ago) link
Was watching The Searchers and there’s a log lady scene about an hour or so into the film to an equally horrifying effect.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 28 April 2024 04:26 (one week ago) link
Still blows my mind that Hank Worden (who plays Mose Harper in The Searchers) is also the waiter in Twin Peaks. I think that was his last role too. Anyway, he's in a lot of John Wayne Westerns.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 28 April 2024 05:47 (one week ago) link
My wife and I just spent some time in Washington and we went on a tour of loads of twin peaks locations. Felt very surreal being in these places we both new so well, huge recommend for the fans.
It was quite amazing how many of the scenes in woods were filmed in the same very small area.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 28 April 2024 09:38 (one week ago) link
that's cool, was looking into doing that myself. Did you stay in the Salish?
― Ste, Sunday, 28 April 2024 10:08 (one week ago) link
We looked into it and decided that was too much money, but we did take pics outside of the waterfall. Most things we looked at on the same day by a Twin Peaks fan who does tours, it was very well done: https://www.twinpeakstour.com/
On another day we took the ferry out and went to Kiana Lodge where the interior shots for the pilot were filmed (they rebuilt it in a soundstage later). The same place is also where Pete Martell’s house exteriors were filmed, and the large log is still on the beach.
We could have also gone to the Palmer’s House which is a bit of a drive out from central Seattle - you can even pay to go inside if you like. But we didn’t get around to that bit.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 28 April 2024 14:15 (one week ago) link