Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

btw i'm coincidentally working my way through the show for the first time these last few weeks and omg the bob/madz sequence was genuinely shockingly brutal in a way i can't believe was on ABC in 1990

http://deadline.com/2014/10/twin-peaks-return-showtime-series-mark-frost-interview-846363/

confirmed via youtube teaser from Showtime
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzR6KrNIEAAI2xN.png:large

lol hueg

nine hours of new Lynch is worth getting unreasonably stoked for, regardless of property

I guess you ppl liked episodes 18-30 way way more than i did.

Also, Hank Worden is dead.

The "bad" episodes of Twin Peaks are as good as 95% of the "new golden age of TV" series that are on right now.

Given how muddled season 2 was and how few answers the movie offered, I'd be surprised if a new series wrapped anything up to anyone's satisfaction. Still, good to have this back, eventually! Has anyone but Kyle been up to much, really?

The biggest problem with the original run was that Lynch only directed a few episodes. This new series appears to correct that.

I don't recall more than two episodes being "bad," perhaps, but a lot of it seemed like marking time. And I did like the movie.

(after the exposure of the killer I mean)

My understanding is that, aside from the last episode, Lynch was barely involved with that latter half of season two (tied up with Wild At Heart and Industrial Symphony No. Blah). That he's involved with the entire upcoming series and that it's being posited as a wrap-up seem like good signs to me.

omg the bob/madz sequence was genuinely shockingly brutal in a way i can't believe was on ABC in 1990

Yeah, prior to the horrific stuff that has become pro-forma on crime scene investigation shows, that scene is absolutely the most horrifying thing I ever saw on the Big 3.

As long as it's on cheap dv, and there are talking rabbits involved, I won't be too dissapointed that this takes time away from the making of Inland Empire II.

Be pleasantly surprised if this is worthwhile. The feeling and atmosphere had gone by the second year. Second series was only holding my attention because of first, from what I remember. Recreating 90s atmosphere seems impossible today.

People who bitch about the second half of S2 dismiss the original series finale at their peril.

I'm hoping he actually amplifies the atmosphere to Inland Empire levels but I guess that's sort of unlikely.

9 hours of Lynch directing anything is a gift

Incidentally, a 9-hour director's cut of his Duran Duran concert film is coming soon. You're welcome.

My favorite "arc" of the original show was the large audience who didn't know David Lynch from the mailman slowly figuring it out it wasn't a regular soap opera, and bailing.

It definitely was one of the stranger things to become a mainstream phenomenon.

As long as it's on cheap dv

ha, otm! format is totally the most engrossing part of this to me? lynch talked about watching old footage to put the dvd together & being in love with its quality. & it's academy ratio, too, right? i don't know anything about shooting for tv but even the prospect of that seems kinda pleasingly anachronistic.

I'd be very surprised if these new episodes answered everything. More likely that it will all get more weird and mysterious.

I'm glad this is so far in the distance. I have plenty of time to rewatch everything, none of which I've seen since it originally aired on ABC.

If I don't get a detailed exegesis of exactly what the owls are, I'm going to write such a scathing post on my Livejournal.

what is it with people and wanting "answers", really

they want BOB's resume and CarFax

what is it with people and wanting "answers", really

^^^ yup

not interested in resolutions myself

was talking w/ a friend about the tweets on Saturday evening and he said that he'll be disappointed if Dale Cooper is not now the Mayor of Twin Peaks

Answers are the phallic signifiers that hold the promise of a creating a unified self.

I never really cared. Pretty sure Lynch wanted the mysteries to deepen.
I'm a huge fan of Fire Walk With Me but I barely followed what was happening. I never bothered with series 2 and I don't plan to ever see it.

Lynch has been consistently disappointing about explaining his work. It drives me bonkers.

Like, you can't just put this stuff out there and not tell us what it means. Hellooooooo.

i have never watched a frame of this after the original run, so make up Cooper quotes all you want and i'll buy it.

(a friend just mentioned Windom Earle on FB and I have *no* memory of this character)

Old Lunch- I think the overall atmosphere and the sense of possibilities and ideas is what matters. I doubt he has concrete explanations. Just enjoy the dreams.

yr sarcasm detector is broken

Yeah, just havin' a larf. Lynch is responsible for some of my favorite cultural products from the last 30+ years.

Oh! It must be. Sorry!

what is it with people and wanting "answers", really

otm

Pretty psyched for this.

I feel like Twin Peaks is an unacknowledged ancestor to a lot of Showtime dramas, in that it's second season turned to intellegible shit.

(needs some work on wording, but it's exactly 140 characters!)

Twin Peaks first season was the best thing Lynch ever did. Downhill from that peak ever since culminating in the unwatchable pretentious nadir of Inland Empire.

Inland Empire is my possibly my favourite film ever. I don't like everything about it but it still blows me away.

couldn't finish it.

how many more delightful challops do you have

His last two films are his best and are also sit high among the best films of the 21st Century. I assume. Couldn't finish either.

haha

his last two are def among his best

Even if you hate it you gotta see the bits at the end. There's at least 3 bits in that film that terrified me like nothing I had seen since I was little.

IE's closing musical sequence is so great

I first watched Inland Empire in the dark, late at night, on my laptop, with headphones. Highly, highly recommended (except maybe the laptop part).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8biyY3trpc