Morbs, lecturing on teevee politics.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 February 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
I've said elsewhere that this feels like the OG 9-episode Showtime order spread margarine thin to self-indulgent effect. I watched eps 1-9, one at a time, and had to stop for a while.
― rb (soda), Friday, 23 February 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
on another TP thread I wrote that it reminded me of Bela Tarr, but worse, and that it careens wildly from tone to tone, idea to idea (in a way that doesn’t seem entirely in control). I said that the true believers argue this is part of the appeal, but it just kinda seems gratuitous.
The intrinsic dullness of soap-operas shines through in the Dougy bits, but it isn't as biting or clever as "Invitation to Love" once was.
― rb (soda), Friday, 23 February 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
hmmm
Lynchiacs remind me of Deadheads sometime
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 February 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
lol
"it's about the notes they don't play, the lines they don't say, the plot lines they don't resolve"
― flappy bird, Saturday, 24 February 2018 00:23 (six years ago) link
My advice is do NOT binge watch TPTR. It thrives on pauses between utterances. No more than 2 episodes a day imo
― Lockhorn. Lockhorn breed-uh (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 23:33 (six years ago) link
agreed
― flappy bird, Thursday, 1 March 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
Sherilyn Fenn should be cast in the Dianne Feinstein bio pic.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
I finished it! It irritated the hell out of me for the tortuous middle stretch (Episode Nine + three or so). The last two episodes moved me more than expected, and I'm not a Lynch fan who gives much of a shit about the original show, nor did I re-watch to remember (I've never seen the second season, for example. I love Fire Walk With Me fwiw.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
oh boy you've gotta see the second season finale. honestly you can watch it in isolation & get along fine if you don't want to (understandably) go thru all of that very uneven season. i think it's the best thing Lynch has ever done.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
(Episode Nine + three or so)
might agree that 9-10's the dip but 11 is great ("keep your blood", turkey jerky, "...you're not gonna tell me what she said?!") and tho the cherry pie is the most defiantly dreamlogiced thing in the show i love 11 for "mr. jackpots, thank you again!" "thank you... again"
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
sorry, first one there should be 12
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
oh boy you've gotta see the second season finale. honestly you can watch it in isolation & get along fine if you don't want to (understandably) go thru all of that very uneven season. i think it's the best thing Lynch has ever done.otm, if you were to watch just one thing lynch has ever done, the back half of the final s2 twin peaks episode would have to be it. unparalleled and properly haunting.
― reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
yes, that and the amazing episode 8 of the return, and I'd maybe even throw in the final episode of the return...among the best bits of Lynche's oeuvre
― akm, Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
I admire Episode 8 and never want to watch it again.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 March 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link
I'm not a Lynch fan who gives much of a shit about the original show
fp bait
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 March 2018 08:55 (six years ago) link
cross out "not"
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 March 2018 12:15 (six years ago) link
You're a lynch fan who gives much of a shit about the original show?
― scotti pruitti (wins), Sunday, 4 March 2018 12:22 (six years ago) link
I should poll my replies
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 March 2018 12:28 (six years ago) link
This thread reminded me that I saw three or four episodes of nu-Peaks and then forgot to continue with it (which is to say, was not compelled). A lot of you folks like it, though, and I had a neighbor loudly sing its praises at length last summer, so maybe I'll dive in again. It brought to mind the cast of Twin Peaks dropped into the middle of a Phantasm miniseries.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 4 March 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link
i never know which twin peaks S3 thread to revive. anyway this is silly but fun
Where do you fall in this #TwinPeaks alignment chart? pic.twitter.com/YyupEvEBmm— Kyle MacLachlan (@Kyle_MacLachlan) June 15, 2018
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 15 June 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
Mr. C is not lawful wtf
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 June 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
yeah, they kind of stretched it with that one. i guess, that compared to doppelcooper and booper (their terms not mine) he's more lawful, more inclined to sort of blend into society, enough to get a table at a diner and shit like that.
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 15 June 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
laughed today remembering that scene where Cole calls Truman and when Cole shouts into the phone, Truman pulls the wrong end of the phone away.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 16 June 2018 07:20 (five years ago) link
Sad about Robert Forster. I know the cast was old but I never would have imagined there would have been so many deaths already.
― Alba, Saturday, 12 October 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
Don't discount the possibility that the script may be cursed.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 12 October 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
They discovered something inside the story
― YouGov to see it (wins), Saturday, 12 October 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
Twin Peaks Season 4 cast changes
Frank Silva ... Stock footageMichael J. Anderson ... A cartoon talking dead treeMichael Ontkean ... Robert ForsterRobert Forster ... John Saxon's voice through a walkie talkieDavid Bowie ... An enormous coffee potDon S. Davis ... A cardboard cutoutMiguel Ferrer ... A sarcastic elk who only appears as a reflection in a coffee cupWarren Frost ... An old light bulb that's somehow been burning for over 100 yearsHarry Dean Stanton ... Some dried acadia leaves in a velvet bagJack Nance ... A fish in a percolatorFrances Bay ... A wistful sigh of regretJimmy Scott ... The desiccated corpse of Jimmy ScottPeggy Lipton ... Clarence Williams IIICatherine Coulson ... Moira Kelly
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 12 October 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
would watch
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 12 October 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
Left off with episode 8 a year-plus ago. Probably do 8 & 9 this weekend. It's now or neverrrrr….
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 March 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
Do it!!!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 21 March 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
of course I barely know who some characters are now
takeaway from 2nd look at "Gotta Light?" is NIN is still boring
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 23 March 2020 11:43 (four years ago) link
eps 9 & 10 were p weird and grim, save for Dougie-Janey sex scene
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
weird and grim is the prevailing twin peaks season 3 mood
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 17:59 (four years ago) link
psyched for you to finish morbs
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
if only to know your thoughts on the last episode
Yeah, 'weird + grim' pretty otm as descriptor of The Return. Not sure I'd be up to watching it at this particular moment, tbrr.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
that dougie-janey sex scene is one of the strangely uplifting sex scenes i can think of
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:58 (four years ago) link
well I meant weird as in even more narrative stasis than usual, not Lynchweird
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
also, only Lynch-related but not specifically for The Return (sorry), but i watched Todd Hayne's Safe the other night and was struck by how it seems to be both influenced BY Lynch (esp with certain close-ups of flowers and neighborhoods looking like Blue Velvet) and also an influence ON Lynch (the front of the car highway shots at the beginning of 1995's Safe (Lost Highway in 1997, and Mulholland Drive a couple years later); the shots of mansions up on a hill (also in Mulholland Drive). not just the subject matter of those things, but also the cinematography. The highway scenes, especially, made me think "Lynch MUST have seen this"
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:02 (four years ago) link
When I watched the dead don’t die I had the strong impression that it was the first major post-tptr work, & was vindicated to see an interview with jj where he praised it & said something like “why isn’t lynch given as much money as he wants to do whatever he wants” It isn’t just you, doc, the four episodes after part 8 are def seen as weird and static by a lot of people. I adore this stretch obv (esp part 12)
― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
I think Wild at Heart also has the road shots, which was before Safe. He uses that a lot. While stuck at home I’ve rewatched all things Lynch, even the commercials and *shudder* the Duran Duran movie. The Return holds up well, even if it sometimes works better as a collection of Lynchisms than a coherent narrative. It helps to know that a lot of minor subplots won’t resolve and that it doesn’t really matter who Billy is. I love the last episode maybe more than Got A Light? Still not sure about the green glove bit. I started reading the screenplay to Ronnie Rocket, and interestingly enough it features a character who is transformed through vague electrical “magic” into a passive character who repeats back what others say, like Dougie.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:23 (four years ago) link
will try to finish b4 i'm finished, could be tough with 2019 film poll also comin' up
u guys are killin' me, no really
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
I see by a search i'm not the first to point this out (Reddit), but Cooper in eps 17-18 could've learned from Harlan Ellison's "City on the Edge of Forever" Star Trek episode that you can't fix history.
There's a sort of just (if grim) comeuppance in Cooper learning this, bcz I never accepted the character's face-value heroism as many seem to, with his annoyingly sunny "give yourself a present" Boy Scout shit.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
Have to admit I was hoping "Richard and Linda" would result in a Thompsons music cue.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
"My dreams have withered and died" would have been a little too on the money.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.avclub.com/paul-giamatti-twin-peaks-the-return-1851072447
lynch wanted paul giamatti to play one of the mitchum brothers but they couldn't make the scheduling work
― na (NA), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 18:15 (four months ago) link
OTOH Jim Belushi's casting really added to the uncanny not-rightness of the Dougie sections
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 7 December 2023 10:06 (four months ago) link
Green glove kid is the only casting that bugs me. The entire green glove thing bugs me. Am I remembering right that Pete was going to wear the green glove but it was reworked because Jack Nance died?
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 7 December 2023 10:15 (four months ago) link
I'm still saving the last two episodes to watch. I enjoyed it so much I couldn't bear to watch the last ones.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 7 December 2023 10:21 (four months ago) link