― Ally, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
It was eerie and surreal. I like the way the main character (I'm terrible with names), always slept in such a perfect manner. And the dream sequences with the midget were cool.
Show it again, powers that be!
― jel, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Him in general -- hey, even Dune had its moments. But let me confess I still have never seen Eraserhead.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ed, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I liked the TP giant who appeared to say: "It's happening again!" And the rude cop, Albert.
― mark s, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I lived in Seattle for a year, and that year coincided with the year of Twin Peaks' first season. We went to all the joints on the show, the hotel, the waterfall, the diner. Classic.
The second series: If I remember correctly it was a lot longer than the first, and it started off really well and the last episode or two is great as well, but there is this monstrously dull section in the middle where it turns into a tiresome soap opera. Soap operas are not cool.
The film: complete genius. what modern horror is meant to be like.
David Lynch generally: I think he's great.
― DV, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Kris, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jess, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Re: the second season: yes, the soap-opera bits were atrocious. But in retrospect, I think of them so fondly. That ridiculous part where James leaves town and gets involved in the weird love-triangle with the woman and her abusive husband? And then just comes back to Twin Peaks, as if nothing had ever happened?
― Nitsuh, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
"And Clint Beefsteak as Montana."
― Dan Perry, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― matthew, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pennysong Hanle y, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ethan, Friday, 7 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Sam, 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
RIP Piper Laurie aka Catherine Martell.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 October 2023 22:27 (eight months ago) link
Holy moly, it never clicked that Catherine and Carrie’s mom were the same person.
― Cow_Art, Saturday, 14 October 2023 23:11 (eight months ago) link
xp aw noShe was on a podcast only a few weeks ago talking about her experience making Carrie. Sounded so lively and healthy. RIP.
― circa1916, Saturday, 14 October 2023 23:47 (eight months ago) link
Well, my oldest daughter turned 14 and we watched the pilot tonight.
Man, it’s so good. The show definitely has its ups and downs but the pilot is so perfect.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 15 October 2023 03:10 (eight months ago) link
i would like to add my voices to the general concern that this is not a good documentary about the fbi
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 October 2023 07:26 (eight months ago) link
So many of the cast are gone now. I've always felt that Piper Laurie was a somewhat "unsung" (or at least underappreciated) member of the original cast – maybe b/c her character didn't tie into the underlying mythology (and she also didn't return for S3).
But she was so good in that role. You could pair Catherine with any other character, and the sparks would fly in a specific & unique way. I feel like she kept the original series anchored in the "faux–soap opera" concept – almost like a "straight man" of sorts, gently villainous without chewing the scenery – and was able to handle even some fairly loopy developments without losing her way.
― Chavez video on MTV, July 1995 (morrisp), Sunday, 15 October 2023 16:44 (eight months ago) link
I guess that's why Lynch and Frost couldn't, or wouldn't, find anything for her to do in The Return, which excised those soapy elements. I thought it was too bad; an interviewer asked her about it and she had been interested in doing it.
― Chris L, Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:00 (eight months ago) link
yeah, there really wouldn't have been much for her to do in the Return (not that that stopped him bringing James back); I think she would have deserved a more prominent role but as packed as the Return is with storylines, even though it was 18 hours long, I'm not sure there was really space.
We started the Return last night, my first time rewatching in full since it aired. It really does make a lot more sense the second time through.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:07 (eight months ago) link
Yes did a second watch recently and it does
Xp could have just had a little unconnected scene with her regardless was my thoughts
― nxd, Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:13 (eight months ago) link
I kind of like how not everyone, well, returns in The Return... it feels right, like Catherine probably still wouldn't be hanging around (notwithstanding that I would have loved to see her).
― Chavez video on MTV, July 1995 (morrisp), Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:13 (eight months ago) link
Yes fair cop
― nxd, Sunday, 15 October 2023 17:23 (eight months 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.
― Alba, Sunday, 15 October 2023 19:05 (eight months ago) link
She also enjoyed a long life (with some interesting biographical details that I learned from an obit). Many of the others died younger, which was especially sad.
― Chavez video on MTV, July 1995 (morrisp), Sunday, 15 October 2023 19:51 (eight months ago) link
Personally have close to zero quibbles with s3 but I do feel they could have included at least one scene of Ben Horne looking wistfully at a framed photograph of her feet
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Sunday, 15 October 2023 19:55 (eight months ago) link
Whatever became of Little Elvis?
― Cow_Art, Monday, 16 October 2023 01:25 (eight months ago) link
He became bruno mars
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 16 October 2023 02:31 (eight months ago) link
ah loved Piper. Watched Carrie recently, and yeah didn't know she was the mother. But then realised that the Frasier episode with her as the over controlling mother figure made a lot more sense!
― Ste, Monday, 16 October 2023 10:11 (eight months ago) link
no one wants to know the number of times a day I've walked around the house saying "animal life" since rewatching FWWM
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 16 October 2023 22:56 (eight months ago) link
Very sad to hear of Piper Laurie's passing, though I'll be listening for reports of any elderly Japanese men appearing at her funeral...
― blatherskite, Tuesday, 17 October 2023 19:41 (seven months ago) link
Haha
― Chavez video on MTV, July 1995 (morrisp), Tuesday, 17 October 2023 19:42 (seven months ago) link
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 (seven months ago) link
Agree! One of my favourites for close to 50 years. (And she's amazing.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 02:00 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
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― scott seward, Saturday, 30 March 2024 00:59 (two months ago) link
aw. lynch looking very guru-like in his robe
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 30 March 2024 01:33 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months ago) link
April 8, 1990: "She's dead...wrapped in plastic."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:09 (two months ago) link
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― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:20 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months 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 (two months ago) link
She seems cool, I've seen her social media postings and whatnot
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:28 (two months 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 (two months ago) link
Did you see creamed corn on that plate?
― subpost master (wins), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 17:51 (two months 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago) link