Twin Peaks: Classic or Dud?

Watched the pilot last night. Pausing breaking bad for series one of this instead

watched twin peaks season 1 this week, it's held up really well. the david lynch-directed episodes really shine with oddity and pathos, but the rest of the episodes work pretty well at filling out that universe, without being too weird for the audience, while also without totally destroying lynch's vision for the series. + rewatch value, when you know who killed laura, it adds a huge layer of creepyness and double meaning to whole swaths of the show.

season 2, as i recall, is good for the first 2 episodes, then there are a few & far-between moments of interesting weirdness over the course of the rest (for instance david duchovny in fbi drag lol) then lynch implodes the whole thing in a fine manner for the season finale.

also fire walk with me is the insane frikkin prequel, it's hardcore and insanely creepy enough to get booed at cannes (a good sign to my mind, especially after all the raves over the middling "wild at heart")

Ach this has gone to shit

lol

it comes back stick with it as i was encouraged to!!

i tried to read through the thread but jesus tuomas

how far are you darragh?

i'm gonna take a wild guess and say season 2, ep. 12

oh, season two gets difficult well before spisode 12 iirc. i have come to appreciate season two on its own merits, slim as they may be. just such weirdness.

yeah i love s2. it is trickier but it's also hilarious.

12 (or 11, or 13, in that range) isn't where it starts getting too weird to enjoy, but it feels like a point where the weirdness accumulates to the point where you think nothing will ever make sense again

Just finished episode where killer is revealed

that was in the pilot

there are 2 versions of the pilot, only one of them reveals the killer iirc

^

Just finished episode where killer is revealed

strap yourself in, this is where the plot is lost.

the problem is the series 2 finale payoff only works if you've suffered through the whole of the series, to the point where you're actually thrilled to see

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so many previously lovable characters get offed in rapid succession

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i mean the joke doesn't work unless you're as sick of it all as lynch & stars all were by then, ya know?

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there are 2 versions of the pilot, only one of them reveals the killer iirc

Bob is in the TV version

Bob is in the version of the pilot showing in the box set on ireland's upc cable offering but is not revealed to us as inhabiting any other character as of the end of the pilot idk

bob has a bit of the charlie lansboroughs about him.

Pat ingoldsby tbph

Do i rly have to watch the rest of this with the patch nutter and the pregnancy threesome and whatever the fuck else is coming to fill ten hours

also the music is blaring over all the dialogue and its getting on my tits

it picks up dramatically in the last few episodes

cant hear a word of dialogue ffs

xp i've heard but do i have to tolerate it til then

There's some stuff amidst the patch nutter/pregnancy threesome that adds to the last few episodes. Plus watching the stuff in between makes you really feel like you've earned it.

I would say feel free to fast forward through shit

if you don't like the way a non-Coop plotline is going fast forward that shit (e.g. James/Evelyn ugh)

Im not big on earning what i can get to with a button press, lyfe has taught me this Xxp

fast forward freely

surprised the S2 DVDs don't have an option that skips James altogether tbh

I have decided. To where do i ff

zappi OTM, pretty much all the non-Cooper scenes/plotlines are of no significance (they do vary in quality - as noted above I am fond of Ben Horne fighting the civil war lol)

major briggs tho

Duchovny looks hotttttt

S2 viewing guide: Watch all scenes that contain Coop/Gordon/Major Briggs. Fast forward the rest. Watch the last couple start to finish. Watch the last one over and over.

yeah any scene with Briggs is good

rly fast forwarding through james' sojourn and nadine's teenage phase isn't enough, best find the negatives and burn them.

leo scenes with bobby & shelly then windom earle also worthwhile iirc. the windom earle stuff alternates between hokey and creepy but ties into the coop/briggs so should be watched as well.

also prob need to burn billy zane scenes, billy zane and any record of his existence, just to be safe.

^

that shit was truly the pits

veggie leo is pretty funny

i've been driving around town to the twin peaks soundtrack, where was this cd on all my previous road trips

it's a soundtrack for life

nadine's teenage phase

lol I forgot this altogether

repressed rather

is there no phantom fan edit of season 2 post-murderer-reveal? there should be!

Ive been told that we have to watch it all ;_;

I pretty much enjoyed all of s2.