However, it's not too much a cause for concern, and perhaps far more an indication of how viewers choose to consume this kind of work.
Perhaps because it's near impossible to really spoil anything produced by David Lynch, it looks as if the weight of viewership fell on Showtime's on-demand services, with Deadline also reporting the network saw the single biggest day and weekend of signups ever for its streaming service, Showtime Anytime and Showtime On Demand.
"In the world that we live in now, offering original programming that attracts new subscribers is our primary business objective," said David Nevins, President and CEO, Showtime Networks in a statement. "By that standard, the Twin Peaks premiere is the biggest single-night driver we’ve ever had."
― nomar, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 14:02 (seven years ago) link
would watch a lynch movie called the single-night driver
― spud called maris (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
i came for the Twin Peaks, i stayed for the exquisite selection of softcore
― circa1916, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
Ha yeah knowing what little I do about showtime's rep in the states I'm kinda surprised ppl are signing up in record numbers rather than just waiting to torrent
― in a soylent whey (wins), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 14:11 (seven years ago) link
I didn't say I wanted it to fail, btw, I was just saying that attention/froth from press/Twitter is out of balance and corny
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 14:12 (seven years ago) link
maybe if not probably that says something more about the press and twitter you choose to consume and follow and says you're a part of the relatively small target demo that this show is attempting to cultivate rather than it being out of balance.
― nomar, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 14:15 (seven years ago) link
Yes, I definitely feel targeted
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link
And if this is what Showtime thinks of my demo then I feel disgusted
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 14:17 (seven years ago) link
That seems a measured and reasonable reaction.
― human/hutt hybrid (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 14:28 (seven years ago) link
lol circa
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 15:02 (seven years ago) link
I never had any plans to watch this (never even saw season 2 when it was new) but I am somewhat more sympathetic to Whiney's position after being sent a promo of an album by a band called Dale Cooper & the Dictaphones.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
From the orbit of bands that gave us Free Nelson Mandoomjazz
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
I used to enjoy eating food with a spoon but then that band went and called themselves Spoon and now just looking at silverware makes me throw up in my mouth. What exceedingly-fragile components of my self-identity are people going to demolish next?
― human/hutt hybrid (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
Do you just look at the epic bacon mustache zombie threads in mystified confusion?
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link
"I don't understand, bacon is rather epic?"
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
epic bacon mustache zombie threads
the what now?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 17:52 (seven years ago) link
get on 77
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
no
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 18:02 (seven years ago) link
Ppl pretend otherwise but the original twin peaks did badly in the ratings after the pilot
wins is not entirely wrong... the "first" (post-pilot) episode had a big dropoff vs Cheers
http://www.angelfire.com/in2/judesmovies/papers/twpe.htm
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 18:04 (seven years ago) link
Remember when a band called themselves "Twin Peaks" and websites covered them instead of laughing at them
out of all the dumb shit in this thread this one hits me the most. i was pulling my hair out when ppl were treating this band as legit. you cant just name your band twin peaks, fucking idiots!
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
Isn't one of your American knockers restaurants called that
― in a soylent whey (wins), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
Is there anyone else besides me, Morbs and Sara who are like "Yeah, I can wait, thanks"― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, May 22, 2017 5:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, May 22, 2017 5:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i love the original show and i'll see this eventually, but in no hurry. i mean it's been long enough in coming so what's a few more months or w/e? i only got exposed to the original show six years ago so i haven't been waiting as long though.
there was a big thing a bunch of my friends were going to on Sunday to see it open at a movie-screen bar and i skipped it. unconsciously part of the reason probably lines up with whiney's thread-starting issues, where this is basically like the force awakens for a slightly different (but overlapping) lifestyle submarket. but it's also more like, man, there is NOTHING about o.g. twin peaks that says to me "this would be better watched in a crowded, sweaty bar with people cheering over the dialogue when familiar old faces and catch-phrases show up." so much of it is about solitary creepiness and being deeply unsettled by things. not to say that can't happen in something that is also 'entertainment' - that's obvious given the success of the original show! - but the particular culturally-embedded form of entertainment-eventness that we have before us in 2017 just isn't going to enhance my watching of this thing.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
Yeah "viewing parties" and pies and whatever are a terrible way to go about things (but are a holdover from 1990 & not really anything to do w 2017 media consumption), but it's like how people dress up to sit in the dark in a cinema: it's not my business if ppl don't know how to watch things (Star Wars sucks for different reasons)
― in a soylent whey (wins), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 18:18 (seven years ago) link
― in a soylent whey (wins)
it is and it confuses me. i would assume there are double entendres for knockers that don't evoke backwards-speaking dwarves.
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 18:23 (seven years ago) link
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, May 24, 2017 12:51 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes, but possibly for different reasons than you might assume.
― human/hutt hybrid (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
a middlebrow shitstorm that lets you buy dick joke T-shirts at Hot Topic.― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, May 22, 2017 9:11 AM (one month ago)
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, May 22, 2017 9:11 AM (one month ago)
― sarahell, Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
^ NEVER FORGET
― sarahell, Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link
David Bowie
― the ghost of markers, Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:43 (seven years ago) link
i hope the next generation of privileged hipsters get really into nerd-ass SpazzNoiz rap rock and write thousands of fawning braindead thinkpieces about it and bingewatch middlebrow prestige tv about like, the Anger Management Tour so that Whiney is forced to disavow it
― flopson, Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:56 (seven years ago) link
i hear there's a guy named Dougie
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 June 2017 02:17 (six years ago) link
There is!
Also, tonight's episode was mind-blowing and maybe the most experimental thing Lynch has ever done and had almost zero explicit reference to the Twin Peaks people were familiar with before this year. Many a Showtime subscription was cancelled on this night, I'm certain.
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 June 2017 03:08 (six years ago) link
But for every person who unsubscribed , another five people stood around and pointed and laughed at them
― Karl Malone, Monday, 26 June 2017 03:19 (six years ago) link
at least two things in this episode made me think whiney NEEDS to see this
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 26 June 2017 03:48 (six years ago) link
Seriously, it's like the scene of the bronies scarfing platefuls of bacon at the RR was written just for him.
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 June 2017 04:24 (six years ago) link
if you're all too cool for twin peaks, this episode was the exact opposite of twin peaks, which means you're also too cool for the exact opposite of twin peaks
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 26 June 2017 04:32 (six years ago) link
MOR
― Karl Malone, Monday, 26 June 2017 04:33 (six years ago) link
You pricks this thread is for the non watchers fuck off
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Monday, 26 June 2017 07:59 (six years ago) link
TBF, I am not watching Twin Peaks season 3 at this moment.
― President Buttstuff (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 June 2017 11:56 (six years ago) link
am i the only one that is so sick of the teens in hot topic wearing bright green gardening gloves and making Dougie Jones references? Twin Peaks is not a passing fad, teens, this shit is important and should be treated with respect
― Karl Malone, Monday, 13 November 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
This too will fold in time into its allotted place in the texture of the living story
― eeshTrip (darraghmac), Monday, 13 November 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
Twin Peaks:Whiney Stranger Things:Me
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 13 November 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
If you like films tho, David Lynch films... are goodI feel like this thread sentiment would have shone as a single post in the garbage thread "things you just don't care about" but I understand that a whiney gets parched and I 100% genuinely endorse the bad sociology― in a soylent whey (wins), Monday, 22 May 2017 18:53 (five months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkliterally just shat an "oh is sportsball on??" tweet onto the rug and mewled up at us expecting a treat
― treeship: a year in the life (wins), Monday, 13 November 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
I finally watched Stranger Things. It was cute!
― sarahell, Monday, 13 November 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link