Worst ongoing plotline in the second season of Twin Peaks (SPOILERS)

That's what I've heard! And I love the show so much right up until the Leland reveal, I'm willing to overlook almost anything, but man, this season is worse than I remembered. But since I do plan to spend the post-holiday pajamas-and-cocoa dead zone finally watching Season 3, I've been making it a point to re-watch Season 2 (and FWWM)

While I like lots of the second-half-of-S2 stuff (James’ Wild Ride excluded) and love the Diane Keaton episode, as far as preparing for S3 goes you can just skip to the finale and FWWM.

and The Missing Pieces of FWWM I would say

While I like lots of the second-half-of-S2 stuff (James’ Wild Ride excluded) and love the Diane Keaton episode, as far as preparing for S3 goes you can just skip to the finale and FWWM.

― insecurity bear (sic), Saturday, December 14, 2019 2:51 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

my ocd tendencies would never permit this. What's The Missing Pieces?

The parts of the FWWM screenplay that were filmed but cut from the released film; Lynch edited a sort-of-feature out of them for a DVD bonus feature.

There's also a fan edit that cuts 99% of them back into original screenplay order, which I watched on my pre-season-3 rescreen.

I’ve always told people “there’s an episode that ends with an owl flying toward the camera. Stop. Skip to the season finale.”

That said, I remember the three-episode arc with David Duchovny very fondly?!

paul I agree that the back half of season 2 has a lot of letdowns, but season 3 might be the best season of TV I’ve ever seen. it is not to be missed

I liked Denise a lot, and I remember her as redeeming the episodes she was in, though that may just be wishful thinking. My vote for worst plotline would be Cooper falling in love with Annie, just because cringe-inducing terrible dialogue is harder to suffer through when it's Coop delivering it.

That said, I remember the three-episode arc with David Duchovny very fondly?!

Also touched on wonderfully in S3.

i’m in the middle of another rewatch and every time I get to this part my skeleton leaves my body and I disassociate

james is The Worst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEn-mmFiYDs-

and OMG i want to kick Harold and his 2-cent Norman Bates impression into the fucking sun

him and james, into the sea immediately

crooner James - not terrible
James & Evelyn - absolute complete dogshit (as evidenced by OP results)

James is cool

Also that scene is one of the best bits of the entire run

insanity

i hate it so much

https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20/lx45gkyjy4tf05xcbx2z.png

James has ALWAYS been cool!

James is canonically a dipshit, it’s good

I’ve never understood reaction to that scene, at least if you’ve bought into the whole vibe of the show up to that point it surely makes perfect sense that there is this performance going on in the palmer living room, with the heightened artificiality of the vocal effects & the musical backing that cannot possibly be diegetic (but maybe is?? There’s always music in the air) & also it’s v funny because it’s dipshit James doing his teenybop scotty Ferguson bit toward his dead gf’s doppelgänger while his current gf is also in the room because they are both singing backing vocals on a song called “just you” lol — and then Donna & James rush out of the room and BOB comes in, not appearing out of thin air as previously but literally walking in from the other room, and crawls over the couch directly at the camera?

Start to finish that has to be top 10 most quintessential lynch scenes ever, not just TP

"just you and i" is amazing!!!!

The deliberately ridiculous singing alone is a joy

tension between donna and maddie is unbelievable in that scene

everything in season 2 is good

love 'just you and i,' it's perfect. there's something in it that is emphasized a lot more in the return, individuals being fated by their archetypes, the doppelganger who is caught in larger patterns, a magnetic pull towards your place in the cosmos regardless of how you stuggle against it in an effort to "fix" things. it adds such tragedy to donna's jealousy, she sees her position slipping out of her grasp because she isn't the girl and james is the guy, doesn't matter that he's a doofus, he has the motorcycle and the guitar

otm, great post

I'm with VG on this sorry

There were six to ten S2 episodes where I was wimpy punching the couch wishing it was over

Speaking of cringey dudes, if a poll-thread is made for Worst character/plotline in the third season of Twin Peaks (SPOILERS):

Wally Brando/Michael Cera would definitely be up there.

:/ agreed, awful moment in an otherwise perfect season

In retrospect, since the show was set in the Pacific Northwest in 1989, James should really have been a grunge balladeer instead of a Paul Anka throwback.

the wally brando scene is so fucking funny

The whole point is that TP is out of time

Widow Milford subplot deserved some votes

I would've voted for (the first half of) "Ben Horne becomes obsessed with the Civil War, and tries to turn over a new leaf," which last time I rewatched was pointless, irritating, and, as silly as it is, pretty dodgy in a Lost Cause way

great post karlakrlarkal

ppl horrendously not otm about wally brando

The whole point is that TP is out of time

...or that Lynch switched off his cultural perceptions around 1962.

The Nine Inch Nails

the point of James was that he was a wet noodle
i can understand and appreciate his character’s purpose while ALSO finding him to be a wet noodle
and that doesn’t include nor will it ever include wanting to hear him sing me the song of his people ie that he is a wet noodle

if i am to tolerate James then the least he could do is NOT. SING.

the wally brando scene, especially in the context of those first few episodes of the return when everyone was still trying to get a handle on it, was and remains incredible

some of the freddie sykes stuff on the other hand…

I love all of that

Maybe more for the other thread but I just got to the Brando ep in my rewatch the other night, I think I like it even more than I did the first time

Speaking of cringey dudes [...] Wally Brando/Michael Cera would definitely be up there.

... wasn't that the entire point of that scene? Robert Forster can barely keep a straight face.