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

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The consensus these days seems to be that the season 2 quality doesn’t significantly drop until after the Laura mystery wraps up, I would go a step further & say that those first 9 eps of s2 are better than season 1

Right away you’ve got the giant & the waiter, everything is way spookier & scarier & funnier, Albert’s best scenes are here, the major’s speech to Bobby… I even like the Harold stuff, I was gonna shout out the exchange dlh cites but it’s less von dolen’s performance & more that the best LFB acting is in those scenes (and in this stretch generally, the Laura’s sunglasses/tremond meals on wheels stuff is as interesting as the character gets pre-fwwm)

Also they found this guy

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that is an insane take and you are welcome to keep it

i of course disagree in every possible way and loudly and to the death

dick tremayne is annoying af
and dumb

those first 9 eps of s2 are better than season 1

otm

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lmao

I like dick tremayne, I don't know why. he's one of the dumbest things in the show but also one of the funniest

love dick tremayne

I agree w wins, I always say “when a season 2 episode ends with a shot of a bird flying at the camera, skip ahead to the final two episodes of the season and don’t look back”

I do remember enjoying the two? three? episodes that Duchovny was in

tremayne rules

also ian buchanan untouchable in "on the air"

jeez i had no idea you guys were all so season-two-pilled

it has tremayne, man — the main man

Really enjoying the posts. I only remember watching season 1 and have little memory (enough to recognise any screen shots on twitter, so basically none) but I might just watch season 2

jeez i had no idea you guys were all so season-two-pilled

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season 2 is like 3x longer than 1, i get the feeling a lot of folks who deride s2 are splitting the og series evenly and assuming the killer reveal episode is part of season 1

even ignoring the finale, s2 eps 1~7 > s1

i agree with this consensus, have since the first time i watched the show! the lynchian vibes at the beginning of season two are jacked up way higher than they are in season one. and then the reveal of leland is prob the best episode of the show that isn’t the pilot or the finale

leland’s death really sucks tho. every day i am thankful that fwwm was made so that we never got too comfortable with the idea that he was completely unaware he was abusing his daughter

Put me with VG--thought Dick Tremayne was a waste of time, Lynch at his too-jokey worst.

Ian Buchanan appears in eleven episodes across a nineteen-episode span. Of the seven credited and six actual writers, David Lynch is 0% of them. Of the nine directors, Lynch is also 0% of them. He appears as Gordon Cole in one of the eleven; the one that came nineteen episodes after Tremayne's first appearance.

even ignoring the finale, s2 eps 1~7 > s1

This is true!

I really dislike both Leland’s death and Cooper basically absolving him when talking to Sarah in the next episode.

I forget if it was someone here or elsewhere who suggested that Maddy is the most Tulpa-like figure on the show - she shows up out of nowhere to provide solace for the grief of the family and friends, and provide a new target for Leland/Bob, and point the way towards solving the mystery for Cooper, and then once she’s dead it’s like no one remembers she existed.

ooh yes, that’s a hugely important link between the seasons I had entirely missed!

(xposts) All of that math is interesting, but at any point in Twin Peaks' history--first two seasons, movie, relaunch--is it ever not first and foremost David Lynch's sensibility guiding it? If I'd said Dick Tremayne was Harley Peyton at his too-jokey worst--writer of 28% of S2 episodes--that would be confusing.

Anyway, on IMDB, Lynch is listed as one of the writers on every single S2 episode.

Stop the presses! sic, I stand corrected--Wikipedia doesn't list Lynch as a writer of any of the S2 episodes, and there's also this, which I'd never read (but I bet most everyone who posts on this thread has):

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/05/david-lynch-twin-peaks-season-two

Sounds like Lynch might hate Dick Tremayne as much as I do (I'll stand by that, whoever's responsible).

Why doesn't IMDB correct that?

credits on IMDB are user-submitted. in the above question, "IMDB" is clemenza, a user who has identified a correction.

If that's the case, I think I'm going to submit my name as one of the co-writers of Citizen Kane and hope it sneaks through.

When asked why he would do such a thing, IMDB user clemenza would only say "I think it would be fun to be listed as the co-writer of the third-greatest film ever made."

IMDb lists creators and showrunners under writers (because they obviously are) - and for anyone's list as writer, each entry will have a summary of their roles (created by / showrunner / story by ...) and an 'i' symbol which will break down the roles per episode (so it's only the first three episodes of the first series that are listed as written by him, though see above). In conclusion you are a pair of knuckleheads who bring much noise and little light.

That's much clearer, thanks.

https://i.postimg.cc/mrbrP4qD/map.jpg

DL:" season 2 is too goofy" (goes on to make "on the air")

knuckleheads who bring much noise and little light

I apologise for taking clem’s IMDb report in good faith and replying truthfully but at face value, instead of assuming he was wildly incorrect and bringing actively-researched light as in my prior post

will endeavour to not make this error again