I think the show is rather dated, but it's still a good watch. I don't have the undying love a lot of others seem to have for it, but when it's good it is really good.
I just think, back then, Lynch and the machinations of tv didn't jive so well and it suffered because of that as well as not knowing where to go, once the case was solved. I think it'll fit better in today's television landscape, actually, and allows Lynch to have more freedom about it and can go even weirder!
As someone else said, it's an acquired taste and if you're not digging it by, at least, halfway into season 1 than it may not be for you. It's structure can be hard to get through if it's not appealing to your tastes.
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AngularTurnip (3334)
7 years ago
Shows like "Twin Peaks" need a through line and the murder of Laura Palmer was that through line. Remove it and you have the back-end of Season 2 which, excepting the last fifteen minutes of the finale, remains unwatchable.
Then again, you may be right that today's television landscape will permit Lynch to really let his freak flag fly. He's going to have to pile on The Dancing Dwarf, The Black Lodge, Killer Bob, and Doppelganger Cooper to make us forget the absence of that through line instrumental in hooking us in the first place.
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DreamersxDisease (817)
7 years ago
I'd imagine there will be another through line to hold us down, hopefully! Lynch has always been weird, but he's mostly, been able to ground his stories in something no matter how crazy they've gotten. Maybe what we'll see is more of what he intended all along anyways....who knows, there hasn't been too much written or shared about it, I'd assume that's entirely on purpose so we won't really find out till those credits start up!
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AngularTurnip (3334)
7 years ago
Windom Earle was the through line of S2 post-Laura Palmer. Let's just pray S3 has a through line a little better than that one.
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DreamersxDisease (817)
7 years ago
Preach!
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AngularTurnip (3334)
7 years ago
How about the through line be the Black Lodge? You can't go wrong there. Explore that place's every nook and cranny. Do the whole season in there for all I care. Anything to keep our exposure to Nadine, Lucy, and Andy to a minimum.
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DreamersxDisease (817)
7 years ago
I agree that there should definitely be a focus on the Black Lodge. That whole construct is certainly one of the shows strengths and we've barely gotten enough of it the first go around. Exploring that seriously needs to be on the to do list.
Infinitely more interesting and engaging than the characters you mentioned as well as a lot of the other plot lines.
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AngularTurnip (3334)
7 years ago
The last fifteen minutes of the series finale is the high point of the original series. More of that please.
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DreamersxDisease (817)
7 years ago
Agreed, so chilling!
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AngularTurnip (3334)
7 years ago
An army of Freddy Kruegers would come nowhere near the bowel-loosening horror of Laura Palmer with cloudy eyes screaming at you.
I said before the last fifteen minutes of "Beyond Life and Death" is the apex of the series. I would go further and say it could just be the pinnacle of television. Twenty-six years have gone by and still nothing else has come along that's quite like it. I love "Black Mirror" and "The Twilight Zone" and while those shows offered plenty of sublime weirdness they still can't quite compete with Lynch at his most Lynchian. No one can frankly. "The Sopranos" tried to with forays into surrealism of their own and just came across as Lynch-wannabes. Maybe Kafka is the only other person out there that does dream-logic anywhere near as good as Lynch. People like Christopher Nolan think they can but they're fooling themselves. Can you imagine if Lynch had directed "Inception"? Wouldn't that have been something.
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