It was about a girl who, a week after TPTR finished, asked her bloke who was visiting, if he wanted to watch anything and he replied "What's the point?"
I so know how he feels because I have lately found myself unable to watch pretty much anything since TPTR finished and have several times now started watching a show and just switched it off after 10-15 minutes because it just doesn't interest me in the slightest.
Fuck you David Lynch!
Dude I am so relating to this post! I feel the same damn way. In fact, I've been watching "the walking dead" for the first time, and as much as I love stupid zombie gore (and Norman reedus), it is so fucking mind numbing. I've actually been curious what my fellow twin peaks fans have been watching.
Kazak, old twilight zone reruns?
If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to leave them. It's gonna be a long wait to season 4!
I’ve been enjoying The Orville. Thought the new Star Trek was dreadful. Also been sporadically watching Ken Burns’ Vietnam documentary series, but I reckon that’s probably not what folks mean they’re looking for. Amazing compilation of footage though.
shareI'd actually be into the Vietnam doc. My favorite american history to watch is the revolutionary war period, but I get into most all history documentaries. (Shh...don't tell nobody). I'll look into your other suggestions, thanks bud!
shareHey kazak, have you seen the movie northfork? I don't think many folk liked it, but I thought it was cool. Slow at parts, but interesting and different. Might be your type movie.
shareNo, I haven't, but I will soon on your recommendation. Have you ever seen any of Michael Haneke's films? He's probably my, ahem, other favorite film director. Certainly currently active. Foreign language though, so you know what you're getting yourself into. "The White Ribbon" would probably make as good an entry point as any. Also, Coen bros "A Serious Man" is a recentish favorite, as is Glazer's "Under The Skin". Thought this year's "A Dark Song" was an unreasonably great horror joint. Oh, I can't imagine Lynch admirers wouldn't get a kick out of Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York". "The Forbidden Room" (Netflix) has become one of my favorite all-timers. Sorry, got carried away there...
shareHey, don't apologize. This is what I was looking for. I suck at paying attention to directors. I thought I had seen "a serious man" but just watched the trailer and i have not. Foreign films are cool with me, many times cooler. Pans labyrinth is one of my favorite movies ever, and the French have way better horror flicks. Im gonna check out one of these now. Guess I'll start with "the white ribbon".
shareI know a super interesting show thoughtful Peaks fans might like. Look up the semi-recent (2015) PBS series called The Brain with David Eagleman. I think it’s five hour long episodes. Eagleman is a great guy (writes awesome books too), and the show is endlessly fascinating. Non-fiction though.
shareYou have to separate genres and styles in your mind. You can appreciate DL's stuff and still appreciate other non related material.
While watching TPTR me and my wife have been watching Black Mirror and the Strain. Different shows, different motifs.
Yes, I do that already but I was just bemoaning the fact the there really isn't, in all these years, a TV show that is in the same league as TP & TPTR.
shareBlack Mirror, if you haven't watched that you must, is a really good suggestion. It's an anthology show, not unlike The Twilight Zone in that each episode is its own contained story with a different cast, but it has certain subtle similarities with TP that aren't going to be terribly apparent on the surface, but are there. It's similar in that it, as its name suggests, holds a dark mirror in front of our faces, so we see what we might really look like to, say, a neutral observer (not previously conditioned by culture like ourselves). I think Twin Peaks does that too, in many ways. Perhaps not on quite the same level as TP, as you bemoan, but tits above your standard typical dumbed down schlock. Netflix.
shareI've seen all the Black Mirrors already (great show and can't wait for the new season to start), but thanks for the suggestion (it's also on Netflix btw).
"but tits above your standard typical dumbed down schlock"????? :O
Any suggestions are welcome but so far TP is still the top of the pyramid.
lol, like “head and shoulders above,” but, you know, that much more. ;)
sharethere really isn't. TP is quite unique. It feels more like an event than a regular series [well, the return is an event of sorts, at least for TP fans].
Good god, the media landscape is just barren since the series ended.
I still need to watch the season premier of Mr. Robot, maybe there'll be something interesting there, but, erg, nothing is interesting. Back to books.
I know exactly how he feels, but we must go on.
Recommendations: Ken Burns' Vietnam, True Crime: The Menendez Brothers, Bull, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Blacklist (as long as Spader is on it), The Last Man on Earth, The Good Doctor (done by David Shore who did House), The Goldbergs, and Speechless.
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