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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.
The last fifteen minutes of the series finale is the high point of the original series. More of that please.
S3 in the vein of "Fire Walk With Me" would be the bomb. That movie, which was thoroughly reviled upon its initial release (yours truly was among those bad-mouthing it in 1992), has only gotten better with the passing years. Without the studio's interference there's nothing keeping Lynch from being faithful to his vision even if that means S3 polarizes much like "Fire Walk With Me" back in the early nineties.
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.
S2 has plenty to offer before Laura Palmer's murderer is revealed. Good luck though weathering TP post-LP. I'm a TP devotee no doubt and I usually just ignore everything post-LP, excepting, that is, the series finale (the weirdness on display there will blow your mind).
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.
Mental patients must be disappearing en masse from this hospital with flimsy glass like that.
Gurney having clothes under his hospital gown kind of reminds me of that love scene in "Naked Gun" when Frank Drebin rips off his suit ... only to expose another suit under it.
SNL had a skit from a few years back where Kate McKinnon is Hillary Clinton and in it she is told by her press agent prior to a social media video that she should work on being more personable and intimate. Hillary agrees, adding "I better take off this jacket then." She does so ... only to reveal another jacket underneath it.
"The Case of Mr. Pelham" from "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" would have made a corker of a "Twilight Zone." I imagine Mr. Serling studied it and stories like it prior to launching the "Zone."
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.
Keep the focus on the Black Lodge and I'll be a happy camper. Imbue Nadine with super-human strength again and I'm gone.
I agree: The American Office, at its best, rivals, maybe exceeds, what was accomplished on the original.
As much as I adore "The Sopranos" I always think: "Gee, this is great, but 'Goodfellas' managed to tell roughly the same story in under two and a half hours." We're dealing with different mediums I know but that still doesn't excuse the possibility that a good twenty -- possibly thirty -- episodes could be eliminated without much missed. Was all the time devoted to Vito on the lam once his sexual preferences became common knowledge really necessary? What did we glean from "The Test Dream", an episode transpiring almost entirely in Tony's noodle, other than Chase should leave the surrealism to David Lynch? How germane were the many subplots dealing with AJ and Meadow? Getting a sense of Tony's two families is important but there's still a limit as to how much of Tony's brood's "Dawson's Creek"- esque angst I can stomach. "Breaking Bad"'s 62 episodes is about the maximum that should be permitted for a show ("The Wire", another benchmark, had only 60). There's still plenty on "Breaking Bad" I could relegate to the cutting-room floor but where it's at now is fine.
I like that Mr. Brooker confines each season to only a handful of episodes. Brits are good at emphasizing quality over quantity. Just look at "The Office" or "The Prisoner": can you imagine if instead of confining themselves to under twenty episodes they went on for a hundred, or two hundred, as it's often the case here in the states. I'd hate for Mr. Booker to spread himself thin the way Mr. Serling sometimes did with the network demanding thirty six episodes a season. "Black Mirror" certainly doesn't need anything in its canon as bloody awful as "Sounds and Silences" or "Cavender is Coming."
I agree. Rod Serling would have loved "Black Mirror." And episodes like "San Junipero" will be discussed in the years to come the way the likes of "Walking Distance" are currently discussed now.
Professor Kittridge and Walter Jameson talking about Kittridge's nearly 30-year-old daughter.
Kittridge: "She's going to get that PhD --"
Jameson: "If I have to spank her, I know."
The Outer Limits. Especially when Conrad Hall was DP.
Black Mirror and Tales From The Crypt also deserve to be in the running
"Julie. Fred. George, will you tell them?"
"TELL THEM WHO I AM??!!"
Just as long as they stay away from stupid subplots like Andy's sperm this new season should be fine.
While I concede the acting and music in TP are an acquired taste I would encourage you to keep watching. Especially if you like weird -- TP hitting its stride in this regard with the Season 2 opener. Just make sure you abandon the show once the Laura Palmer case is resolved. Then again, you might regard the Pilot much more favorably once you've been subjected to Windom Earle and Miss Twin Peaks.
Nothing in the Dark is another good example.
"The Last Flight" is great. How it goes unrecognized is beyond me.