After several months, I finally finished watching the entire Twin Peaks series and the movie Fire Walk with Me. For me, there’s no doubt that it’s a masterpiece, in fact, I think the movie can only be understood after watching the third season. What do you think of Twin Peaks? Do you think you understood it? What’s your take on it?
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- 5 days
I’m not a fan. I just don’t like anything David Lynch has made outside the original Dune movie. I can’t really defend my position, it’s just a personal taste thing.
- 5 days
that is hilarious because David Lynch hates that movie hehe, but I guess it makes sense
YOU TAKE THAT BACK! Everything before and including White was great, except Raditude
- 4 days
If it helps, David Lynch would appreciate and enjoy that you don’t feel compelled to defend your position.
- 4 days
I think I’m in the same place. I live in the PNW and whenever I tell people I haven’t watched Twin Peaks it feels like a sin. But I recently regretted watching Blue Velvet and can’t manage to get more than a few episodes into Twin Peaks, thinking his style is just not for me.
5 daysThat it’s probably time to go watch it again and see if it holds my interest well enough to watch the third season. I’ve seen the first two and maybe the movie? But that was easily 15 years ago.
If nothing else though, Kyle MacLachlan is a treasure to watch and an absolute dreamboat.
- eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish5 days
Likewise in fallout; he’s aging REALLY well and I hate that he looks younger than I do despite me being literally decades younger. Lol
Oh my. I’ve only seen like 2 episodes of fallout and forgot he was in the first one, so I just looked him up and other than some extra silver he appears to have barely aged from when he played the mayor on Portlandia 10-15 years ago.
- 5 days
Be aware that season 3 is completely different. In fact Lynch considered it a separate thing (The Return) instead of season 3. While The Return has great moments and ardent fans, I think it’s good to know you’ll be in for a different ride.
- 5 days
Pointlessly pretentious. Powered through the whole thing because it’s supposed to be good and. It’s not.
Its like having a conversation with an idiot that think using exclusively polysyllabic words makes them smart.
Also the part where all the highschool girls end up in relationships with 30+ year old men is certainly something.
- 5 days
I guess I like the plaid tops more than the hooters tank tops, but otherwise it’s just standard chain restaurant food. Nothing too special.
I think anyone who claims to fully understand it can be safely ignored. It’s not supposed to be understood, it’s supposed to be felt. Lynch intentionally tries to invoke a dreamlike feeling, where things simultaneously feel internally consistent and incomprehensibly bizarre. There are certainly things to understand, but there are also things which are meant more to inspire an idea of something that could be understood, without having a concrete explanation. That’s part of the magic.
I think the middle of season 2, when he stepped away to work on Blue Velvet, is frustratingly weak, but they got there in the end. I think The Return was good, but not quite as good.
Overall I love it and reference it frequently.
Love the music, and liked what i saw of the first season, but I haven’t continued watching it for whatever reason; I typically do not watch television in general though.
Season 1 is excellent. I rewatch it every year or two.
Season 2 is a struggle at times. I do rewatch it, just not as often.
Season 3 I’ve only watched once when it aired, but remember liking it. I’m due for a rewatch of it soon. It however didn’t capture the same kind of magic as Season 1.
Fire Walk With Me is a necessary viewing, but I’ve always been on the fence about how I felt about it. Or rather, if I felt it was a necessary installment.
- 5 days
I find season 1 to be consistently great.
For me season 2 lacks the consistency and it’s quality varies a lot. I find the best of season 2 to be incredible, but I also find the worst of season 2 to be drab and poor.
Look up which season 2 episodes Lynch was involved in, and which ones he wasn’t. For me, the drop in quality perfectly aligns with his brief departure.
- 4 days
It’s probably my favourite piece of media ever. I’ve never seen anything else that is able to blend comedy, surrealism, horror and satire into one thing the way twin peaks does. I’ve definitely allowed to become a core part of my personality.
- 4 days
There’s a scene in season 3 that lasts minutes showing nothing but a guy sweeping up the Roadhouse while Green Onions by Booker T & The M.G.'s is playing in the background. I watched the whole thing. I could not imagine anyone but David Lynch getting away with something like that on TV.
It was filmed super close to where I live so that’s cool. I wasn’t able to get into it as a show though
