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20 May 2011, 8:32 pm

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I love Agent Cooper. Almost at the end of the show now, the Miss Twin Peaks contest. I don't want it to end

I still miss that show, especially how place names of my home Pacific Northwest (where David Lynch in fact grew up) were liberally sprinkled about in the script.
But I especially, ESPECIALLY miss the dancing m***et.

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21 May 2011, 12:13 am

twin peaks = best story ever to be put to a screen

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21 May 2011, 4:00 am

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The drama is very soap opera-ish but I think that adds a campy charm to it.

That part is, I'm pretty sure, a satirical poke at the contemporary dramas of the time (Dynasty, Dallas and such).

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22 May 2011, 12:57 pm

Twin Peaks is one of my favorite shows of all time. I wish I had watched it back when it was first coming on. When I was a kid, little did I know that there was such an amazing alternative to 90210 and all that other crap I hated.

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22 May 2011, 5:12 pm

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When it first ran, I was in college. It would play on Wednesday night, then the next day, everyone at school would be talking about it. Years later, when it played on IFC, I introduced my wife to it, and she absolutely loved it.

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29 Dec 2011, 7:44 pm

Just started watching the series for the second time around to see if I missed anything. Now I am even more so in love with Audrey Horne.

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31 Dec 2011, 2:15 pm

I bought the complete "Gold Box" set last year and I've watched all of season 1 and a bit of season 2! I'm a big David Lynch fan and I love Twin Peaks.

I've got a lot of free time right now, I'm going to try and watch every episode (and the movie "Fire Walk With Me") in 7 days.

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31 Dec 2011, 8:11 pm

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Just to warn you, while I loved the Twin Peaks series, I thought Lynch had done better than Fire Walk With Me.

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03 Jan 2012, 4:17 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:

TellEmSteveDave wrote:

Just to warn you, while I loved the Twin Peaks series, I thought Lynch had done better than Fire Walk With Me.

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I will bear that in mind

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04 Jan 2012, 2:48 pm

Can't think of words to do justice to the appeal of Twin Peaks. I understand that Lynch directed or co-directed the first 10 or so episodes (not sure if that extends into series 2 - check wiki for answers) and then came back to direct the penultimate (maybe) and final episodes which were about no.s 23 and 24 or so.

I watched some of it when it was first on the telly and the feelings of the memories of that and my life at the time are wonderful. I watched most of it again more recently although lost interest mid season 2 (Lynch, I believe, makes just about all the difference). Then, I think I searched for those final 2 episodes but think I've yet to see all of that. So, still a little something new to go back for.

Nope, I still can't think of the words I'd be happy to use to describe Twin Peaks.

Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway are my other 2 favourites. I'd highly recommend checking out Zizek on these and other movies. If you like Lynch you will probably really dig Zizek's 'Perverts Guide to Cinema' which itself was directed by Sophia Copolla, if I remember rightly (sorry if I don't).

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07 Jan 2012, 7:07 pm

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Eraserhead is black and white and VERY surreal. Some people find it disturbing. The story wanders through all kinds of strange territory and leaves at least 80% of things unexplained. The best I can tell the plotline, it's about a man (Eraserhead) who lives in a bleak, industrial city. He marries and they produce an extremely deformed infant. The stress breaks up their marriage. He listens to the lady who sings to him from inside his radiator. And then it REALLY gets weird.

I take it the baby was a giant sperm. Lynch said the movie was about how burdensome parenthood interfered with his life in the art scene.

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07 Jan 2012, 7:25 pm

I love Twin Peaks, the music, the foggy forests and mountains, the unusual characters. I managed to suspend my disbelief about the outlandish storyline, both the mystic stuff and the unreality of a whorehouse recruiting local girls. I went through a brief strip joint phase after my 21st birthday, strippers are always from out of state. No one strips in their home town and I'd assume that would be doubly true for prostitutes, not to mention the pimps and madams who wouldn't want to bring down law enforcement heat from employing a beloved local girl instead of some runaway no one cares about. I do wish we would have seen more of Ronnette Pulaski, she was cute. What happened to Sherilyn Fenn? Sherly Lee? Madchen Amick? Despite how good this was it didn't seem to launch any careers, except perhaps Duchovney. X files seems very much inspired by this series, an FBI agent who solves crimes with a supernatural angle, filmed in the Pacific Northwest. Northern Exposure is another series I suspect the networks produced as a copycat focusing on the quirky character aspect instead of the supernatural angle X files went with.

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07 Jan 2012, 7:36 pm

Nightowl2548 wrote:

The whore house was in a town in Canada. Twin Peaks is in the United States.

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09 Jan 2012, 12:12 pm

Alex!! ! I feel like we're talking with God now.

alex wrote:

The whore house was in a town in Canada. Twin Peaks is in the United States.

Exactly. This was actually a plot point in the second(?) series, when Agent Cooper was suspended for acting outside of his jurisdiction.

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