Twin Peaks 2016

[cerealrecords]

I like Fire Walk With Me. It has a couple of really terrifying moments.  Plus, it's a mess and Bowie is in it for a split second, which is amusing.

'Turo, did you ever watch the TV pilot for Mullholland Drive?  Kim's had a bootleg way back.  Must be floating around somewhere.

Didn't know about the bootleg.

I actually like Fire Walk With Me more than the show. Truly creepy and I think it deals with the Bob character/concept better than the show does. Not Lynch's best but the one I've watched the most.

I'm a fan of Lynch's most recent works so I'm sure he can pull off a good show, though I'm really hoping it just follows James around on his bike as he gets into wacky adventures each episode.

I dug up the pilot. It's almost entirely footage that ended up in the movie but slightly different editing and so on, plus cool crappy VHS effects.

[cerealrecords]

Er the Mulholland Drive TV pilot I mean.

[Virgin Killer]

http://deadline.com/2015/08/twin-peaks-production-start-premiere-date-showtime-1201497257/

Looks like Lynch is back onboard, and he's directing the whole series as a single "movie" and then splitting it episodically. Cool.

[nick_]

Update: this is goddamn great

[dr_chile]

I haven't been this excited to come home and watch television since the Sopranos.

[Sal]

I've been mostly enjoying it so far. Definitely could use some tightening up but I know that how it is is how Lynch wants it.

I don't know if it's just the reviews I read, but people keep calling the Roadhouse the Bang Bang bar. The Bang Bang sign isn't new, it was around in the original series. And the Roadhouse now seems like the jumpin'-est place in town, vs the original series where it was just underage drinking and brooding.

[nuggetsvolume1]

Will watch this. I remember my fourth grade teacher, Miss May, being a huge fan of this show and always ranting about it. In hindsight, that's kind of a bizarre thing to recommend to children.

[P-TNT]

Update: this is goddamn great

Agreed. Definitely not just a nostalgia trip, which makes it even better.

[grievous angel]

Lately it's been like three fourths great and one fourth chore.  Most of this last episode fell closer to chore territory for me.

[nick_]

That was the most gratifying episode of TV I've ever seen

[fever trip]

woulda been better if lynch put this on stage at the roadhouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EV9o3zPykA&t=3m4s

[nick_]

[P-TNT]

fuckin' loved the double finale

[grievous angel]

I came around to the series as a whole, but I hated the fucking ending. 

I think that Lynch doesn't know how to end his shit anymore...what was the last movie of his that had an actual ending, Wild At Heart in 1990?  How many times can he play the 'maybe it was a dream/alternate universe' card?  It was fine with Mulholland Drive (was Lost Highway also this way?  It's been too long) but then he did it with Inland Empire and now with Twin Peaks.  His ultra-fans will rewatch obsessively trying to put the pieces together, but the truth is that the pieces of the puzzle don't fit and we're left with 18 hours of a story that don't end up going anywhere or tying together.  It feels lazy to me.

[dr_chile]

I came around to the series as a whole, but I hated the fucking ending. 

I think that Lynch doesn't know how to end his shit anymore...what was the last movie of his that had an actual ending, Wild At Heart in 1990?  How many times can he play the 'maybe it was a dream/alternate universe' card?  It was fine with Mulholland Drive (was Lost Highway also this way?  It's been too long) but then he did it with Inland Empire and now with Twin Peaks.  His ultra-fans will rewatch obsessively trying to put the pieces together, but the truth is that the pieces of the puzzle don't fit and we're left with 18 hours of a story that don't end up going anywhere or tying together.  It feels lazy to me.

Fair critique! I didn't watch the original series all the way through. Parts of it were too melodramatic for my liking. Loved the new series even without having much context. The things he does really well (atmosphere) he nailed. I agree, I don't see the point in the Lynch obsessives. Like, what's the point of trying to solve something that has no real meaning?!