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.

That 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.

Masterpiece. Enough said

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.

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.

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.

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.

Damn fine piece of art!

EDIT to add that there's a TP community here on Lemmy. It's quiet, but it's a place folk on this thread might find both wonderful and strange...

https://lemmy.world/c/twinpeaks !twinpeaks@lemmy.world

At its frequent best, it's the finest TV around. It had a very rocky spell in the second half of season 2, but the final episode of that season was a masterpiece.

I absolutely love Season 3 as well.

IMO though, the film, Fire Walk With Me is the absolute pinnacle of the world of Twin Peaks, and indeed of Lynch's output. I don't really agree that you need to see Season 3 to understand FWWM, it's pretty straightforward if you know the first two seasons fairly well, but I certainly think it adds an interesting further dimension to the film.

I'll take this opportunity to plug a SUPERB video series on the show from a creator called Joel Bocko, who goes by Lost in the Movies on YT. His work is always fascinating, but the thing he's best known for is his absolutely epic series Journey Through Twin Peaks. It's a 40-chapter (and still growing) series covering the show, less from a "let's work out the puzzles and clues" point of view and more from a cinematic, thematic and emotional perspective, including comparisons with old movies which may have influenced Frost and Lynch.

It's marvellous, and deserves a hell of a lot more attention than it gets (and certainly more than the notorious 4 hour Twin Perfect video)

I’ve tried to get into a few times, and I just can’t.

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.

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.

I like it mostly because the characters are incredibly easy to care about and connect to, and the depiction of a small town in the pacific northwest is so enchanting. It feels like a soap opera at times but in the best way possible.

The rest of it is incomprehensible but it really adds to the dreaminess of it all.

I respect any piece of media that executes on an artists vision, and twin peaks is so Lynchian that it deserves at least a try.

Also find it interesting how it's almost impossible to fit it into an archetype. You can almost never guess if someone will like Twin Peaks or not.

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.

Peak television

I've only seen bits a and pieces of it and so this is what I know of:

1990s show with 1950s aesthetics and pacing.
The mystery message explained after 200+ episodes of 20+ minutes:
"TV is bad y'all, go read a book"

As with many shows, season one was awesome.

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

It didn’t age well.

“Oh Mr Jeffries, the shit it come out of my ass!”

“This is the water, this is the well. Drink deep and descend.”

It was fascinating in its time. I never finished it though, despite being a David lynch fan

Believing I was watching Fire Walk With Me, I was actually watching the extra scenes. Given TP is TP I just thought "what the hell". Watched all seasons but not fwwm. Yet.

Even Lost wasn't that ridiculous.