Twin Peaks returns to television.

[gindygoo]

Ok, so as my illness has flared up and proceeds to render me bed-bound - and as the haze of opiate painkillers lifts (i've got to periodically abstain to make them at all effective) lifts temporally I've found myself perusing now NowTV.

The first incarnation of twin peaks never appealed to me, admittedly I was likely a bit too young to have appreciated it (i'm mid 40's) or too busy being a teenager to have cared even if I'd have grasped it.

I'm sat drumming my fingers, while ruminating whether to hit play or not on the original series. So thought I'd dip into my newly discovered forum, and not unexpectedly fond more than the one thread on the subject at hand.

Votes please:

Should I watch the original series, or not?

 

[Orang Utan]

Ok, so as my illness has flared up and proceeds to render me bed-bound - and as the haze of opiate painkillers lifts (i've got to periodically abstain to make them at all effective) lifts temporally I've found myself perusing now NowTV.

The first incarnation of twin peaks never appealed to me, admittedly I was likely a bit too young to have appreciated it (i'm mid 40's) or too busy being a teenager to have cared even if I'd have grasped it.

I'm sat drumming my fingers, while ruminating whether to hit play or not on the original series. So thought I'd dip into my newly discovered forum, and not unexpectedly fond more than the one thread on the subject at hand.

Votes please:

Should I watch the original series, or not?

Yes, definitely or you won't know what the fuck is going on.
Mind you, I can't promise you'll know what's going on if you do watch the first two series.

 

[Badgers]

Would people recommend this to someone who has not seen the first series?

 

[Orang Utan]

Would people recommend this to someone who has not seen the first series?

See above post!

 

[Badgers]

See above post!

Whoops

 

[SpookyFrank]

Would people recommend this to someone who has not seen the first series?

Watch the first series at least. Second series is patchy but contains some pretty major plot points which may affect your understanding of the new series.

 

[May Kasahara]

Also, watch Fire Walk With Me.

 

[Orang Utan]

This tries to make some sense of episode 8:

 

[elbows]

That Twin Peaks secret history book that Frost came out with (last year I think?) also contains a bunch of stuff that fills in some gaps in background info between the original series and the new one.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Harry Dean Stanton has a wonderful singing voice.

Still loving this, I don't want it to end ever.

 

[Sea Star]

That Twin Peaks secret history book that Frost came out with (last year I think?) also contains a bunch of stuff that fills in some gaps in background info between the original series and the new one.

yes definitely - and arguably reduces the need to watch the original series, though i have but my memory of series two is patchy at best, and I'm not even sure i've seen every episode.

ETA - not convinced by Denise at all. Deadnaming without comment and Denise still appears to be cis man in drag after all those years. You'd have thought she'd have had HRT or something in all that time.

oh, and Candy Clark. I love Candy Clark.

 

[Sea Star]

Fucking hell, I completely didn't twig who that was.

i yelled his name at the screen. was sooo excited :-p

 

[SpookyFrank]

i yelled his name at the screen. was sooo excited :-p

It was Diane I didn't twig, not Harry Dean Stanton. I'd already heard Stanton was gonna be in the cast, but then forgot about it until he appeared.

 

[May Kasahara]

Harry Dean Stanton has a wonderful singing voice.

Still loving this, I don't want it to end ever.

Same here

 

[cybershot]

Just watched latest ep, think it's gonna get pushed to Tuesdays for me now GoT is back.

I love Lynch's own character.

Dougie's face when he climaxed!

 

[Sea Star]

I'm sad all over again

Jeffries was played by English musician and actor David Bowie. Harry Goaz revealed in an interview that Bowie was scheduled to make a return appearance as Jeffries in the 2017 revival, but unfortunately passed away from cancer on January 10, 2016, before he could film his scenes.[7]

 

[elbows]

ETA - not convinced by Denise at all. Deadnaming without comment and Denise still appears to be cis man in drag after all those years. You'd have thought she'd have had HRT or something in all that time.

At best Lynch is awfully clumsy and naive about a whole bunch of issues. So I was kind of fearing it might be worse in this regard, with 'fix your hearts of die' being as good as it gets in terms of Lynch expressing a sentiment that could be said to involve politics and the struggles of people. Especially since both he and Frost demonstrate a taste for adding a smattering of absurd, farcical, naff humour to their tv shows. Denise was treated warmly and sympathetically in the original series, but I dont think there is any getting away from the fact it was done in part as 'quirky comedy' and that seems true of the scene in the new series too. In practice I'm not exactly sure what they might have done differently this time, given the confines imposed by David Duchovny playing the part, and the obvious limitations of the writers and director (for another example I already moaned about the misogynistic stuff).

This stuff aside, I'm still in love with the new series and am getting a lot out of some of the other comedy, the really surreal arty episodes, the story development and some of the acting. A good chunk of the roadhouse music has been the big failure of the series so far in my eyes, some of the acts have been the very opposite of the soulful stuff we saw on display from the likes of Julee Cruise (Falling) and Jimmy Scott (Sycamore Trees) in the original.

 

[Orang Utan]

Rebekah Del RIo in the last episode was brilliant. I am enjoying the musical interludes myself - they seem to fit perfectly to me and think that they must have all been produced by Lynch and Badalamenti to get that sound.
I wonder if Lynch got the idea of the musical section at the end of the show from The Young Ones?

 

[Sea Star]

Oh, I love the new series. That was a tiny niggle really. Denise was a bit of an early inspiration for me back when i was really naive about the whole trans thing. Would have been best to leave alone I think, but hey, we are where we are.

Music also not engaging me, and I so love Cruise and Badalamenti.

 

[Sea Star]

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I wonder if Lynch got the idea of the musical section at the end of the show from The Young Ones?

Wow! I had exactly the same thought yesterday - or when Buffy used to have a track being performed in its entirety, which happened occasionally.

 

[elbows]

Rebekah Del RIo in the last episode was brilliant. I am enjoying the musical interludes myself - they seem to fit perfectly to me and think that they must have all been produced by Lynch and Badalamenti to get that sound.
I wonder if Lynch got the idea of the musical section at the end of the show from The Young Ones?

I like the idea of the musical interlude, and had no problems with Rebekah. I should probably have ranted about particular acts that left me cold on the weeks they were on.

 

[elbows]

OK I had a bit of a look back and its probably the case that I dont like Chromatics or Au Revoir Simone much and that dragged down my opinion of things, along with having my expectations set too high.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I like the music! Think there are separate releases for the songs and instrumental stuff in September.

 

[elbows]

I love Lynch's own character.

I like what Lynch did with his eyes when he really wanted Dianes cigarette.

 

[elbows]

I'm sad all over again

Yeah. I would have loved Bowie to be in it, and I was glad when there was some of his stuff in the 'missing pieces' hour+ of deleted scenes from fire walk with me that were released a few years ago.

Compared to the original one of the things I miss most is the acting of Piper Laurie (Catherine Martell). And Don S Davis (Major Garland Briggs).

 

[elbows]

Some thoughts on episode 11 which I shall wrap in spoiler tags just in case.

Spoiler

Oh the dead body of Ruth Davenport was so hilariously rubbish, and then not long after I had to pause the show to compose myself when David Lynch delivered the immortal line 'he's dead'. I had a lot of fun watching this episode, great in a different way each week, even when it is being a bit naff its tv gold.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Think ep 11 might be my fave yet of the new season, though hard to reason why.

 

[cybershot]

I was half expecting Dougie to have a Coup recollection when eating the pie!

 

[SpookyFrank]

That was Badalamenti on the piano at the end right?

 

[Orang Utan]

That was Badalamenti on the piano at the end right?

No, it was Smokey Miles