Twin Peaks . . . . Damn fine or not your cup of coffee?
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modica — 15 years ago(June 01, 2010 07:49 AM)
Funny how people love it so much now, because when it was on people hated the second season and drove it off the air. I really loved the ending. The weirdest thing you'll probably ever see on television. Too bad that all we care about now are reality shows and American Idol.
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Amela613 — 15 years ago(July 11, 2010 12:37 PM)
I agree with the above. It was definitely a great, groundbreaking show but once Laura Palmer's murder was solved, the show started to unravel. The second season, with the whole Windam Earle (sp??) thing was weak after a tremendous first season. I still love it, though, and I'll watch it when they show the reruns on Chiller.
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coltronix — 15 years ago(November 19, 2010 07:00 AM)
The only thing that prevents me proclaiming it as my favourite TV Show of all time is that, and it hurts to admit it, but it does slighlty lose some of its strength after we find out who killed Laura. Theres a quick lull for a few episodes then it gets good again, but the Windham Earl plot just doesn't live up to the Laura Palmer plot, its great, but not amazing like the 1 season and 1st half of the second!
The ending tho is an ABSOLUTE BLINDER!!! It couldn't have ended better if you ask me, without going to a third series.
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dersisco — 12 years ago(August 15, 2013 04:07 AM)
Damn fine as I have already written in another thread on this board:
"This show is really great!
It isn´t just my favorite TV-show of all time, but it´s also the show with the greatest influence on TV ever.
The TV-landscape chanced after this brilliant masterpiece was aired at the beginning of the 90s.
And beside the awesome mixture of pretty many elements and genres, it was able to show, what television could really achieve.
After "Twin Peaks" creative people, which were influenced by this show, created some of the best, famous and extraordinary shows of all time.
Suddenly tv-shows were filled with wired supernatural elements, crime/murder/mystery plots so complex they needed more than one episode to solve them and very eccentric but loveable characters.
Sometimes in combination.
So many really different shows from "Northern Exposure", "The X-Files", "Picket Fences" over "Murder One", "Ally McBeal", "The Sopranos", "The Wire", "Veronica Mars", "Carnivale", "Lost" and "24" till today´s shows like "Breaking Bad", "Dexter", "True Blood" and "Desperate Housewives" were all partly inspired by the pioneer work of "Twin Peaks".
It´s a pity, that many people don´t seem to know that.
This show will for me always be a piece of art that had an impact on modern television.
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NxNWRocks — 11 years ago(April 12, 2014 07:42 PM)
I loved most of it when it was on, except for that stupid soap opera, show-within-a-show beep that seemed to take up so much time and was boring as hell. The mythology and the dark side of things was great. I hated most of the characters, though. Doubt I'll watch it again.
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a_l_i_e_n — 11 years ago(September 02, 2014 11:47 PM)
I remember reading that if it had not been cancelled, Diane was going to be brought in, and she would've been played by Carol Lynley.
As for the show, I would frequently start to doze off during dialogue heavy scenes until something shocking would suddenly occur (like what's-her-name with the eye patch crushing that glass in her bare hand). I liked the whole "who killed Laura Palmer" mystery that was the centre piece of the show. However, once that mystery was solved, for me that's where the series should've ended. -
amyghost — 10 years ago(June 22, 2015 04:02 AM)
It's the grandaddy of, and far superior to, the genre of programs it spawned, none of whom are anywhere nearly as inventive, eerie, witty or clever (the recent
Wayward Pines
is a good example of the sort of
Twin Peaks
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Sandoz — 10 years ago(July 23, 2015 05:31 AM)
When it first aired, Twin Peaks was revolutionary and a masterpiece compared to the all the other crap that was also airing.
And the show still holds up today. In fact, you can find it's influence in countless current shows that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for TP: True Detective, Fargo, Rectify, etc
Can you dig it? I knew that you could!