Shall we all (re)watch Twin Peaks together?

[buffcoat]

I watched the Psych homage to Twin Peaks.  I feel like I got the gist.

[Sarah]

Give it a try, grumpy.  You don't know what you're missing.

[buffcoat]

Give it a try, grumpy.  You don't know what you're missing.

Well isn't that the rice calling the flour white?

[Christina]

The Scrivener is correct. Fire Walk With Me is a masterpiece. And criminally underappreciated (even though it's slowly getting re-appreciated; I remember being disgusted with how mocked it was upon its original release).

I remember really liking the movie a lot, and I remember paling on the show once the 2nd season started ... I haven't seen it since. Foof, they're not on Netflix instant either.

[Sarah]

Give it a try, grumpy.  You don't know what you're missing.

Well isn't that the rice calling the flour white?

All the more reason for you to listen to me:  if I get a kick out of it, so might you.

And, yes, AC:  the quality drops enormously in the second season, although there is still much to love.  I'll be interested to see how I respond to it this time around.  I'm already pissed off having read that the network insisted Laura's killer be revealed sooner than planned because ratings were dropping.  Imagine what the show might have been like if it had been allowed to develop as originally intended.  (I also grumble to myself occasionally about how much better the whole of Babylon 5 might have been if that show hadn't been rushed to a premature resolution, only to be picked up for another season in the end anyway.  So frustrating.)

The whole reason I agreed to suggest this viewing party was that I thought the show was becoming available on NetFlix.  (Didn't somebody say this in the last chat?)  If it isn't, that throws a wrench in the works.

[Chris L]

The whole reason I agreed to suggest this viewing party was that I thought the show was becoming available on NetFlix.  (Didn't somebody say this in the last chat?)  If it isn't, that throws a wrench in the works.

It was announced it's coming to Netflix instant along w/ a bunch of other shows but I have no idea when.

[Trotskie]

I remember really liking the movie a lot, and I remember paling on the show once the 2nd season started ... I haven't seen it since. Foof, they're not on Netflix instant either.

It is worth wading through some of the muck to get to the last episode, which is one of my favorites.

[Steeley Chris]

I may watch Fire Walk with Me again right away.  I've only seen it once, about ten years ago, and did not like it (I was too distressed by its difference from the series and its lack of humor--one of the things I like most about the show--to be able to give it a proper chance [plus I was high as a kite]).

My experience and reaction was exactly the same.

That movie made me sad.

[cavorting with nudists]

I'm already pissed off having read that the network insisted Laura's killer be revealed sooner than planned because ratings were dropping.  Imagine what the show might have been like if it had been allowed to develop as originally intended.

Lynch and Frost were kind of trapped in a hole of their own devising, though--I remember thinking at the time that, if the show just goes on and on forever without the mystery being solved, Agent Cooper starts looking less like a brilliant kook and more just not-so-competent. I think the show could have survived the solution of that mystery if they'd come up with another compelling one to take its place.  But Lynch was off making movies, and even he thought the show was losing its grip when Dale Cooper started wearing flannel shirts.

[Sarah]

I would have been content with one perfect, full season.  That's not to much to ask, right?

[Chris L]

Cooper's flannel shirts prefigured the grunge fad by several months.  Too bad those bands didn't also go for the slicked-back hair look.

[cavorting with nudists]

Well, it took 15 episodes total before the audience learned who Laura's killer was and then two more for that plot thread to be wrapped up, so looked at that way it's a pretty good season that just happened to have a summer break in the middle of it.  Again, it's confusing when people talk about Season 1 good/Season 2 bad, because the first season had only eight episodes.  The second had 22, of which the first nine are good and the next twelve stink, and then the Lynch-directed finale is beyond good and bad--one of the weirdest things ever shown on network TV.

[roubaix]

I also quit during the second season.  There was too much filler and not enough weirdness.  Is it bad form to skip right to the finale?

Loved the movie though.

[emma]

Yes yes yes! The most yes.

[Jason From Buffalo]

When I was a kid I watched most of it when it was on TV, and I think it shaped my young mind a lot. I've since then watched it's all of if 4 or 5 times. It's one of my favorite things ever in the world. Even though the middle/end of season two got a little lame it was still better than most things on TV. Also the finale is the greatest moment in television history.

All fans of the show should watch the Psych episode Dual Spires. It has a whole mess of the cast of Twin Peaks in it, and it's incredible.