Okay, so I'm starting this conversation 21 years late, but Netflix has just made it so easy to go back and collect series that you never caught the first time around and got tired of hearing people rave about.
IMDB reviews can be shortened to "groundbreaking TV drama" with a little "OMG eleventy" tossed into the mix.
Admittedly, I'm only three episodes in, but so far, my review is "SWEET BUDDHA THAT'S SOME TERRIBLE ACTING AND DIRECTING!!!!"
What am I missing folks? Piper Laurie's screams of anguish over her daughter's death she should have gotten a rotten tomato award. The ongoing "cops and donuts" joke has me scratching my head and trying to figure out if Lynch is serious or if the whole thing is a joke. And it goes on and on. The whole thing is hard to watch because of the gapingly obvious contrived bits that make it look like the worst kind of local community theater.
Also, Don Davis apparently can play one role, and they pulled him back out after this to play the same character in Stargate. Same costume and everything.
I've never seen Twin Peaks. However, Spicey and I just started watching The IT Crowd and love it. We were joking "The spider is now upon my person" for DAYS. Then yesterday there actually WAS a spider upon my person, and even as I was screaming and flailing about, slamming into a wall and crying, I was thinking of The IT Crowd and how much I want to have the sexxors with Roy. Would the same be true if we had decided to begin watching Twin Peaks? I don't think so.
I just finished Twin Peaks a couple weeks ago. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I plan to just to get full closure.
Pros:
- very odd and quirky, and I kind of think the cheesiness of the acting and special effects sort of add to its charm.
- I loved Kyle MacLachlan in it. I never understood his appeal until I watched this show. Every time Dale got a big grin on his face because he was so enchanted with the small town charm, it cracked me up.
- Sherilyn Fenn is smoking hot.
- David Duchovny's brief role is not to be missed.
- Speaking of which, forget 5 degrees of Kevin Bacon - you could totally play 5 degrees of Twin Peaks with the revolving door of people who appear on this show.
Cons:
- Who killed Laura is resolved early in the second season in a way that made me very angry. So angry that I changed my screen name on here and ranted about it for a bit.
- I got over it and watched the rest of the season, only to find out that the series ended in a cliffhanger - a very unsatisfactory cliffhanger. I've heard that the movie wraps things up a little, but I can't imagine it does too good of a job considering it is supposed to take place before Laura's murder. We'll see.
Do I regret watching the show? Not at all. The bits that I enjoyed far outweighed the parts that disappointed me. To be honest, I am used to disappointment in terms of television series ending before they are wrapped up. If I had been watching Twin Peaks when it first came out and I was a teenager, I would have been livid (especially so soon after being crushed over Alien Nation's cancellation).
Ah. Northern Exposure. It had a good plot, which I enjoyed much better when it was condensed into a two hour movie called Doc Hollywood. And starred Michael J. Fox who was much cuter and less annoying than Rob Morrow. And the female lead wasn't nearly as smug and most certainly didn't have a large stick up her ass (if she did, you couldn't see it in the gratuitous nekkid scene).
I didn't watch Twin Peaks when it was on; I don't know if I was out of the country or on medications at the time. But I do remember the nude pictures of Sherilyn Fenn. So, I guess it was a good TV show.
Twin Peaks is probably my favorite series of all time.
Although I was incredibly disappointed with the ending of the final episode, I felt the movie made up for it. Although Fire Walk With Me is not the best of Lynch's films, I have watched it probably a dozen times, trying to decipher the meaning of the convenience store, David Bowie's character, and GARMANBOZIA.
I just watched Fire Walk With Me and I hated it. Absolutely hated it. The characters I liked were either absent or made only brief appearances. Most of the movie was taken up by characters I had no use for, including Laura Palmer herself. It had none of the quirky humor that the show had that made up for the gruesome bizarreness.
Hated it. HATED IT!!!! I want to go find David Lynch and punch him for two hours, which is the same length of time as that horrible abomination I just watched.
Did you at least watch long enough to find out who killed Laura Palmer? Because I need someone else to be as enraged as I was.
If you did make it that far, you would have seen enough for Fire Walk With Me to make sense - if you want to see the movie. I hated it with the flames of a thousand suns, but I would be remiss if I didn't alert you to the fact that boobies are featured quite prominently throughout the movie.
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