NP: Latest Twin Peaks

[jesse gooch]

Couldn’t agree more about episode 8. Have watched it a few times since Sunday and I keep being impressed.
I had to look up “jumping the shark,” good observation. 

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JumpingTheShark

> On Jun 28, 2017, at 6:54 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I haven't seen the last four as I'm waiting for enough new ones to be
> released that I can watch them all in one hit, but a critic I know
> described the latest episode as the polar opposite of jumping the
> shark. I can't imagine what that might mean but can't wait to find
> out.
> Having just finished watching all of the old Twin Peaks (including the
> feature-length "Missing Pieces" of scenes dropped from Fire Walk With
> Me) I can confirm that season 2 is one of the great tragedies of
> contemporary television. Lynch must have been meditating 23 hours a
> day to come to peace with some of the awful subplots forced onto the
> show.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:47 AM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm not sure how much it depends on the context of the third Twin Peaks
>> season, but I'd definitely agree that episode eight is one of the most
>> extraordinary things ever broadcast for television
>> 
>> 
>> On Wednesday, June 28, 2017, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If you haven't been watching the return of Twin Peaks, I'd recommend
>>> checking out the most recent episode (the eighth of the series). Lynch is
>>> usually to my taste and I'm a fan, so I'm not a great critic, but this
>>> episode is some of the most compelling video art of any kind that I can
>>> remember seeing.
>>> 
>>> Lots of Kubrickian ancestry (which I'm always curious about with Lynch) in
>>> the middle to sensually astonish. Bookended by Lynch at his weird
>>> expressionist best, beginning and end both fucking horrifying.
>>> 
>>> Plus it functions fairly well as a standalone piece of expressionist film,
>>> not being too overtly connected to the story lines thus far.
>>> 
>>> I knew a lot of people--TP fans--who were skeptical about the show's
>>> return. It seemed wrong, to me, to worry that--especially at this point in
>>> his career--Lynch would attach himself to this project in particular if he
>>> didn't feel genuinely inspired.
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