NP: Latest Twin Peaks

[David Morris]

OK, I admit I didn't watch most of the first Twin Peaks show.  Should I
binge on that first?

David Morris

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:20 PM jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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