NP: Latest Twin Peaks

[Smoke Teff]

What I mean in that first paragraph is that what little bits of context do
help you access/enjoy the episode in question, I can explain.

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> First as in before watching this episode everyone's recommending? Hard to
> say. For me, many of the reasons this episode is great are not really
> dependent on being able to contextualize it against the rest of the show,
> and I can explain them briefly if you'd like.
>
> But if you're up for it, I say yes--season one because it's good and
> unique enough to compel and reward watching, season two because season one
> will be so good that even the show's fans telling you season two isn't
> worth it won't be enough to convince you. And because it'll be easy enough
> to give the time required to sketch in your sense of the universe before
> you watch the return.
>
> Season one of Twin Peaks is so good: fun and creative and fascinating and
> endearing all the way through, punctuated by the odd moment of really
> transcendent filmmaking. The strictures of television('s assumption of its
> own audiences' demands that it adhere to) realism actually have an
> interesting effect on Lynch in the first season.
>
> Season two is mostly forgettable save for the two episodes Lynch directed
> (first and last I think).
>
> The Return (which you might call season three) has been terrific thus far,
> much weirder and more serious across the board than the first season,
> though some of the beauty of the first season is definitely lost. The
> characters and settings and plot lines you might come to love. Even the
> existence of a show that can/will give you those kinds of pleasures is
> basically gone, replaced by something that works within the known universe
> of that first show and embellishes certain things about it, extends a few
> core plot lines, but is a totally different tonal inhabitation of that
> universe, done with a much freer (more Lynchian) style.
>
> Both seasons one and three are, at almost all moments, unlike most
> anything else you'll see in terms of mood and personality, I think.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:58 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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