After several months, I finally finished watching the entire Twin Peaks series and the movie Fire Walk with Me. For me, there’s no doubt that it’s a masterpiece, in fact, I think the movie can only be understood after watching the third season. What do you think of Twin Peaks? Do you think you understood it? What’s your take on it?

I'm not a fan. I just don't like anything David Lynch has made outside the original Dune movie. I can't really defend my position, it's just a personal taste thing.

Season 1 is excellent. I rewatch it every year or two.

Season 2 is a struggle at times. I do rewatch it, just not as often.

Season 3 I've only watched once when it aired, but remember liking it. I'm due for a rewatch of it soon. It however didn't capture the same kind of magic as Season 1.

Fire Walk With Me is a necessary viewing, but I've always been on the fence about how I felt about it. Or rather, if I felt it was a necessary installment.

that is hilarious because David Lynch hates that movie hehe, but I guess it makes sense

Love the music, and liked what i saw of the first season, but I haven't continued watching it for whatever reason; I typically do not watch television in general though.

That it's probably time to go watch it again and see if it holds my interest well enough to watch the third season. I've seen the first two and maybe the movie? But that was easily 15 years ago.

If nothing else though, Kyle MacLachlan is a treasure to watch and an absolute dreamboat.

Masterpiece. Enough said

Likewise in fallout; he's aging REALLY well and I hate that he looks younger than I do despite me being literally decades younger. Lol

Oh my. I've only seen like 2 episodes of fallout and forgot he was in the first one, so I just looked him up and other than some extra silver he appears to have barely aged from when he played the mayor on Portlandia 10-15 years ago.

Be aware that season 3 is completely different. In fact Lynch considered it a separate thing (The Return) instead of season 3. While The Return has great moments and ardent fans, I think it’s good to know you’ll be in for a different ride.

I find season 1 to be consistently great.

For me season 2 lacks the consistency and it’s quality varies a lot. I find the best of season 2 to be incredible, but I also find the worst of season 2 to be drab and poor.

Damn fine piece of art!

Even Lost wasn't that ridiculous.

Pinkerton was the only good Weezer album

As with many shows, season one was awesome.

I feel the same way

I guess I like the plaid tops more than the hooters tank tops, but otherwise it's just standard chain restaurant food. Nothing too special.

Lost wasn’t trying to be ridiculous, but got close. Damon Lindelof is a terrible writer who thinks “mystery” means “random unexplainable bullshit”.

David Lynch was doing it on purpose.

Believing I was watching Fire Walk With Me, I was actually watching the extra scenes. Given TP is TP I just thought "what the hell". Watched all seasons but not fwwm. Yet.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK! Everything before and including White was great, except Raditude

I’ve tried to get into a few times, and I just can’t.

It was intended to be so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_realism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". He is often credited with bringing surrealism and experimentalism to mainstream media in the late 20th century.

It was fascinating in its time. I never finished it though, despite being a David lynch fan

The best Weezer album was Return of the Rentals 😆

“Oh Mr Jeffries, the shit it come out of my ass!”

“This is the water, this is the well. Drink deep and descend.”

Look up which season 2 episodes Lynch was involved in, and which ones he wasn't. For me, the drop in quality perfectly aligns with his brief departure.

I think anyone who claims to fully understand it can be safely ignored. It's not supposed to be understood, it's supposed to be felt. Lynch intentionally tries to invoke a dreamlike feeling, where things simultaneously feel internally consistent and incomprehensibly bizarre. There are certainly things to understand, but there are also things which are meant more to inspire an idea of something that could be understood, without having a concrete explanation. That's part of the magic.

I think the middle of season 2, when he stepped away to work on Blue Velvet, is frustratingly weak, but they got there in the end. I think The Return was good, but not quite as good.

Overall I love it and reference it frequently.

David Lynch isn’t for the literarily ignorant.

James was always cool.

It didn’t age well.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ab5WvwfLuLM

And his comeback on the show is epic!

Peak television

It was filmed super close to where I live so that’s cool. I wasn’t able to get into it as a show though

I think I’m in the same place. I live in the PNW and whenever I tell people I haven’t watched Twin Peaks it feels like a sin. But I recently regretted watching Blue Velvet and can’t manage to get more than a few episodes into Twin Peaks, thinking his style is just not for me.

It's probably my favourite piece of media ever. I've never seen anything else that is able to blend comedy, surrealism, horror and satire into one thing the way twin peaks does. I've definitely allowed to become a core part of my personality.

If it helps, David Lynch would appreciate and enjoy that you don’t feel compelled to defend your position.

I've only seen bits a and pieces of it and so this is what I know of:

1990s show with 1950s aesthetics and pacing.
The mystery message explained after 200+ episodes of 20+ minutes:
"TV is bad y'all, go read a book"

I like it mostly because the characters are incredibly easy to care about and connect to, and the depiction of a small town in the pacific northwest is so enchanting. It feels like a soap opera at times but in the best way possible.

The rest of it is incomprehensible but it really adds to the dreaminess of it all.

I respect any piece of media that executes on an artists vision, and twin peaks is so Lynchian that it deserves at least a try.

Also find it interesting how it's almost impossible to fit it into an archetype. You can almost never guess if someone will like Twin Peaks or not.

Blue Velvet was released in 1986, years before TP. I think you mean Wild at Heart, as it's frequently said that he left the show to work on that. However that's not actually the case either. He just stepped back from the show because he was unhappy with being forced to reveal the killer.

EDIT to add that there's a TP community here on Lemmy. It's quiet, but it's a place folk on this thread might find both wonderful and strange...

https://lemmy.world/c/twinpeaks
!twinpeaks@lemmy.world

At its frequent best, it's the finest TV around. It had a very rocky spell in the second half of season 2, but the final episode of that season was a masterpiece.

I absolutely love Season 3 as well.

IMO though, the film, Fire Walk With Me is the absolute pinnacle of the world of Twin Peaks, and indeed of Lynch's output. I don't really agree that you need to see Season 3 to understand FWWM, it's pretty straightforward if you know the first two seasons fairly well, but I certainly think it adds an interesting further dimension to the film.

I'll take this opportunity to plug a SUPERB video series on the show from a creator called Joel Bocko, who goes by Lost in the Movies on YT. His work is always fascinating, but the thing he's best known for is his absolutely epic series Journey Through Twin Peaks. It's a 40-chapter (and still growing) series covering the show, less from a "let's work out the puzzles and clues" point of view and more from a cinematic, thematic and emotional perspective, including comparisons with old movies which may have influenced Frost and Lynch.

It's marvellous, and deserves a hell of a lot more attention than it gets (and certainly more than the notorious 4 hour Twin Perfect video)

I don't think that's the message of the show at all tbh.

Would strongly advise watching the movie before S3 (but after S1 and 2) to get the most out of the final season.

Deep cut first reference from The Missing Pieces - nice 😁

That's true, but also it suffers from the fact that they were forced to reveal the killer mid season, thus robbing the show of its core dramatic driver. For a while they just didn't know what to do with the world they'd built.

/u/folaht woke up this morning not realizing that their book report was due and hadn't got around to reading past the first page.

Whenever I see him, I always see The Flintstones and think he hasn't aged a day.

I forgot that he was on the Flintstones and now I feel like watching it. Lol

Hot damn, so he was! I had completely forgotten that too until you said it.