perotin_notre_dame Dumbest show I ever saw, and that inludes such dogs as My Mother the Car, Mr. Ed., Rosemary's Baby, The Collector, Last Tango in Paris, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff.

lewislikesskating Twin peaks at first is like a lot of David lynch's work. Let's say you need to watch most of his films 2 times round to get an understanding of them. When I watched the pilot for the first time I felt like I was a part of the twin peaks community. The show does such a great job in combining genres. From the pilot to the last episode of season 2 I was intrigued by everything. I think the reason for me being so intrigued by twin peaks is not quite understanding everything at first and then later on having it all make sense. A big part of twin peaks is the beautiful soundtrack by Angelo badalamente. Without the soundtrack twin peaks I think would be very different as each scene has a stylish song playing to set the scene. For example the black lodge has the arm dancing to badalamete's dance of the dream man. Twin peaks is by far my favourite tv series and really do hope lynch makes a fourth series.

aramis-112-804880 "Twin Peaks" was the strangest prime-time soap opera of all time. Its die-hard fans (including me) were fascinated by the residents of this town in the northwestern corner of the U.S.A. A re-viewing nearly thirty years on show parts of it still stand up, some parts work if you push them, and parts are woefully inadequate.Touted at its 1990 premiere as the groundbreaking show of the 1990s (two months into that decade). Yet it seems quaint even for those days, since no one in the show has a cell phone (Agent Cooper talks on a huge voice recorder that might be mistaken for one). No one has heard of DVDs or the Internet. Office workers and people at home almost all use typewriters. Instead of being the groundbreaking 1990s show it closed the door on all that had come before; as Debussy said of Wagner, "Twin Peaks" was a glorious sunset mistaken for a dawn.The series' primary conceit, the murder of Laura Palmer, is really a clothesline to hang out all Twin Peaks' washing of the town of Twin Peaks. Laura herself is an impossible dynamo. A beautiful, strong-willed Prom queen, she was a full-time high school student working at a perfume counter at a Department Store; on the side she helped with an immigrant improve her English, worked with an adult who had the mind of the child, and organized and worker in the local "Meals on Wheels" program. She was balancing two boyfriends (in a simple role-reversal, a rebellious teen who was captain of the football team, and on the other side an almost too-sensitive biker). Laura was also a cocaine addict, she worked with an immigrant to improve her English, worked with an adult with the mind of a child, and was a prostitute in a Canadian bordello. Talk about time management! These details were given out in dribs and drabs, so when the show ran it was easy to miss their collective ramifications, which was part of the series' macabre humor.Laura Palmer's murder was the tightrope of the main storyline, and its unfolding is just as powerful today (unlike "Who shot J.R.?") Yet the series was really about the town and its soap-opera denizens, with the creators' twisted, often grisly, humor paramount. And here's where the series flags.Laura Palmer's murder sparked "Twin Peaks" but that story could, like chewing gum, be stretched out only so long. And while it had several storylines in place, including some that were of great moment (the vanishing of Major Briggs, the defrocking of Agent Cooper, etc) the series had not started anything nearly with the intrigue of Laura Palmer's murder. Nevertheless, it ground on, throwing hopeful straws in the wind, until only a few "TP" lunatics like me remained in its dwindling audience.The worst: Most of the women in Twin Peaks are ravishingly lovely, but the writers make only the guys bizarre. It's like they lacked the guts to make lovely women weird. Only weird-looking women were allowed to be weird (like the Log Lady; or Nadine, she of the eye patch, whose post-suicide-attempt story is ridiculous and embarrassing. The there's the silly string about who is the father of Lucy's baby. Lucy and Andy are characters we've come to care about, but the show's darker comedy makes it all look facile. Then there's the need for Lynch and his acolyte directors to focus on the disgusting things in life, like drizzling people or folks with cake smeared on their faces, or boys in tuxedos holding creamed corn in cupped hands. Yuck. Repulsiveness just for the sake of it.The best: Lynch stalwart Kyle McLachlan's invariably cheerful Agent Dale Cooper. Both incisive and very funny, in these days when the FBI has spies infiltrating the camps of presidential candidates they don't want elected, it's nice to see an idealized agent who upholds honor and good old American decency, though I suspect Lynch and Frost were being sarcastic about him. Michael Ontkean's sheriff is, like Andy Taylor before him, a fine anchor in a silly town. SPOILERS: And then there are the bizarre touches that still work to evoke a giggle. Like Waldo's assassination (if you don't know Waldo I'll only say he's a key witness to a murder plot). Major Briggs' touching yet hilarious pontificating still resonates. And there's the anti-Scooby-Doo theme that when real teens involve themselves in serious investigations, serious consequences occur (as with Audrey at Jack's, and the painful betrayal of Harold Smith).Despite having much going for it, "TP" started with a bang but devolved into a curiosity of diminishing returns. Disclaimer: My home town had about a hundredth of Twin Peaks' 50,000-odd residents (very odd, some of them) so I bring a different perspective to it than city slickers who think anyone who doesn't want to live in NYC or LA is ipso facto nuts. Parts of the small town ambience ring true but most is hokum. And I grew up on property with 40 acres of woods, so to me the woods is a place of happiness and wonder rather than dark mystery and hidden threat. It's the dwellers of small dens in valleys of glass and concrete where the sunlight rarely shines, who are strange and unnatural to me. But "TP" kept me enthralled anyway during it's first run, though parts of it bore me now and I fast-forward through some storylines.

ramair350 First of all, let me state that I am viewing the show from the lens of 2017, which is a fantastic era for television. For the last 20 years we have seen dozens of "top shelf" dramas, many which probably were inspired (to some degree) by the original Twin Peaks. I have no doubt Twin Peaks was an important show and helped build the foundation of TV greatness today. At the time, I have no doubt that it was light-years ahead of the garbage that was airing on the major networks (and honestly still is ahead of most of the major network programming, although that isn't saying much).Now on the my review, which reflects season 1 and season 2 of the original Twin Peaks show. If you are tuning in for the first time to these shows like me (I was in college when the shows originally aired and I did not watch them), then I would advise you to skip them. If you want to watch the "new" version of the show, I would recommend just going to Youtube and finding a nice summary of the original series. Because I promise that watching 30 hours of the original series is NOT time well spent, at least for my wife and I.My expectations were not real high as I knew that the show would be dated. I knew it would be quirky. I knew that the director has some real oddball stuff, and that of course is part of the appeal. But the show is just bad. The acting in some cases is so bad that I was not sure if it was supposed to look like bad acting, or if it was just bad acting. The story line started off good, and honestly season 1 is tolerable and had some fun moments. And then season 2 kicks it up to a ridiculous notch and never gets grounded for the run of the series. What started off as a murder mystery turns into a complete mess that reminds me of something Stephen King would have written during his drug-altered years (Dreamcatcher anyway? Yeah, that kind of bad). I love David Lynch, I love Kyle MacLachlan, and I love Stephen King for that matter. But this show is just a steaming pile of crazy bad television. Incredibly unsatisfying to say the least.So I know I will get lots of non-helpful votes, and I'm fine with that. If you love the show, good for you, but ask yourself if you love the originality that the show brought in 1990, or if you really think this is great television in 2017. I'm sure a 1990 Corvette scored high marks by the auto magazines in 1990, but a 1990 Corvette evaluated by 2017 car magazines would slam it for being a slow piece of junk that is unreliable, gets terrible gas mileage, is very uncomfortable, and is much slower than a 2017 Toyota Camry. Since we live in 2017, my review is written from a current perspective.Bottom line, if you have never seen the show, I advise you to skip it and instead jump into something like Fargo (a quirky screwball show but it is very well done and ultimately is satisfying to watch). Thanks for reading my review.