Lewis The LAPA
The mystical forests, the quirky inhabitants, the wacky but brilliant wisdom of Dale Cooper, the evil, sadistic BOB, And even the incredible cherry pie and coffee! I could go on for hours about this masterpiece...But I won't, and I'll try and pour my love of this show into a few paragraphs to save your sanity from melting away. Anyway, relax, sit back, and enjoy!Twin Peaks is a show that came out in the year of 1990 and has captured the hearts and minds of the millions who have watched it since the 8th of April that very year.I discovered Twin Peaks a lot later on, seeing as I wasn't born for a number of years after the show began and sadly cancelled a year later (even though Fire Walk With Me came out in 1992, a must see for any avid Twin Peaks fans out there!) but when I did eventually see it all those years later, I was instantly fascinated by it and everything it stood for, even though at first I was a bit confused as to what the hell was actually going on! But nevertheless, I decided to watch the Pilot again, and THAT was the time I fell into the town of terror and wonder that Twin Peaks is.For most of the 29 episodes (not including the brilliant pilot) that the show ran for it was the best thing on TV at the time, it was compelling, intense, quirky, and unpredictable . What other secrets did Laura Palmer have?, who is this BOB bloke? Who the heck is this little guy who talks backwards and dances to jazzy music? These were the questions that filled our heads for the entirety of the First Season as we followed Cooper, Sheriff Truman and the rest of the gang as they tried to figure out who killed Laura Palmer, Not only this, but we had the many crazy and sometimes ridiculous side stories going on at the same time, such as Ben Horne and Catherine Martel's plan to blow up the sawmill. It worked superbly and seamlessly, but then it came to an end, at least for a while.Season 2 started out strongly, as the investigation on Laura's murder carried on from Season 1, but after the reveal of the killer in episode 14, their hiding in plain sight in episode 15 and then the outcome in episode 16, we are treated to some painfully lame and boring episodes that are just there to fill the required amount of episodes that ABC wanted, this went on for a while as David Lynch, the co-founder of the show and general wacky genius, departed from the TV show and went on to work on other projects.But after all of the mundane rubbish we had to go through we reached the final few episodes that completely save the second half of the second season from complete obliteration, Including my personal favourite episode, Episode 29, the finale, where we are treated to an hour of some of the greatest TV of all time, all spearheaded by Mr David Lynch. Its such a shame that not even this could prevent the inevitable cancellation. But nevertheless, the show was brought back 26 years later (pretty much what Laura predicted) which was received with mixed but mostly positive reviews. But for me, it still pales in comparison to the wonder that the original possessed
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.
ragpap93
First season was good and so was half of the second season. The characters were quirky but each character was deep. Their interactions with each other was interesting. FBI Detective Dale Cooper's dream sequences were weird his methods were unusual. You get the sense that something supernatural is happening around twin peaks and rightly so. Laura Palmer's killer was revealed and they caught him halfway through the second season. It is Laura's dad. But then we have Bob. What is he some kind of demon that possesses souls and turns them into killers? Yes I guess. He simply leaves the killer's body meanwhile Dale is in trouble, he loses his badge and gun. The friends he made in Twin Peaks who are also his colleagues and his past colleagues all help him through these tough times to clear his name from the bogus charges. We meet the annoying Windom Earle and at this point things were already going downhill. Catherine is annoying, the Horne's are annoying and pretty much everyone have gotten annoying at this point. Then we have the ending. Is it like a different dimension or something I do not know but we have all the characters from Dale's dream sequences. What are they imitating Stephen Hawking or something and they took their time. The twist that Dale is now possessed by Bob is interesting but by this point I was willing to accept anything please just end the agony.
