[Closed] Twin Peaks

Me, enjoying it too.

Set up to record, will watch later.
Oh, by the way, that chewing gum you like...

I haven't seen it yet, but was talking to a critic friend about it at length today. It sounds typically and wonderfully Lynchian to me, and I am excited to watch, although your last question, boardinbob, sounds like an appropriate one...

One of the most memorable evenings of my teens, watching twin peaks absolutely oot my tits on magic mushrooms, in a freaky old house in west kilbride.

'This is a Formica table, green is it's colourrrrrrr.....'

Transgender David Duchovny just appeared. This is brilliant 😆

Started watching last night. After 8 straight days at work, dismantling an oven and then setting up a new NAS, brain was fried. Only lasted 30 minutes before I found it too disturbing to continue. It's going to be frikking awesome 🙂

For reasons unknown, I thought it might transcribe a similar insanity arc as the first two series. Nope, in at the deep end 🙂 Someone asked me if you could watch it with someone who hadn't seen any before. Can you imagine!

Hope it comes to normal telly or Netflix before too long.

Hope it comes to normal telly or Netflix before too long.

It's on Sky so I'm not sure that it will, though a NowTV box would probably sort out out for it.

only on sky

Ill be torrenting then!

murdoch can kiss my ass

Watched the first two with the wife. The talking tree with the tumour on it (or whatever it was called) pushed the boundaries of mental, even for me.

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But yes, loved it, can't wait to get the time to watch parts 3 and 4

Watched 1 + 2 and thought it was fabulous. But then I have been waiting for 25+ years to see some sort of resolution.
I watched every episode of the original broadcast on BBC2 back in '90, '91 and it frightened me badly as a 13 year old. But it was utterly compelling and kind of informed a lot of sensibilities i have today in an odd way.

What I like about this new season is it is just unfettered David Lynch / Mark Frost weirdness. No network interference, just the vision of two men played out in TV. Nothing is explained.
I like that.

[quote=Boba Fatt ]Watched the first two with the wife. The talking tree with the tumour on it (or whatever it was called) pushed the boundaries of mental, even for me.

But yes, loved it, can't wait to get the time to watch parts 3 and 4

If you thought 1 & 2 push the boundaries, wait for 3 😆

I also watched the originals back when they first came out as a 13 year old.

My parents forbid me from watching it (I get why now) so I used to sneak off to my bed early to watch it in my room. I had a black and white TV(!) but used to turn the brightness down so my folks couldn't see the light from underneath my door. 😆

"Bob" absolutely terrified me back then 😯

Do you think you need to have watched the original series to enjoy this new series? I remember starting watching them in my youth, but memory is terrible!

[quote=scud ]Do you think you need to have watched the original series to enjoy this new series? I remember starting watching them in my youth, but memory is terrible!

Definitely

My mrs hasn't seen the original and I'm tempted to get her to watch the new series and I'm going to look at her face and laugh at her reactions

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I have no idea how to take this series.

The first two were bat shit crazy but enjoyable ...... This series is bat shit crazy but also just a little bit ..... Well ..... Shit.

Oh and hell ooo oooooo

Is there any way to get it if you're not on sky?

Frist series, I think I only enjoyed it because of Audrey Horn. I tried to watch the repeats a few months back and couldn't cope with the slowness. So good luck to anyone trying to catch up on that.
Have started watching the first 2 and enjoyed the horror bits. Not sure i'll last now that Fargo is back. Well, it is next week anyway.

Not legally I imagine.

Drool, Sherilyn Fenn, watching it first time around as a teenager I could never understand why Dale Cooper was resisting her advances 🙂

I'm watching it via 7.99 a month subscription deal on NOW tv via my smart tv so no box required. You could sign up for that and then bin it once the series is finished. You can usually get a box with a 3 month pass for about £25.

I have watched all four and don't have a clue what's going on. Just like old times!

Are the originals on anything legal in the UK to stream?

It's on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pilot/dp/B00ET0PGJW

Ten quid for the first season and fifteen for the second, mind (dunno if it's on Prime?). You'd be better off buying the DVD.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Twin-Peaks-Definitive-Slimline-Packaging/dp/B0098MDC4M/

"Is there any way to get it if you're not on sky?"

Showbox.

Oh Audrey......my first real crush
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Stop that. It's rude.

Trying to watch series 2, but it really is just a random bunch of weird scenes isn't it?
If anyone can explain what is going on I might stick with it.

Trying to watch series 2, but it really is just a random bunch of weird scenes isn't it?
If anyone can explain what is going on I might stick with it.

Series 2 lost its way a bit, especially when someone got stuck in a door knob or something (not a joke)

As the self proclaimed worlds biggest Twin Peaks fan, and having lived in 25 years of anticipation, I'm thinking the new series has been pretty poor so far....some intriguing bits, but episode 3 was just abysmal, and the special FX are like something a school production might put up. Episode 4 was a bit better, but it seems so far to really not bear much relation at all to the original series. Maybe i want too much from it as i think Series 1 and the first 8 or 9 episodes of Series 2 are just the best TV ever made. Please David Lynch dont ruin it for me.....

Oh balls, I didn't mean series 2, meant the latest one. Decided its cack and deleted the series link.

Oh balls, I didn't mean series 2, meant the latest one. Decided its cack and deleted the series link.

I tried up to and including episode 3, i'm still "taping it" but I am finding it hard to want to continue. It seems the first two had a promising bit of intrigue, but it just seems to be random short stories with no real point.

Hoping it all comes together a bit because I'm now wondering if Twin Peaks was any good at all in the first place or I just got swept along in the hype.

[i]Hoping it all comes together[/i]

Not sure it will... As you say lots of random short stories. It wasn't really "cack" I suppose, some of the little featurettes were great, just one after the other after the other, with no link, was wearisome. And some of them just went on and on (the talking brain tree?!). Maybe if they were half hour programmes once a week it'd be worth catching.

Just got up to date this eve.

Really enjoyed the first four, but it's testing my patience a bit now.

We don't need more characters. We don't need more plotlines. We don't need more questions.

We need answers damn you.

Nice to see Harry Dean Stanton though.

Looks like paying attention to the log has payed off...

I shouldn't watch them so late, I always go to bed thinking about them.

Realised last night that Lynch and Frost are deliberately withholding the familiar Coop from us, as a means of building tension I assume.

While giving Kyle McLachlan the opportunity to have fun being Bad Coop and Dougie.

I was totally with it and embracing the weirdness up until ep4, but they might have started losing me a bit at Wally Brando.

Wally Brando

Absolutely hilarious 😆

It was amusing, but a bit wacky and "WTF why is George Michael from Arrested Development pretending to be an awkward Marlon Brando?"

Wally Brando.

I loved that bit too. 🙂

The icepick wielding (new) dwarf was odd.

I liked the inability of Balthazaar Getty's character to control his arm. He's clearly been hanging out with the others above the convenience store.

Anyone still watching?

I've been back and forth, but after this week's episode I'm finding it hard to continue

I watched episode 8 last night.

It was one of the strangest hour of television I have ever watched.

Some of it was really odd, some of it was pure horror, but it did answer some questions.

This season is heavy going in comparison to the first one.

I will continue to watch it though as I do find pure escapism, which is what I need after a day at work.

Mental episode but very enjoyable. Helps if you know a lot of the back story stuff especially The Secret History Of Twin Peaks

Well that was different.

I agree. Despite being so out there it actually provided more answers than any of the other episodes.

Lynch seems to be playing the long game.

I tried watching the recent rerun of the first Twin Peaks, and I just couldn't get back into it, for whatever reason.
Watched the first three of this new series, and it has to be some of the most out there, weirdest shit I have ever seen!
Not giving up on it, though, it's become far too compelling.

It's been said (Lynch IIRC) that 'Fire Walk With Me' is critical to understanding the new series

understanding the new series

I've given up on this and I'm trying to just go with it.

I was a big fan of the old series but really struggled with the new stuff from episode 3 - the doppelganger tree was the tipping point. Ive the remaining episodes backed up ready for a binge watch if I can face getting back in to the following episode

Great episode this week. Really moving along now

Bit of a dull episode this week, even with the long-awaited return of Audrey.

Realised after the last episode, David Lynch has made himself pretty much the main character in the new series - and that scene with the Frenchwoman in his hotel room seemed a tad indulgent.

About six episodes left now IIRC.

The "dougie" thing is getting a wee bit grating. Surely he's going to snap back to proper Cooper at somepoint?

My current theory is that Coop's return from the Black Lodge will happen as the season finale.

Crikey, still going! Has an actual plot materialised among the weirdness?

I think so, or maybe I've just got accustomed to the weirdness.

Surely he's going to snap back to proper Cooper at somepoint?

I'm hanging on in there but struggling.

As said earlier we need no more new!

I'd love a chat with Lynch though 😆

I'm having a fantasy about a girl who can tie knots in cherry stalks with her tongue...
And those eyebrows...

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Ha, I think the lightweights have long since given up on the new series.

It makes the original episodes look like Hollyoaks.

Ha, I think the lightweights have long since given up on the new series.

It makes the original episodes look like Hollyoaks.

Watched all the original episodes with my wife (her first time!) this year. I have seen the whole thing many times and still love it, but it wasn't as weird as I remembered.

It was the mix of oddness and cosiness that won my heart, and the new series is far less cosy - but it's still identifiably Twin Peaks and that's good enough.

Well that was a surprisingly coherent and conventional episode. It's all starting to come together, kind of.

Not happy about what they've done with Norma and Big Ed though. Not happy at all.

Yeah, very good episode this week. Thought Dougie was almost going to snap out of it when he had the cherry pie

I think we're stuck with Dougie at least until the mysterious Blue Rose/Black Lodge event that Hawk said is happening in two days. Good Coop is stuck in the void.

Western Montana (where Bad Coop was in this episode) is just over the border from Twin Peaks - he's getting closer, as we could see from Richard Horne turning up.

My wife read an excellent theory about Audrey BTW, that she's still in a coma from the bank explosion and is dreaming her scenes.

Read today that there are zero plans for another series, so it should be concluded (as much as that's possible in Lynch-world) by the end of this series, which is a 2 hour finale.

It's bonkers, and in my opinion terrible. My wife who is a massive fan, to the point where we are spending a small fortune visiting the Salish Lodge later this year, is not loving the new stuff as much as the old.

Interesting point about Coop still being stuck in the void (I assume that was the odd concrete house), I thought he fell out of there?

I was struggling with it for a few of the early episodes, but I think it's the best thing on telly now.

Haven't seen s3 yet, apart from the reviews on YouTube

Really like David lynches work

But, so far, all the episodes have been very 'white'. Being on-set must feel like the Alamo.

Great this week, though the bit with the guy with the rubber glove was proper WTF 😆

@boardinBob

That's why I prefer to leave my bike with the lbs, even for the simplest tasks, lol!

That accent though 😯

Not sure I really get Lynch's sense of humour sometimes.

Quite a few WTF moments this week; Sarah Palmer most of all. How's that gonna fit in?

So is Judy really Major Briggs? His first name being Garland.

What was that girl screaming about at the end? The band weren't that bad.

Will Dougie be shocked back into the Coop we know and love? Unlikely but electricity does seem to be significant in TP.

And was this week's episode good or not? I can't really tell any more but I'm really going to miss it when it's all over.

BTW, the dog walker was Mark Frost.

Have never been so keen to watch an entire series of something that I truly feel the creator/director is intentionally taking the piss over.
Its enfuriating nonsense, but at the same time particularly brave TV. Its more like season 2, which rambled with unnecessary subplots, but alas season 3 is completely lacking what made the originals so great - Agent Cooper!
This bumbling copy cat nonsense has worn atomically thin.

Despite my criticism, the (seeming) union of Ed and Norma was brilliant to watch.
Everything crossed that the finale is worth waiting for.

At first I found the lack of Coop frustrating and wilfully perverse, but I'm now in awe of Lynch's bravery in withholding him from us.

Not totally sold on him giving himself so much airtime, but the Monica Belluci scene was fun.

Of course, anything with Madame Belucci is pure solid gold IMO.

I'm the same, my hat is off the Lynch for doing everything his way, or nothing at all. But, I just have a suspicion he is intentionally leading us up the longest garden path..

That being said, a completely lucid Coop saving the day in the final episode would be a brilliant crescendo to sign off with.

The big thing missing for me is a complete lack of anything scary.

The original terrified me albeit I was young. Bob gave me nightmares

There's nothing like that in this series buy I am thoroughly enjoying it

I know what you mean. I watched the original episodes and Fire: Walk With Me this year.

The movie in particular is really quite unsettling, as are some of the scenes with Leland and BOB in the series.

Sarah Palmer is about the scariest thing in the new one.

Edit: I think one reason the old stuff was more uncomfortable was the violence against women, so I'm not unhappy that the new ones are missing that.

I've enjoyed this whole season. I look forward to it every week and have not been disappointed. Some bits have been a little slow, but when Lynch is on, he's really on.
It's like watching a puzzle - and completely different to anything on TV. You don't know if seemingly weird irrelevant moments are in fact, important to the plot.

And Philip Jeffries is now a teapot.

Agree with you, Cha****ng, Fire: Walk with Me is a really tough film to watch. I've tried recently, but it freaks me out and I last saw it in the late 90's.

Yes!

Very, very, very good episode.

Won't mention spoilers but it was great. 2 episodes left

2 episodes left