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TWIN PEAKS

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06 Jun 2017 22:03 - 06 Jun 2017 22:03 #249524 by Frohike
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Yeah, there's something about the cameos that seem like they're bending the 4th wall a little, especially the Wild Palms crossover actors. The other cameo with Michael Cera kinda sorta worked but it still felt a bit like a self-aware SNL skit more than a Twin Peaks scene.
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12 Jun 2017 11:54 #249742 by bfkiller
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Not going to spoil the line, but good god did I get a hard laugh from Albert in the latest episode.
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12 Jun 2017 13:58 - 12 Jun 2017 13:58 #249748 by Grudunza
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Ha, yes. :D

That seemed like a pretty interesting transition episode. Like some things are happening again after some setup and downtime in the last few. I'll look forward to the grisly death of that asshole coke dude. Damn...

I think the star cameo things are fine as long as there's some purpose and they're not just "lookie here, I'm on Twin Peaks!" Naomi Watts isn't really a cameo... pretty significant part. And I expect the same for Laura Dern. It remains to be seen whether that's the case for others like Jennifer Jason Leigh and Michael Cera, though I loved his part so much that I wouldn't care if it was a one-off. It was very Twin Peaks (well, and Brando) and fitting.

So so glad to see Madchen Amick back again. In anything. Stunning.
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12 Jun 2017 14:48 #249752 by Black Barney
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wow....Madchen...now that rings a bell. I used to have the BIGGEST crush on this chick when she was on Central Park West:




whatever this look was, this used to light me up in university. There was a cashier in the grocery store I used to work that looked just like this and I couldn't get enough of her.

Anyway, not my type anymore and after CPW, she aged pretty quickly and fell off the map for me.

Glad she still has fans tho

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12 Jun 2017 19:51 - 12 Jun 2017 20:59 #249770 by Grudunza
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She aged?? Have you seen her in the new Twin Peaks? Still amazingly hot.
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13 Jun 2017 14:39 #249808 by Shellhead
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Vulture review of episode 6 goes scathingly meta:

"When Coop turns in Dougie’s case files at the insurance company the next morning, full of scribbles of ladders and steps and circles leading to other circles, his boss initially dismisses him. “What the hell are all these childish scribbles? How am I going to make any sense out of this?” Moments later, after holding the papers next to each other like Twin Peaks’ most devoted puzzle solver, the boss looks at Coop with a strange and worrying recognition dawning on his face. “I want you to keep this information to yourself. This is disturbing, to say the least … You’ve certainly given me a lot to think about.”

"It’s the same promise Lynch keeps making over and over again in his work: If you look at it long enough, in context, somehow it will make sense."

www.vulture.com/2017/06/twin-peaks-the-return-recap-part-6.html
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13 Jun 2017 21:09 #249832 by Frohike
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Here's another bit of inspired writing, from reddit:

THIS SEASON'S HOTTEST SHOW IS........TWIN PEAKS.

IT HAS EVERYTHING.

POTATO CHIPS.

LAURA DERN IN A WIG.

WHITE GUYS DOING COCAINE KARATE.

AND OF COURSE A TRAILER PARK HARRY DEAN STANTON.

"I'm afraid to ask...but what is a trailer park Harry Dean Stanton, Stefon?"

"It's that thing where three midgets named Harry, Dean, and Stanton cover themselves in flannel and newspapers and smoke cigarettes in a public park"

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26 Jun 2017 00:17 - 26 Jun 2017 01:32 #250421 by Grudunza
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Episode 8.

Um.

I need hugs from bunnies and puppies.

Shades of Eraserhead, 2001, and uhh, who the fuck knows... Not just another episode of King of Queens, though, that's for sure. Easily one of the most unusual hours of television ever. I loved every second from the 1945 part on, and maybe understood about five seconds of it all. Unbelievable sound design and imagery throughout. The SFX have been iffy on this series up until now, but it looks like they spent the whole season's budget on this one.

My best guess at what happened:

Warning: Spoiler!
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26 Jun 2017 01:52 #250424 by Black Barney
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I don't watch the show and I read Gruds spoiler text out of curiousity. It's like I'm reading L. Ron Hubbard scripture or something. So confusing and wacko

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26 Jun 2017 01:56 #250425 by Grudunza
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Black Barney wrote: I don't watch the show and I read Gruds spoiler text out of curiousity. It's like I'm reading L. Ron Hubbard scripture or something. So confusing and wacko


Yeah, you got it. :D
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27 Jun 2017 02:51 - 27 Jun 2017 15:43 #250482 by Frohike
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Warning: Spoiler!


Anyway, I loved this episode.

It really flies in the face of a certain hermeneutic expectation that persists in contemporary TV viewership, complemented by a cottage industry of expert interpreters who regurgitate exposition, preferably with a "meta" remove where they borrow some of the show's tropes in the writing for extra cred. I'd always assumed that the original run of Twin Peaks had, by its conclusion, abated some of this, but judging from most of the recent criticism it seems to still be alive and well, splitting itself between whining over the Dougie saga or fruitlessly analyzing numerological details.

Lynch's response to this seems to be: "Got a light?"
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27 Jun 2017 08:19 #250486 by charlest
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I just caught up last night. Fascinating.

Felt like anything could happen. Not sure I've truly felt that way when watching anything else.

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27 Jun 2017 08:56 #250489 by Shellhead
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Uh, oh. Looks like some folks descended into the well and drank the water.

Lynch is pranking you, and offers little more depth than a Hot Topic t-shirt. This shirt says, "If you keep staring, I might do a trick."

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27 Jun 2017 10:23 #250497 by charlest
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Shellhead wrote: Uh, oh. Looks like some folks descended into the well and drank the water.

Lynch is pranking you, and offers little more depth than a Hot Topic t-shirt. This shirt says, "If you keep staring, I might do a trick."


It's more about the journey than the destination.
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27 Jun 2017 15:23 #250513 by jpat
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Yeah. I don't feel tricked because I'm not looking for what this doesn't have or promise. I don't think liking or not liking this iteration of the show is a litmus test for much of anything other than preference.

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