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totally agree. this is where hipsters slowly evolved from. if i invent a time machine making sure this show never sees the light of day is top priority for me.
This is a great post. But.A show, a movie, story has to have an arc. Create tension, release tension, etc. This show strung out its viewers, there was no delivery, no arc. It was a straight line or sometimes an ascending or descending line, but no closure to anything.
Season 2 still had a lot of great stuff, but it was hampered by side stories that were necessary to fill the hour.
That's part of what makes season 2 unwatchable at this point. And I stand by my statement that season 2 is so egregiously horrible that it diminishes whatever was good about season 1. I get that things were different in 1990 and the concept of binge-watching something wasn't even possible, but I can't imagine waiting a week for the next episode and then be happy watching this scene that has nothing to do with anything: Stupid Scene
I think the producers painted themselves into a corner with "who killed Laura Palmer?". It was set up as a mystery and a significant part of the audience was invested in that. Once the murderer was revealed, the show was dead to them. Of course by then, it really didn't matter who killed her.
I think it's probably worth watching season 1 since it's only 8 episodes and you'll get a feel for why people like it. Just pretend season 2 doesn't exist and you will be fine.
Right. It's dated and some of it seems goofy compared to what people watch now.
Says the guy with the Eraserhead avatar.
But seriously, agree (though it did sort of jump the shark after the central murder mystery denouement/reveal). As Eephus alluded to, never really been anything remotely like it on AMERICAN TV before of since (although the Danish TV mini-series The Kingdom by Lars Von Trier has some parallels and is more hilarious). It helps if you like backward speaking "little people" in red rooms, that could be a kind of "short cut" litmus test. If you don't dig that, uh uh.
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Most TV in the 80s and early 90s sucked. The sitcoms hold up a little better today but dramas were still largely shows like Jake and the Fatman and Knots Landing. Twin Peaks was a weird and for a time wonderful alternative to that. It was a network show (and that was all there was at the time) that proto-hipsters like myself could watch and talk about. It was fun to watch it unfold week by week in it's meandering and sometimes frustrating way. Most of that would be lost in a binge watching session in 2016.For you guys who are defending this show, are you largely basing it on the nostalgic remembrance of when the show first aired? I get that it was ground breaking and nothing else was like it at the time. And the weekly viewing probably allowed them to wander off topic far more than anything that would be made today to spend time on stupid story lines -- Nadine's unexplained super-human strength for example. It got so bad in season 2 that I just fast forwarded through most of the episodes and only watched when Cooper was on screen (and sometimes Audrey
Have you supporters of the show watched it recently from beginning to end? I don't think you would find it as enjoyable as you remembered it back then.
I didn't watch it when it first aired. I watched it sometime around 1996.For you guys who are defending this show, are you largely basing it on the nostalgic remembrance of when the show first aired? I get that it was ground breaking and nothing else was like it at the time. And the weekly viewing probably allowed them to wander off topic far more than anything that would be made today to spend time on stupid story lines -- Nadine's unexplained super-human strength for example. It got so bad in season 2 that I just fast forwarded through most of the episodes and only watched when Cooper was on screen (and sometimes Audrey
Have you supporters of the show watched it recently from beginning to end? I don't think you would find it as enjoyable as you remembered it back then.
I'm not forcing anyone to justify anything. I simply wanted to explore the idea that watching it live week-to-week might have been more appealing than binge watching it in 2016.I didn't watch it when it first aired. I watched it sometime around 1996.For you guys who are defending this show, are you largely basing it on the nostalgic remembrance of when the show first aired? I get that it was ground breaking and nothing else was like it at the time. And the weekly viewing probably allowed them to wander off topic far more than anything that would be made today to spend time on stupid story lines -- Nadine's unexplained super-human strength for example. It got so bad in season 2 that I just fast forwarded through most of the episodes and only watched when Cooper was on screen (and sometimes Audrey
Have you supporters of the show watched it recently from beginning to end? I don't think you would find it as enjoyable as you remembered it back then.
You didn't like it. I can understand that. I don't see why you think anyone has to justify why they liked the show.
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