After several months, I finally finished watching the entire Twin Peaks series and the movie Fire Walk with Me. For me, there’s no doubt that it’s a masterpiece, in fact, I think the movie can only be understood after watching the third season. What do you think of Twin Peaks? Do you think you understood it? What’s your take on it?
EDIT to add that there’s a TP community here on Lemmy. It’s quiet, but it’s a place folk on this thread might find both wonderful and strange…
https://lemmy.world/c/twinpeaks !twinpeaks@lemmy.world
At its frequent best, it’s the finest TV around. It had a very rocky spell in the second half of season 2, but the final episode of that season was a masterpiece.
I absolutely love Season 3 as well.
IMO though, the film, Fire Walk With Me is the absolute pinnacle of the world of Twin Peaks, and indeed of Lynch’s output. I don’t really agree that you need to see Season 3 to understand FWWM, it’s pretty straightforward if you know the first two seasons fairly well, but I certainly think it adds an interesting further dimension to the film.
I’ll take this opportunity to plug a SUPERB video series on the show from a creator called Joel Bocko, who goes by Lost in the Movies on YT. His work is always fascinating, but the thing he’s best known for is his absolutely epic series Journey Through Twin Peaks. It’s a 40-chapter (and still growing) series covering the show, less from a “let’s work out the puzzles and clues” point of view and more from a cinematic, thematic and emotional perspective, including comparisons with old movies which may have influenced Frost and Lynch.
It’s marvellous, and deserves a hell of a lot more attention than it gets (and certainly more than the notorious 4 hour Twin Perfect video)