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quick question so if i buy showtime through the app, will i be able to lifestream twin peaks as it airs or will i have to wait a bit? :O
I heard that if you don't finish every single season 2 episode before the new season begins, BOB will pay you a visit that same night.I'm flaggin here fellas. Finished S2E9 last night. Really tempted to read synopsis of the remaining episodes, watch the finale and then FWWM. That's what I see people doing on Twitter and I don't want to dedicate such a large chunk of my three day weekend to 12 hours of what I've always heard is notoriously bad tv. What ya'll think?
They did a segment on the music of Twin Peaks on NRP yesterday with interviews from Badalamenti.
There's new music.
That was a good piece.
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On a separate note, I think I am going to wait to see what the content advisory is before watching the new season. I really strongly disliked FWWM, including not being a fan of the more R-rated content since for me a big part of what made Twin Peaks so great was it's aw shucks-ness and the harder the content the more I feel like that's lost. At least, for the movie it felt that way to me.
I hope the new season has a similar feel to the original series and that they don't fall into the typical Showtime (and HBO) pattern of gratuitous content that doesn't advance the story. A couple of kind posters filled me in upthread that the show is going to be less tame that than the originals.
I hope the new season has a similar feel to the original series and that they don't fall into the typical Showtime (and HBO) pattern of gratuitous content that doesn't advance the story. A couple of kind posters filled me in upthread that the show is going to be less tame that than the originals.
I'm flaggin here fellas. Finished S2E9 last night. Really tempted to read synopsis of the remaining episodes, watch the finale and then FWWM. That's what I see people doing on Twitter and I don't want to dedicate such a large chunk of my three day weekend to 12 hours of what I've always heard is notoriously bad tv. What ya'll think?
Thanks for the info.I read that it has the "least amount of nudity" of any Showtime show. I'm assuming violence will be more of an issue for you.
I suspect it will be lighter than FWWM (it's dark even by Lynch standards) but I can't see it being too lighthearted.
Red Letter Media just put out one of their re:view videos, and this one's about Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. I haven't watched it yet but that's pretty neat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd1bbjXCfyY
edit: Hehe, ok watching some and they like Windom Earle too.
And they definitely spoil the whole series if you're still watching.
Missing pieces doesn't, but the book, Secret History of Twin Peaks, does yeah.
Audrey survived but is taken to the hospital in critical condition, and it appears Pete saved her life by shielding her. None of the others survived the explosion.
The Secret History of Twin Peaks does:
Audrey is protected by Pete, who dies (along with Andrew Packard).
According people who read the new book,she survived, but because was protected by Pete and the banker
Edit: ^^ Well that.
You havent seen the new Twin Peaks yet. Neither have I.
Nevertheless, Im worried.
Not about the show. About its reception.
I fear that a good number of viewers are going to watch the new Twin Peaks eagerly anticipating the charming, consumable, GIF-able, and meme-able elements: the comedy, the flirtations, the quizzical reaction shots, and dry banter; the ritual consumption of coffee, donuts, and pie; Agent Dale Cooper with his big grin and Audrey with her saddle shoes and skirts; the dancing dwarf, Angelo Badalamentis funky lounge music cues, and so on.
Thats Twin Peaks, of course. But its not all that Twin Peaks was. And its not all that the new Twin Peaks will likely be.
Here are seven things you need to keep in mind as you watch the show.
1. Twin Peaks was a laboratory for artists who never expected to be making a hit show and had no idea how to sustain one. It wasnt perfect, and even now, after nearly three decades of TV shows that ripped off Twin Peaks, it wont be perfect, either.
In a recent New York Magazine interview, series co-creator David Lynch avoided talking about either the old or new series in detail. But he did admit it started to slide in season two, when Lynch was concentrating on finishing his 1990 movie Wild at Heart, and the shows writers realized they didnt know how to resolve the Laura Palmer murder mystery, much less where to go after they did.
The shows severe case of artists block is how we ended up with a wheel-spinning episode where Leland Palmer drove around with a murder victim in the trunk of his car while audiences clamored for closure to the Laura mystery. Its also the reason why there was so much stuff in the second half of season two that was weird in a cutesy or gratuitously wacky way, almost like something out of a bad David Lynch parody (think of Josie Packard as a doorknob, or Catherine Martell reappearing on the show as an Asian man with a mustache).
And its why the series, which had previously demonstrated an uncanny ability to modulate tone, started whipsawing and stumbling and falling into pits it dug for itself, at times delivering subplots that were so silly or listless that you werent sure if they were bad examples of a particular trope or an equally terrible spoof (like James Hurley getting drawn into what felt like a high-school production of Double Indemnity).
It seems less likely that Lynch and his producing partner Mark Frost will have that problem in this outing, because theyve had 27 years to think about what they might do if they had the chance, and there are people working on the series who came up in the world of postTwin Peaks TV, not to mention post-Sopranos, post-Buffy, post-Lost, and post-everything-else TV.
But its still a possibility, because its innate to the essence of the exercise.
I'm fully on board with a more FWWM tone.
I heard that if you don't finish every single season 2 episode before the new season begins, BOB will pay you a visit that same night.
2 days! When is the OT coming?
That's what I want!
2 days! When is the OT coming?
I went to subscribe to Showtime today and it said 1 month free trial so I went ahead with it and they charged me. So I guess there isn't a month free trial.
Most Lynch's movies feature a lot of sex and a lot of violence. It's part of his style and the themes he gravitates towards. If that's where he wants to go I'll go along with it.
The Missing Pieces and especially the spoilered scenes were mindblowing when the blu-ray set was first released, before the new show was announced. It has since lost some of its novelty, but for a while it felt like a genuine miracle. It was the first new Twin Peaks footage in (then) nearly 25 years and everyone thought it would be the last.Wtf I watched The Missing Pieces and I had no ideathere would be a continuation of the show's ending. It's crazy, for years the "how's Annie" scene was the end of it and since 2014 there's something new and I didn't even know! I guess it's not that important in the context of the show, but outside of it it seems like a big deal. The nurse scene too. I wonder if they released all of this already knowing they would do the new season?
Anyway, some good stuff in here, that was a nice watch.
Best scene: Laura with the Haywards and their muffins.
Worst scene: Dale talking to Diane.
And thus my rewatch has ended, I'm now fully ready for Sunday!
Some of this unofficial merchandise is tempting
https://www.habitatskateboards.com/collections/twin-peaks?page=1
Seems to be under license my bad
I'll be very happy with the series leaning more into the FWWM vibe, but still retaining some of the humor. FWWM is incredible, but I don't know if I can take the whole series being that bleak throughout.
Sharon Van Etten posted this. Now I don't know if she's involved, but damn if I'm not hyped to think she is.
I agree with the sentiment that this show is possibly gonna end up pissing people off.
I'm not gonna set my expectations for the show being more like the show or FWWM, it's just gonna be David Lynch.
Awwww yaaaay.She's in it
Awwww yaaaay.
I can't believe the new season of Twin Peaks has so many of my favorite artists.
Did you watch the original seasons again?
Lynch: No.
Have you ever gone back to watch the old Twin Peaks?
Lynch: Sure.
I think he just means that he didn't revisit TP during the creation of TP2017 (between 2014-2017), but that he's revisited it in the past between when it ended and when TP2017 was conceived (1991-2014)
Yeah, I mentioned it earlier but apparently he only watched the pilot and FWWM before writing the new script. It was the same for FWWM's script (he only watched the pilot). But Frost did rewatch the whole series.
So considering it seems Lynch has revisited very little of the old material in creating the new season is he going to be disregarding much of the previous lore or story elements?
I'm unsure what to expect going into the new season now.
It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I did like basically all of it.
WHO'S READY FOR NEW TWIN PEAKS
Potentially, who knows what the hell is gonna happen Sunday. I'm glad so little is known about the tone or direction its going to go in (beyond FWWM-related and Coop's "odyssey" ofc), its made my hype go through the roof all the more. This is a very special thing to have happen in 21st century post social media advertising where so many details either usually leak or are crammed down our throats in trailers, savor it people.
I'm this Coop right now.
The wait is rough but I'm stoked
Do we know for sure if Missing Pieces is still canon? And is there a description of what the Missing Pieces scenes show?
I haven't been following this too closely, what's been said regarding these two points?
Maybe someone can find a link but in recent interviews Lynch said FWWM was essential to the new season, and early on in the initial press conference around January I believe it was, the Showtime CEO Nevins said the big arc/focus of the new season was about Coop's odyssey back to Twin Peaks.
Gotcha, thank you! It seems like the deleted scenes in Missing Pieces (described at length in the link above, for anyone curious) could end up playing a significant role as well, then. (Unless those have been confirmed not to be canon.)