I seriously love this series. I love the show, I love the movie, I love the book, I'm excited about the new season, I just can't get enough of Twin Peaks! Who's with me? ... If anyone joins me here, I'm going to ask that we refer to the killer as BOB and keep discussions of the "actual" identity under spoilers, even though the show is 25 years old. And for those who haven't seen the show yet, do note the content warnings for csa and abuse, this show was pretty unflinching by the standards of 1991.
I haven't watched season 2 yet sadly but I really loved season 1. My favorite bit is how things often come across as far too perfectly in line with melodrama techniques. The music and dialogue and acting and lighting are just all so...Perfect. It makes me very aware that I'm watching a tv show and there's something very unsettling about that fact. I know that what I'm watching is tv. I know that this musical flourish here is supposed to evoke this response in me. I am aware that it has. But everything is slightly off because I'm aware of that fact.
Yeah! I think the off-ness is intentional, bc the show was in part a parody of prime time soaps like Dallas, so it wanted the viewer to be aware of its artifice. I think.
He's done it in Blue Velvet too, though that was parodying melodrama in film as opposed to Dallas. There's also Rabbits. Just. Rabbits. So yeah I think it's intentional. Lynch seems to like playing with the nature of film and tv and their various conventions and techniques.
I really want to talk to people about Twin Peaks. I'm just starting out (last time I got up to episode three before my last TV watching situation and stress killed my drive to continue, and now I'm up to midway through the pilot), but I'm still trying to feel things out and I want to talk about the characters even if I only know Laura Palmer, Agent Coop and I think Ronnie? Is Ronnie Laura's best friend with the fluffy hair, or the bitchy rich girl who tried to ruin her father's negotiations by lingering around the conference sighing and going "my friend died here. :( :( :( she was murdered, and at the mill you guys want to purchase too. :( :( :( it's very sad"? Is it acceptable to have livebloggings in this thread for it, or make a separate thread?
Audrey is the rich girl, Ben Horne's daughter. Laura's best friend is Donna. Ronnette is another girl. If you want to live blog here under spoilers maybe, that would be cool. It would be fun to pull more people in and get their impressions while they watch. If you'd rather do a separate thread for convenience or whatnot, please link bc I'd love to follow that.
Oh, @Aondeug it occurs to me: while the show was originally airing, between seasons 1 and 2, they published the Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. Written by, iirc, David Lynch's teenage daughter, it is a glimpse into Laura's world starting from her 12th birthday up through her last days. It is sometimes horrifying and often heartbreaking, and has some hints about BOB that are probably just really perplexing if you don't know the truth about him yet. Last I looked, it was about ten bucks on Amazon. I highly recommend it if you are enjoying the series. A lot of entries expand on things that are mentioned in the series, although one incident Spoiler the claim that Bobby Briggs killed someone was depicted very differently in the movie (but the two versions are not exactly contradictory, both could easily be true). Notably, this diary is not the one found in the first episode Spoiler: mild season 2 spoiler in fact the secret diary is a significant macguffin in the first half of season 2, and some passages are read in the show, confirming the text's canonicity.
just started watching cause i'd been vaguely curious for a while and someone finally went "hey it seems p close to your aesthetic" and i went "yes ok this is the excuse i need to start watching." i'm only like a half hour into the first episode and it seems...i don't know. the word that comes to mind is 'voyeuristic', with how everyone's grief is portrayed, and it's fascinating and i think i like it as a choice but it's also really uncomfortable. if i do end up liveblogging i'll stick stuff under spoilers.
