»Twin Peaks (Do Not Tell Who the Killer is Please)«

This was my favorite show when I was a kid. It was only on for two seasons, but man was it good. I have the first season on DVD, and I watch it sometimes. Such an interesting idea, almost calculated to disturb people. Which I like.
The plot involves an FBI Special Agent named Dale Cooper who is sent to a small town called Twin Peaks in Washington state to investigate a series of killings, the most recent victim of which was the town's prom queen, Laura Palmer.
It gets weird, real weird, like all David Lynch projects. I've heard it is very popular in Europe.
Second season out on DVD later this year, I think.

Some people haven't seen it, so please don't reveal who the killer is here (it's all over the web though). I remember when nobody knew who did it...the country was in suspense and David Lynch was on the cover of Time magazine. Good times.

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posted by holy_of_holies

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I, too, was a huge fan of this show when it was on. We actually studied the show, in one of my classes, for a couple of weeks in college...David Lynch actually came in and talked about the show, why he did it, the techniques he used...good stuff. Thumb Up

posted by GP

GP:

...David Lynch actually came in and talked about the show, why he did it, the techniques he used...good stuff. Thumb Up

You met... Him ? That's incredible, GP.

I like the show because it seems like a good satire on law enforcement mixed with a psychological thriller. An interesting combination. And I like shows and movies about the FBI.

posted by holy_of_holies

holy_of_holies:

Laura Palmer, Prom Queen

She looks like you (= if you would erase your Y-Chromosome and double your X-Chromosome)

posted by knn

holy_of_holies:

You met...Him? That's incredible, GP.

Yep, he's a very cool (albeit somewhat strange) guy. He lives in my city for 7 months out of the year...gives generously to the film department at UW as well.

posted by GP

knn:

holy_of_holies:

Laura Palmer, Prom Queen

She looks like you (= if you would erase your Y-Chromosome and double your X-Chromosome)

Yeah I noticed that too, But only after you said it. What? When? Where? Why?

Check it out.

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posted by Kupov

My face is longer, though.
There is a book called The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer that they released while the show was airing. I have a copy; I should post some excerpts. It was written by David Lynch's daughter Jennifer and is pretty good for fan fiction.

posted by holy_of_holies

Well? W'ad'e'Say?

GP:

...talked about the show, why he did it, the techniques he used...

Feel free to share that with us at any time I learned something new, I guess

you know the "Why" thing, I for one am curious about the motivation for such a show. White laugh

posted by Marl64

Re: Well? W'ad'e'Say?

Marl64:

you know the "Why" thing, I for one am curious about the motivation for such a show. White laugh

I've heard the whole thing started because co-creator Mark Frost had an obsession with Marilyn Monroe and who "killed" her.

posted by holy_of_holies

Re: Well? W'ad'e'Say?

holy_of_holies:

I've heard the whole thing started because co-creator Mark Frost had an obsession with Marilyn Monroe and who "killed" her.

Did she have many backwards talking dwarves in her life? White laugh

posted by Marl64

And of Course There Was This Guy...

From »Fire Walk With Me«...

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posted by holy_of_holies

Marl64:

Feel free to share that with us at any time

you know the "Why" thing, I for one am curious about the motivation for such a show.

Oh yeah...sorry Marl. Very Happy

holy_of_holies:

I've heard the whole thing started because co-creator Mark Frost had an obsession with Marilyn Monroe and who "killed" her.

This is pretty much what Lynch told us, as well. But, he also pointed out that there were all kinds of murder/mystery shows on TV at the time and he felt that they were all "cookie-cutter." He wanted to make a show that was so far away from the norm of what people were used to seeing, yet still had a captivating mystery at its core.

Also, Lynch talked about how he felt most murder/mystery shows focused only on the mystery at hand and not enough on the players involved. As evidenced by his movies, Lynch is very interested in the human element in storytelling. Thus, w/Twin Peaks, you had a character-driven show that had a very good murder mystery at it's core.

posted by GP

Buffy and Laura

I was just thinking...
Now that I have become more enthusiastic about Joss Whedon's work after seeing his amazing new film »Serenity«, I was thinking about the similarities between Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twin Peaks . Both were TV shows in the 'nineties, but Buffy was hugely successful and ran for seven seasons, to be cancelled only when the lead actress left the show, while Twin Peaks only got high ratings in the first season and slumped in the second, leading to its cancellation because of low ratings.

But the most interesting thing is the supernatural element mixed with the "high school soap opera" theme in both shows. In Buffy , the high school is located on a nexus of evil, which causes all kinds of supernatural trouble. There is similar trouble at Twin Peaks High, but the idea is more that the supernatural problems that infest the town are due to a nexus of another kind, the "black lodge", which is a doorway to another world tinged with the darker side of American Indian religion, existing in the woods outside Twin Peaks. Sunnydale, where Buffy lives, is plagued by vampires and the like, while Twin Peaks seems to be plagued by madness and violence, the cause of which is eventually revealed in the series and movie.

Interesting parallels.

posted by holy_of_holies

Twin Peaks and Its Criminals

After watching some of "Twin Peaks" again, I have to say: firstly, the whole show is a classic satire on law enforcement, especially the supreme and incompetent idiots of American law enforcement, the FBI. In the series finale, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper ends up howling mad after a trip inside the Black Lodge, and it is implied by his last words that he will seek out and kill his erstwhile love interest, Heather Graham's character Annie Blackburn. Even today, the series has a way of trivializing the rise of forensic science, high-tech surveillance, and modern investigative techniques, and presenting the real problem of crime for all to see: criminality runs in families, and the families of Twin Peaks inherited criminality in a big way. From Laura Palmer to Bobby Briggs to Leo Johnson to Audrey Horne, genetic evil had found its way to the town, and the blonde beauty Laura Palmer was the sacrificial bride whose death consummated the marriage of the dark wilderness to the white man. Once again with a David Lynch production, the veneer of small-town American life is peeled back to reveal the warped face of murder beneath. And finally, as if all that was not enough, we get a mystical, erotic take on the criminal underworld, who come off in the series as brutal but sexy, and with a whole pack of seductive and gorgeous young girls, daughters of some of the town's foremost families, for their pleasure. The thugs of Twin Peaks are portrayed as the real winners of the game, while the hapless sleuth Cooper and the clueless sheriff Truman are the chumps with badges who, by their increasingly esoteric and bizarre ideas about the Palmer case, finally allow Twin Peaks to slip back into the darkness of the primordial woods from which the town was carved.

Without a doubt the most subversive series ever aired on network television. Dangerous, and brilliant.

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