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1. The one good thing about the Giants loss yesterday is that I finally have my weekends back. The part of my brain that cares about football can go back to sleep.
2. Kath and I have been catching up on some classic TV that we've never seen; in late December it was "Fawlty Towers", and right now it's Season 1 of "Twin Peaks". As a first time viewer of Twin Peaks, I must say that I'm shocked and amazed that this show was on network television in 1990; if this were a brand-new show, it would still be ahead of its time. It's dated, but wonderfully so, and all the performances are spot-on. We are both infatuated with it, although we've heard from numerous sources that Season 2 is pretty terrible in comparison. A couple quick observations:
2. Kath and I have been catching up on some classic TV that we've never seen; in late December it was "Fawlty Towers", and right now it's Season 1 of "Twin Peaks". As a first time viewer of Twin Peaks, I must say that I'm shocked and amazed that this show was on network television in 1990; if this were a brand-new show, it would still be ahead of its time. It's dated, but wonderfully so, and all the performances are spot-on. We are both infatuated with it, although we've heard from numerous sources that Season 2 is pretty terrible in comparison. A couple quick observations:
- Detective Truman is a dead ringer for former Yankee OF Paul O'Neill
- If they were to remake this show today, the dopey sherriff would be played by Owen Wilson
- The funeral scene? OMFG.
There are some good Lynchian bits in the second season but mostly it's a trainwreck. I wonder if it wouldn't have worked better as a British-style series, with two six-episode seasons.
Question: does one need to see Season 2 to better appreciate the movie? Is the movie even any good?
And yeah, you definitely need to see Season 2 to watch the movie. I won't say why (BIG-ASS SPOILERS).
I can't necessarily explain why we're only getting around to watching it now, other than to say that it had been on our Netflix queue forever, and the movie accidentally showed up first. We couldn't get into the movie at all, but we were intrigued enough to move some things around and get Season 1 delivered. And now we are utterly fascinated by it. It feels very much like we're both reading the same book at the same time; we've been walking around with the show lingering on the edges of our thoughts for the last few days and it's been kinda neat, actually.
The movie is basically about the last week of Laura's life. There are some creepy 'WTF' moments in it that should interest TP fans, but I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who wasn't into the show.
twin peaks season 2/giants
as for Twin Peaks. i found it to be amazing the whole way through. yes, the 2nd season does move off track a bit, but, at least for me, Lynch and co werent able to progress because the show was cancelled after season 2, on a huge cliffhanger.
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