Twin Peaks
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Season One (1990)
Rate:
3 out of 5
Viewed:
8/14
8/14:
As alive and conscious as I was in 1990, I had never seen Twin Peaks, so I've decided to check it out.
Although I'm a big fan of David Lynch's work, I have mixed feelings about the show. In many ways, it's
Blue Velvet
minus Frank Booth. Everything is exactly the same. A winning feature is the high production value, especially
for a TV show. Then, added to the mix is the cast whose acting is more or less of film quality. It's like watching
a movie although an overlong one at that.
Clocking at seven plus hours with another twenty hours from Season Two, the whole series should've been reduced to two
or three parts for a miniseries. Hence, what I've seen in every episode is a lot of filler to waste my time, forcing me to learn
various characters' quirks and obsession with food. Eventually, the investigation of Laura Palmer's murder has become irrelevant.
Virtually everybody is a suspect. It's so annoying for me to be manipulated into thinking "Yeah,
that's the killer, all right" many times which turns out to be incorrect. Well, enough is enough, and I'm tired of it.
No wonder why the TV series lasted for thirty episodes in total.
At the same time, it's annoying to be dealt a bizarre happenstance over and over. For a town as small as Twin Peaks, it's
impossible. Everybody is good-looking; even those who play high-schoolers are too old to look the part. It
doesn't help matters any when David Lynch stopped directing after several episodes as his trademarks have gone away.
All in all, the reason why I decided to watch Twin Peaks is that it had only thirty episodes plus a film, but
I'm not looking forward to the next season.
Season Two (1990-91)
Rate:
1 out of 5
Viewed:
9/14
9/14:
Initially, I picked up Twin Peaks because it had thirty episodes in all, so I thought, "What the heck?"
Now, I wish I never did. While the first season was bearable and somewhat intriguing, the second season...oh, boy, talk about
the shit hitting the fan. If there's any show that can fill a book entitled How to Kill a TV Show 101, it's this one.
Everything had gone so painfully wrong that it lost roughly 60% of the original audience from the previous
season which led to the permanent cancellation of the TV series. Season Two has to be a candidate
for the absolutely worst season ever of any mainstream primetime television show prior to the year of 2000.
The basic premise as given in the pilot is the murder investigation of Laura Palmer, but during Season Two, it
has ceased to be the focal point. Instead, I'm forced to keep up with the pointless, irrelevant, and braindead characters and their
quirks. At the same time, stupid subplots are featured and then quickly discarded.
Oh, my goodness, the pace...it's the most agonizing. The first fifteen minutes of the initial episode had me wanting to kick in
the TV. Seven episodes in, the identity of the murderer is revealed, and then, it's downhill from there on. The final episode is
one of the worst I've ever seen because it's so asinine and pointless. Apparently, the writers must have been clowns.
All in all, I'm glad that Twin Peaks was canceled for good because I couldn't believe how bad it had gotten to be.