Twin Peaks (ABC) TV Show • Page 133

Lara Flynn Boyle is unbelievable in every scene she’s in. I don’t think I realized until now how accomplished an actress she is even in the earliest episodes.

 

First season is so great. Been listening along to the Diane podcast while rewatching, which I’d def recommend to anyone looking for a good one.

It’s wild to think how much this show evolves from here because by the end of s1, it’s still (mostly) grounded in reality—just barely laying out the foundation for the metaphysical stuff.

 

Original run Twin Peaks and then Fire Walk With Me-The Return are about as extreme a turn as you can take. The original run hid a lot of Lynch's intentions behind the veneer of network television and then once it was free it went wild. It was genuinely surprising how much of season three was based on the movie rather than the original show run.

 

While this is true, season two seems to immediately test its viewers. It opens with an (incredible) extremely long and surreal scene, scored with that signature Lynchian drone, where an elderly waiter offers warm milk to a dying Cooper, ignores his gunshot wound, repeatedly says “I’ve heard about you!” before leaving and re-entering (twice) to give a thumbs-up. All before a giant appears in a vision. Super unusual stuff right off the bat.