Minnesota Reads takes a look at the book Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks. What does this have to do with Minnesota, you ask? Well, while the show is mostly associated with David Lynchm its cocreator was Minneapolis-native Mark Frost. Frost was also responsible for The Believers, which featured Martin Sheen and a Minneapolis detective who moves to New York after his wife dies and discovers a voodoo cult. Recently, CBS put entire episodes of Twin Peaks online, for those who, in their idle hours of computing, like to revist the Bookhouse Boys. It’s hard to believe that a show this weird was such a cultural sensation when it first came out — people hosted Twin Peaks viewing parties and obsessed over the show’s quirky details. Any MnSpeakers have Twin Peaks memories they want to share?
Twin Peaks Revisited
Jan 23 2009 — 1:03am
11 Reader Comments
9:10 am
Watched it every week, and still catch of cable once in awhile.
It’s dark and bleak. Sorta up Rat Alley.
9:29 am
No Twin Peaks stories, but I loved “The Believers”. The part where the spiders come out of that boil thing on her face still gives me the creeps.
9:52 am
After having grown up on a steady diet of Cosby Show and Cheers, I fell hard for Twin Peaks. I think it was the show’s allegorical nature that inspired such love. It was, at least for me, unlike anything I had ever watched on TV. It was smart and difficult and, well, weird.
I never watched it when it was actually airing on TV, but the semester I graduated from college my brother-in-law got the box set on VHS. I spent every waking moment devouring the show.
After all these years, I’m still sad that the show was canceled. It amazes me that it aired in the early 90s and that a network actually took a risk on something like this.
10:25 am
Being 16 and watching the rented pilot while visiting Mom in her post-divorce loft. The show seemed very true to this teen, because life really didn’t make sense.
I don’t think Lynch is a “systematic” writer or director who deliberately imbues with meaning and allegory most of his artistic choices. I think he just goes with the flow and likes it weird. In that way, the whole series makes a great Rorschach test.
10:43 am
When I was in college, I would leave the bars, go back to campus and watch it, then go back out.
10:44 am
I was also about 16 when the show came onand it’s really the first time I realized the possibilities that could exist in television and film. I
10:45 am
I think I also had my Mom drive me to the Blockbuster in Eden Prairie and I rented “Blue Velvet” for the first time.
I am still trying to recover, both from the film, and from living in Eden Prairie.
10:48 am
Mark Frost also wrote the two Fantastic Four movies. For which, he should never be forgiven… I kid!
12:48 pm
I was too young when they originally aired – I wasn’t allowed to watch them, and I remember being kind of bitter that my sis got to. I watched them all this summer online, and I wasn’t disappointed. I thought they were great, and like Jodi was a little amazed that this was a network show.
5:22 pm
Watch Twin Peaks and/or Blue Velvet then go have a drink at Nye’s.
I guarantee that you will think that you are on the set.
11:02 am
Man I miss Twin Peaks…I was a total junkie for this show. Although, I never watched it on TV…there were certainly many marathon episode sessions during college.
I did get to the Double R Diner and had the cherry pie and coffee…highly recommended! Also the Salish Lodge (the lodge on the waterfall during the opening credits) is also well worth the trip.