Comments on: Twin Peaks Revisited

By: oxidize

oxidize — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:02:07 +0000

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.

By: mjm

mjm — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:22:48 +0000

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.

By: hilo

hilo — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:48:22 +0000

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.

By: DouglasG

DouglasG — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:48:10 +0000

Mark Frost also wrote the two Fantastic Four movies. For which, he should never be forgiven… I kid!

By: tinker

tinker — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:45:28 +0000

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.

By: tinker

tinker — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:44:09 +0000

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

By: cjc

cjc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:43:01 +0000

When I was in college, I would leave the bars, go back to campus and watch it, then go back out.

By: Jerad

Jerad — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:25:00 +0000

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.

By: jodi

jodi — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:52:03 +0000

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.

By: tara_r

tara_r — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:29:09 +0000

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.