Twin Peaks (1990 - 1991)

I never watched this show during it's original run, but I've wanted to give it a go because people have often told me it's kind of trippy.

I watched the pilot the other day, and I just have to say... I don't get it. It's not trippy, it's just a mess. Did anyone else here actually like it? I don't get it. The girl's dead, which is very sad, and it takes forever for everybody to find out about it (since they show everyone's reactions one by one), and there are a bunch of people who are shown getting into cars and walking around and looking in mirrors and such, and they don't seem to have anything to do with the story.

I just... I just don't get it

It was the LOST of it's time, the first season it was a ratings juggernaut, they promised answers the last episode of season one, and did not deliver. Everyone got pissed off and left the show.

No one watched it second season and it got dropped.

I never saw it myself, always wanted to, though I did see five minutes of it flipping channels and saw a character with some bodies in a trunk, so I figure that was the killer. Kinda ruined it for me.

No, I know who the killer is. It's her father, possessed by some spirit. I don't think he killed someone else. Or he could've. I don't know. The whole thing just doesn't appeal to me, but so many people rave about it it's hard not to want to see what the big deal is.

I remember it was out around the same time as Picket Fences was in Australia. I made my choice, I watched Picket Fences instead of Twin Peaks, and I'm kinda glad I did.

Yeah, that's another reason why I wanted to watch it. I'm like: 'is it seriously like that?'

It kind of is too. The cherry pie thing is for real.

gaboman wrote:

No, I know who the killer is. It's her father, possessed by some spirit. I don't think he killed someone else. Or he could've. I don't know.

It was a long long time ago, but I thought I saw him open a car trunk and two dead teenage girls were inside it. Been so long, I could be remembering it wrong. Maybe it was just one chick, maybe Laura Palmer. Hell, could have been a dream sequence for all I know.

I have no idea...

... I don't know, it's like a train wreck I want to keep watching for the heck of it... but on the other hand, it bored the shit out of me.