Question About Twin Peaks

RickBlaine · 18-01-2025 05:47PM #1

Twin Peaks has been on my watch list for a few years now but I unfortunately was spoiled yesterday by an inconsiderate podcast host who mentioned who killed Laura Palmer and why. Is the show still worth watching or is everything more or less based on solving that mystery.

head82 · 18-01-2025 05:57PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058389731/question-about-twin-peaks

The revelation of 'who killed Laura Palmer?' does not detract from the journey it takes to get there.

Essential viewing,

Galwayguy35 · 18-01-2025 09:41PM

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Its 35 years old.

I'd hardly call it a spoiler.

RickBlaine · 18-01-2025 10:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123071308#Comment_123071308

I hate this attitude. It is unfair and unreasonable to expect everyone to have seen every significant old movie and TV show. If I was talking to a teenager about The Sixth Sense, I wouldn't just mention the spoiler unless I knew they have seen it. I wasn't even born when Twin Peaks first aired and I've been catching up on other shows over the years.

Likewise, a podcast that doesn't usually deal with spoilers shouldn't just casually mention who killed Laura Palmer. The name of the killer didn't add anything to the conservation anyway.

Buddy Bubs · 18-01-2025 10:46PM

Maggie shot Mr burns

banie01 · 18-01-2025 10:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123071540#Comment_123071540

You mean it wasn't Kristin Shepard? Dammit 😉

Jim_Hodge · 18-01-2025 10:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123071482#Comment_123071482

You still can't expect not to hear spoilers for a 35 year old show of any kind.

BaywatchHQ · 18-01-2025 11:03PM

I found a new sealed dvd of the show in a charity shop 3 years ago but haven't got around to watching it.

rtron · 18-01-2025 11:30PM

Season 3 is 25 years after we find out who killed Laura Palmer. And it's excellent 👌

walshb · 19-01-2025 12:12AM

It’s an insanely dumb pile a prentious gick.

But I do love the intro

Galwayguy35 · 19-01-2025 12:35AM

Sherilyn Fenn was reason enough to watch it.

Tork · 19-01-2025 01:12AM

Yes, it's still worth watching. Before the third series came out in 2017, I sat down and re-watched the first two series for the first time since they aired. The first series and half of the second one have stood the test of time and are superb. If you don't want to keep going through the Twin Peaks universe, the reveal of Laura's killer is as a good a place as anywhere to stop. David Lynch and Mark Frost stepped away at this point, and there's a run of episodes (10-16) which are pretty ropey. Lynch and Frost came back on board after this, and things improved again. Sadly it wasn't enough to save the series.

The third series is excellent too, though it's different in tone to the first two. They managed to film it in the nick of time because some of the original cast members have since passed away.

endacl · 19-01-2025 01:14AM

Gandalf is Luke’s sister.

Jim Herring · 19-01-2025 02:36AM

Who shot JR? Fairly sure it wasn’t the lad from Father Ted.

thereiver · 19-01-2025 04:03AM

Dont listen to tv podcast twin peaks is a great tv series it has a side range of characters who are great actors and. Its very strange not like any other tv show it's like watching a film I intend to watch it again I have seen about 5 episodes years ago it's still worth watching on one else makes tv like this anymore even actors with small parts are great in this program it's in my top twenty tv programs it's like the Beatles of tv programs it starts out good and gets better I think it better to watch now cos no one uses smartphones or looks at screens I just think the story meanders abit it's really a story about a small town and the culture and behavior of the locals to the police and the FBI investigation

I just read a tweets the point of David Lynch story's is you are not supposed to understand every thing that's not the point of it it's an experiance

I watched a tv sci Fi show called sunny I don't understand what happened in the last episode

But I enjoyed it

Twin peaks is like 2001 the film it's not always clear what is happening but it's a great cinematic experience

Twin peaks is not just a police procedural

Dallas the tv show was not just who shot Jr

o1s1n · 11-02-2025 10:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123071799#Comment_123071799

Fix your heart or die.

squonk · 12-02-2025 10:15PM

Miley has an affair with Fidelma. Biddy dies in a car crash at the end.

whiterebel · 12-02-2025 10:20PM

As with all his films, it's absolutely pretentious crap. You will nt be missing anything.

You don't need to understand it = I don't know what I was doing.

johnny_ultimate · 13-02-2025 10:53AM

Always frustrates me when great or interesting art is dismissed as 'pretentious'.

Twin Peaks is amazing, and knowing the 'twist' will not spoil the show by any means because there's so much other stuff going on. But what's often neglected in the show's reputation as being 'weird' and dark is that it's also often extremely funny and soapy. There's a reason it's Lynch's biggest breakout hit, outside of the 'whodunnit' appeal of its initial run: because it's often laugh out loud hilarious, full of memorable characters in heightened soap operatic dramatics, and is full of some of the most gorgeous and iconic imagery in television. Just keep in mind there is a quality dip in the back half of season two when Lynch became less involved.

Of course it's defiantly strange and surreal at times, and there's a constantly heightened air to proceedings. But only really in the stunning but pitch black film Fire Walk With Me and the (G.O.A.T.) third season does it become more consistently abstract and challenging, albeit in the latter case still with lots of humour and energy.

Anyway, it's an extraordinary series (and film and follow up series) that IMO is worth anyone's time, and certainly the original TV show is one of the most accessible entrypoints to the wonderful mind of David Lynch.

yagan · 13-02-2025 11:16AM

I was a bigger fan of the soundtrack than the series itself. I tried to stay with it when it was first on TV but it just felt plodding, but I did later catch Fire Walk With Me in the cinema and I got to say it really stuck with me as a memorable movie experience.

I'd sum it up as an American Gothic horror story.

Badly Drunk Boy · 13-02-2025 11:18AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123166178#Comment_123166178

it's also often extremely funny and soapy.

It even has a fictional soap opera playing in the background on several characters' tellies. 😄

squonk · 13-02-2025 11:31AM

My sister loved it when it started on RTE. As we had one tv in those days I watched it with her from the beginning. I gave up after a free episodes. It sensed overly pretentious and took a long time to go nowhere from episode to episode. It would seguay into pieces of surreal nonsense as well. It was breakthrough tv for its time mind you Ava opened the door to a lot of similar shows. 4-5 years later another show cane along, American gothic, that I absolutely loved. That wouldn’t have been made had Twin Peaks not opened the door. I know now I just don’t really like David Lynch’s stuff overall so not liking Twin Peaks makes sense in that context.

13-02-2025 03:01PM

It's brilliant. Enjoy it.

Rothko · 13-02-2025 03:36PM

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The word pretentious is usually just thrown around to describe anything that dares to do something out of the ordinary.

emo72 · 13-02-2025 03:39PM

What was that show that came a few years later, it had James Belushi, in some virtual reality shenanigans, it didn't last long, was that American gothic?

Nope it was Wild Palms. A weird one.

squonk · 13-02-2025 06:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123167552#Comment_123167552

Yes, I remember it looked like it had potential when it started but I recall it going down the toilet fairly quickly.

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