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What killed Twin Peaks: collected commentary on the series + film

posted 11 years ago by MovieMan0283-2
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I've just posted a compilation of excerpts from news articles, essays, film reviews, videos, podcasts, blog posts, and other media. Taken together, these 125 samples offer an overview of the public's and the press' reaction to Twin Peaks & Fire Walk With Me - the show's acclaim, rejection, and ultimately its reappraisal.

http://thedancingimage.blogspot.com/2014/06/gone-fishin-collection-of-commentary-on.html

I'm also interested in your thoughts on the series & film and why the response reversed so quickly on the former and was so hostile to the latter. Feel free to share your own thoughts - as well as other notable pieces or quotes - as a comment. What do you think killed Twin Peaks, why was its death so violent, and do you believe its reputation has been resurrected?

UPDATE: I'll be cross-posting all responses here as comments to the blog post above. If you have an account/name you like to use for blog comments, you can post them there yourselves (I will post them as "Anonymous" with attribution to your IMDb username in the text of the comment itself). That way I can consolidate the conversation in one place, and allow readers of my post to participate.

[–] lenlarga 11 years ago

Really, the TV series was way ahead of its time. Everything else that happened to Twin Peaks flowed from that- the network messing with the schedule, fans not getting/understanding/feeling weirded out by what was going on etc.

[–] MovieMan0283part2 11 years ago

The only good part of Twin Peaks existing in 1990 rather than 2014 is that the smaller media marketplace and limited options meant that, for the brief time it was popular, it was everywhere (rather than just being limited to a small but steady niche). It burned fast but brightly and probably ended up being more influential than it would have otherwise.

http://thedancingimage.blogspot.com/

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[–] VivienCastro 10 years ago

i just watched both recently without knowing much about people's opinions (what I heard was, great show but it got too weird.)

I think it started as a detective show with a little supernatural element. Too much fantasy doesn't have many fans, especially this psychological type. People got hooked to the atmospehre and the murder case, but then the surreal became too obviously important part of the plot and they couldn't deal with it.

I don't have the answer for why they didn't love the movie.

Personally, I loved it all. Season two after the revelation did get a bit funny and soap opery, but just a bit. The ending was then incredibly effective. FWWM was great.

I don't get the issue with the film at all since I assume fans of the show would watch it (so "it's too weird" as an argument no longer makes sense), and it didn't change but only added to the concepts from the show. Unless they expected some great direct explanation of everything and got disappointed they didn't get that?