Showing posts with label Twin Peaks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twin Peaks. Show all posts
Five (And More) Ubiquitous Dead TV Characters*
Twin Peaks: The Return, Parts Seventeen and Eighteen
As I write this, Kim Jong-Un is showing off his nuclear capabilities, Houston is just starting to wring itself out, and America is still reeling from the discovery that the problem with removing Confederate monuments is that you unearth all the white supremacists who were lurking in their shadows. The world, in other words, is a terrible place. And David Lynch knows it.
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Fourteen
Hey, everyone! Things are finally happening on Twin Peaks!
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Thirteen
“Oh, f*** you.”
I want to talk about endings and echoes. With serialized television, there is a sense—which I wrote about from a different angle here—that the end will cause us to reassess the entire show. The end of Lost, for instance, made many people feel they’d wasted six seasons of their lives. The end of The Dark Tower series of books made many people feel they’d wasted nearly 25 years of their lives. The journey, from this teleological perspective, was not worth the destination.
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Twelve
Warning: This review begins by discussing internet fan slang, devolves into a discussion of September 11th, redeems itself slightly with a swerve towards Angel, and ends by talking about the most important thing: how important it is that you keep your own blood.
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Eleven
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Ten
I first watched Twin Peaks on videotapes that I rented from Blockbuster. In other words, many years ago. I watched it again on Netflix, and then again to review it, and then again to finish reviewing it. As I reviewed it, I realized that I loved the first two seasons of Twin Peaks despite its flaws because I knew its greatest strength: meaningfulness.
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Eight
Don’t worry, everybody. I’m a trained professional and I absolutely know what’s going on.
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Seven
Let’s start by talking about that scene, huh?
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Six
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Five
“No, Andy.”
In his review of Part Three, Thomas pointed out that, although “there is a sense of direction here,” it can be “inherently futile” to review a long-form story like Twin Peaks: The Return. True, since we don’t know which direction we’re going in. But also true because some episodes, like this one, are more impressionistic than plotty. They provide few answers and fewer questions.
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Four
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So, what do we call the Coopers? It’s a question whose answers lead more to ontological puzzles than onomastic answers. We have, after all, quite a few Coopers to deal with:
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Three
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part Two
I had many issues with the recent X-Files reboot, not least of which was that only one episode out of six was memorable in a good way. But on a broader level, I struggled with the setup: very little of note seemed to have happened between the end of the show in 2002 and the beginning of the reboot in 2016. Twin Peaks: The Return doesn’t have that problem.
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part One
When the second season of Twin Peaks premiered in fall of 1990, curious fans were hankering to know the answers to two mysteries: Who killed Laura Palmer? And who shot Special Agent Dale Cooper in the first season finale? But showrunners David Lynch and Mark Frost had different plans. It took eighteen minutes for Dale Cooper to get off the floor, longer to find out who shot him, and many more episodes to discover who killed Laura Palmer.
Doux News: April 12, 2015
Doux News: January 18, 2015
This week: Twin Peaks returns! -- The CW renews a whole lot of shows, especially Supernatural -- Another possible Arrow spinoff -- Chuck stars in Heroes Reborn -- This week in cats
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