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TV: The Golden Era Reborn

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Is this all twin peaks talk? I'll be honest, I had never really heard of it before this week.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Is this all twin peaks talk? I'll be honest, I had never really heard of it before this week.
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A few years ago on a trip to Seattle, I went up to Snoqualmie Falls on a scenic drive. After I came home from the trip, I learned they were used in the title card sequence for this show that I'd heard mentioned in passing, but never seriously looked into. So that's when I watched the old run on Netflix.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Is this all twin peaks talk? I'll be honest, I had never really heard of it before this week.
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Back in the mid- to late-80s it was a huge hit, almost like Game of Thrones is these days. Only the subject matter was entirely different. I was never allowed to watch it as a kid, and I've not yet taken the time to watch it as an adult.
 
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Back in the mid- to late-80s it was a huge hit, almost like Game of Thrones is these days. Only the subject matter was entirely different. I was never allowed to watch it as a kid, and I've not yet taken the time to watch it as an adult.
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I was allowed to watch as a kid. Such a great, weird series
 
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It was the original "cult" TV show. As the big hair/big hat soaps and cheesy police procedurals of the 80s were winding down and the 90s started, Twin Peaks was sort of a mix (at times, a spoof) of those genres, but much more blue-collar in setting, and with elements of comedy, horror, and "what's lurking out there in the forest" weirdness.

So you know...David Lynch's mind in a nutshell.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
Is this all twin peaks talk? I'll be honest, I had never really heard of it before this week.
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You should watch. Season one is amazing. There's a character who carries around a log and says it talks to her.
Also has David duchovy as a cross dressing special agent.
The fact lynch is doing this on showtime is pretty exciting.
 
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Then watch the Psych episode Twin Spires which has a bunch of the cast and is one long love letter/homage to Twin Peaks.

Personally besides Log Lady I always liked the woman who hated that blinds were so loud! Plus Ray Wise rules! LAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURA!!!!!!
 
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Then watch the Psych episode Twin Spires which has a bunch of the cast and is one long love letter/homage to Twin Peaks.

Personally besides Log Lady I always liked the woman who hated that blinds were so loud! Plus Ray Wise rules! LAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURA!!!!!!
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Nadine and her silent drape runners!!
 
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Two by foooooours, four by eights. Two by fouuuuuuuurs. Four by eights.

This show is friggin weird. :D

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Why do I get the vibe that Good Eats took a page out of Twin Peaks with a lot of their music, styling, and writing. This whole first episode has felt like an episode of Good Eats without food.
 
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Two by foooooours, four by eights. Two by fouuuuuuuurs. Four by eights.

This show is friggin weird. :D

ETA:
Why do I get the vibe that Good Eats took a page out of Twin Peaks with a lot of their music, styling, and writing. This whole first episode has felt like an episode of Good Eats without food.
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A lot of shows have taken a page or two from TP over the last 20 years
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
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Why do I get the vibe that Good Eats took a page out of Twin Peaks with a lot of their music, styling, and writing. This whole first episode has felt like an episode of Good Eats without food.
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You mean when Alton is doing a sequence, and there's slinky music playing in the background? Wouldn't shock me if he got the idea, at least in part, from "Audrey's Dance".
 
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The new showtime ad is pretty great:

Before men were mad,
Before thrones played games,
Before bad was broken,
Before the dead walked,
Before they got lost,
There was wonderful and strange.
 
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The leftovers tonight was just ....wow.
 
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The episode of Twin Peaks where they showed BOB at the end of the bed is still to me the scariest scene ever on television.
 
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PBS' Frontline presents their documentary on Ammon and Cliven Bundy and their family tonight.
 
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