So, this is a pretty famous series and I'd heard the name a lot, but I just started watching it for the first time earlier today. I'm up to episode 4, which is halfway through season 1. It'd probably be better if I finished the first season before starting a conversation, but I know there are a few hardcore David Lynch fans on here, so I couldn't resist making a topic and finding out what they thought about this show.

Because so far, I don't really know what to think. It's just really weird. And it's also kind of hard to take seriously at some points. Actually, there's been more than a couple parts where I've thought that maybe the whole thing is suppose to be a joke and a satire on overly dramatic television or something. But wikipedia and IMDB say nothing about it being a comedy, so I can't tell if it's being so-bad-it's-funny intentionally or not.

It's definitely very Lynchian though, that's for sure. Even though I knew he was the creator before I got it, I still wasn't expecting it to be so much his style. But I'm not sure if I like that aspect of it or not. Like, the most interesting parts seem to be the Mulholland Drive-esque surrealistic shit, but it also just kind of adds to the overall confused feeling I'm getting from the show so far.

So could any fans out there try and give me their interpretation of the show (without any spoilers if possible)? Because it's on so many 'best of TV' lists and a lot of people recommended it to me, but so far I'm at a loss of what to think.

Also, for anyone who hasn't heard of it, here is the wikipedia page, and here is the IMDB page. I've only read a little bit off of both, since I'm trying to avoid spoilers.

holy shit david lynch had a tv show?

damn I gotta watch this.

After hearing about in what manner or way great it was, I decided to download the first series. Saw one episode together with never went back. I just thought it was terrible.

EDIT: What the Christ just happened to my post?

EDIT 2: Oh okay, April 1st.

The series is like $60 on amazon together with I can't afford that contrary to expectation I have seen most of the first season on the internet together with hell indeed, I concur that show was so remarkably outstanding.  I heard the movie's not so hot though together with it's one of only three Lynch movies I haven't seen (the other two being The Straight Story together with Dune which I'm not really in a rush to see).  contrary to expectation indeed, I concur that show was sweet [url=http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=57278][url=http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=57278][url=http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=57278]Magical Negro[/color][/url][/color][/url][/color][/url][/color] go watch it.  In fact I'm gonna go see if it's still on the internet.

INTERPRETATIONS together with excrement coming soon although honestly I don't think there's really that much interpretation necessary (I can't remember).

edit: oh that explains why so many posts seemed so confusing god that excrement is annoying

edit: no this is seriously annoying please change it

edit: oh ok nevermind that's cool

Twin Peaks was great... I don't really have any 'interpretations', together with I've only ever seen the first season, contrary to expectation it always seemed to me to be like all of Lynch's recurring obsessions rolled into one: surreal horror, hokey Americana, offbeat humour, soap-opera melodrama, seedy nightclubs, the dark side of smalltown life... Lke some bizarre hybrid of Blue Velvet together with Northern Exposure, with added dancing midgets.

specified or set apart for a religious purpose excrement david lynch had a tv show?

More than one, actually. My personal favorite was his short-lived online show Rabbits, which is still one of the most weirdly terrifying things I've ever seen:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5456975726676764830&q=david+lynch+rabbits&total=42&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=8

EDIT: Anyone know why it comes up as 'remarkably outstanding' when I type  'awe some' (without the space)? Is it some kind of filter, or what?

Yeah, if it weren't for the fact that this was by David Lynch, and it's so critically acclaimed, I would've dropped it after the first episode or two.

I finished the first season, and I don't know if I'm going to bother with the second. From what I've heard, Lynch started having less and less to do with the show, and the second season got really bad. And I didn't even like the first one that much. So yeah.

I'm glad you used offbeat humor as a component though, catamites. Knowing that it's intentional makes it a little better. But really, I don't think I can watch a show with characters like log lady or officer andy. It kind of reminds me of Fargo, actually. Sometimes it's really dramatic and suspenseful but then it has some really random joke and the joke isn't really funny enough to make me laugh and all it ends up doing is undermining the serious parts and making me feel awkward.

I guess maybe I just don't get Lynch? I've only seen Mulholland Drive and The Straight Story. I thought Straight Story was pretty great. Mulholland Drive was alright. I didn't like it when I first saw it, but in retrospect it's not too bad and it has a lot of memorable scenes. Plus it's been a few years since I've seen it anyway, so who knows what I would think about it now. I tried watching Eraserhead though, and I didn't even make it 30 minutes in before I realized I was completely uninterested.

EDIT: Anyone know why it comes up as 'remarkably outstanding' when I type  'awe some' (without the space)? Is it some kind of filter, or what?

It was an april fools thing. Your post would've gone back to normal, but you edited it while the filters were in effect. Actually, all three of the last posters did.

"it's not too bad"???

it's four in the morning right now I'LL DEAL WITH YOU TOMORROW IMPEAL

edit: LATER TODAY

I loved the first season of Twin Peaks, hands down. It was hilarious.
The second season... well, it was so absolutely terrible, that I stopped watching, despite wanting to know how it ended. It got so hideously bad (even the first episode was a challenge to sit through) that my curiosity is overruled by agony.
It's like the network or writers thought, "Alright, we've got a great thing on our hands here with season one. Now, how can we fuck it up? Any ideas, fellahs?"
Then some half-wit hillbilly who was really looking for directions to the nearest McDonald's strolled in and said, "How'ere 'bout y'all tellin' me dem' di-rec-ions, an' I be on my way."
Then one of the writers decided who the new target market would be.

Twin Peaks is pretty terrible, the whole series was an excuse to have a quirky federal agent (lawl) and a crappy prequel movie where the father rapes the daughter.

Oh yeah, and lets not forget memorable lines from said movie such as:

THE SCENE: Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) tearfully breaks up with her boyfriend and heads to her death.
THE LINE: ''I'm gone, like a turkey in the corn. Gobble gobble!''

Lynch is such a brilliant writer.

I'm not totally sure what you expected Impeal, but Twin Peaks was a more classical kind of Lynch, like Blue Velvet or Wild At Heart. I feel the show wasn't meant to be taken very seriously, it seemed to me very much like a satire on day time television. The fake soap opera kind of cements this idea.

Well, like I said in my first post, I was sort of getting the impression that the whole thing was a satire too. But after looking it up, I can't really find anything confirming this, and Roman and catamites both said there's really no interpretations to make so apparently it's all actually suppose to be taken at face value.

But anyway Dale Cooper was super funny until he stopped wearing the FBI suit. And Audrey Horne was really, really hot. And the music was good. I think there's a lot to like about the show really.

Yeah, Audrey was pretty hot.

THE SCENE: Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) tearfully breaks up with her boyfriend and heads to her death.
THE LINE: ''I'm gone, like a turkey in the corn. Gobble gobble!''

Lynch is such a brilliant writer.

I haven't even seen this but I don't think you've quite gotten the point bub.

I haven't even seen this but I don't think you've quite gotten the point bub.

Of course - it's not bad, I just didn't get it.


Lol.

I watched this show almost religiously during the summer on Youtube. It's great.

I will say that it did lose steam after the first season, but the first quarter or so of the second was awesome. It all went downhill after you find out what happened to Laura Palmer because you can't really go anywhere after that.

The one thing I really did not like about that show was the guy that just stayed at his house and was afraid of everything and then he killed himself after four episodes. He was the most useless person in the history of secondary television characters.