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Twin peaks review, season 1
I wrote a personal comment two days ago, mentioning twin peaks in passing which got all the replies, so here I am putting Lynch's magnus opus here.
David lynch like me and @TowardsPanna was a yogi, I saw Mulholland drive and didn't like it a lot, blue velvet was fun, as a person he stood out to me a lot. Blue Velvet was a great movie, not just fun. Lynch refused to discuss his abstract cinema, even though there's academic papers on it.
So, why would the best American director make a TV show, that too in the 90s. Enter Twin peaks, there's loads of trivia about this which I'll skip. This is an amazing show that up until season 1 and till episode 5 of season 2 where I am, has been amazing.
You can't describe much of what lynch does, I can't, he mixes tropes of soap operas, murder mysteries with his brand of surrealism in 90s Pacific Northwestern small towns.
Spiritual journey can help describe some of what he does. I read descriptions of enlightenment or it's equivalent in Trika, the sect of Shaivism you find on tantra illuminated, I never read any of them well, skimmed them really and once I had spiritual experiences, I looked back and the details given were right down to the word.
You can't scientifically prove this stuff. It's real, it's not me retrofitting my own account or getting influenced by ones that I spent a minute on whilst laughing. Lynch's work reminds me of that, tangentially. That a lot of it is surreal, you think it's voodoo, despite that, it feels real.
Twin peaks is peak TV for me. I have never seen a director do something serious that's funny whilst interweaving tropes they make fun of via a running soap opera in the TV show. Every night, I fire up an episode and can't stop, I unfortunately for the spoilers which i urge no one posts, yet there's so much more here.
Like my spiritual experiences, I cannot describe lynch's movies. Highly recommend it a lot. On a personal note I'm facing an onset of depression in the short term due to my spiritual prsctise which should fade away soon.
I don't like the abstract, there's better, actually holy things that go deeper than any movie ever can. How Lynch manages to have a really good normal TV show like story whilst having a deep level of abstraction is extremely impressive. Every twin peak fan sounded nuts to me until I became one, Lynch somehow made my spiritual practice parallels fit here despite his death.
You feel a love for Americana, Pacific Northwest small towns feel like heaven, I'll nevrbe able to look at hills without remembering falling, the shows theme song.
My last few comments have been about my growing angst with modern tech, the show is infinitely better than whatever harebrianed things I can ever find online whilst making me appreciate life more.
One more thing, Lynch, unlike a lot of film directors or novelists like Geroge RR Martin wasn't a shut in loser who has any bitterness towards the world. He shows the dark, the surreal, mystical visions, dreams are super important in twin peaks. The shows themes are dark, somehow I only ever remember the good from it. Very few carry a true love for life, even fewer can showcase it in something that's dark, extremely grounded. This isn't LOTR where you have large fights, it's a low budge by today's standards.
Most of what I wrote is incoherent, that's alright, everyone will have their own take on the show. I don't respect box office, modern media, yet I really respect the creative craftsman that Lynch was, we're lucky he left us with a whole show. I'm gonna watch the prequel, fire walk with me after season 2,before starting season 3.
On the point about the internet and it discouraging people to live life, all gossip we see pushes us to invest more, I see the pretty girls and the surroundings in his TV and it's joyous. It makes me want to do well and do bad things to the same sorta girls. I mean that, you appreciate the good things in life. Online circles take up more and more of our lives. Watching TV unfortunately is an upgrade.
I admire lynch a lot, I can write a lot, it won't mean much, watch it.
I think I binged Twin Peaks maybe 3 or 4 years ago when it was on Netflix? Then rented Fire Walk With Me on Amazon, and purchased the bluray for The Return.
You really feel the gap where Lynch wasn't involved in season 2, but when he comes back he absolutely fills the show with a presence you couldn't put your finger on, but could feel the absence of. Then The Return cranks that quality up to 11 and is a massive impressionistic mind fuck.
I've seen analysis that try to distill was Twin Peaks, and especially The Return, are "really" about. And then I've seen the rebuttal where you need to shut the fuck up and let the feelings and impressions the show creates wash over you. Don't try to reason what it's about, intuit it.
I really should watch Twin Peaks again, it's probably one of my favorite shows of all time that I felt I got the most out of. And you're right, it's spiritual message is very much looking into the darkness of the world and choosing love anyways.
My take which I will double down is that I come out of what he makes feeling joy, twin peaks has a charm, the bad things for me serve as a backdrop that let me enjoy that, this is a very normie take.
I am nearly on episode 7 of Twin peaks, David Lynch the actor is very fun to watch too. All the attempts to state what the show really is about are very valid, he wanted people to have their own interpretations. I will watch fire walk wth me post season 2. I would want to hear @TowardsPanna s take on Lynch since he too meditates a lot and would have a very interesting perception because of that.
What other shows or movies capture the same thing. My recent favorite directors are Joachim Trier whose work is mostly modern day scandi land slice of life dramas and robert eggers who makes movies that celebrate the folklore of Europe with decadent environments. I think I may be interested in reading good murder mysteries now after watching the show instead of surfing
Sorry if I disappoint you but I don't have all that much to say about the particular experience of me as a meditator watching Lynch.
I liked Twin Peaks a lot though. Haven't watched it post-insights, it's a long time ago, but I remember being both deeply touched, and amused. He does seem to get the attentive viewer into a subtler form of mind and emotion space, I guess?
I found the movie Inland Empire pretty fascinating. It seems to get you into what it would really be like to be inside the experience of the traumatized person. Not sure how to describe how he does it, but I vaguely remember that no other movie did it quite like that one did.
Oh man, Inland Empire was something else! I've seen it described (I think) as a journey straight through the subconscious, and it's a good analogy. Like a series of dreams, it meanders through its scenes, some seemingly furthering previous scenes, others jarringly discordant on the surface, but regardless of the relationship of each scene to the next, there's a constant symbolic undercurrent that propels the movie forward. I can see why it's not for everyone, given that I felt it was a little too long (which, tbf, may have been because I was watching it as part of a larger David Lynch retrospective) but it was still quite an experience. If I happen to find another screening of it at some point in the future, there's a good chance I'll catch it again, as I will with most of his work.
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