Scaling Twin Peaks means dealing with lYnch
After watching the Twin Peaks finale, I can honestly say: I don’t like it. The Twin Peaks dialogue is stilted and poorly written featuring long pauses between characters that would never exist in the real world. The dialogue takes professionals to pull off well, as evinced by the appearance of the home owner in episode 18 who couldn’t keep a straight face while reciting her lines to Agent Dale Cooper and Laura Palmer or Carrie Page, depending on when you refer to her in the timeline.
Oftentimes, it felt like David Lynch would do things, not for the good of the story but because he wanted to show off or intentionally mislead the audience. However, the greatest sin may be that Lynch used time travel to make 3 seasons of a show and a movie worthless. In the end, none of those things happened. The series could have ended nicely with episode 17 and instead, Lynch leaves the entire Twin Peaks universe in shambles with more questions than answers and with holes big enough to drive the oversized head of General Briggs through.
And these are things that the Lynch Mob will tell you is exactly what Lynch wants. He wants you to feel lost. He wants you to feel confused. He wants you to question the world and the idea of a happy ending. But all this series left me feeling was cheated. Lynch’s barely held together narrative ends by wrapping everything you know about it into disappearing plastic and chucking it back into the sound of a screaming Sheryl Lee. The world is lost enough as it is. We don’t need Lynch’s pride-bearing, cinematic epics making us feel any more lost.
Of course, just because Twin Peaks feels like a heavy-handed Lynch chucking spaghetti at the screen hoping things stick and I didn’t like it, doesn’t mean that it isn’t good. But wasting 3 seasons worth of watching to find the good in it may be asking too much of anyone who isn’t a film school student.
Was Twin Peaks good? A cinematic experience doesn't have to be liked to be good.
Photos of our Twin Peaks trip.
For other more positive reviews: Twin Peaks season 3, finale review: A fitting end to TV's greatest treasure
‘Twin Peaks’ Finale Review: David Lynch Steps Outside of the Dream for a Brilliant, Mindbending Final Journey
Oftentimes, it felt like David Lynch would do things, not for the good of the story but because he wanted to show off or intentionally mislead the audience. However, the greatest sin may be that Lynch used time travel to make 3 seasons of a show and a movie worthless. In the end, none of those things happened. The series could have ended nicely with episode 17 and instead, Lynch leaves the entire Twin Peaks universe in shambles with more questions than answers and with holes big enough to drive the oversized head of General Briggs through.
And these are things that the Lynch Mob will tell you is exactly what Lynch wants. He wants you to feel lost. He wants you to feel confused. He wants you to question the world and the idea of a happy ending. But all this series left me feeling was cheated. Lynch’s barely held together narrative ends by wrapping everything you know about it into disappearing plastic and chucking it back into the sound of a screaming Sheryl Lee. The world is lost enough as it is. We don’t need Lynch’s pride-bearing, cinematic epics making us feel any more lost.
Of course, just because Twin Peaks feels like a heavy-handed Lynch chucking spaghetti at the screen hoping things stick and I didn’t like it, doesn’t mean that it isn’t good. But wasting 3 seasons worth of watching to find the good in it may be asking too much of anyone who isn’t a film school student.
Was Twin Peaks good? A cinematic experience doesn't have to be liked to be good.
Photos of our Twin Peaks trip.
For other more positive reviews: Twin Peaks season 3, finale review: A fitting end to TV's greatest treasure
‘Twin Peaks’ Finale Review: David Lynch Steps Outside of the Dream for a Brilliant, Mindbending Final Journey