DarkObserver, 28. Oktober 2002 um 16:08:58 MEZ

Remember Twin Peaks?

I'm an avid fan of director David Lynch and his weird, surreal kind of film-making.

In the 90's of the last century -or millenium if you like the sound of that better- a ground-breaking TV-series introduced a wider audience to his remarkable -and to some- incomprehensible visual style and storytelling :

Twin Peaks.

Back then I sat in front of my television, awed by what was presented in soap-opera format and length but containing so much allusion, meandering plots and sub-plots that you could spend months or years trying to make sense of it all.

Shamefully the series was cancelled after two seasons, because the "average joe" wasn't able to follow events anymore is my guess.

There are still a lot of websites out there, paying tribute to this masterpiece of TV programming. These are two of my favorites:

www.twinpeaks.org

www.twinpeaksgazette.com

Luckily, the pilot episode and the first season are now being released on DVD in Europe and also in the U.S. I think. Let's hope, the 2nd season will follow suit.

The motion picture that was released after the series had ended "Twin Peaks -Fire walk with me" left fans and critics unsatisfied, partly because of lots of cuts made to the material and also because it lacked the sly humor of the TV show: It plunged rather deeply into the to dark side of Twin Peaks instead, but I must say I personally liked that nonetheless. The intensity of some scenes is hardly bearable during a first viewing, because they are subtly loaded with a strange mix of eroticism, desperation and lingering violence. If you've never seen "Twin Peaks", don't start with the movie is my advice.