Peak Viewing.
This Twin Peaks forum is right up my street. I absolutely loved the series and, as far as I’m concerned, there has never been anything on television since it was shown that matches it.
I think that the best thing about it all is the strange symbolism. Because there were so many things that were left unexplained it is the sort of thing you can talk about for hours on end. The stuff that went on in ‘The Black Lodge’ is a brilliant talking point without even thinking about anything else.
Why did Dale Cooper meet himself? Why did he bleed from an unseen wound? And what the hell sort of cheese is it that David Lynch eats before he goes to bed????
There were so many sequences in Twin Peaks that were genuinely disturbing. It was not necessary for blood and gore, frights or jumps; Mark Frost and David Lynch could conjure up all manner of totally bizarre imagery that would keep you awake at night with countless questions and thoughts. And how many TV programmes can you say that about?
Lots of different sayings became synonymous with the show; ‘Damn fine cherry pie’, ‘The owls are not what they seem’ and ‘As black as midnight on a moonless night’. Twin Peaks seemed to hit a nerve with viewers all around the world and everywhere you went people were talking about it. You could go into any bookshop to buy Laura Palmer’s Diary and there was even an advert for a type of crisp on TV that starred Special Agent Dale Cooper.
I wonder if there will ever be a series like this again? There have been, of course, many successful shows on television since then but nothing that has managed to make the downright strange so downright interesting.