Leland's mental state was obviously central to the plot whereas Ben Horne's confederate plotline was just pointless filler. But more importantly it just wasn't very entertaining to watch, while Ray Wise singing "Mairzy Doats" is peak television.
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I thought it was a compelling storyline about the underlying insanity in American suburbia/small town life.
I also really don't like the way "filler" is used to describe episodic TV now. Saw an interview with that dipshit Alex Kurtzman where he bragged about how NuTrek doesn't have "filler" like the old Star Trek shows.
fair enough, after all a lot of the side plots in Twin Peaks had nothing to do with the main story but were still fun to watch
there's something interesting about a disgusting capitalist ghoul's mental break manifesting in him trying to win the civil war for the confederacy but idk, I still didn't like watching it. it should have been a one-episode story but it went on for way too long imo
I still didn't like watching it. it should have been a one-episode story but it went on for way too long imo
Fair enough if you don't like it but I thought it was just one episode?
It goes on for like 4 episodes lol
oh ok that is filler lol
Yeah but the love story bs at the end of season 2 with James was so groan worthy.
James was so groan worthy.
wrong James has always been cool
you mean when he gets groomed by that woman who then tries to frame him for her husband's murder? yeah that was pretty bad, but it was more like the middle of season 2. fortunately James was pretty much written out of the show by the end of the season
The best way to watch twin peaks is backwards. That way you get the real story Lynch intended.
Too lazy to google, what do you mean by the real story as Lynch intended?
I'm just trying to get people to watch things backwards.
Gotta commit to the bit! I would have done it lmao
People keep telling the last few episodes of season 2 and the rest of season 3 are good, but I stopped watching because S2 was just so fucking boring I kept falling asleep and having to rewind that shit
yeah blame ABC for making Lynch leave for 90% of S2. The middle episodes are the worst but Ep 21/22 and the entirety of The Return makes it all worth it.
the season 2 finale is possibly the best episode of the entire series, if you're into the surrealist stuff. it's genuinely terrifying, scarier than most horror movies IMO
You can easily skip everything from episode 10 of season 2 until episode 17 when they introduce Heather Graham as Annie Blackburn and the show starts having some sort of actual plot again. If you can't get into the groove of it then, just skip until the last two episodes. It's worth it too. It's genuinely insane how hard Lynch goes in the last episode, it's like he just snaps his fingers and all the magic the show has ever had is back again and then some.
Nah season 2 picks up when
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Cooper is done with investigation but chooses to stay and earle comes into play.
I love Twin Peaks a whole fucking lot, but the people who defend the latter half of season 2 are seriously out of their mind. Like sure it's annoying when all of season 2 gets thrown under the bus - the first half of it is every bit as good as season 1 and we don't even have to talk about the finale - but there's a good stretch of episodes after the killer is gone where it is clear none of the writers, directors or actors had any clue where the show was supposed to go and it turns into a completely rudderless mess. The original Twin Peaks was always about the impact that the death of Laura Palmer had on that small community. I don't know if you could have milked that for all eternity without release, like Lynch seemingly originally planned, but the way they dealt with it after they were forced to reveal the killer certainly wasn't it.
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There was certainly always an element of repression in Twin Peaks: Laura dies, so here is Madelaine. But when they reveal that it was not only her father who killed her and raped her since a young age, who then also brutally murders her doppelganger in her cousin, they immediately drop the entire Palmer family and anything that had anything to do with the original mystery. It's unbelievable how fast the show dives off a cliff: The very first scene after "Arbitrary Law" (already kind of a sketchy episode), Leland Palmers Wake: Even disregarding the fact that they most likely wouldn't hold a wake for a guy who murdered his daughter and his niece, the mood of the scene is completely off: It's clear the other actors besides Grace Zabriskie and Kyle MacLachlan don't actually know whose wake they are supposed to be at, so the mood is completely jovial and trivial. That they use the same scene to establish the Milford brothers plotline - a plotline no one has ever enjoyed or cared about - just further ridicules the whole thing. Maybe it would have just been impossible to actually grapple with the fact of a father raping and murdering his own daughter on television in 1991 (maybe you couldn't even do it today), but with the need to produce these episodes week-by-week it was certainly too much for the team that was left at that point.
the James stuff is way worse you can literally skip every James scene in season 2 and not lose out lol. love the show but that's the real weak point for me