The Twin Peaks Tv-Series Thread.

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Originally Posted by Oblivion138

Very much agreed. To me, the tone of FWWM is closest in tone to an episode like Lonely Souls (Episode 14)...which may very well be the most horrific thing ever squeezed into an hour time slot in a broadcast network's primetime line-up...

I had to look up that episode. I was pretty sure I knew which one you meant, but I'm not used to the cobbled-up titles they retroactively assigned to the episodes. Back in the day, they were just "Pilot", "Episode 1001-1007", and "Episode 2001-2022".

Anyway, I agree about that episode. The scene in the Roadhouse when the Giant appears to tell Cooper "It is happening again" is one of such transcendental sadness that it possibly remains unmatched by any other scene in a TV episode before or since. I still choke up whenever I hear Julee Cruise singing "The World Spins".

It's funny. Lynch always claimed that he never really wanted to resolve the mystery of Who Killed Laura Palmer, and it was only the impatience of the viewers that pushed ABC into pushing him for a resolution. And as much as I dislike that kind of "meddling", I just can't fathom not having the experience of watching that episode.