is there any other show that even comes close to your obsession with TP?
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 11:32 pm
i can't believe how excited i am by this revival, it is taking up my headspace everyday and i come here to read every day for months now.. of course David Lynch is a cinematic god to me (forming a holy trinity with Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovskij) and anything new from him at this point would excite me almost to lunacy. However the whole phenomenon of Twin Peaks is something totally else, sometimes i just have such an urge to go back and revisit that world again (many times i don't do it, bc i want to savor it - although i've seen it in full a good 4 times, and seen all the lynch episodes probably 6-7 times).. and with all the book tie ins, promo stuff, etc. and the great fan community it's amazing to be a Twin Peaks fan.
which got me thinking if there's actually any other series that come even closer for us here.. probably not. but it would be interesting to hear what comes closest for you (i know this is somewhat similiar to the What you're watching in wait for S3 but this is only the top of the top, this needs to be somewhat obsessive stuff). i mean i absolutely LOVED Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos, especially the former i would say quality wise is on the same level as Peaks but would a revival happen in 10 years i think i would be like, hmmm, maybe they had better left it alone. it's not something that i want to read about too much after i finished the series, and though i bought the box sets that itch to go back into that world only comes around every 5-6 years or something tops i would imagine. "Breaking Bad" was incredible television as well, so was "The Wire", but same thing there - it's not something i'd spend a lot of time on after the fact nor want to revisit very often.
something that occupied my mind lately as i've been going to A LOT of cinema screenings this year is Lynch's quote that a film needs "ROOM TO DREAM" and mystery.. that's what keeps me coming back and can make me obsess. i don't like every little detailed laid out. and while socio-realistic dramas have their charm i can only tae so much of that. on the other hand, i used to be a HUGE "X-Files" fan back in the day though.. i have all the 9 box sets on DVD, read quite a bit on it, but over the years i just felt that it lost a lot of its magic and not only in the later seasons bc i still liked it well enough up to Mulder dissappeared but i'm talking about it not holding up to well over the time. much of it feels very dated, and there's few episodes that sucks me into a complete world of wonder and mystery these days whenever i try to watch an episode... i like to have a balance between the world we can see and the world we can't, the mysteries, the room to dream.
HOWEVER (and sorry for the long winded post to get here), there is one other TV series that would be my second after Twin Peaks and it was created by the same team as X-Files - Chris Carter, James Wong, Glenn Morgan and them. It was called MillenniuM and it was one of the boldest, most interesting, well-written series i have ever seen. Placed in the real world but full of an otherwordly darkness that loomed somewhere deep in the atmosphere, a greater force of evil. and it was very dark, which i tend to like. it actually had a lot of similarities to Twin Peaks; a great archetype good guy of a hero that you really enjoyed the company of - Frank Black, brilliantly portrayed by screen legend Lance Henriksen in his best performance ever imo. he had a mysterious gift that allowed himself to get into the minds of the serial killers, take on that darkness, but it took his toll on him and he worked for a company that helped police and FBI solve the worst and strangest murder cases and disapperances. some of the times it was a quite regular procedural show, sometimes strongly supernatural (in a really dark, horror way - the two parter episode "Lament" "/ "Powers Principles" rivals the best horror movies i've seen and similiar incredible moments with BOB).. as the show got deeper into the second season, just like Peaks, it took on a new dimension as the occult and the mysteries of the MillenniuM group started becoming more apparanent, and there were prophecies, angels, demons and even a build up to an apocalypse.
unfortunately the show got canceled by FOX after it's third season, like with Peaks we got a beautiful ending that's still open (although it was a bit more wrapped up). there has been a huge fan phenomena created around it, lobbying for FOX to bring it back (a campaign called "Bring Back Frank Black"), message boards and fan communities, some great books written, etc. i can watch the entire series about once every two years or so, and it always totally sucks me in, and when it's over i'm really itching for more, and i need to find the forums to read and discuss and pick out the books from the shelves. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it!
Do you have any series like this?
which got me thinking if there's actually any other series that come even closer for us here.. probably not. but it would be interesting to hear what comes closest for you (i know this is somewhat similiar to the What you're watching in wait for S3 but this is only the top of the top, this needs to be somewhat obsessive stuff). i mean i absolutely LOVED Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos, especially the former i would say quality wise is on the same level as Peaks but would a revival happen in 10 years i think i would be like, hmmm, maybe they had better left it alone. it's not something that i want to read about too much after i finished the series, and though i bought the box sets that itch to go back into that world only comes around every 5-6 years or something tops i would imagine. "Breaking Bad" was incredible television as well, so was "The Wire", but same thing there - it's not something i'd spend a lot of time on after the fact nor want to revisit very often.
something that occupied my mind lately as i've been going to A LOT of cinema screenings this year is Lynch's quote that a film needs "ROOM TO DREAM" and mystery.. that's what keeps me coming back and can make me obsess. i don't like every little detailed laid out. and while socio-realistic dramas have their charm i can only tae so much of that. on the other hand, i used to be a HUGE "X-Files" fan back in the day though.. i have all the 9 box sets on DVD, read quite a bit on it, but over the years i just felt that it lost a lot of its magic and not only in the later seasons bc i still liked it well enough up to Mulder dissappeared but i'm talking about it not holding up to well over the time. much of it feels very dated, and there's few episodes that sucks me into a complete world of wonder and mystery these days whenever i try to watch an episode... i like to have a balance between the world we can see and the world we can't, the mysteries, the room to dream.
HOWEVER (and sorry for the long winded post to get here), there is one other TV series that would be my second after Twin Peaks and it was created by the same team as X-Files - Chris Carter, James Wong, Glenn Morgan and them. It was called MillenniuM and it was one of the boldest, most interesting, well-written series i have ever seen. Placed in the real world but full of an otherwordly darkness that loomed somewhere deep in the atmosphere, a greater force of evil. and it was very dark, which i tend to like. it actually had a lot of similarities to Twin Peaks; a great archetype good guy of a hero that you really enjoyed the company of - Frank Black, brilliantly portrayed by screen legend Lance Henriksen in his best performance ever imo. he had a mysterious gift that allowed himself to get into the minds of the serial killers, take on that darkness, but it took his toll on him and he worked for a company that helped police and FBI solve the worst and strangest murder cases and disapperances. some of the times it was a quite regular procedural show, sometimes strongly supernatural (in a really dark, horror way - the two parter episode "Lament" "/ "Powers Principles" rivals the best horror movies i've seen and similiar incredible moments with BOB).. as the show got deeper into the second season, just like Peaks, it took on a new dimension as the occult and the mysteries of the MillenniuM group started becoming more apparanent, and there were prophecies, angels, demons and even a build up to an apocalypse.
unfortunately the show got canceled by FOX after it's third season, like with Peaks we got a beautiful ending that's still open (although it was a bit more wrapped up). there has been a huge fan phenomena created around it, lobbying for FOX to bring it back (a campaign called "Bring Back Frank Black"), message boards and fan communities, some great books written, etc. i can watch the entire series about once every two years or so, and it always totally sucks me in, and when it's over i'm really itching for more, and i need to find the forums to read and discuss and pick out the books from the shelves. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it!
Do you have any series like this?