(I've decided to diversify this blog a bit, I'm going to try to cover film, anime, comics, television, music, philosophy, and some other cool stuff a bit more instead of just books--resulting in the present post, and most probably a few to come after.)
The truth, of course, is that Twin Peaks doesn't suck--or rather, that it shouldn't. It was the first show in the history of network television to attempt telling a sophisticated story, and certainly the first, maybe the only, to utilize surrealism. A show conceived by DAVID LYNCH (exlamation)! That resulted in fantastic images like the one pictured above. Not to mention that it was sometimes really funny.
The problem, of course, is that Lynch wrote only a single episode, and directed just a few (episode two, in which he did both, is absolutely fantastic). At some point in the second season he left the show entirely. I still enjoyed Kyle MacLachlan as Dale Cooper, but nearly enough to keep watching. Not only was the writing intolerably bad, the only thing worse was the acting; and from the beginning Angelo Baldalamenti--who was doing good work at the time, some of it with Lynch--had written a horrible, horrible score.
The resulting mess is harder to watch for how much promise it might have had. Really, it was never very good (certainly Lynch's worst next to Dune and Blue Velvet), but there are scenes in there (a few), to equal the best of his materiel.
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