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on TP, with some entertaining views on it all from 6 people involved. Running theme seems to be (of course) that the revelation of Laura's killer so early on is what ultimately killed the show. . .

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Husband TP Blog!

My dream has come true: I have finally convinced the boy to watch Twin Peaks. This poor man has not only never seen TP, he has never seen anything by David Lynch (well, except Dune, *snicker*).

Because he likes to write and has ADD-- and therefore cannot just sit down and watch something without doing something else at the same damn time-- he has started his own blog with LIVE, as-he-watches-it, thoughts on each episode of the show.

It's pretty amusing to a real Peaker. For example, he called Julee Cruise a "burn victim" and thinks the spirit of Mrs. Hayward's legs live in the Log Lady's log. That's all funny, but I gotta say, for just 2 episodes in, he's a bit in tune with TP already. Check it out if you want an amusing read from someone seeing the madness for the first time.

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I'll See You In The Trees.

My Most Favorite TV Show In The World.

This is a new blog/site. I've had this website since 2000, but it was on one of those horrific free servers and you could barely read the text because of all the ads.

I LOVE Twin Peaks. I was only 12 years old when it debuted in 1990. My older sister was 16 at the time and was a fan. I can remember staying up some nights and watching it with her. I most vividly remember the killing scene at the end of Episode 14. I suppose I was already the dark and twisted person then that I am now, because I promised myself I'd watch the series when I was older based on that scene. I did a marathon when I was 17 and never looked back. I went to a couple of the Twin Peaks Fests, which were a lot of fun. Now I feed my habit by reading other people's website and, my current challenge-- getting my husband, who has seen naught a shred of David Lynch, to watch the show with me.

Twin Peaks is one of those shows where you either hate it or you love it. People usually don't like Twin Peaks because it is not your typical TV show. People who hunker down for the night with reruns of 'Everybody Loves Raymond' would probably have a heart attack. It is quirky, sexy, violent. It is smart, cheezy, funny, sad, science fiction, a comedy, a drama, a soap opera. It is philosophical, religious, mythological. It is David Lynch. Most people also tuned in to find out who killed Laura Palmer; then they were disapointed when it not only took 16 episodes to reveal this, but that the show also focused a lot on the other sub-plots.

This, however, was creators Lynch's and Frost's intention form the beginning. In fact, they planned on never revealing the murderer. The idea was to present this murder as the focus, but as the show progressed, people would become so entwined in the lives and struggles and stories of all the other characters, and the focus of the show would intentionally shift from the murder to these stories. If the murderer were to be revealed, it would have been much later than Episode 16, if at all. "A continuing story is a beautiful thing to me," said David Lynch, "and mystery is a beautiful thing to me, so if you have a continuing mystery, its just so beautiful." Unfortunately for us die-hards, and those who did become immersed in the plots other than that of Laura, the impatience and curiosity of the American public ultimately led to the series' downfall.

For those of you who know nothing about Twin Peaks, it aired on ABC Saturday nights from 1990-1991, and was nominated for 14 Emmys (at the time, the most for any series). It only won 2, however, for Best Editing and Best Costume Design. It also won 3 Golden Globes, for Best Dramatic Series, Best Dramatic Actor (MacLachlan) and Best Supporting Actress (Piper Laurie, who plays Catherine Martell). The main plot concerns an FBI agent, Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), who travels to the small, sleepy Washington State town of Twin Peaks to figure out the homicide of the homecoming queen, Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). But the town isn't so sleepy, and the homecoming queen was not who everyone thought.
Pretty soon it becomes evident that not only is this no ordinary murder, but that the rest of Twin Peaks is just crawling with deep dark secrets. Everybody is having sex with everybody else; everybody is stabbing everybody else in the back; nobody is who they seem to be, and Agent Cooper (right) relies not only on standard Bureau procedure but also the beliefs of the Tibetan people and the various hallucinations, dreams, and visions of himself and others. It is pretty funky.

Twin Peaks also starred many familiar faces for Lynch fans: Charlotte Stewart, Catherine Coulson, Jack Nance, Sherilyn Fenn, Piper Laurie, Grace Zabriskie, Julee Cruise, and Everett McGill.

Why do I love Twin Peaks so much that I devote all my time to this website and memorizing the episodes, you may ask? It is several things. I love the music, the sets, the costumes, the characters, the allusions, that everything makes you think. I am confident enough in myself to admit that I am fascinated by and drawn to everything sick, dark, twisted, and disturbing. I love Twin Peaks not only because it is all of that, but because I appreciate that David Lynch admits that he too is drawn to the dark side of humanity and that he can show it to us in such a beautiful way. Twin Peaks is a fictional place, but when I watch it I am there; when I am not watching it I think about it. I am completely engrossed. I love that Twin Peaks (and David Lynch, in much of his work) encourages us to look at the dark side of life and examine it not as the dark side, or abnormal, but as regular life and humanity. Dark secrets and tragedy are the norm, not the facade of the colorful opening sequence of Blue Velvet, and I appreciate anything that accepts this and makes it beautiful.

Yes, I am one of those people who hates it when endings are neatly tied up with a perfect bow.