Shark Bytes

J.R.T. really hit the nail on the head with this show that jumped with the 6 or show episodes that aired after BOB went flying out of Leland while the fire sprinklers roared ( Who could forget the image of BOB holding up his arms and screaming while the water showered over him!!!!!), however, the show kind of jumped back towards the end with the creepy Windom Earle, who would not stop until he found the Black Lodge and made sure that agent Cooper went thru hell...

If you look at it, Windom Earle won in the final episode...

Man, what a great show!!!

Season One and the first few episodes of Season Two---right up until the solution of the Laura Palmer murder---were brilliant: wonderful plot and characterization, fine camera work, a very fitting minimalist soundtrack. In those halcyon days, TWIN PEAKS transcended television and actually approached ART.

What happened?

The series descended to the level of television. Typical bad television. The network pinheads meddled, the writing went stupid and David Lynch (much to the chagrin of many cast members) abandoned ship, leaving an ever-rotating assortment of hacks to mis-direct this erstwhile unique and intriguing series. The show instantaneously became a boring, rambling bizarro version of its former glorious self. The truly great stuff---BOB, the Black and White Lodges, the Owls . . . the wonderful, subtly-handled aspect of dark fantasy that was once the heart of the series---all this was largely lost in a rank tangle of fruitless and just plain dumb side plots. The Nadine-Big Ed-Norma silliness drags on and on ad nauseam. The James Hurley story arc is asinine. (Would that BOB had stuffed him and Donna into a golf bag!) Ben Horne's sudden descent into Civil War-themed madness is annoyingly ridiculous. The Josie-Eckhardt-Andrew-Catherine melodrama reeks of bad soap opera . . . And did I mention that the sinister Jean Renault turns inexplicably retarded and is defeated in short order by a cross-dresser bearing take-out food?

The technical aspects of the series suffer in tandem with the writing. The camera work---once very cinematic, fresh and inventive---largely becomes bland, uninspired television fare. ("Now, be sure to point the camera at the actors while they say their lines . . . "). The subtle, evocative soundtrack gets squelched and insipid midi-type TV music is suddenly telling us just how we ought to be feeling about such-and-such stupid scene. Indeed, much like the lame, subplot-riddled writing, the visual and music direction now smack of ripely cheesy soap opera.

If Season One has made you a fan and you've yet to experience the pain of Twin Peak's crapification, do yourself a tremendous favor: watch Season Two until the killer of Laura Palmer dies/disappears; then, finding out what is essential through plot synopses on the Internet, skip ALL but the final episode (directed by Lynch). You may then watch the movie FIRE WALK WITH ME.

Sometimes Fonzy jumps the shark . . . and sometimes the tranny delivers pizza. Alas!

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Great show that jumped with the plot that involved James.

Somebody should figure out a way to jam MTV's signal with footage from the last 15 minutes of the final episode of this show during a broadcast of "The Hills".....

Imagine the looks on the faces of all of the hip-hop, Britney Spears people when their favorite show is interrupted by the image of KILLER BOB drawing fire out of Windom Earle's head..

I'm in the 'jumped when Laura Palmer's killer was revealed' camp, but I think the show suffers alot from having a first season half the size of the second. If you watch from the pilot to the Laura's killer reveal there's about a season sized arc with alot of really interesting stuff.
Unfortunately this leaves about half an arc at the end of season two thats nothing but nonsense and loose ends (except for last half of the final episode) because they arent close to resolution. The show probably would have worked best had Windom Earle and Leland's story lines switched places chronologically, but then we would have to know how Coop got out of the black lodge.
Its also funny to note that originally Coop and Audrey were supposed to be together, but external forces quashed it and the plots brought in as replacements (Ben Horne's insanity and Annie blackburn) urdermined the two characters with the best chemistry on the show.
I'd also like to voice my opinion on the strength of Lynch's episodes. I really think the show is a balancing act (or tug of war, whichever cliche you want) between Lynch's out there concepts and Frost's more mainstream (but still brilliant) inclinations. The latter has its best indication in The episode where Leland/BOB is brought to justice, an episode where basically all the principle behind the scenes talent are involved except for David Lynch. It is a powerful, if straight forward, hour of television, and as essential I think to understanding why the show worked as Lynch's additions. Had the series ended with The hero's musings on the nature of evil and BOB's owl I think it would be remembered as a true masterpiece more than a cult novelty.

It just came to seem more and more that the writers considered the show's audience to be a bunch of idiots. They'd have byzantine plots that just disintegrated, tangled narrative threads that went nowhere...it was like they were laughing at us trying to follow what was going on.

The strangeness was refreshing at first, but soon it took over to the point that the show was incoherent. Who wants to be confused for a solid hour once a week?

should've somehow saved the killer revelation until the end of the season. Still an awesome show but I didn't care as much after Leland was brought to "justice".Even though it was far suoerior to anything on TV at the tim I never enjoyed the movie.Even though it had the bad language and nudity I so enjoy in R rated films.It just didn't enlighten me. Dave Bowie should,ve been cuttin' a record at the time.Never understood what the hell he was doin'.As for the music? I bought the sondtrack @nd day it was available.

Great show that jumped when it focused on James.

I find it interesing how a poster stated that if you just watch the david Lynch episodes, you will know everything about this show...

Very true indeed....

I still think that Killer BOB was the SCARIEST thing ever shown on television....especially the part when Cooper has the dream, and it shows BOB walking at the camera, out of focus, and then it comes into focus, showing BOB all smiling....CREEPY...

I'm sure I shouldn't be commenting since I'm halfway throught season two, but I LOVE this show. I have no idea why I didn't watch it when it was on TV. The only correction I would make, and this may be distorted from watching 3 or 4 episodes in a row thanks to DVD rentals.... but the ominous music is everywhere. If there is a happy music track, I missed it.

It started jumping the shark right from the start of season 2. The giant scenes and the bellhop just draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaged.


It REALLY jumped the shark after Laura's murder was resolved. Suddenly none of the plotlines were connected anymore, and they were all either boring (James, Nadine) or trying way too hard to be weird (Colonel).

Jumped when it focused on James Hurley, however, still an awesome show..

Did anybody notice that Ray Wise, the great character actor that played Leland Palmer, was on "24" as the vice president a couple seasons back????

The strangest part about Twin Peaks is that if you just watch the episodes directed by David Lynch himself, you don't need to watch the others.

That being said its awful hard to nail down a "Jump the Shark" moment knowing that the show would only get better when Lynch displayed in interest in it

You can throw away most of the 2nd season. The clever imitation of soap-opera story lines became so dead-pan that they mimicked the genre they wanted to turn on its head.

Stick around for the last episode though, when it almost jumps back.

I really thought the movie was done well. Laura and her coke habit. Bangin the town scummies for blow. Awesome gratuitous nudity. Those were some of the hottest scenes in the movie. On top of the movie that seemed like a total acid trip. What more could you ask for out of the movie. The guy who plays Lauras dad is totally freaked out even to this day. Back woods banging you have it all. That movie over time has gotten way to much negative press. See you in heaven Laura

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Jumped when it focused on James Hurley, but the last episode was by all no means the STRANGEST thing ever shown on television. It is still weird as hell when seen today....