christ, been a while. Time to get back on the blogging bike! To anyone unfamiliar with david lynch, he's a very strange man who creates very strange films that are always just unbelievably good. His debut, eraserhead, released in 1977, got a huge cult following and even saw the guillemots perform the soundtrack to the film live while it shone out above them on a huge screen at Latitude (i stupidly wasn't there).
Anyway, Lynches most famous output into the world of viewing is probably twin peaks: he early 90s television series that was so, so ahead of its time.
Set in the innocent and exempt-from-modern-times town of twin peaks (no shit), twin peaks follows the investigation made by Special agent Dale Cooper (Total sick guy) of Teenage high school queen Laura palmers murder. Safe to say its not straightforward, theres always about a million really interesting sub-plots, every character is brilliant and has an influence upon everything, and it runs so much deeper than just a 'television drama'.
Twin peaks ran for 2 series', 22 episodes in all, with a film-length pilot episode. It starts off relatively simple: just a body wrapped in plastic washed up on a lake of a lumberjack town. After that, it spins madly out of control and plunges deeper and deeper into the realms of things such as the evil in people(KILLER BOB), American-indian spirituality (the owls), the corruption of innocent people met with evil (can't say gives it away) and about a hundred other genuinely profound and intersting themes which you wouldn't get in say, the hills.
The best thing about twin peaks is how differently it can be interpreted. Lynch has expertly made the series so that the supernatural events, people and places can either be taken literally, or as metaphors for greater things such as evil, purity, and afterlife or limbo (i.e killer BOB, laura, and the red room), and still remain as brilliant viewing either way.
Also, audrey horne is a total babe.
To anyone unfamiliar with this viewing gold, get familiar with it. now.
