Oh man, if you've never seen the show, then do yourself a favor and make some room in your schedule.

Lynch himself only directs a few episodes, but for the majority of the series he and co-creator Mark Frost hand-picked the creative staff, so the vision remains true to Lynch and Frost's original. Up until about halfway through the second season, it's completely brilliant. Then, due to network pressure and such, Lynch and Frost lost quite a bit of creative control, and for about 7 or 8 episodes the show gets pretty silly and unfocused. The real tragedy is that it starts to get great again right at the end (Lynch and Frost began to regain control), but right then it's over since it was canceled.

As a whole, though, it's truly a groundbreaking work of art. It's completely genre-less; at times absolutely horrifying, sometimes hilarious, and always engrossing. Personally, one of my top 5 favorite TV shows.

Hm. Nothing that's terribly scary for me right now lol, but for really, REALLY disturbing fucked up shit then i guess for me: Visions of Suffering, Philosophy of a Knife, Nails, or Salo: the 120 Days of Sodom. Again not scary, but batt shit crazy mind-fuck movies lol.

ground breaking stuff - esp first season, then for me it got out of control and lost any sense

Santa Sangre, Repulsion and Mickey Rooney in the Manipulator.

Here is a crude graph of Twin Peaks' quality over time (in my opinion):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ue/tpgraph.jpg

You're being too kind.

It was good for 12 episodes. THEN Lynch made more... probably because he couldn't come up with a good enough ending fitting with his opium infumed mind. :rolleyes:

i gave up after the big dip - but before that my friends and i would religiously get together and watch it

The organ playing in Carnival of Souls. I never knew how deeply affected I was by creepy music played on the organ. It's subliminal. It gets under my skin and takes hours to work its way out.

And the doctor that practices as a psychologist on the weekends, that scared me. Especially the way he grabs her and won't let go, "You've had a fright."

And the early 1960's small town America frightened me, the landlady and her extra baths, the bar scene, the minister, especially because they had a big ass abandoned carnival out on the outskirts of town. I mean what were they thinking ... that town was not full of characters that liked to enjoy themselves.

very creepy

Even though the quality unarguably dips/drops (this was definitely due to network pressure and a loss of creative control by Lynch and Frost, and the people left in charge had no idea what to do with the show with it being such a unique vision) after the Laura Palmer saga, I still think the world of Twin Peaks that was originally created is so interesting and enamoring that, despite those 8 or so bad episodes, it's still one of my top 5 favorite shows ever (I can forgive the bad episodes). I really think the quality returns big-time during those last three episodes, when Lynch and Frost were making their way back into the picture. You can see the mess that was made of the show slowly being crafted into something great, but by then it was too late. I bet that if the show hadn't been canceled, the third season would have been awesome.