Twin Peaks - Complete Season 1 [DVD]

Just as weird and wonderful as I remember it from 30 + years ago and still in love with Agent Cooper.

Twin Peaks is a pioneer show that is utterly timeless, I am watching for the first time in 2025

Well, I'm hooked all over again. David Lynch really struck a nerve in this memorable TV series with little more to go on that the body of young woman washed up on a lakeshore. The death of Laura Palmer was shaping up to be one of the great unsolved mysteries of television, but unlike The Fugitive, which this show was very loosely based on, Lynch and Frost were rushed to come up with a conclusion to the mystery in the second season. Too bad, because once the murder was solved, the show lost all its fire and was scrapped shortly after. Lynch followed it up with a less than memorable movie, Firewalk with Me, and since then Twin Peaks was pretty much relegated to the dust bin of television history. A show often imitated, but never since matched in originality and wit.Here we get the great pilot, one of the best TV movies ever made, and the 7 episodes that followed in the all too short first season. Lynch beautifully builds a world around Laura Palmer in the way a necrophiliac might do. The characters seem fairly normal on the surface, but soon we see the various dark sides. Although not as dark as Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart (this is television after all), it no less offers a very eerie look at small town America. What makes the show work is that despite all its surrealism, it is at heart a very real drama told in much the same way one would a soap opera. Watch closely those little snippets of the soap opera that recur through the episodes, as it is composed of various cast members. One of the many tricks and hidden references that Lynch employed to make this series viewable over and over again.Add to that a great cast, including resurrected 70's TV stars like Michael Ontkean (The Rookies) and Peggy Lipton (The Mod Squad). However, it is Kyle MacLachlan who turns in the most inspired performance as Special Agent Cooper. It is really too bad this show was rushed to a conclusion, but then one wonders if David Lynch and Mark Frost would have had the staying power for one or two more seasons. This was a very difficult show to pull off, as it relied heavily on hooks and surreal situations to carry the action. Nevertheless, it is so much fun to watch.Now for the second season, my coffee is growing cold.

Everyone knows already. This is a masterpiece of television that might never be surpassed. Nothing before or since has the atmosphere that David Lynch captured here.

I didn’t dislike anything. The direction of the series, the plot and storyline, characters and development was superb. Mind-blowing, absolutely excellent art! It was honestly the best series I have ever seen. I highly recommend it!

This was my first delve into Twin Peaks and I loved it. The show is strange, a bit odd, funny and great escapism. Nothing really needs to be said about the show as it all has been said before suffice it to say I very much enjoyed it.What I didn't like especially was the menu navigation on disks 2 and 3. It looks great but I was unable to differentiate between the chapter options as the hight lighting was a bit limited for me and I kept ending up in the wrong sub menu

If you have never seen Twin Peaks, buy it.If you have seen it and are thinking of buying it to watch it again, buy it. It first went out in the UK in 91 I think. It blew us all away. I had seen Blue Velvet and Eraserhead by that time, but nothing like this. It hasn't " dated" because it already was. The predominant knitwear fashions which could have trapped it in it's era were even then fairly strange. The eerie 50's inspired sound of the thing also sets it outside it's decade.It operates on such a multitude of levels it is impossible to say what it is actually about. The frame of the plot is the investigation of the murder of a seemingly innocent schoolgirl, but nothing is what it appears in this glorious riot of the bizarre.Sherylin Fenn doing her dreamy solo dances in the first episode set the tone of the piece; it's a strange, sexy, forbidden world beneath those designer sweaters, there's something here that is unhealthy but compelling.This is the kingdom of David Lynch where decadence and corruption lurks behind the white picket fences and whiter smiles of small town America. It is preposterous, unbelieveable nonsense with some of the ropiest OTT acting you will ever see. It's OK to laugh, because that's part of it, part of what he does. He subverts small town suburban values and subverts the soap-opera format at the same time.We've got Dynasty and Peyton Place in here along with Nancy Drew and every detective show ever made all being sent up with a flawless straight face.If you are looking for 6 or 7 hours of luscious silliness then Season One delivers.

Damn fine watchin’