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I don't h8 the 90's anymore (Part 4.5).
(Regular-ass TV part 2)
Previously-
Krazy For Decades 2: Wasted! Youth! (THE END!!)
Twin Peaks (1990-1991, 2017)
My brief snotty comment on the show coming back here.
My bitchy review of "Fire Walk With Me", that makes me want to punch my past self in the face.
My larger review of the career of David Lynch, who I liked even then, and always liked, but with still a bitchy swipe at "Twin Peaks".
So, I've seen it all now, in the proper order.
That order being, the original show, "Fire Walk With Me", then the new ones.
I loved it.
I loved the shit out of it.
I don't know what the fuck was wrong with me.
I really don't.
Well, I'm cured now.
This is Lynch's masterpiece.
Don't know how or why I couldn't see it.
Maybe I'll attempt X-Files again sometime.
There's a lot of that to chew through though....
Anyhoo, I discuss TP more in depth in comments with Billdude here, and here.
Anything I wanted to say in a long rambling review, I said there.
And Billdude said it even better.
I'll retro-link this into "I don't h8 the 90's anymore".
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I think the pilot is Lynch's masterpiece but I'm not sure about the whole show of course...man, episodes 17-28 are really getting in the way for me! I'm rewatching the old show again now, and then I'm going to rewatch season 3.
The new series aired 25 years after FWWM, so the "25 years later" rule in the Red Room could apply. What I want to know is what all Lynch kept on the plate between 1992 and 2017. What was on the backburner, what stayed in his mind, etc.
X-Files? I still have to do "The Event Series" and any new stuff.
If you're going to rewatch it, I...am not recommending the last three seasons. Most people pick the 9th or 8th as the worst but I say the 7th was actually the worst of all. Just look at some of these flops:
"First Person Shooter," a godawful not-funny parody of video games and virtual reality and guys slobbering over hot women
"Fight Club," a dire piece of dreck starring Kathy Griffin playing two people and...I don't think I could accurately summarize on paper what this "funny" shit was about
"The Sixth Extinction," some two-part mytharc crap about spaceships in Africa and such that marks the point for me where the mytharc was officially not interesting anymore.
"Millennium," a crossover with the Chris Carter/Lance Henriksen series airing at the time that probably still has meaning for about 100 people in the world, tops--it made NO sense to me, whatsoever.
"Sein Un Zeit/Closure," the two-part episode that FINALLY revealed what happened, really, to Mulder's sister...and, I don't think I could pass a multiple-choice test on what actually happened, although I guess the episode wasn't really unwatchable per se
"X-Cops," a Vince Gilligan-penned parody of COPS that most fans think is brilliant. WELL IT ISN'T. (Gilligan's actual high point was "Paper Hearts," a season 4 episode about a serial killer and Mulder looking for his sister.)
As for seasons 6, 8 and 9, 6 was the last one where the show approached consistency, but its most lauded episode, the Vince Gilligan-penned, Bryan Cranston-starring "Drive," wasn't as good as you've been told. 8 and 9, starring Annabeth Gish and Robert Patrick in Duchovny's place, are....just bland, a show on life support. The public wasn't biting either. Uh, you get to see Aaron Paul show up I guess. But he's not anything great in his episode!
In fact, if I were rewatching the whole run myself I might also skip both movies; the first one, for all the hype it got 20 years ago, barely actually added anything to the mytharc (which was on its way out after the fifth season anyway) and the second one, supposed to be a stand-alone, was just plain freakin' dull crap!!!
Rewatching stuff that one didn't get, but that the public seems to love, has been my policy for a long time....so pat yourself on the back, not punch yourself in the face, for "Twin Peaks"...in fact, you like it more than I do, technically!
Oh PS looking back over your original comment trashing FWWM, that's not far off from what some of the critics who hated it, said themselves: "no more Laura Palmer!!! We're sick of her!!"
I think I also failed to mention that FWWM lacking Kyle MacLachlan was also something people hated about it in 1992.
Sorry I didn't answer this.
I had nothing more to add to the Twin Peaks conversation, and I know zero about X-Files (yet).
Whelp X-Files original run was 200 episodes so I guess that will take you....what, a month? Watch out for the bad ones, that's all I can say...
BBC America just got the rights to X-Files, and is gonna have a marathon!
That saves me some work.
Oh! Holy shit! All the seasons including the new ones are in the free On-Demand archives!
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