twin peaks

this is my attempt to stop posting in list format.

so twin peaks. (i'm actually not finished with all the episodes yet, eek.)

let's start with the title sequence: it's creepy. but i don't know why exactly. for one thing, it has almost nothing to do with the events of the show. [but maybe at the same time everything????] it's just this slow montage of random bits of scenery around twin peaks--a bird or two, the saw mill, etc. [maybe that's the point????] but not a shot of laura palmer; her homecoming picture usually shows in the end credits.

and of course the song--oh the song--so creepy. it's this slow, anticipatory instrumental weirdness that somehow both calms and excites me.

the whole show is kind of just one weirdo creep party. but it's also one of the best tv series of all time. so many things about it are so perfectly done. there are numerous characters, but i can keep up with all of them. the whole show's focus is laura palmer's death, but i never feel bored. i also never feel like i've found an answer. which is part of what keeps me going back. but i think also--i mean, look at that picture--it's a high school girl at homecoming. somehow the picture is average but personal. laura palmer becomes personal though (so far) the only shots of her are this, a short video of her dancing around, and her dead. it's a compelling picture.

and that's it right there. besides the awesome late eighties/early nineties style and the weird dark humor and the adorableness of dale cooper and his tibetan detective ways and my desire to be more like audrey horne and all the secrets of all the double lives in twin peaks [do you see that DOUBLE, TWIN? you see it right?]--besides all that, i keep watching twin peaks because of this picture.

so whoever had the idea to put a dead girl's homecoming photo at the end of each episode--good idea, you brilliant ol' creep.


[also that thing about wanting to be audrey horne is sooo not a joke.]