On 2010-02-20 Andy. Gillum, indian mound, tn wrote: A week & a half ago, I decided to rent Twin Peaks for the first time & became instantly enthralled by the quirky characters, the foreboding atmoshere and, oh yeah, the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer. My reaction wasn´t unlike most; I thought Season One was one of the most surreal tv experiences I´ve ever had and again, like most, I thought Season Two was good but could tell the wheels were starting to come off the cart. Before watching Season Two however, I decided to read the reveiws on Netflix regarding Fire Walk With Me, wanting to know why it had such a low rating & whether or not I need watch it. Of course, I learned the secret of who killed Laura before I wanted to but the answer didn´t really surprise me for several reasons regarding his behavior during the show.
Needless to say, I finished Season Two & decided to give this a try regardless of what I´d read. Unfortunately, I wish I could say I was pleasantly surprised. FWWM didn´t really shed light on anything the show hadn´t already divulged. I thought the weirdness that was sprinkled throughout the show was way too amped up here & got in the way of the storytelling. That alone was FWWM´s undoing. Like other´s have said, we really don´t get to know Laura at all here other than a crying, sexed-up, drug addict which was a shame because Sheryl Lee had charisma enough for ten actress´.
And while some have said the violence & sex was pushed too far, I didn´t think it went far enough. I´ve seen more graphic sex scences on late night Cinemax. I also didn´t like was the handling of Laura´s unstanding of Bob/Leland. He had been screwing her for 3 or 4 years & she didn´t know it was Leland until the day before he killed her? Really? I liked the idea the show gave us better, that Laura knew her father was molesting her but that there was another entity at work.
I wish Twin Peaks could be remade today as a FX or HBO series. Maybe they could recapture what worked the first time & avoid the traps that crippled it prematurely the second time. It´d be nice to see someone try.. And summed up by saying Doesn´t really work. Currently Twin Peaks - Fire Walk with Me has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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David Lynch claimed Shows the week preceding and leading up to the death of Laura Palmer in the small town of Twin Peaks.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 26-FEB-2002Media Type: DVD
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