'Don't turn away from love, Sailor.'

[smokingboot]

Another genuinely useful lesson from his movies: things don't make sense just because you want them to, and that includes yourself. Many film makers could lead me into a different far away reality, but David Lynch showed me how a different reality was never far away at all. It lay less than a couple of centimetres under this one. 'Normal' was a paint job.

I never watched Twin Peaks, because even at the start it felt like a shaggy dog story. Wish I'd kept that instinct for Game of Thrones!

RIP David Lynch, thank you for your gifts. You were magnificent.

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[jfs]

I loved Twin Peaks, because it was the first TV show I’d watched that was uncompromising in its strangeness - I didn’t need the story to make sense because it was, I felt, so true to its own vision. And it was mine - not something someone else had introduced me to. I felt much the same about Tori Amos’ music.

[smokingboot]

I think I am ready to try Twin Peaks now, having been reassured that it doesn't send the viewer down a sinkhole of never-to-be-answered questions.

[jfs]

I watched series 1 and 2 avidly, and S2 ends with a cliff hanger that is phenomenal. Which then went unanswered as the series died a death ….

…until 2017 - 25 years later. I haven’t watched s3 yet, but I’m told it’s brilliant and does wrap up most of the unanswered questions. I think I was put off by the 25 year gap and the thought that I should probably watch S1 and 2 again before attempting it.

[smokingboot]

You've sold me on this, especially with what you say about s3. I'm going to give it a go.

[jfs]

I would love to hear your impressions as you go - it’s a fantastically mythopoetic series.

[smokingboot]

Will do!