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While there are many great shows out there, only a few of them have a perfect beginning—the kind that draws you in immediately and leaves you wanting more. In 25YL's new Perfect Pilots series, we will be looking at pilot episodes we think are flawless. For our inaugural post of the series, J.C. Hotchkiss looks …
“We are like flies crawling across the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel: we cannot see what angels and gods lie underneath the threshold of our perceptions. We do not live in reality: we live in our paradigms, our habituated perceptions, our illusions; the illusions we share through culture we call reality, but the true historical …
The following is a guest post from Tim Fuglei. Stephen King once described the act of writing as telepathy; across time and space, the writer plants thoughts into readers and an unbreakable connection of minds is formed forever. From a cinematic standpoint, David Lynch holds dreams in similar esteem. His dreams become ours as we …
Continue reading "Requiem For a Dreamer: Was Part 18 really the end of Twin Peaks?"
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. -William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (1959) Even though the strangest Twin Peaks characters are from the mind of David Lynch, he isn’t their only creator. The singular author myth is dead, …
As part of our month of celebrating Twin Peaks this February, I caught up with Scott Ryan, Managing Editor of The Blue Rose Magazine, the only in print magazine dedicated to Twin Peaks and the work of its creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost. LS: The Blue Rose had a pretty great 2018, what were …
Continue reading "The Blue Rose Magazine: The Task Force Needs You…To Renew!"
In the original seasons of Twin Peaks and Fire Walk With Me, there were two states of reality in play: the material world and Lodgespace. But as Season 3 proceeded, it became clear where once there were dualities there are now instinctively three available choices, as best explained by Brien Allen in Themes of Three …
Continue reading "Twin Peaks: Navigating between two worlds (Part 2 of 5) – Electricity Nexus #22B"
If you feel like the central trauma of Twin Peaks (the murder of Laura Palmer) shouldn’t/can’t be undone, this theory is for you. No matter how many Season 3 moments involve turning away from or covering over this fundamental trauma, reality cannot be expunged just because of persistent disinformation. What’s my alternative explanation to the original …
Continue reading "Twin Peaks: Navigating between two worlds (Part 1 of 5) – Electricity Nexus #22A"
It has been a fantastic year of television so the 25YL staff are going to have to make some tough decisions this award season! On the panel we have: Laura Stewart, Matt Armitage, JC Hotchkiss, Martin Hearn, Brien Sponaugle, Paul Billington and Caemeron Crain. So let's see what their choices are... Favorite New Show of …
Welcome all! So it's not quite over yet but 2018 is almost at an end. All of us here at 25YL would like to thank all our readers for all the support you have given us over the last 20 months. As we move closer to our second birthday, we're planning some big changes! So …
Mark Frost’s sole outing as a film director is this 1992 New Orleans-set steamy melodrama, stuffed with as much classic deep south intrigue and faded bayou grandeur as he could lay his hands on, overlaid with a smattering of early ‘90s New Orleans seediness and neon-tinged erotica. 1992 is a pretty long time ago now, …