::READERS REVIEWS::

Excellent Collection!!! - This collection is one of the best I've ever had. Not only has all the episodes of Twin Peaks in excellent conditions, the extras have spanish subtitles too. I recommend it for Twin Peaks fans and fans of the television in general.

One of televisions best shows... - Twin peaks truly was a excellent show that burned brightly for a short time then fizzled out as quickly as it came. The main reason was network pressure for Lynch and Frost to solve the Laura Palmer case before it's time (which may have never even been meant to be solved). The mystery of who killed Laura was meant to be a driving force in the shows for years and years but when they were forced to solve it midway through the second season it destroyed one of the things that made the show so compelling. After that, the twin peaks plane didn't just crash and burn but burst into flames in mid air. It really is remarkable to see how the quality that made the show so great suddenly vanished almost immediately after the murder was solved. Sure the show was still decent but never near close to it's glory days.

I'd say that the first 16 episodes of the series were masterpieces of not only storytelling but cinematography. Beautiful shots, vibrant colors (which are so rich due to the digital remastering) and that amazing twin peaks music to back it all up really make this series a pleasure to watch. Each episode (especially the first seven) are like a quality film unto their own. If you have never seen this show, you really owe it to yourself to check it out. I remember seeing it as a young child and watched it again for the first time in almost 20 years last winter and was utterly blown away by what a great show this is.

The special features on this box set are amazing too. The SNL skit is so funny and it has a nice 2-hr film on the making of the series that any fan will love. A Slice of David Lynch is also really great to watch and really shows what a cool guy David Lynch really is; he seems non at all "pretentious" as it might seem for some of the oddness of his work and is a really funny guy too.

Beautiful remastering - The only thing preventing this from 5 stars is that for some reason the log lady intros are not remastered. Everything else is remastered but the log lady intros remind me of worn down VHS tapes.

Twin Peaks - This is an all-in-one collection of one of the best "dark" television series. I was more than pleased with this item. I had seen either season one or season two but I didn't want to buy them seperately. This is the one set to buy. David Lynch fans will love it. I am a very satisfied customer. This is an excellent series for a "marathon".

Truly IS a gold box set - This version of the series on DVD is truly awesome. For the first time, the pilot episode is included, and it's so great to have the ENTIRE series in one set. The perfect gift for any true TP fan, and a great gift for anyone you want to introduce the series to.

Excellent set for groundbreaking TV - I finally saw this after hearing years of bad press. Don't believe it. This is an exceptional journey into the weird via pure Americana. While the series conclusion is open-ended, I found it satisfying in keeping with the horror genre. Very much worth your time.

Just a timeless dark yet hopeful "mini series" if you will... - I am not sure how I actually missed seeing this series in the 90's, but I did. The pilot and the first season are brilliant. The second season is great up until the murder is solved, then it just gets stupid for many reasons that they explain in the bonus commentaries in this DVD set.

Regardless, the first season and the beginning of the 2nd are phenomenal, this became a personal favorite instantly for me.

Just As I Hoped - This was a present that I had promised myself for quite some time and it exceeded my expectations.
As a real fan of Twin Peaks and all things from David Lynch, I was frustrated when the program originally aired since the network kept changing its play dates and times continuously, hence it was almost impossible to follow the story line(s).
This set of DVDs brought everything into focus - finally!!

A dumping ground for all of Lynch's worst ideas. - When Twin Peaks sticks to its core story -- an investigation into a serial killer from the Northwest -- it is often a pretty fascinating and well-written successor tp Blue Velvet. But that's not really what Twin Peaks is all about; the show is 90% filler, consisting of lame soap opera subplots, godawful melodrama, and wink-wink nudge-nudge cleverness that seems more cloying now than ever before. Lynch pulls out all of the stops when it comes to cornball chic, syrupy emotion; one minute expecting us to take the whole story seriously and the next lampooning the very conceit of the premise. The show definitely reached its sell-by date just after the first hour of the second season and it was all downhill from there.

start very well, then ......... - the series start very well, with a lot of good actors and actrees but then in the middle of the series all went confuse, with a lot of nowhere dialogs, much time waste in seing people doing nothing but waste your time watching them.
but the very best is the chapter 29, my wife and I waste a month watching the series and in the chapter 29 the final is NOTHING, the bad spirit posses the cop, but what happen to the other people? wich is the origen of the evil?
if you have time and money to waste then buy the series otherwise do not lose your time. do something else.
thank very much.
raul rodriguez
MEXICO

Thoughts on Season 2 - David H.'s review (points up), entitled, "For those below complaining...", sums things up in a pretty clear and comprehensive way, so I'm just here to hopefully explode the popular myth that Season 2 is basically a stinker. Because it is not.

TWIN PEAKS ran for 30 episodes (including the pilot), and the quality of the show began to slide precipitously downhill almost exactly halfway through, after some major mysteries were revealed. But it should be remembered that Season 1 only contained 8 episodes, so the downhill slide actually begins well into Season 2.

I also want to emphasize that even at its worst, there are NO episodes of TP which warrant skipping, and this is because the problem is not so much with individual episodes as it was with the proliferation of increasingly pointless and irritiating plot-threads running through most of the later shows.

But fear not - there is a viable solution. I realized that you can in fact fast-forward through these meaningless and moronic sub-plots (you'll know them when you see them), without missing ANYTHING that is even remotely important to the over-arching story. Meaning you can - and should! - excise entire plot-threads as you go along, although you will probably only be able to accomplish this after you've watched the entire series at least once. But trust me when I say this works like a charm.

And I can't emphasize this last point strongly enough - the final episode is without a doubt the high point of the series, and is also one of David Lynch's all-time crowning acheivements as a director. His belated return to the helm completely makes up for the how scattered things had gotten while he was away, as he boldly discarded the script he was given and set out to realize his own intensely unique, troubling, and surreal vision to close out the series. Fans of Lynch's later works (FIRE WALK WITH ME, LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DR., INLAND EMPIRE) will especially appreciate this final installment.

OK, that's it - (thumbs up)

Thoughts on Season 2 - David H.'s review (points up), entitled, "For those below complaining...", sums things up in a pretty clear and comprehensive way, so I'm just here to hopefully explode the popular myth that Season 2 is basically a stinker. Because it is not.

TWIN PEAKS ran for 30 episodes (including the pilot), and the quality of the show began to drop almost exactly halfway through, after some major mysteries were revealed. But it should be remembered that Season 1 only contained 8 episodes, so the downhill slide actually begins well into Season 2.

I also want to emphasize that even at its worst, there are NO episodes of TP which warrant skipping, and this is because the problem is not so much with individual episodes as it was with the proliferation of increasingly pointless and irritiating plot-threads running through most of the later shows.

But fear not - there is a viable solution. I realized that you can in fact fast-forward through these meaningless and moronic sub-plots (you'll know them when you see them), without missing ANYTHING that is even remotely important to the over-arching story. Meaning you can - and should! - excise entire plot-threads as you go along, although you will probably only be able to accomplish this after you've watched the entire series at least once. But trust me when I say this works like a charm.

And I can't emphasize this last point strongly enough - the final episode is without a doubt the high point of the series, and is also one of David Lynch's all-time crowning acheivements as a director. He managed to completely make up for how scattered things had become in his absence by boldly discarding the prepared script in order to realize his own unique, troubling, and surreal vision. And thank goodness he did, because it makes plowing through some of the duller moments in Season 2 worth every second! Fans of Lynch's later works (FIRE WALK WITH ME, LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DR., INLAND EMPIRE) will especially appreciate this mind-twisting final installment.

OK, that's it - (thumbs up)

Thoughts on Season 2 - David H.'s review (points up), entitled, "For those below complaining...", sums things up in a pretty clear and comprehensive way, so I'm just here to hopefully explode the popular myth that Season 2 is basically a stinker. Because it is not.

TWIN PEAKS ran for 30 episodes (including the pilot), and the quality of the show began to drop almost exactly halfway through, after some major mysteries were revealed. But it should be remembered that Season 1 only contained 8 episodes, so the downhill slide actually begins well into Season 2.

I also want to emphasize that even at its worst, there are NO episodes of TP which warrant skipping, and this is because the problem is not so much with individual episodes as it was with the proliferation of increasingly pointless and irritiating plot-threads running through most of the later shows.

But fear not - there is a viable solution. I realized that you can in fact fast-forward through these meaningless and moronic sub-plots (you'll know them when you see them - trust me), without missing ANYTHING that is even remotely important to the over-arching story. Meaning you can - and should, imho - excise entire plot-threads as you go along, although you will probably only be able to accomplish this after you've seen the entire series at least once. But believe me when I say this works like a charm.

And I can't emphasize this last point strongly enough - the final episode is without a doubt the high point of the series, and is also one of David Lynch's all-time crowning acheivements as a director. He somehow managed to completely make up for how scattered things had become in his absence by boldly discarding the prepared script in order to realize his own strange vision. And thank goodness he did, because it makes plowing through some of the duller moments in Season 2 worth every second. Fans of Lynch's later works (FIRE WALK WITH ME, LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DR., INLAND EMPIRE) will especially appreciate this mind-bender of a finale.

OK, so that's it - (thumbs up)

Dancing Dwarves from Other Worlds who Speak Riddles in your Dreams (Thoughts on Season 2) - Did that title grab your attention? Good.

David H.'s review (points up), entitled, "For those below complaining...", sums things up in a pretty clear and comprehensive way, so I'm just here to hopefully explode the popular myth that Season 2 is a stinker...because it is anything but.

TWIN PEAKS ran for 30 episodes (including the pilot), and the quality of the show did take a drop about halfway through, after some major plotlines were resolved and core mysteries revealed. But it should be remembered that Season 1 only contained 8 episodes, so the downhill slide actually began well into Season 2. The first seven or eight installments of the second season actually rank among my favorites of the entire series.

I also want to emphasize that even at its worst, there are NO episodes of TP which warrant skipping, and this is because the problem is not so much with individual episodes as it was with the proliferation of increasingly pointless and irritiating plot-threads running through most of the later shows.

But fear not - there is a solution. I realized that you can in fact fast-forward through these meaningless and moronic sub-plots (you'll know them when you see them - trust me), without missing ANYTHING that is even remotely important to the over-arching story. Meaning you can - and should, imho - excise entire plot-threads as you go along, although you will probably only be able to accomplish this after you've seen the entire series at least once. But believe me when I say this works like a charm.

And I can't emphasize this final point strongly enough - the climactic episode is without a doubt the high point of the series, not to mention one of David Lynch's all-time crowning acheivements as a director. He somehow managed to completely make up for how scattered and inane things had become in his absence by boldly discarding the prepared script in order to realize his own vision. And thank the gods of the White Lodge he did so, because it makes plowing through some of the duller moments in Season 2 worth every second. Fans of Lynch's later works (FIRE WALK WITH ME, LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DR., INLAND EMPIRE) will especially appreciate this mind-bender of a finale.

And I should probably apoligize for this review not having more to do with the titular dancing dwarves from other worlds who speaks riddles in your dreams, but I just don't know what to say about these creepy little guys (there are two of them). All I can say is thank goodness for subtitles.

OK, so that's it - enjoy the series and remember to give yourself one gift every day. (thumbs up)

Twin Peaks rocks! - I had always loved this show and was very pleased when they released this complete set a few years ago. Anyone who enjoys shows like LOST will certainly enjoy this show.

A Must-See for Lynch Fans - For fans of David Lynch, this series is absolutely essential. If you haven't already seen it, prepare to spend all your free time watching it. I would watch up to five episodes a day (I'm not necessarily proud of it). Twin Peaks mixes David Lynch's surreal vision with a dynamic cast of characters. I quickly became addicted to this show and deeply invested in the characters. Now that I've finished the series I've been experiencing withdrawals, but now that I own the series, I can relive the whole thing.

Dancing Dwarves from Other Worlds who Speak Riddles in your Dreams (Thoughts on Season 2) - OK, first: David H.'s review (points up), entitled, "For those below complaining...", sums things up in a pretty clear and comprehensive way, so I'm just here to hopefully explode the popular myth that Season 2 is a stinker...because it is anything but.

TWIN PEAKS ran for 30 episodes (including the pilot), and the quality of the show did take a drop about halfway through, after some major plotlines were resolved and core mysteries revealed. But it should be remembered that Season 1 only contained 8 episodes, so the downhill slide actually began well into Season 2. The first seven or eight installments of the second season actually rank among my favorites of the entire series.

I also want to emphasize that even at its worst, there are NO episodes of TP which warrant skipping, and this is because the problem is not so much with individual episodes as it was with the proliferation of increasingly pointless and irritiating plot-threads running through most of the later shows.

But fear not - there is a solution. I realized that you can in fact fast-forward through these meaningless and moronic sub-plots (you'll know them when you see them - trust me), without missing ANYTHING that is even remotely important to the over-arching story. Meaning you can - and should, imho - excise entire plot-threads as you go along, although you will probably only be able to accomplish this after you've seen the entire series at least once. But believe me when I say this works like a charm.

And I can't emphasize this final point strongly enough - the climactic episode is without a doubt the high point of the series, not to mention one of David Lynch's all-time crowning acheivements as a director. He somehow managed to completely make up for how scattered and inane things had become in his absence by boldly discarding the prepared script in order to realize his own vision. And thank the gods of the White Lodge he did so, because it makes plowing through some of the duller moments in Season 2 worth every second. Fans of Lynch's later works (FIRE WALK WITH ME, LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DR., INLAND EMPIRE) will especially appreciate this mind-bender of a finale.

And I should probably apoligize for this review not having more to do with the titular dancing dwarves from other worlds who speaks riddles in your dreams, but I just don't know what to say about these creepy little guys (there are two of them). All I can say is thank goodness for subtitles.

OK, so that's it - enjoy the series and remember to give yourself one gift every day. (thumbs up)

Dancing Doppelganger-Dwarves from Other Worlds who Speak Riddles in your Dreams (Thoughts on Season 2) - OK, first: David H.'s review (points up), entitled, "For those below complaining...", sums things up in a pretty clear and comprehensive way, so I'm just here to hopefully explode the popular myth that Season 2 is a total bust. Because it is anything but.

TWIN PEAKS ran for 30 episodes (including the pilot), and the quality of the show did take a drop about halfway through, after some major plotlines were resolved and core mysteries revealed. But it should be remembered that Season 1 only contained 8 episodes, so the downhill slide actually began well into Season 2. The first seven or eight installments of the second season actually rank among my favorites of the entire series.

I also want to emphasize that even at its worst, there are NO episodes of TP which warrant skipping, and this is because the problem is not so much with individual episodes as it was with the proliferation of increasingly pointless and irritiating plot-threads running through most of the later shows.

But fear not - there is a solution. I realized that you can in fact fast-forward through these meaningless and moronic sub-plots (you'll know them when you see them - trust me), without missing ANYTHING that is even remotely important to the over-arching story. Meaning you can - and should, imho - excise entire plot-threads as you go along, although you will probably only be able to accomplish this after you've seen the entire series at least once. But believe me when I say this works like a charm.

And I can't emphasize this final point strongly enough - the climactic episode is without a doubt the high point of the series, not to mention one of David Lynch's all-time crowning acheivements as a director. He somehow managed to completely make up for how scattered and inane things had become in his absence by boldly discarding the prepared script in order to realize his own vision. And thank the gods of the White Lodge he did so, because it makes plowing through some of the duller moments in Season 2 worth every second. Fans of Lynch's later works (FIRE WALK WITH ME, LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DR., INLAND EMPIRE) will especially appreciate this mind-bender of a finale.

And I should probably apoligize for this review not having more to do with the titular dancing dwarves from other worlds who speaks riddles in your dreams, but I just don't know what to say about these creepy little guys (there are two of them - doubles). All I can say is thank goodness for subtitles.

OK, so that's it - enjoy the series and remember to give yourself one gift every day. (thumbs up)