Because TV was just, like, so much better in the early nineties

I don't remember any specifics about Northern Exposure's first season, but I remember liking it more later on.

I'd go with My So-Called Life, although it's about twice the price of Twin Peaks. But so good!

It's not on Paramount any more either.

I somehow never saw Twin Peaks, but should. Is the pilot out on DVD?

You can follow the story without seeing the pilot, the pilot just introduces everyone more easily, and includes the actual discovery of the crime scene around which the first storyline is based. If you're going to watch the series, I'd definitely start with it if possible, but you can skip it if necessary (and, uh, if you do watch it, ignore the last few scenes. They don't actually happen.)

I heard that Region 2 has the second season of Twin Peaks, btw.

Skip the European ending! Geez. At least don't watch it until you've seen the rest of the series. It'll just confuse the hell out of you.

it MIGHT actually have been ITV2!

Granted, you can make a lot of the same complaints with Fire Walk With Me, which I more or less like, so maybe those aren't the best complaints.

and fwiw, I hated FWWM.

and fwiw, I hated FWWM.

See, see, here's where we come to a problem! :) Actually ... I have a love/hate relationship with it. I hate that it was made. I hate that Lynch, under the pressures of television making, pushed his usual "I don't care what the fans think" over the edge to "and I'm going to gleefully ignore anything they could possibly want." I honestly think that's what he did, and I think it was petty, and I think he knows it and has by and large avoided television as a result (and that it's a major factor in Frost refusing to work with him again). I hate that they did a prequel -- most of which is empty fill-in-the-blanks, the rest of which is asking-more-questions-than-it-answers -- instead of a sequel, especially after ending the series on a cliffhanger. If the X-Files had done that, there would have been riots.

I hate the fact that Lara Flynn Boyle dropped out because of the topless scene and then did a topless scene in her next movie (or the one after that, whichever the Baldwin one was).

But. I love that we see more of Laura than we had before, not despite the fact that she comes across as so shallow but because of it. I love every moment when Laura and Leland are on screen together. I love Bowie's brief, essentially meaningless appearance, and the fan speculation it's inspired. I love Chris Isaak's character, even if I think the opening scenes where we're shown just how much wherever-it-was is the Anti Twin Peaks go overboard.

And I wish I could remember my theory that explained how Fire Walk With Me actually took place after the series, but I can't.

Anyway, potentially long comment short: it was about Coop for me, too (and Audrey, as the series went on).

The Region 2 (UK) release of Twin Peaks includes the pilot as well as all seven episodes of the first season. The extras on the British release are identical to the US set, although we lose the DTS track. I believe the second season is coming out early next year.

WoUlD tHe MaStEr AgReE? (Yes, obv.)

I gotta get me one, but this DVD player's barely a year old as it is.

I downloaded the entire second season of twin peaks and have it over, like, six or seven discs. it has swedish subtitles but I do not care.

I have the same downloads, rjg. How I learned to say "Jag alskar dig."

(I have the boxed set of videos for TP, but they're very old and very well-watched.)

What about KEY WEST?

Thinking outside the box: The Day Today.

ben stiller show
SNL until 1994
duckman
gilbert gottfried's host segments on "USA Up All Night"

Northern Exposure, on the other hand, was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful series. Probably the best long-running TV show alongside The Simpsons. It did get somewhat worse after Rob Morrow left, but luckily it didn't continue for long after that. The Finnish TV had a rerun of Northern Exposure as well, but sadly that was on Friday evenings when people have better things to do than watch the telly, so I missed it.

not "only", actually; admittedly i've not seen much of twin peaks, but it think my so-called life's better.

If Lynch had had his way, though, the murder mystery would still be there ... it just wouldn't have ever been solved.

Now, if he'd done a lot more stuff like the last episode ... damn, that would have been nice. If only they could lose five episodes in the middle of season two and add an extra five to the end.

It's hard for me to decide, just cause it would've changed so much of the last bits of that arc and the final arc (notice me trying not to spoil :)). Mostly I'd worry that the series would've been cancelled with even less closure, is the thing. It might work now, though.

5.12.2003 STATE DVD IN THE WORKS!!
Finally, at long last, the members of The State are working in conjunction with MTV Home Video to make the ultimate, REAL, DVD collection of The State. We going back to the original master tapes and loading it with great extras too, including commentary, interviews, unaired material, etc. Save your money! Stop buying bootlegs! We don't know when exactly this new DVD will be released, but the second we do it will be posted here, and on the stellacomedy.com mailing list.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAAHHAno

-- Tep

Now there's a thought. Toby to thread.

(The thread title was always meant to read in a Claire Danes style voice over)

You may not be surprised to learn that I have the MSCL box set.