David Lynch’s Twin Peaks and the birth of two genres, at least

In an era where TV rarely ventured beyond the dreaded “To be be continued…” ending, Mr. Lynch and Mr. Frost placed a bet that people wanted more, that the mystery was important for the sake of the mystery, that not everything needed to be explained, and that sometimes things are better without an ending.  In… Continue reading David Lynch’s Twin Peaks and the birth of two genres, at least

David Lynch and a life lived outside the frame

Mr. Lynch was a director’s director, an artist who operated well outside the mainstream, sometimes far outside of it, but whose appeal occasionally crossed over in both classic films such as The Elephant Man and the birth of prestige TV with Twin Peaks.  David Lynch as had a career perhaps as strange as the film’s… Continue reading David Lynch and a life lived outside the frame

David Lynch: Peak TV should be paying the surrealist director royalties

Twin Peaks continues to influence almost everything on television more than 30 years later, from the technical to the creative, from Riverdale to Billions. How did a relatively obscure director, known for making almost incomprehensible films, come to dominate popular culture so thoroughly without the average person even knowing his name?  In the Golden Era… Continue reading David Lynch: Peak TV should be paying the surrealist director royalties