Is it just a satire of soap opera? People call it a suburban horror series, and maybe suburbia is horrifyingly sentimental

>>213815260 (OP)
It's surrealism using the framework of a soap opera.

>>213815260 (OP)
But it's a small town not a suburb.

>>213815260 (OP)
It is lynch

It's about how TV is bad and exploitative

>>213815260 (OP)
It's just a thing. You don't need to label it.

>>213815484
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburban_Gothic

>satire
why do pseuds need everything to be something more than it is? everything has to be some kind of meta commentary or deconstruction. No, it's a genuine soap opera. It's a slightly weird, schmaltzy soap opera. It's corny, and badly acted, and melodramatic, and everything a soap opera should be.

>>213815260 (OP)
>Is it just
No

>>213815260 (OP)
Twin Peaks is very fragmented and fractured because there were a lot of people working on it with competing visions, from pure commercialists like Bob Iger to midwit writers like Frost and visionary artists like Lynch.

>>213815260 (OP)
season 1 is a murder mystery, season 2 is a soap opera, season 3 is paranormal horror/comedy

>>213815824
Why would they show sections of fictional soap operas on tvs when Leo is shot?

>>213815961
Why don't you tell me what you think that means.

>>213815260 (OP)
It is a soap opera to a degree, fairly sure Lynch touched on this in one of his more recent talks about the show. The second season really fell into it hard though, think that was more to do with Frost & network pressures.

>>213815976
It’s obvious by the tension in the plot that they contrast two things. On one hand, it compares the harsh reality of a criminal underbelly with the stylised portrayal of violence in television. Secondly, it encodes and decodes American culture with schmaltz and surrealism. As Leo is shot, he watches a television screen flicker with a soap opera where a badass type character is in a shootout. David Lynch is commenting on how television does not necessarily create violence but creates false impressions of violence as heroism or as innately American. Leo’s shooting is gory, leads him into a coma, and is preceded by an insane ax attack against Bobby that is fruitless (the motivation of which centres around an affair between Bobby and Shelley—common to soap opera feuds). The sentimentality of a soap opera is gone; instead, we see the full force of American violence which is not stylised but horrifying. Leo is a violent rapist turned into a vegetable; Bobby finds Shelley in a hospital, suffering from the fires set by domestic abuse.

>>213815961
Frost's idea, peak of his intellectual abstraction.

>>213816084
>The sentimentality of a soap opera is gone; instead, we see the full force of American violence which is not stylised but horrifying.

>>213815824
>badly acted
Da fuck??

>>213815824
The general telling his son about the dream he had was one of the most heartfelt scenes ever in tv history.

>>213815260 (OP)
It was an abstract confession from lynch about murdering a blonde woman in the 70s. All his movies are

>>213816599
His friend Peter Ivers in the unusually warm March of 1983.

>>213815460
Fippy bippy

>>213816599
Does Lynch even do abstract art?

>>213815260 (OP)
>suburban horror series
That's a really dumb description. It doesn't take place in the suburbs and it doesn't really feel like a horror series until the final few episodes

>>213816567
I forgot about how formative this scene was on my life

>>213815260 (OP)
>Suburbia
A small town in the Pacific Northwest is suburbia?