Twin Peaks The Definitive Gold Box Edition (1991-2007)

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Twin Peaks is a truly unique series, and one with a noteworthy rise and fall. It began as a huge, pop culture defining hit, that struck the zeitgeist hard, only to lose much of its audience and be off the air within 14 months of its debut. But before it was over, it had solidified its place as one of the most interesting and influential programs in television history. The show began with a seemingly basic murder mystery – in the small town of Twin Peaks, beloved high school student/homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is found murdered. The murder brings in FBI agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan), and both Cooper and the town quickly are revealed to be anything but ordinary.

IMDB Rating: 9.0/10

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Created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, Twin Peaks was a rather stunning inclusion into the tableau of 1990 American television. Coming as no surprise for nearly anything from Lynch, there was some very strange stuff going on here. This was a town (and a show) where you might find an animal head sitting on a table; where the local psychiatrist (Russ Tamblyn) is a seemingly whacked out ex-hippie, who wears a pair of glasses with one blue frame and one red frame; where a deputy (Harry Goaz) in the local sheriff's department might break down sobbing at a crime scene. And as for Laura? This was a girl with quite a few surprising sequences – her hidden cocaine use was just the tip of the iceberg.

MacLachlan was terrific as Cooper, blending an all-American, friendly demeanor with the character's own bizarre methods and mannerisms, including an oft referenced near obsession with "a damn fine cup of coffee" and cherry pie. Surrounding him was a very skilled and well cast group of actors, including Michael Ontkean ("Sherriff Harry S. Truman"), Sherilyn Fenn ("Audrey Horne"), Ray Wise ("Leland Palmer"), Peggy Lipton ("Norma Jennings"), Lara Flynn Boyle ("Donna Hayward"), Richard Beymer ("Benjamin Horne"), Dana Ashbrook ("Bobby Briggs"), Madchen Amick ("Shelley Johnson"), and many, many more.

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The "Who Killed Laura Palmer?" central mystery was an especially involving and fascinating central mystery for a show that was essentially a very odd version of a soap opera, with a huge amount of intertwining characters and storylines involving everything from the battle over the local mill to high school love triangles to additional local crimes. When you hear David Lynch is making a television soap opera, you know you're going to get something different, but who could have imagined it would be as compelling as Twin Peaks?

What stands out about the show today is what a wonderful and powerful atmosphere Lynch and Frost created. The show mixed suspense, humor, surrealistic material, a feeling of '50s retro, and sometimes pure horror, into something that felt like nothing on television. There are a lot of shows with great writing, but few that can convey a mood in the way movies can. Twin Peaks didn't feel like television at all – it gripped the audience in its strange but highly detailed and oddly endearing world from the second it began.

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Unfortunately the show suffered a lot of bumps in the second season. The biggest problem was that by its nature the show begged for a conclusion to the Laura Palmer mystery, and while it can be debated whether or not they could have prolonged solving it, that mystery was wrapped up by the halfway point of Season 2. The big problem with that, of course, is answering the question "What now?"

Without that gripping central conceit, the show began to falter. The drama surrounding the characters was lessoned, and Cooper's reason for remaining in the town was now more contrived – onscreen acknowledgement that his extended stay there was unusual didn't make it less hard to buy. Meanwhile, where nearly every plotline in Season 1 was at least somewhat intriguing, Season 2 went into some pretty murky and less than enthralling places with several of the characters. Was there anyone who cared about James' (James Marshall) involvement with a mysterious older woman?

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Some audience members also seemed to have their patience tested with the show going into an increasingly more direct supernatural place, as things went from weird to otherworldly. However, the last few episodes of the season really seemed to get things back on track, as the inclusion of a new love interest for Cooper (a young Heather Graham as "Annie Blackburn") and an old ally turned nemesis (Kenneth Walsh as "Windom Earle") set up some cool and creepy new plotlines, leading into the off-the-wall but fascinating series finale, and all the never to be resolved cliffhangers it left us with.

This DVD set is an important one, as it features every episode of the show collected together for the first time, most notably the pilot. Sold overseas as a standalone movie with a specially filmed conclusion, the rights to the pilot were licensed separately from the other episodes, an issue that confounded fans for years and years. This lead to the maddening release of the complete series on VHS in the '90s and the initial Season 1 release on DVD without the pivotal (and justifiably acclaimed) pilot that set the entire story up. In fact, the originally aired U.S. version of the pilot has never been available in any home video format in America until now. Likely involving some complicated legal wrangling, Paramount has managed to finally put everything Twin Peaks (well, prequel feature film Fire Walk With Me aside) under one distributor, and they've done right by fans by including both the American and overseas versions of the pilot on this set.

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Watching all of Twin Peaks now, yes, it's still disappointing to see the lack of focus a good chunk of Season 2 had. But it seems a minor quibble when compared to how utterly original and clever the show was and how entertaining so much of it is. It opened the door for so many offbeat and non-traditional series that would follow – X-Files, Buffy, Desperate Housewives, Lost and so many others at least partially can trace their roots to the show – that it's impossible to imagine what modern television would be like without it.

The Video
Twin Peaks is presented in a non-anamorphic full screen (1.33:1) aspect ratio, as it originally aired. It's hard to believe, but it's the better part of 20 years since this show debuted and you wouldn't know that watching the DVDs. The picture is very clean and the colors strong.

It should be noted that the one big exception are the optional Log Lady introductions to the epsiodes, which were first made for Bravo's repeats of Twin Peaks in the mid-'90s. Seemingly taken off of old video masters, they look very poor and faded.

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The Audio
Twin Peaks features a Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound track, along with an English, German, Spanish, Italian 2.0 tracks. The English-language 5.1 mix is very good with the show's quirky dialogue clear and distinct. Angel Baldalmenti's contribution to the series was crucial, and his score is given a very solid presentation.

Extras and Packaging
The whole "Gold Box" labeling comes complete with, shockingly, a gold box. It's a bit odd for this particularly series, whose usual imagery was the green of the spooky Twin Peaks woods. Couldn't they at least have made it the Red Room edition, to use a color connected to the series? Inside the box are 12 Twin Peaks postcards – a cool little inclusion.

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The 10-disc set features the following extras:

Deleted Scenes
Production Documents
A Slice of Lynch
Secrets From Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks
Saturday Night Live
Twin Peaks Festival
The Black Lodge Archive

FULL DVD Content

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TWIN PEAKS The Definitive Gold Box Edition is a 10-disc collection presented in full screen with English 5.1 Stereo Surround and English 2.0 Stereo. The DVD is Not Rated in the U.S. and rated 14A in Canada. The total running time is 25 hours, 1 minute. The DVD disc breakdown is as follows:

Disc One:
Pilot

Special Features: Log Lady Intro For Pilot International Version With Alternate Ending

Disc Two:
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4

Special Features:
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc Three:
Episode 5
Episode 6
Episode 7

Special Features:
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc Four:
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10

Special Features:
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc Five:
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Episode 14

Special Features:
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc Six:
Episode 15
Episode 16
Episode 17
Episode 18

Special Features:
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc Seven:
Episode 19
Episode 20
Episode 21
Episode 22

Special Features:
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc Eight:
Episode 23
Episode 24
Episode 25
Episode 26

Special Features:
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode

Disc Nine:
Episode 27
Episode 28
Episode 29

Special Features:
Log Lady Intros For Each Episode Deleted Scenes (4 scenes) Production Documents

Disc Ten:

Special Features:

A Slice of Lynch
Northwest Passage: Creating The Pilot
Freshly Squeezed: Creating Season 1
Where We're From: Creating The Music
Into The Night: Creating Season 2
Saturday Night Live Featuring Kyle MacLachlan (Monologue and Twin Peaks Sketch)
Return To Twin Peaks
Interactive Map (8 Pods)
"Falling" Music Video
Georgia Coffee Commercials (5 Spots)
Image Galleries
The Richard Beymer Gallery
Unit Photography
Twin Peaks Trading Cards
TV spots
Premiere Spots (8 Spots)
There's No Place Like Home Spot
1-900 Promo Ad
T-Shirt Ad
Holiday Greeting
Patriot Greeting

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The highlight here is "Secrets From Another Place," which runs around 90 minutes and is the main "making of" style documentary on the set. It's split into four sections focusing on: the pilot; Season 1; Season 2; and Badalamenti's iconic score for the series. A large number of important participants from the show are interviewed, including Frost, MacLachlan, and numerous other cast and crew members. It's a nicely done documentary, with interesting and candid comments from those interviewed – everything from Catherine Coulson ("The Log Lady") remarking on the oddity of seeing a Muppet made up like her character on Sesame Street to Kimmy Robertson ("Lucy Moran") saying she felt Season 2 "sucked."

One notable exclusion from "Secrets From Another Place" is Lynch. That isn't too shocking, however, considering how notoriously gun shy the filmmaker is when it comes to doing DVD interviews and commentary. But his absence from the main documentary is more than made up for by "A Slice of Lynch," in which Lynch sits down with MacLachlan, Madchen Amick and longtime collaborator John Wentworth to discuss memories of how the show came about and each came to join Twin Peaks.

The Saturday Night Life section of the disc consists of the Twin Peaks inspired monologue and a parody sketch of the show that were part of the MacLachlan hosted episode of the NBC series. It's a very fun inclusion and nice to see Paramount went through the trouble of getting access to the clips from NBC to use.

The Twin Peaks Festival is a look at an annual fan gathering in Snoqualmie, Washington, where the pilot to the series was shot. There is a 20-minute featurette focusing on the 2006 festival and what events it consisted of, including a Q&A with cast members. There is also an Interactive Map of Twin Peaks/Snoqualmie, showing where several important locations from the series really are and what they look like now.

The Black Lodge Archive is a collection of promotional clips and footage related to the series from its heyday. Besides old ABC commercials promoting the series, there's also everything from holiday greeting bumpers to commercials and audio material from a 1-900 Twin Peaks hotline created during the show's run to give out clues to devoted fans willing to pay a few bucks for a few additional breadcrumbs. There is also an image gallery from the series that not only has production stills and photos taken by Richard Beymer, but also the back and front of every single Twin Peaks trading card, from a 1991 collection. Easily the most bizarre and funniest thing included here are the Georgia Coffee commercials. With Twin Peaks popular in Japan, Georgia Coffee – a canned drink put out by Coca-Cola in Japan – created a series of commercials featuring cast members from Twin Peaks, including MacLachlan, reprising their characters, trying to help a Japanese man find his missing wife… while making sure to talk about how great Georgia Coffee was, of course.

The deleted scenes are a fairly minimal bunch, while the Production Documents consist of a random assemblage of script pages, production notes and other material that is more for the hard core fan.

All in all this is a very nice collection of extras that does a solid job of honoring this memorable and important series. The only notable complaint is that there were a lot of extras created for the previous Season 1 and Season 2 sets not included here. With Season 1 it's more understandable – that set was put out years ago by another distributor, before Paramount got the rights, and it would likely be very difficult if not impossible to gain access to that material. It's a shame though, since that set had commentaries by various directors and crew members for all of the Season 1 episodes (minus the then missing pilot), which now are lost to those who don't have the old Season 1 set.

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Far more questionable is that the Gold Box doesn't include the extras created for the Season 2 set that was released earlier this year. That set was not only also put out by Paramount, but had interview footage clearly taken from the same interviews done for this set. However, none of the individual interviews put on that set are on the series set, leaving out plenty of good stories, as much shorter sound bites are used for the "Secrets From Another Place" documentary. Not only that, but some of the interviewees from the Season 2 set were completely left out of this set, including Dana Ashbrook, Marshall and David Duchovny (who proceeded his role as Fox Mulder role with that of a cross dressing FBI agent on Twin Peaks).

What this means is if you're a true Twin Peaks completist – and this is the kind of show that has plenty of fans of that type – you'll need to have both the Season 2 and Gold Box sets to get all of the interviews produced by Paramount, which is completely unnecessary considering they put both sets out within a few months of one another. Many fans knew a series set was likely coming soon and held off getting the Season 2 set for that reason. This seems like a calculated move to try to get a select portion of those fans to perhaps now reconsider and go back and buy the Season 2 set. It's hardly an uncommon move these days with DVDs, but never seems like fair play.

A truly important piece of television history, Twin Peaks is well worth adding to any collection. The collection of extras are only slightly marred by previously released material not being included, but otherwise this is a proper tribute to a show worth the praise it continues to achieve.

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..:: Italian Synopsis ::..

La mattina del 24 febbraio 1990, nell'apparentemente tranquilla cittadina di Twin Peaks, nello Stato di Washington, Pete Martell scopre sulla riva del lago il cadavere di una ragazza nuda avvolta in un telo. Lo sceriffo Harry S. Truman, i suoi uomini e il dott. William Hayward, accertano che la ragazza morta è Laura Palmer, una delle ragazze più popolari del liceo cittadino. La notizia si sparge tra gli abitanti della piccola città, causando incredulità e dolore.

Nel frattempo, lungo i binari della ferrovia, Ronette Pulaski viene trovata mentre vaga in stato confusionale. Dopo questo fatto l'agente speciale FBI Dale Cooper è chiamato ad investigare. L'esame da parte di Cooper del corpo di Laura rivela la presenza di una piccola lettera R inserita sotto un'unghia della mano. Egli riconosce in essa il biglietto da visita dell'assassino che aveva già ucciso una ragazza, Theresa Banks, un anno prima in una città a sud-est dello Stato.

Cooper scopre ben presto che Laura era ben lontana dall'angelo del focolare che tutti credevano di conoscere. Si viene a sapere che Laura tradiva il suo fidanzato Bobby Briggs con l'ombroso motociclista James Hurley, fatto noto alla migliore amica della ragazza, Donna Hayward. Cooper inoltre trova tracce di cocaina nel diario di Laura, segno di una tossicodipendenza nascosta. Intanto, Donna e James iniziano ad indagare per conto proprio sulla morte di Laura, ritrovandosi coinvolti in una passionale vicenda sentimentale.

Intanto giunge in città Maddy Ferguson, cugina di Laura, per partecipare alle esequie. Maddy, incredibilmente somigliante alla cugina, diventa amica di Donna e James, e li aiuta attivamente nelle indagini, anche interpretando Laura per ingannare il dottor Lawrence Jacoby, psicoanalista della defunta.

Durante le sue indagini, Cooper alloggia al Great Northern Hotel, di proprietà della famiglia Horne. La focosa figlia degli Horne, Audrey, si invaghisce di lui. Cooper inizialmente sembra ricambiarla, ma più avanti respingerà le sue avance, motivando che la ragazza è ancora una liceale, peraltro coinvolta nel caso di sua competenza. Con l'aiuto di Audrey, Cooper segue le tracce del traffico di cocaina di Laura, che lo conducono fino ad una casa di tolleranza, l'One Eyed Jacks, nel quale Audrey s'introdurrà per aiutare Cooper. Si scopre che Laura vi aveva persino lavorato come prostituta.

..:: German Synopsis ::..

Leitthema der Serie ist die Aufklärung des Mordes an Laura Palmer, geführt durch den FBI-Agenten Dale Cooper (gespielt von Kyle MacLachlan). Im Zuge der Ermittlungen kommen die Abgründe des idyllisch scheinenden Kleinstadtlebens zum Vorschein.

Die Reihe galt als gleichermaßen innovativ und erfolgreich. Die Macher verstanden es, Plots US-amerikanischer Kriminalserien mit ironisch-überhöhten Stilmitteln der Seifenoper zu mischen und außerdem zahlreiche surreale Elemente einzuweben. Trotz dieses kantigen Genre-Mixes wurde die Serie (deren einzelne Folgen keine Episodentitel hatten) zunächst ein ungeahnt großer Erfolg, auch in kommerzieller Hinsicht, und erreichte schnell Kultstatus.

Nach diesem anfänglichen Hoch wurden Mark Frost und David Lynch jedoch vom Sender ABC dazu gedrängt, dem ungehaltenen Publikum im Verlauf der zweiten Staffel einen Mörder zu präsentieren. Frost und Lynch hatten vor, den Mörder nie zu entlarven. Nach der Enthüllung verlor die Serie mehr und mehr Zuschauer. Dieser Eingriff des Senders änderte das Skript und den geplanten Serienverlauf massiv. Dies schlug sich hauptsächlich in dramaturgischen Aspekten nieder, so dass auch der am weiteren Verlauf der Serie interessierte Publikumskern durch die Anhäufung von Mystery-Aspekten und eines dem bisherigen Serienverlauf nicht entsprechenden Tiefegrades des Stoffes überfordert wurde. Der teils für die dritte Staffel vorgesehene Stoff musste – soweit vorhanden – von Mark Frost in das Skript der zweiten Staffel eingearbeitet werden, da die Produktion am Ende der zweiten Staffel eingestellt wurde. Mark Frost arbeitete seine jahrelange, aber zuletzt durch die Einstellung der Serie gehemmte Beschäftigung mit dem Twin-Peaks-Stoff in seinem Buch Sieben auf.

Der große Erfolg in Deutschland blieb vielleicht nicht zuletzt deshalb aus, weil RTL plus die Serie freitags um 21:15 Uhr ausstrahlte, eine Zeit mit traditionell geringen Quoten bei der Hauptzielgruppe der Serie. Zusätzlich verriet der Konkurrenzsender Sat.1 den Namen von Laura Palmers Mörder auf der Startseite (100) seines Videotext-Angebots. RTL plus zeigte die Serie nicht komplett, die letzten Folgen wurden in Deutschland von Tele 5 nachgereicht. Trotzdem konnte die Ausstrahlung der Serie in Deutschland einen gewissen Beitrag zu deren Entwicklung leisten, denn bei der Wiederholung von Twin Peaks im US-Kabelfernsehen übernahm man die deutschen Episodentitel und übersetzte sie ins Englische.

..:: Spanish Synopsis ::..

Twin Peaks cuenta la historia del Agente Especial del FBI Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) y su investigación del asesinato de una chica local muy popular, Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). También muestra la vida social en un pueblo de los Estados Unidos.
La primera temporada de Twin Peaks comenzó a emitirse el 8 de abril de 1990 y contó con un total de 8 episodios. La acogida de esta primera temporada fue un éxito estrepitoso e inesperado para la cadena ABC, derivando en la Twinpeaksmanía y la consiguiente espera de millones de fans de una segunda temporada. El episodio piloto comienza con el descubrimiento de un cuerpo envuelto en plástico que pertenece a la popular estudiante de secundaria Laura Palmer,8 algo que conmueve a todos los habitantes de la pequeña ciudad de Twin Peaks (Washington). Para investigar el caso el FBI envía al excéntrico agente Dale Cooper para que ayude a las autoridades de la ciudad, entre las que se encuentra el Sheriff Harry S. Truman. A medida que el agente Cooper se va estableciendo en la ciudad, va conociendo a los distintos habitantes que le muestran extrañas y extravagantes pruebas relacionadas con el caso. Conforme avanza la serie, la apariencia normal de la pequeña ciudad de Twin Peaks comienza a esfumarse, revelando varios secretos que muestran los aspectos más perturbados de la ciudad.

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