Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13877 in DVD
• Brand: Paramount
• Released on: 2007-04-03
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: Afrikaans, English, Icelandic, Norwegian
• Number of discs: 6
• Dimensions: .75 pounds
• Running time: 1081 minutes

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Twin Peaks was created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The show was set in the fictional town of Twin Peaks in northeast Washington state and tells the story of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper and his investigation of the murder of a popular local teenage schoolgirl, Laura Palmer.

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"Don't search for all the answers at once," says a giant appearing to FBI Agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) in a vision. "A path is formed by laying one stone at a time." In Twin Peaks, that's easier said than done. Over the course of two seasons, that path went nowhere and everywhere. "Bureau guidelines, deductive technique, Tibetan method, and luck" don't cut it here. It also takes a little magic, which is what makes David Lynch and Mark Frost's bracingly original serial drama one of TV's ultimate trips, and still the stuff that fever dreams are made of. With the DVD release of season 2, die-hard Peakers can rekindle their obsession with this macabre, maddening, sinister, and surreal series set in the rural Pacific Northwest community whose bucolic surroundings hide "things dark and heinous." (If you're new to Twin Peaks, best to get the lay of the land by watching the brilliant feature-length pilot and the instant-cult-classic first season, which capture Twin at its peak. Neither is widely available on DVD, however.) Three main mysteries drive season 2. First, there's the still (!) unresolved murder of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). Then, there's the question of who shot Cooper in the season 1 cliffhanger. And finally, ultimately: What about Bob? With its dream logic, bizarre behavior, and nightmare imagery, much of what transpires goes right by you. Some subplots (Sherilyn Fenn's sexpot Audrey held captive at the bordello, One-Eyed Jacks) are easier to latch on to than others (amnesiac Nadine believes she's an 18-year-old high schooler) And, yes, that's a pre-X-Files David Duchovny as Dennis/Denice, a transsexual DEA agent.

In Twin Peaks' second season, the truth is out there, but we are entering A Few Good Men territory. When Laura's killer is at last revealed in episode 16, no doubt many will not be able to handle the truth. The teases, red herrings, and out-and-out gonzo looniness will try the patience of viewers with a more conventional bent. But, as Cooper observes at one point, "All in all, [it's] a very interesting experience," with enough doppelgangers, allusions, pop-culture references, and in-jokes to keep bloggers buzzing. If, for example, you get any pleasure from recognizing Hank Worden, who played Mose in The Searchers, as "the world's most decrepit room service waiter," then Twin Peaks may just make you feel right at home. --Donald Liebenson

Beyond Twin Peaks

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The Soundtrack

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Customer Reviews

It is happening...again...
Thank you AMAZON for brightening the beginning of my New Year with this good news. Twin Peaks fans REJOICE!!! Now we can see: "The Pine Weasel Riot", "Josie's Wooden Handle Face", "Cooper's Toothpaste", "Windom Earl's Marksmanship" & "Gordon Cole's Counter-Esperanto" in crisp clean clarity! Like a fine wine, the 2nd season gets better with age, and Peaks fans feel like they've waited 2 lifetimes for it.

Peaks fans, Happy New Year! Peaks-newbies...what are you waiting for?!? Watch the PILOT first and then spend the next few weeks/months glued to the show & cursing it for haunting your dreams and causing you to day dream uncontrollably.

HOT D*MN THAT PIE'S GOOD!!!

Mysteries are solved
"Twin Peaks" was the ultimate cult TV show -- suspenseful, complex, wittily written and with hidden layers that casual channel-flippers might not catch.

And while the long-awaited second season is not quite the brilliant experience that the first was, it's still an astoundingly good and convoluted piece of storytelling. With more episodes to fill out, David Lynch continued his exploration of small-town America -- too bad it didn't last more than this second season.

As the second season opens, there is major unrest for the inhabitants of Twin Peaks -- and a badly-injured Cooper (Kyle McLachlan) has a vision that may have something to do with Laura Palmer's death. But the murder investigation is only getting more bizarre, as Cooper learns of Laura's diary -- and discovers a bizarre twist in an already-bizarre murder investigation.

The mystery is solved mid-season, and the foreshadowing reveals who it is (or rather, who it SEEMS to be). But that's not the only plotline in the second season -- Lynch bestows a psychopathic ex-Fed, parasitic demons, a disastrous beauty pageant, strange caves, and a twin pair of "Lodges" that seem to exist outside space and time... which Cooper's murderous ex-partner is searching for.

The second season of "Twin Peaks" is, admittedly, not quite as good as the first season. The first season was tight as a drum, while the second has some storylines that run away from the writers. But even mediocre "Twin Peaks" is simply brilliant and bizarrely entertaining.

In fact, this season gets even weirder than the first. Lynch's quirkiness grows into total weirdness, full of symbolism, surreality and dirty little secrets right up the end. The series is sprinkled with what seems to be random weirdness, but as the complicated storylines wind on, the true meaning of them becomes clear. Now THAT is great writing.

And Lynch and Co. maintained the strangeness, and actually increased. The second season relies heavily on mysticism and the supernatural, like that whole Black-White Lodge clash, and all the storylines circling around it. Just look at that soul-in-the-wooden-knob story. And Lynch's warped sense of humor is still in place ("I haven't felt this excited since I punctured Caroline's aorta!").

Perhaps the biggest problem is the ending. ABC canned the series before Lynch could wrap up the various plotlines, so it ends with a lot of cliffhangers and no resolution. Be prepared to yell, "What next? What next?"

Coop grows even more likable in this season, as he comes face-to-face with some of the nastier aspects of Twin Peaks -- not to mention his own past. He even gets a motivating love interest. Other characters (such as the Log Lady) get more attention as well, but Coop's personal journey is perhaps the most intriguing.

A series like "Twin Peaks" only comes along once in.... well, decades. It's influenced other weird series ("Wonderfalls," "Lost," "The X-Files"), but the original is the best -- a stunning, creepy, bizarre headtrip. Must-have!

Second Season is finally on DVD in the US!
At last one of my favorite shows gets a good release on DVD! I can finally ditch my bad LP VHS tapes of the series. The only bad thing about this set is with the first season and pilot long out of print it will be hard for new fans to pick this one up. TWIN PEAKS is a series you should watch as a whole, and it would be disaster to walk in right in the middle of the Laura Palmer mystery. But if you own or are familiar with the first season this one's a must buy. Halfway through the season the killer is unmasked, and then the show adds in a struggle with Windom Earle, Cooper's ex-partner.

This DVD set comes as a cardboard sleeve holding three slim line cases each with two discs in it. You get episodes 8-29 of the show spread out over six discs. Each individual disc has one bonus interview with a director of the series (Caleb Deschanel, Tim Hunter, etc) and also an interview with Lynch's daughter, Jennifer Lynch, who wrote the book version of THE DIARY OF LAURA PALMER. On the final disc is an interview grid which features a large number of the cast members talking about their experiences - most recognizable would be Kyle MacLachlan and David Duchovny.

The transfers are awesome. Sound and image are unbeatable, and the show looks and sounds better than it ever has. The set won't match up well with those who have the Artisan First Season release, but having the whole series is more important than packaging.

Rumor has it Paramount may release a more deluxe edution with the piot, season one, and season two all on one megaset. That should be coming within the next year, so some people may want to hold off investing too much in gathering this one, season one, and the pilot.