Rating: 
Summary: 2 stars only because this is Twin Peaks
Review: I can tell you right now that if this set included all 29 (?) episodes along with the pilot, I would give it a 6. But what are they trying to pull here? Do your research, get the rights, and make this a set worth owning - for under $300. It would have sold like mad. All this does is twart other TP productions by showing bad profit to other companies who may have been interested in producing something TP or Lynch related. If you buy this, you are a fool. My advice: buy the VHS set, wait a year or two til you've got yourself a DVD burner, and convert them yourself. Concidering how long it took them to put out this subpar set, you have nothing to lose. You'll have the set on DVD sooner than 2020 and, burner included, it will cost you less. It may even be better quality and on fewer discs. I don't know what I was expecting here. Wait, yes, I do. I was expecting this. I was hoping for a lot more.
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Summary: Where's the pilot?
Review: This collection does not come with the 2 hr first episode? That's ridiculous.
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Summary: Television for Film Geeks (But Where's the Pilot?)
Review: Ever since David Lynch and Mark Frost (the oft-forgotten co-creator) introduced "Twin Peaks" in the spring of 1990, television programmers have striven to duplicate its idiosyncratic qualities, but with little success. Confining the series to one particular genre is impossible: it is part murder mystery, part comedy, part supernatural horror...a flurry of hyphens are needed to accurately classify this television masterpiece. Lynch expands upon his idea of a small American town seething with dark secrets--a central theme found in his 1986 film, Blue Velvet; Frost uses his previous TV experience on "Hill Street Blues" to create a concrete blueprint from which Lynch can unleash his cache of eccentric townspeople. Laura Palmer's death has an unsettling effect on the good people of Twin Peaks and the outrageous plot twists used during the murder investigation keep viewers guessing and compelled to keep watching further episodes. This boxed set collects the first seven episodes--minus the two-hour pilot--which comprise the first season. Laura's murder isn't solved at the conclusion of the first season (much to the chagrine of the casual viewer in 1990), so viewers interested in the labyrinthine mystery will have to wait for the second season boxed set (The second season slowly, intricately solves Laura's murder, falters and sputters for several episodes and finally gets back on track with the Agent Cooper/Windom Earle "chess match."). I sincerely plead to whomever owns the rights to the pilot that they release it on DVD soon (and keep the "European ending" on a deleted scenes menu). Inspiring a succession of eccentric, if somewhat more mundane, dramas ("Picket Fences," "The X-Files," "American Gothic" etc.), "Twin Peaks" is long overdue to be preserved on the DVD medium.
Rating: 
Summary: No pilot
Review: Rights or no rights, this set will fall far far short of five stars without the superb pilot. Someone needs to get some lawyers in action or the "Twin Peaks" set will be decidedly "in"complete. And, no, an eight-year-old VHS tape of the European theatrical release bought off ebay for fify dollars just won't cut it.
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Summary: About bloody time!!
Review: I have recently been re-watching TP on nearly worn out tapes from my local video store, delighting in all the details that had slipped from my mind over the years. Where is creativity like this in TV today? Where is there a show that takes artistic risks and leaps and isn't afraid to depart from reality in ways that may look foolish to those who aren't paying attention? Who will ever forget Josie's appearance in the doorknob or Leland Palmer's rendition of Surrey With the Fringe on Top?It's said that truth is stranger than fiction--well, I'm undecided as to whether truth is stranger than Twin Peaks, but I do know I am thrilled that they have finally put part of it on DVD. It's on the top of my Christmas list (if I can wait that long!)...
Rating: 
Summary: Come ON!!
Review: Oh my god, This is like buying the Star Wars trilogy that doesnt come with Star Wars! Jeez, and the pilot was the best one of all of them. Warner Brothers needs to get their heads out of their rear-ends and do something about this. (And of course, the series rocks.) But the pilot not being in there with it totally brings down the stars to near nothing. Sorry, I think I will buy it when its actually all there guys.
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Summary: Great series, but release the box set, already!
Review: Full of secrets and mysteries for the viewer to explore, Twin Peaks endures. The show lasted only two seasons, yet over a decade later remains the top-selling boxed video set on Yahoo!'s charts time and time again, which is unquestionably a testament to the powerful writing and imagery. I truly can't begin to do it justice. I can only respect and admire the brilliance of David Lynch and Mark Frost in this collaborative effort. It is richer than the American classic To Kill a Mockingbird. The original perspective on the heart of darkness lurking in a pristine small town may almost be as groundbreaking as Faulkner's unusual technique in The Sound and the Fury. There are layers upon layers of symbolism in the series, and yet it manages high art without falling into pretentiousness for almost the whole series. It is good-humored and friendly: we grow to care for the quirky personalities of the town's characters and the town itself. This makes the balance of dream and waking, dark and light, yin and yang, fire and wood all the more personal. I recommend watching the series prior to viewing the movie Fire Walk With Me. As for the DVDs, I am excited about finally seeing the show clearly, in sharp contrast to the VHS box set - the decision to put approximately five episodes on each tape meant that the transfer was done at the lower quality Extended Play resolution, and they looked very grainy, indeed. However, in light of the fact that the VHS box set continues to sell well as of this writing, I wish they would just go ahead and make a box set, complete with features, interviews, high-quality sound and other extras. I don't want to buy 1-7, then wait for the rest. I want them all at once, perfect and permanent. I'd almost rather wait a few extra months to have them all at once, rather than seeing them sell a few here, a few there. I'm a huge fan, and have even done a Twin Peaks panel at a convention, so I strongly feel that the series and FWWM DVDs need to be immaculate. It has proven itself as a lasting classic, and deserves the full treatment. Despite that technical drawback, I'm thrilled that the series will finally be available on DVD. Either way you view it, the content is well worth it for those who are willing to peek into the subconscious without unraveling all the packaging and thus, all the mystery. The mystery has value in and of itself.
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Summary: Damn, that's good coffee!
Review: The best show that ever has and ever will be on television!
Great music, great characters, and beautifully photographed. Death to James, though. The beauty pagant and Nadine's return to high school were definitely Jump the Shark moments. That said, I am in agreement with the previous posters that it is about time that this nevertheless brilliant show is on DVD. I don't even have a DVD player yet and I ordered it! I still have all my tapes from when I recorded it a decade ago but they are starting to fade and the commercials are aggravating (though the news briefs of the escalation to Desert Storm are somewhat interesting. Oops, tangent.) Is the pilot truly on this collection? At the time of posting the Amazon page is lacking information, though officially the pilot episode is known as The Pilot, with the next episode known as Episode One, etc... In various research I read that Artisan does not have the rights to the pilot; except for that weird European one that has an "ending." (In case the network never picked it up.) And that the network pilot belongs to Warner Bros.and that only if this makes money will they release it. More a rant than a review except to say I must love it cause I want the rest on DVD! C'mon everyone; buy it! Buy it right now. You will not be disappointed.
If only HBO was doing weekly series in 1990!
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Summary: Splurt... Oh my god.
Review: Finally, I got the email notification today that I could pre-order this. And while I knew it was coming, I became flushed with excitement of having these (1-7) on dvd. I wore out my taped vhs from bravo, I wore out my box set. I need these on dvd. And now I have the opportunity. Just keep 'em coming. The prisoner shouldn't be the only great show to get the all inclusive dvd boxed set treatment. This is a great day.
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Summary: Pilot not in this collection...
Review: I just wanted to point out that the pilot will NOT be in this collection. It is just the episodes 1-7 from the first season. There is a rights issue from what I understand over the pilot (I believe Warner Brothers owns it). I am still very excited to be getting this though. I hear that there will be commentary on the non-David Lynch directed episodes (he doesn't believe in it).
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