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Summary: excellent
Review: order came quickly and was in perfect conditon.
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Summary: Amazing Transfer
Review: Like many of you, I own the VHS boxset. The SLP quality left me wanting more. The DVD has an unbelievable transfer... better than most movies! If it is quality you are concerned with, than fear not.The special features are great too. Select episodes have commentaries and there are a few making-of tidbits as well. There is, one catch to consider before purchase. Only the first season is available right now. Artisan currently has NO plans to release the 2nd or 3rd season in America. The pilot (import DVD) is not the European version and the transfer is lacking.
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Summary: Extraordinary show! A must buy!
Review: This DVD of the first season is exceptional. Sometimes it takes watching these episodes more than one time to really let all of David Lynch's details and exceptional writing sink in. That is why it is necessary to buy the DVD set. Twin Peaks was one of the best shows on television and nothing has come close to it since. Kyle Maclachlan's acting is the best I have ever seen from him. The only thing missing is the pilot episode. You can buy that separately and that is an important episode to watch, seeing that is where everything begins. My only question is....WHERE IS THE SECOND SEASON???!!!!?1? We have been waiting forever for that to be released. What is the hold up?
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Summary: Why, Oh why Isn't Season 2 on DVD????
Review: How is it that some of the worst Television series have made it onto DVD, and the beautiful, dark, sublime TP has not followed?
Shame on you!
I bought the whole series on vhs in the early 90's. and after watching the first season on dvd, realized the incredible beauty of David Lynch's eye that i missed the first time...why should i be forced to watch this great epic on VHS? The 2nd season is even greater than the first....shame on you to deny us the DVD version of this great, epic, 2nd season!!
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Summary: Artisan - WAKE UP AND TAKE NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I have literally just finished watching this box set, and all the magic i remember of seeing it for the first time came flooding back in waves, but now in better picture quality and digital sound. It really is compulsive viewing, so much so, that instead of watching an episode a night, i watched them in two days, gasping for more, after the cliffhanger ending!
So not wanting to wait for it to be released in the UK, i thought they are bound to have the next box set out in the US. But no, whats this ive been reading, ARTISAN are dropping it. I feel like most fans out there, really angry and bloody annoyed, we have waited so long for this programme( judging by the standard of this box set, it was well worth it though )to be released, when other less worthy material gets onto the market. I realise that it costs to remaster, and perhaps profits are not quite as you hoped. So here`s a thought, no-one will bother with the videos, they are such poor quality, but what about releasing the whole series ( or even just follow on from this set ) on just a plain transfer from the original, as i recall, it was produced in Dolby Surround, ok its not 5.1 or DTS but beggars cant be choosers, dont you understand we just want to see the complete set, not just cruelly whet our appetites, and leave us in despair!! Do the right thing for your buying public, give us what we want, even on this Amazon page it should be clear to you, nearly 300 reviews ?? A bit of a clue, just maybe ?
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Summary: I gufi non sono quello che sembrano
Review: Questo cofanetto dell'inarrivabile Prima stagione di Twin Peaks è assolutamente fantastico.
Per una volta noi europei siamo più fortunati degli statunitensi: il box distribuito nel nostro continente racchiude cinque DVD, compreso il mitico episodio pilota diretto da Lynch, che invece è assente nel cofanetto USA. La qualità tecnica generale è eccellente, sia video sia audio.
Sulla qualità artistica c'è poco da dire, Twin Peaks è la serie Tv che ha elevato, sovvertendolo, il livello dei serial-TV. Ahimè, è rimasto un caso isolato: nessun altro sceneggiatore, regista o produttore ha mai osato avventurarsi sui misteriosi ed ingarbugliati terreni dipanati, con somma maestria, da Lynch, Frost & C.
Twin Peaks è un capolavoro assoluto, un'opera geniale e profondissima che non finisce mai di stupire. Vedendolo e rivedendolo, ogni volta si acquisiscono nuovi e impensabili indizi che ci spingono nel cuore nero della vicenda. L'assassinio di Laura Palmer è solo il pretesto per intraprendere un cammino iniziatico che ci porterà a sfidare spiriti oscuri e morbosi che serpeggiano tra i boschi e tra gli uomini, anch'essi agitati come fronde dal vento gelido e dolente del Male. Nonostante tutto, Lynch riesce a far brillare la stella della speranza anche in un luogo ambiguo e minaccioso come Twin Peaks, dove, per antonomasia, nessuno è innocente.
Un grande cofanetto che raggiungerà la perfezione quando sarà completato dalla pubblicazione della Seconda serie. Spero vivamente che ciò avvenga prestissimo.
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Summary: Season II pretty please!
Review: Loved it...great set. But it's just not right without the second season!
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Summary: absolutely fantastic RELEASE SEASON 2 SOON!!??
Review: superb acting, superb casting, wicked scenes, dialogs, everything. Throws all other series ever produced back to the stone ages. Lynch is a master in dynamics-in-stillness, where lesser minds don't even get to the point of realizing that there is no way of making any kind of dynamic scenery without a definite stillness or eternity in it, acting as a qualitative filter throughout the dynamics.
The power lies in the perfect unfolding of the scenes. It is as if it is always been there, as it should be
RELEASE SEASON 2 SOON PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Remains one of the truly splendid moments in TV history
Review: I have to echo the other reviewers who lament the absence of the pilot in this box set. And I agree that the extras are disappointing, and that it is unfortunate that they have not yet managed to bring out the second season. I persist in giving the box five stars simply because this series signaled the possibility of a new age of American television. Although there had been some spectacularly innovative and ambitious shows undertaken in Great Britain, such as THE PRISONER and THE SINGING DETECTIVE, American television had undertaken nothing so original and experimental. TWIN PEAKS was as if an art theater had somehow gotten trapped inside one's TV. Although David Lynch had managed to break into the Hollywood mainstream, his films had remained among the most eccentric to come out of any American studio. He remained at heart an independent, America's lone box office surrealist. I believe his surrealism is part of the key to the show's success, for the surreal has not penetrated American art and culture to the degree that it has European. Placing it in small town American intensified the effect. Before TWIN PEAKS, we had never before seen an American television show that had lavished this degree of detail to camera angles, art design, music, and special effects. There was an unprecedented attempt to create not merely entertainment, but art, and the shocking thing was that a huge number of fans reacted profoundly to something other than the pabulum that normally was to be found on TV. I wonder if other groundbreaking shows like BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER would have been possible without the example of TWIN PEAKS. Unlike many, I never had too much interest in the plot of the series. I never had any great curiosity about who killed Laura Palmer. For me, what happened took a backseat to how it was all happening, the look, feel, and atmosphere of each scene, along with the almost ritualistic approach to the show's many themes. I looked forward to new references to Tibet, or tables lined with hundreds of donuts, or the way you knew scenes would destined to build because you knew the musical themes so well. And the quirkiness! Dr. Jacoby's odd multi-colored glasses. Laura's cousin Maddie who was also played by Sheryl Lee. The off-the-chart weirdness of Ray Wise's manic singing. And almost everything that Special Agent Cooper did, said, or dreamed. In the end, it all seemed to make some perverse form of sense. The cast was so good that at the time one imagined that every single individual associated with it was destined to become a superstar. I'm still amazed that many haven't. As it is, it is the best thing that most of the people in the show have ever done. The second season didn't, unfortunately, match the manic brilliance of the first season, but I found that it nonetheless managed to hold my attention throughout. I think the first season the best thing done on American television up until that time, and the second season one of the finest things. If today there are a few shows that have managed to match TWIN PEAKS-like BUFFY and SIX FEET UNDER and DEAD LIKE ME-it is in large part thanks to its demonstrating that TV truly could be a medium for great art.
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: If watching this series for the first time, think about this: this show pre-dates The X-Files, Northern Exposure, Six Feet Under, and all of those forensics/crime/mystery shows by years-- and far surpasses them in quality. 13 years later, people are still in love with this series, still quoting it, still re-living life in that cursed and blessed town; directors are still strip-mining the imagery and writers attempting to capture the hilarious and often hyper-soap operatic dialog. In 13 years, will anybody even remember CSI Miami?
Yes, it is infuriating that the second season has yet to be released on DVD. Yes, the show has plotlines and characters that will annoy the hell out of you and seem dated and grating. Yes, David Lynch confounds the mind and at times is funny wihout intending to be. All of these are valid complaints. (As for the "Where's the pilot?" one-- just go ahead and buy it if you feel you need it. It's not part of the episodic broadcast, and is not a linear necessity to the enjoyment or underdstanding of the show.)
Complain if you must. Personally, I am grateful to own a piece of the most beautiful American television series ever to air, with cleaned up audio and super-clear picture, to boot.
What matters about this show is the care and sensitivity with which the show is written, acted, and directed. It is a beautiful show, and frightening and touching and engrossing, because it exposes characters equally capable of great good and terrible evil, often in the same scene. The way this show manipulates your sympathies is brilliant. One moment, you are thinking "Bobby is a dishonest brute;" the next, you are seeing him in tears, seemingly the victim of Laura's sick manipulation, and honestly feeling for him. Lynch manipulates us in the same way Laura manipulated her loved ones, forcing us to look at the ugly and the sublime, and the collision of the two.
I don't think we ever saw dead bodies or autopsies in such a stylized manner before Twin Peaks. I don't think we ever saw an ironic hard-boiled detective before Dale Cooper. Forensic Investigation and FBI work were matters for documentaries. Evening soaps were the realm of war stories or rich teens. I don't think scripts included dialog centered around such mundane topics as pie and coffee before this show, nor was there room on television for extended dream sequences. Twin Peaks vastly expanded the scope of what television could be.
So, I will wait for the second season. Meanwhile, I will repeatedly watch this gothic, sexy, soap-opera-on-opium, fairy-tale-on-coke, graphic, sad, funny, and inimitable collection.
And oh yeah-- BOB still scares the bejesus out of me.
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