Subject: David Lynch's Reality
From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Date: 1990-05-27, 15:37
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks,rec.arts.tv

bgingric@Intrepid.ECE.UKans.EDU (Barry Gingrich) writes:

> >The theme of "crawly bugs under the neatly trimmed lawn are battling"
> >seems to be a favorite of Lynch's.  Sadly, it also seems to be a 
> >favorite of the real world.

Indeed.  And I suddenly have a low opinion of all the critics who called
*Twin Peaks* "surreal".  If anything, it's *more* real than standard TV
fare.  In real life, cops *do* get weird emotional reactions when they
see dead bodies.  Grief-stricken parents *do* go on endless crying
jags and indulge in bizarre rituals.  I don't know any Log Ladies,
but I know plenty of people whose beliefs are just as weird -- except,
of course to those who share them.

This show is *too* real.  Half the time, it's damned painful to watch.
So why do I watch it?  Something perverse in me, I guess....