I can’t stand this bloody series. ‘It’s art for the sake of art’. ‘This is really Lynch’s gift to all subsequent media’. ‘There is so much we owe to this series.’
What the hell. It’s just random pieces of script written by monkeys on a typewriter, slapped together. No part of the story is ever finished. ‘Ah but that’s where the depth resides!’. Rubbish. Anybody can write a story that doesn’t properly finish.
Oh I know I will introduce 20 new characters, this will add so much depth. Yeah, they have no motives, no character development BUT I will add this random surreal thing that happens to them, for additional depth. But what happens to X? Who knows! And to Y? You have to guess! And to Z? No one can tell!
Maybe using steel-faced actors will improve the plot? I know I will cast myself in one role with quirky details because it’s so fun. Yeah I don’t know how to act, why? Is it necessary?
And the goddamn music is unsufferable. ‘You can’t separate Lynch’s work from Badalamenti’s music’. Yeah I know they’re both shit. Oh and the effing gigs in the sequel of the series. Aaaaaah!
But at least there is some symbolism! Yes, what is it? Who fucking knows!
I think David Lynch is massively overrated in general. He makes stuff that SHOULD be up my alley (I love weird art) but it just feels so…conceited? He seems like the type of guy who thinks his farts don’t stink
This was really present in season 3 for me. He did this thing CONSTANTLY in that season where the dialogue would end and the scene really should shift to the next scene but instead the camera would hang on the characters as they just stared at each other or started doing some other mundane thing like pouring a cup of coffee and reading a newspaper and it would often go on long enough to get cringey.
It was some attempt at being artsy fartsy that didn’t pan out. Or maybe he was trying to fill time so every episode was 45 minutes or whatever. I generally like Lynch’s work, but he over-extends himself trying to be “edgy” sometimes.