What the hell is up with this show? After playing Deadly Premonition and returning it an hour later, I watched a clip of Twin Peaks from Amazon's page because everyone keeps talking about all the tributes Deadly Premonition pays to that show. They have some sort of montage on that page, with a bunch of people obsessing over black coffee. I wanted to destroy my monitor, because I couldn't believe my eyes. People don't act like this! I'm scared, and I haven't seen more than two minutes of an action-less montage.

Twin Peaks is a fantastic series, although it does go somewhat off on a tangent towards the end.

At the time . . . there had been nothing like it. I hope to see it again someday as I have not seen it since the original broadcast. . .=)

I agree with Wishbone. Starts off really good, starts meandering around the middle then ends up in WTF? territory. It still has to be watched but just be aware at the end you will just be sitting there confused.
Oh and the movie Fire Walk With Me was a steaming pile.

Why don't you try actually watching it? You can't watch two minutes of an online video and claim that you know enough about the show to want to destroy your monitor.
EDIT: This sounds way different than what I meant it to. I meant to recommend the show because I hear praise about it, and left that part out.
Apparently, it's great. I am trying to wait for a Blu-ray release, but we'll see how far I get...

What impresses me most about Twin Peaks is how scary it is. Very little of what goes on in the series ought to be scary, when looked at objectively, but David Lynch has an uncanny ability to, with very simple means, reach down into your subsconscious and push buttons you didn't know existed. You'll be frightened, and you'll have no idea why.
Also, the series has an extremely quirky sense of humor that I find hilarious.

I thought it started off relatively boring--but I'm in the minority there. I felt it stuck too close to melodrama (with hilariously bad acting half the time, esp. from Mr. Ponytail Hillbilly) and beat around the bush for too many episodes.
I also liked the WTF ending. Those last moments in the Black Lodge were some of my favorite.
It might have been that I watched the first half of the show with someone who hated it and kept bitching every 5 minutes. I'd love to see it again. Big Lynch fan like a mfer.

I watched the first series of Twin Peaks, and it's fantastic.
You gotta appreciate Lynch though, his closest film to TP was probably Blue Velvet.
Still waiting on getting the second series of TP, my online DVD rental place doesn't have it and I'm not sure I want to buy it cos I hear it isn't as good as series 1.
There's actually a bit of a shout-out to TP in Max Payne, specifically the backwards speaking dream bit.

I plan on watching it. I didn't mean to insult it, I just thought it was very, very weird. And I was joking about the whole "destroying my monitor" thing. Lighten up! And when did I say I knew anything about the show? I just stated that what I saw freaked me out.
"DAAAAAAAAMN good coffee! And hot!"

You can't be sure about these things. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpmSMnrthMc

Haha, I've seen that before. Very, very funny. I would never destroy anything of worth to me. If it was already broken beyond compare, I may rough it up for the sake of a project, like I did with a very broken Guitar Hero controller. But I would never destroy my monitor. I love it so!

That's one of my favourite scenes :-D

Great show. I agree Wishbone is right, but I would add that, although the end is confusing, and unresolved, the last few episodes are really excellent--they reminded me of the early episodes that I had enjoyed so much. Give it a try.

It is weird, but in a good way . . . sorta like Carnivale was weird . .which had Michael J. Anderson from Twin Peaks although as a lead character.

I thought I would put my two cents in, 'Twin Peaks' was directed by a very acclaimed movie director David Lynch. However his school of thought is more directed at what he terms 'film reality' rather than the credible reality we live in ourselves. (who says he can't, if this was a cartoon it would be a lot more easily accepted).
Anyway I am going off the point, Lynch is seen as a contemporary surrealist director, see 'Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, and Eraserhead'.
Definition - "Surrealism itself depicts an element of “truth” which is revealed by subconscious minds which replaces the reality of our everyday consciousness. There for it creates a realistic representation of a “dream-like state”.
This dream like attitude of filming throws out the window conventions we normally expect with linear story telling, including 'narrative structure - 3 act (beginning, middle and end.) No clear concept or placement of time or space, and just general weirdness.
For light entertainment things like Twin Peaks have little to offer, however if you are interested in being 'open-minded' to the mind-trip of alternative cinema and television, a lot of new experiences can be found far from the 'Avatars'' of this world.
Sorry this is rather like an essay I guess in some respects, I just thought people like to know why films/series are made like this, it doesn't seem realistic... no... but it isn't meant to be. Also with this kind of medium set aside the obsession with 'coffee' a lot of political and social issues are raised through the superficial exterior of these types of films.
On a side-note Lynch even by avid fans of his find his work either a hit or miss, you could love one piece of work he does and hate another, so don't give up on the first 2 minutes of the series and certainly not his cinematic experiences (Recommend: Blue Velvet).