(1990) *****The small town of Twin Peaks is shocked out of its apparent sleepy normality when the body of prom queen Laura Palmer is discovered naked and wrapped in plastic. When another teenager is discovered wandering in a fugue state, FBI agent Dale Cooper is called in.
Following a particularly stressful Christmas, Mr. AC and I decided to lay low for the New Year's long weekend. We kicked off New Year's Eve by watching the Twin Peaks pilot episode, then worked our way through the rest of season 1 over the next few days. I had remembered the first season as excellent, but hadn't watched it systematically for a long time, and the experience more than lived up to my memories. The first season provides a perfect blend of mystery, mood, intrigue, and satire, ending in a cliffhanger worthy of any prime time soap opera. It's so good, I've been putting off starting season 2 so as to savor the perfection. For Mr. AC and me, it was the ideal way to begin 2010. Maybe it'll become a tradition.
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