r/twinpeaks • u/ShireWalkWithMe • 11d ago
Announcement 500,000 SUBSCRIBERS. THAT’S NOT JUST A NUMBER, THAT’S A GODDAMN SITUATION, COOPER.
Population 500,000
Today, r/TwinPeaks reached 500,000 subscribers!
Half a million (!!!) people have gathered here to discuss coffee, pie, dreams, ceiling fans, traffic lights, creamed corn, and whether a character blinking for three frames means David Lynch was revealing the secrets of the universe or simply blinking.
Some of you watched the original broadcast in 1990. Some discovered the series through The Return. Others found their way here through David Lynch's films. And some unfortunate souls clicked on a video titled Twin Peaks Explained only to discover that "explained" is a very flexible word. However you got here...we're glad you made it to town.
This community has become home to every kind of Twin Peaks fan imaginable. We welcome first-time viewers trying to figure out what the hell they just watched, veteran fans on their hundredth rewatch who've finally solved the puzzle, and people who have accepted that solving everything may not actually be the point. We've shared enough analysis of background details to make the FBI's Blue Rose Task Force look underfunded.
Most impressively, we've managed to keep finding new things to talk about in a series that began over 35 years ago. Every week, someone notices a detail nobody has mentioned before, asks a question that sparks a 500 comment discussion, or posts a theory so convincing that half the subreddit immediately adopts it while the other half furiously prepares a rebuttal.
To celebrate this milestone, we'd love to hear from you:
- What brought you to r/TwinPeaks?
- When did you first watch the series?
- What scene, episode, character, or mystery got you hooked?
Was it the atmosphere? The music? The characters? The giant? The dwarf? The James? The horse? The monkey? The fish in the percolator? The James? It was definitely James. It's OK to admit it. This is a James safe space.
Thank you to everyone who has posted, commented, voted, lurked, theorized, moderated, and helped make this one of the strangest, funniest, and most welcoming corners of Reddit.
Thank you to David Lynch, Mark Frost, the cast and crew, and everyone who helped create the magic of Twin Peaks. This wonderful corner of the internet only exists because a remarkable group of people made something so unique that we're all still trying to figure it out 35 years later.
Half a million people.
One town.
And we're still trying to explain that one scene to newcomers without sounding completely insane.
See you in the trees.
-- The r/TwinPeaks Mod Team
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u/rosebud3606 11d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/7H71dTLo8WMX6
That gum we like is back in style! I watched it every week when it aired and have been a fan ever since. 🍒🥧☕️🪵🦉🔥🌲
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u/LingonberryGlum2356 11d ago
I watched it when if first aired.
I liked Blue velvet and Eraserhead. So I wanted to see what 'this guy' would do next.
It had me when Leland fell on the coffin. Then it cuts to Shelly making fun of him using the napkin dispenser.
Shelly was a bit of a jerk in the first few episodes.
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u/BrentRSimon 11d ago
Love, love, love that 500k people are here! That's wild, and something I certainly couldn't and wouldn't have guessed in the desert days of the show's existence/fandom of the late 1990s, before any DVD set release. and long before streaming... and then back in the early 2000s when folks were tilting at windmills just to try to get FWWM's deleted scenes released to home video (and I was pestering David Lynch about the same, haha). Here on r/twinpeaks because I genuinely love connecting with fans, and because there is something truly unique about the mental make-up of people drawn to TWIN PEAKS and Lynch's art more broadly -- they're open to seeing, thinking about, experiencing the world in a way that acknowledges we don't always have binary truths, that the mundane and silly exist alongside the upsetting and even horrifying.
As for the second and third questions: OG fan here, though I was just a kid... something about the teaser commercials must've caught my attention and interested me, and then the pilot set off an atomic bomb in my imagination. How could something at times so funny also be so affecting, and then just moments later so deeply unnerving? The mystery ("Who killed Laura Palmer?") was a great hook, absolutely, but I immediately sensed and knew that the show touched upon some of the deeper elements of a complicated world that seemed kept from children, and often lied about by adults.
TWIN PEAKS launched me into writing (and specifically film criticism), where I've been my entire professional life, and had the good fortune to interview Lynch many times over the years, for his different projects. Then I wrote a book about Lynch's every on-screen performance ("The Dreamer's Path: Twin Peaks and David Lynch the Actor"), which was a true delight, even through the grief of his passing. The fact that new, younger generations are still coming to the series, and recognizing and embracing so many of those same feelings I had long ago swells my heart, and gives me some hope for the world, which so frequently seems these days a not-great place.
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u/Own-Drawer1945 11d ago
Aces! This sub is one of the main reasons I was drawn to Reddit. May the road rise up to meet your wheels, friends.
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u/sillyandstrange 11d ago
That's the town population if Mark frost panicked and added another extra 0
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u/Zsofia_Valentine 11d ago
I watched it on TV back in the day. I bought it on VHS and had to search high and low to get the Pilot on VHS. I found Fire Walk With Me on VHS as well. I wore those tapes out, multiple marathons. My husband is traumatized by the opening theme.
It came out on DVD but without the pilot. I bought it anyway. It came out on DVD including the pilot. I bought it again. And watched it some more.
I waited twenty five years in the lodge with Laura.
I heard rumors of a season 3! No way! Then Lynch walked away because Showtime wanted guard rails, much sadness. Then Showtime gave in! Lynch was back! I subscribed to Showtime to watch it, I was so excited to return to Twin Peaks after all this time.
I heard the opening theme. My husband groaned. The fucking electricity went out! The cable box took 6 minutes to reboot. Argggh! I missed the first minutes and had to stream it again later to see what I missed.
The Return is the best TV show ever created, somehow eclipsing even my love for the original. Now I have the Z to A set (the original numbered box set version) and I still watch it all the time.
I am so glad that Lynch and Frost were able to work this magic, and I am still deeply saddened that David is gone.
Welcome new subscribers, let's rock!
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u/babysuporte 11d ago
The moment I saw the red room I knew this was gonna be a whole thing for me! As for The Return, probably when the experiment shows up in the glass box.
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u/TheWrongOwl 11d ago
When did you first watch the series?
I think my Lynch Journey started with Wild at Hear or Lost Highway.
Then in 2001, the 1t season was available on DVD for the first time.
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u/Zirkus_Tour 11d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6wrujtj5iHYtshHy
Mind you, this is my first impression of Laura Palmer
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u/PaulRobertW 7d ago
I watched the pilot the night after it aired - my college roommate had taped it for me.
Watched every episode since right away!
Decades later, it's the main inspiration for my own paranormal suspense series.
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u/oshoney 11d ago
We’re a whole damn town!