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May I ask how old you are? I'm not prying, but I'm curious if you watched it when it was new or if you are younger and only know it from DVD/streaming.
I am old enough that I watched it as it was broadcast, and it was unlike anything that had been done on TV before. I don't even know how Lynch got it made. It landed like a bombshell in the midst of sanitized pap. It was gritty and played with sex, drugs, and evil in a way that made shows like Miami Vice look vapid. It may seem like half finished, trope laden junk now, but it cut the path that every edgy show since had followed. Issues like the duality of people - the homogenized surface facade of presenting how we want to be vs the inner desire and how we are just hadn't been addressed in that way before.
There is some deliberate hokiness to it. The parallel of the soap opera to the town is deliberate and a wink to the fact that every story is largely the same but dressed up in a new way. Think of "a stranger comes to town, or someone goes on a journey" level analysis. The humor is pure Lynch.
It may seem different in retrospect because it's done better now. Audiences are comfortable with this kind of thing. It was brand new then, and somehow approved by the same network that approved Thirtysomething and cut 40 minutes of sex and drugs from Scarface.
This is some interesting context, which I was aware of but never properly considered. I think this has given me a better appreciation of Lynch. I saw Twin Peaks well after it was made. I also saw it after having been exposed to a lot of alternative cinema. I think I missed the chance to love it, both from a era of film perspective and from a gateway into more weird stuff perspective.
I think Twin Peaks suffers from the Seinfeld problem. It was SO influential there are now pieces of it in almost everything that even remotely shares a genre with it. And if you grew up watching all the stuff it influenced, going back to watch the origin, that sparked the imaginations of all those creators, can seem kinda hokey, trite, and underwhelming.
Without giving too many details: I'm old enough to have watched it on TV years ago and I had to go through it again with my wife recently.
I was in university and I remember being in Montreal in a bar when an episode was about to air. I went to a stranger's home to watch TV with them and their friends because none of us wanted to miss an episode.