![]() ![]() And all the boundary-pushing stuff, all the things that look like self-conscious flourishes of Lynchian wierdness? Mistakes, from top to bottom. Just look at the plot: while creatives, crew, talent, and execs never quite sync up, the product of their collusion is a show that pushes the format of TV, then becomes a runaway success thanks to a current of genuine sweetness. But allusions to Twin Peaks quickly pile up, and I believe that the pilot fundamentally reflects Twin Peaks, whether Frost or Lynch had such a thing in mind at the time. Obviously this is a show about making television created by people who had just been responsible for one of the biggest events to hit television in a decade, so it seems facile to say one is necessarily related to the other. (This embed is sourced from one of the few legit releases of the whole show, a Japanese laserdisc that was available as an import in the mid-'90s, and features a playlist that will automatically go to the rest of the seven episodes.) Because whatever intentions Frost and Lynch may have had, that first episode is like one long dream sequence that reconfigures and laughs at the whole experience of creating Twin Peaks. So it's a good time to revisit On the Air. David Lynch is evidently shooting something Peaks-related next week, which is probably a web-bound promo for the complete box set we know to be coming later this year.
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