00:01a dead girl
00:03this was what got us going me and mark
00:07the question of who killed laura palmer resonated around the world
00:13in 1990 there was nothing on television there was a desert
00:17entering the town of twin peaks
00:19the pilot aired and it became a little bit of a sensation
00:24the show was both dangerous and exhilarating
00:29culturally it was a game changer
00:31you can't watch television right now without seeing the imprint of twin peaks
00:35here we got a lot to talk about
00:36i didn't watch television it was the lamest thing you could do
00:40but then i found out oh it's david lynch what
00:53i was there when david lynch and mark frost came in to pitch the original
00:57twin peaks i had seen david's movie blue velvet frankly i was scared because blue velvet scared
01:06the crap out of me much to my surprise in walked the most midwestern polite soft-spoken man and
01:15we said absolutely let's develop it
01:18mark frost was a tv guy best known for the work he did on hill street blues and had a
01:24sense of how you tell a story in that medium
01:28mark and david were a really wonderful melding of sensibilities where mark had thoughtful television sensibilities and david lynch was
01:37david lynch
01:38you can ask it now
01:42is it a police procedural yes is it a soap opera yes is it this sort of avant-garde surrealist
01:49psychosexual stream of consciousness yes it's all of these things and more
01:54there's this freedom that lynch seemed to have to explore these characters in a different way that you don't ever
02:00see on television
02:01are you using drugs bobby nope alcohol alcohol's a drug
02:05twin peaks basically proved that there wasn't just one way to make television
02:10somehow lynch was able to plant a flag and say we can make weird creative art in the most mainstream
02:17places of all
02:18prime time television on a major network it just made no sense
02:24david lynch was really the first filmmaker to make television
02:28david lynch brought not just the auteur theory to tv but he brought a framing style and a cinematic style
02:36that didn't exist before
02:37it felt like watching a movie but a movie that just kind of went on for hours and hours
02:43i see it as a film instead of going on a truck to a theater it goes on a truck
02:51to the tv
02:52oh andy oh punky i'm pregnant
03:00all across the country 11 and a half million americans planted themselves in front of the television
03:06you probably wonder who killed laura palmer
03:08we want to go
03:09the alcomics we fit her top secret
03:12we knew it was going to be something special we just didn't know how
03:14so when it blossomed like it did entering into the consciousness of the world it was a little overwhelming
03:22whatever the zeitgeist of the culture at the time that was not beverly hills 90210
03:28oh it seemed to really hook into twin peaks we were there 9 p.m watching the pilot episode and
03:34as soon as pete mortel says the words she's dead ramped in plastic we were hooked
03:40you started hearing about the idea of the water cooler effect people talking about it at work the
03:45next day and you also heard about twin peaks parties
03:48just the idea of something that was event television became its legacy it would be on for
03:53an hour but it actually necessitated discussion following it
03:58woohoo
03:58i didn't know how long it was going to take for people to kind of get it but to see
04:02that
04:02it happened really quickly was fascinating man it not only went well in america but it went well
04:07pretty much every place it played some places through the roof it was surreal is what it was i went
04:16to david and i said wow this is crazy
04:17that everyone wants this thing he said enjoy it because it's not always this way
04:22and i was like oh okay
04:47you
04:53Grazie a tutti.
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