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Message: <blockquote data-quote="celt" data-source="post: 1951882" data-attributes="member: 967">Well, I liked your name so much that I had to reply.  Plus, I have just finished watching the first season on DVD with my family.Overall, we decided as a family not to bother about getting or watching the second season.  Still, if a friend of mine recorded it or it came to me on some other version of a silver platter I would probably give it my time.Me:  I love David Lynch.  I'm not averse to weird, I prefer weird.  People say David Lynch is weird for weird's sake and I disagree.  He makes sense.  I loved Twin Peaks.  I love his movies.Negatives of the show:  Obnoxious amounts of sex.  Almost none of it furthering the plot in any way.  I don't mind sex.  You can bathe me in it (this show does), but please make it relate to the plot or character development or whatever.   I think many HBO shows avoid being licentious and lean towards art and creativity.  This show is an exception to that statement.   I'm being a bit over the top but characters in the show would just look at each other while doing their daily routines and begin breathing heavy and grunting.  Like, standing in line for groceries and the teller says "a dollar fifty please" and the buyer starts going "Mmm, ung ung mmmm".  My wife and I often found ourselves looking at each other saying "WHAT?!!"Also, there's a palpable feeling of X-filesy "We ain't EVER gonna explain this.  Hell, we have no idea ourselves!  Hahaha!" going on.One more, I felt like I generally understood from the beginning what was going on.  I didn't like that.  The show didn't push me around at all.  I knew who was good and who was evil.  I'm not claiming to be a genius.  Most of it was just too thinly veiled.Positives of the show: Beautiful beautiful direction.  The camerawork is sweet.  The shots are framed so richly and creatively that you often feel like you could grab a random still from the show and it would be a great piece of art.The acting is excellent.  Most of the time people behave in a subtle and believeable fashion.  Many of the actors left a strong enough impression on me that I would feel glad to see them in other shows or movies.Whelp, I have more I could say but I'm being called for supper.  Feel free to respond or ask questions and I'll certainly chime back in.</blockquote>

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