Postby AXX°N N. » Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:52 am
Mr. Reindeer wrote:AXX°N N. wrote:Eater of Iguanas wrote:Yeah, I'm in the minority camp of "bitterly disappointed with Season 3." Those characters epitomized the boring, masturbatory nature of much of the season, and its bent for dumb, unfunny comedy. Even a grade-B Original Twin Peaks character like Hank Jennings was more entertaining.
I'm continually mystified by the positive reaction to Nu-Twin Peaks. But I'm happy for those of you who enjoyed it!
That's a good attitude to have! For me, I don't see any difference between the broad humor surrounding the Mitchums and old schtick involving, say, Andy, especially the scene where he hits his head on a plank and dazedly shimmies around for a minute.
I personally find the Mitchums funnier than most of the S2 Andy stuff (I love the slow-burn exasperation of the scene where they watch Candie talking to Anthony on the casino floor). But humor is certainly subjective. I’ve never really been a fan of L/F broad humor in the past (I’m not an On the Air fan), but the instances of it on TR felt less forced and better executed than in the past for me.
I'm in the same boat. In fact it's dawned on me over time that a lot of the humor in S3, to me, feels very in line with what On the Air should have been, re the execution of that style of humor. In S3 I find the extremely casual performative aspect of it (where puns fly under the radar to the point of invisibility and characters underreact to what is clearly absurd and almost anachronistic in the sense of a televisual comedy gag) to be kind of fascinating in tone.
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