Twin Peaks was pretty cool, I might rewatch it while I wait for Star Trek Discovery and Stranger Things to return. Been about 10 years since I last rewatched it... I still need to watch the new Twin Peaks material. I was putting it off because I was afraid it would be atrocious, but if Slowdive can come back after 20 years and make one of their best albums, perhaps Lynch and Twin Peaks can do it too.
I'm watching the new Lost in Space at the moment, which is... okay.
I mean, I love the vibe of the thing — and I love Parker Posey as Dr. Smith, she's ace.
But... I'm rooting for her, and I shouldn't be... I mean I don't think the creators of the show would want that. Granted, I'd probably be rooting for her regardless, but I should at least have some lingering respect or something other than apathy or indifference toward the protagonists. But the protagonists are, without exception, annoying and/or too thick to live.
The dad is just a classic moron, the mom is an infuriatingly bitchy and crazy moron, the kids are each about as irritating as they could possibly be (and that's a big playing field because children are nearly always annoying) and the robot doesn't speak. That leaves a group of random survivors who are pretty much all arseholes too, with the exception of the mechanic-cum-smuggler... who is also a bit dense (so far).
That leaves Dr. Smith, who isn't actually Dr. Smith, she's just a psychopath (and honestly I can more readily identify with her on that basis than I can with the others), though she's obviously a bit crazy as well, in that she goes out of her way to fuck shit up for others, but I suppose it's all misdirection to keep herself out of the spotlight so she can do what she wants.
That's the only trouble with her though, she doesn't seem to want anything but chaos. Which is, you know, okay I guess, it just lacks depth — and by depth, I don't mean that she needs a traumatic sob story to explain her psychopathy, absolutely not. I just mean that she, as a conscious individual, could have had some grander purpose, a dream, a project, an endgame. Maybe she does, I'm not finished with the series yet, but it seems to me like she's just an unhinged punk.
The show itself is basically like LOST — remember that TV show on the island? It's very similar, it has the whole flashback thing going on, and the dysfunctional-family-born-again-in-a-new-world thing going on too. It's especially like LOST now that there are other survivors. This means it could get much better (like season 2 of LOST) or much shittier (like season 4+ of LOST) depending on the quality of the writing and on whether the writers know, concretely, where they're going.
I hope they do, it's not exactly 7/10 material already, it needs to end well.
It may seem like I'm being harsh, Lost in Space has a lot of tough acts to follow, but try it yourselves. I'll be surprised if you aren't bored after three episodes of not much happening; and if you aren't irritated by, or if you like, the protagonists, you probably aren't someone I'd invite to dinner.
It's an enjoyable switch off kind of show, with 90's nostalgia thrown in. But in terms of plot it's like passable fluffy fanfic 
