From time to time shows are compared, mostly before they go on air or in the first episodes. I think neither of these were really similar, but lets collect. The ones I can remember:
- Wild Palms
- Picket fences
- Lost
- Wayward Pines
Here's the thread for you http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098936/board/thread/235670634
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Anyway, one of the movies compared to the show in that thread was Picnic at Hanging Rock. Having just watched the film for the second time, I feel there is somehow something very similar between Miranda and Laura Palmer, and Irma and Donna Hayward.
One line that echos between both TP's and Picnic was when one of the characters called out to Miranda "no don't go up there!"
It reminded me of Ronette screaming to Laura "don't go in there."
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"Don't go there" maybe? Don't know whether Ronette meant go to a place or to a subject, nor to whom she thought she was speaking.
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Arnett: Well, Mrs. Kraft, how can I serve?
Mrs. Kraft: You can serve me by finding the rat who killed poor Laury.
She had the best time of anybody I ever knew, that Laury Palmer.
Why, just hearing her tell about her doings was all the fun I had left in life.
--Born to Kill (1947)
She also blurted it out while in a coma.
I always thought that she was addressing the image in her mind of a train boxcar during that scene, rather than reenacting something that had literally happened previously.
Yes, when they first visited her.
Assuming that it had anything at all to do with the murder scene, and there's no real need to do so, she could have been vocalizing an unreadiness to think about what had happened. She said it twice, the second time quite firmly.
Years ago I had a series of strange dreams in which stoplights would appear just anywhere, or maybe I or someone else in the dream seemed to be a stoplight. Turns out I had sleep apnea. Over some more years, don't recall any stoplight dreams while sleeping with my breathing device.
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"The bonsai: the ultimate miniature."
--Will Hayward, Twin Peaks
Or even more broadly, the disappearance of the girls in PAHR created a mystery that was never solved. So that leaves us observing how the town reacted and in doing so, revealed things about certain characters.
I think that was more or less the intention in TP's: the murder always lurking in the background waiting to be solved but in the meantime we learn about the other characters and what is hidden beneath their surface.
One of the reasons Lynch and Frost never intended the killer to be revealed (or so they say).
Blake Crouch, who wrote the novels upon which "Wayward Pines" is based, admitted in the afterword to the first book that his direct inspiration for the book was "Peaks". At least someone admitted it.
shareCarnivale
American Gothic
American Horror Story
Northern Exposure
John from Cincinnati
Nightmare Cafe
Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes
Kingdom (LVT)
Penance
True Detective, especially S2
Persons Unknown
-Eerie, Indiana
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Shows,
Millennium
Desperate Housewives (incidentally, Kyle MacLachlan is in DH as a dentist, which is a cover he uses at one point in TP!)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (sometimes)
Wolf Lake
Movies,
The Mothman Prophecies
Twixt
The Last Broadcast
Silent Hill
The Blair Witch Project
The Fourth Kind
The Grudge (2002 Japan, and 2004 US)
JERSEY SHORE,BRAH!
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