{"id":15918,"date":"2017-05-01T13:13:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T17:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=15918"},"modified":"2017-05-01T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:25:15","slug":"the-return-of-peyton-place-and-its-progeny-twin-peaks-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=15918","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Peyton Place, and its Progeny, Twin Peaks 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are still smoldering EMBERS under the grim, grey ASHES ! ! !<\/p><\/div>\n

Whether it’s a case of good release strategy or great timing, Peyton Place<\/strong><\/a>‘s debut on Blu-ray via Twilight Time whets the appetite for more tales of dirty behaviour and dark secrets in a mill town, where Grace Metalious set her 1956 debut novel, and whose tone, themes, characters, and antics inspired David Lynch and Mark Frost to create Twin Peaks<\/strong> in 1990.<\/p>\n

Metalious’ novel spawned a film, an okay sequel, a hit TV series that flamed out, and two belated TV movies, whereas Lynch &\u00a0Frost’s brilliantly weird concept begat an impeccable first season + riveting pilot, a third of an okay second season followed by utter crap, and a feature film from which the first hour could be largely jettisoned and a taut ‘prequel’ standalone episode could be cut.<\/p>\n

Flash forward 27 years later, and Twin Peaks<\/strong> is set to\u00a0return May 21st and answer the question fans were left with after the second season’s finale: What the fuck?<\/em><\/p>\n

Whereas Lynch & Frost are reportedly starting Season 3 from where the last ended (Really?), Peyton<\/strong>‘s\u00a0\u00a0film and TV writers took a lot of liberties with Metalious’ source material, restricted by the Production Code and network Standards & Practices, and what was deemed risque for its time. The novel and perhaps its cash-in sequel could be remade today, but you could also argue Twin Peaks<\/strong> took care of that by taking core elements and transcending melodrama with Lynchian weirdness, to which there’s really no equivalent.<\/p>\n

That Metalious, Lynch, and Frost are still interconnected adds to the mystique of the Peyton Place<\/strong> world, and the most logical thing would be to follow Twilight Time’s disc with a Blu-ray of\u00a0Return to Peyton Place<\/strong> (1961), and for Shout Factory to release the whole TV series and<\/em> the two TV movies to give veteran fans closure, and the rest of us a plum opportunity to watch the show\u00a0which starred very young Mia Farrow, Ryan O’Neal, Dorothy Malone, and Barbara Parkins.<\/p>\n

Even Lynch & Frost would welcome such a beastly set.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Review of Peyton Place (1957), Twilight Time’s Blu-ray of the blockbuster film based on Grace Metalious’ mega-selling novel, and the inspiration for David Lynch & Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks (1990-1991, and 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2562,2563,5098,5097,1576],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PeytonPlace1957_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-48K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15918"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15944,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918\/revisions\/15944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}