TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-23 months agoMy friend's 19 year-old niece named Dana had never heard of Dana Scully. The X-Files is now a dated cultural reference 😭message-squaremessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up194file-text
arrow-up194message-squareMy friend's 19 year-old niece named Dana had never heard of Dana Scully. The X-Files is now a dated cultural reference 😭TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square62fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·3 months agoYou know how there are good TV shows sometimes? X-Files was the second good TV show. The first was called Twin Peaks.
minus-squareOgdenTO [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoI would even argue that the X-Files was a direct result of Twin Peaks. David Duchovny just couldn’t get enough.
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoAfaik it was. Twin peaks proved that a show could have a season long plot and people would not only watch it, but it’d be wildly popular. X-files was the first show to take the example twin peaks set and run with it.
minus-squareimogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoevery show made after twin peaks for like 20+ years was a direct result of twin peaks
minus-squarenothx [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 months agoI never finished “The Return” It got way to David Lynch for me. Loved the original seasons tho.
minus-squareAbracadaniel [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoStar Trek TNG predates Twin Peaks, but yeah it didn’t change the medium like Twin Peaks did.
You know how there are good TV shows sometimes? X-Files was the second good TV show. The first was called Twin Peaks.
I would even argue that the X-Files was a direct result of Twin Peaks. David Duchovny just couldn’t get enough.
Afaik it was. Twin peaks proved that a show could have a season long plot and people would not only watch it, but it’d be wildly popular. X-files was the first show to take the example twin peaks set and run with it.
every show made after twin peaks for like 20+ years was a direct result of twin peaks
I never finished “The Return” It got way to David Lynch for me. Loved the original seasons tho.
Star Trek TNG predates Twin Peaks, but yeah it didn’t change the medium like Twin Peaks did.