The bright side of Twin Peaks "North Side" is a series from 1990, in 6 seasons, repeated winner and nominee of the Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild Award. Everything is amazing in it – and talented actors, and the light in each frame, and landscapes of the Indian North, and the original script. Have you ever heard of him?
I would call it the bright side of Twin Peaks.
The story of a young and promising Dr. Joel Fleischman begins when he graduates from the prestigious Columbia University, and he is sent to a compulsory practice, long in five years, in the wilds of Alaska.
In the small town of Cecily, moose walk the streets, a few residents look into a cozy family bar in the evenings, and the radio station is run by the local Morrison, also, however, switched to the bright side. . .
And here it is difficult to stop - the former astronaut - the owner of local lands. The main pilot-postman is a charming girl, who has everything so difficult with men that a meteorite falls on them, then their spirit is embodied in a dog. A half-blooded Indian, Ed, corresponds with Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen, inspired by a dream to make a real movie, and once a real Peter Bogdanovich comes to visit him. Local Indians live by their own traditions and their legends are embodied in reality. And that's not all. .
Dr. Fleischman, like Castaneda, inevitably shifts the assemblage point, or like Agent Cooper, gets acquainted with the Black Lodge - it is not easy for him, he resists in every possible way, and the softer, but more persistent, transformations try to touch him.
At first, I looked as fascinated at the atmosphere of what was happening - the first seasons are still very everyday, but still, it is impossible to break away from them, gradually falling in love with each resident of the town. And there are many of them, and each with its own very interesting character.
From the third season, after some episodes, I cried with happiness. It was so impossible to put everything together so perfectly - and the characters, and humor, and deep meanings, and the color palette of frames.
Everything is created to be as similar as possible to such rare dreams, crumbling like puzzles, in memory, as soon as you open your eyes, but after which for some reason everything immediately becomes clear.
Everyone is trying to solve the mystery of Twin Peaks, and for me, after I accidentally found the series, and quite accidentally watched it before it finally sounded, a huge mystery – why no one talks about the North side.
There is no horror and thriller, there is even no drama, the melodrama does not add up, and it is difficult to call such a series a comedy.
There are philosophical parables, elements of the Monty Python style, full of surreal quotes and myths, and my favorite ironic references to many interesting techniques from classical cinema.
The small in the big is the big in the small.
You can put Twin Peaks in the North Side, it can expand anywhere and combine whatever it wants.
While “Twin Peaks” is created in a clear frame, which can not be broken, and is remembered, obviously, this simplicity and clarity of format.
But if you decompose the “North side”, like origami, then there will be a leaf, crumpled with lines from all sides.
The series lasts 6 seasons - it is a huge period of life, during which everything manages to change, the series changes, and everything in it - but it does not lose its individuality, and leaves intrigue until the very last series, which also did not disappoint me. The actor who played the main character, if you delve into the history of the series itself, really experienced the whole plot in parallel, and emotionally often forced to remember Castaneda, inside his books.
Few people have found this series, and even more so - few will reach the last of its series, but they will want to share the path they have traveled with someone else, I promise.
And instead of asking about Laura Palmer, there's going to be a lot of paradoxical answers to the unanswered questions.
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