ChaseMacri.com » Twin Peaks http://chasemacri.com Chase Macri Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:22:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Happytown and the problem with network television http://chasemacri.com/2010/05/12/happytown-and-the-problem-with-network-television/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happytown-and-the-problem-with-network-television http://chasemacri.com/2010/05/12/happytown-and-the-problem-with-network-television/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 04:07:36 +0000 Chase http://chasemacri.com/?p=1724 Well, one of the problems anyway.

ABC just launched a fun, kind of terrifying, mystical, psychological murder mystery called Happytown. Great show so far. I’ve seen two episodes that you can also see at Hulu. It reminds me of one of my all time favorite TV dramas, and one you should all see if you haven’t, David Lynch’s Twin Peaks (which can also been seen over at CBS.) I’ve always enjoyed mystical shows (X-Files comes to mind) as well as crime dramas (I’ve been watching Castle lately too) so Happytown was right up my channel (or alley, or whatever.) Love the first two episodes (I mean, come on, it has Sam Neill playing a Dr. Weir-type character!) then today I was saddened to see ABC has decided to cancel the show.

THEY CANCELED A BRAND NEW SHOW AFTER TWO EPISODES! TWO!

Why? WHY ABC? Why do you cancel shows before they have a chance? What if you canceled LOST after two episodes because it was slow-going catching on? I’m just baffled.

Well, it may be hard selling you on the show now knowing it has already been canceled, but if you’d like to check it out, there’s a link towards the top of this post. And if it turns out that you like it, as do I, please consider sending ABC a quick “WTF are you canceling a show after two episodes?” message at their site. The link is this picture right below.

happytown cast

]]> http://chasemacri.com/2010/05/12/happytown-and-the-problem-with-network-television/feed/ 0 The Shape of Things To Come: Prophecy and the American Voice http://chasemacri.com/2007/09/05/the-shape-of-things-to-come-prophecy-and-the-american-voice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-shape-of-things-to-come-prophecy-and-the-american-voice http://chasemacri.com/2007/09/05/the-shape-of-things-to-come-prophecy-and-the-american-voice/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:08:52 +0000 Chase http://chasemacri.com/?p=414 I was reading ^ that book and Marcus quotes D. H. Lawrence when talking about freedom in America, and in David Lynch’s portrayal of America through the community in the show Twin Peaks.  The community in the show is located in the fictional town of Twin Peaks, Washington as far west and north you can get in this country, bordering Canada.  The furthest possible from the nation’s ideals and the founding land of the east coast.  The quote struck a chord with me if we’re still thinking about having an intentional community (or are doing it despite distance):

“Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. The moment you can do what you like, there is nothing you care about doing.”

Our community is currently a severed one, and we are all serving our own interests.  Most of them are completely necessary for where we feel we need to go.  I, myself, feel I am at a crossroads of many different destinations all of them leading me to very different parts of the country, or to stay in the one I’m in right now.  All of these roads have about a year until they can be taken; they are still being constructed.  All of them are intentional, I have to exit the road I’m on to start them.  I hope and pray any of these roads ends, or at least detours, where any of you are.  But I agree with Ian that this community must serve a purpose; must desire to fulfill some unfulfilled.  I think I want to end up in any community, be it ours or another, where that is happening.  That thought makes me wonder, how am I doing that now?  Am I at all?

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