Anyone seen this miniseries?

I bought it on DVD recently, after seeing it mentioned in connection with TP a few times. I just finished it yesterday, I'm glad I bought it (£4 for 275 minutes is good value). The connection to TP isn't too strong, and it's nowhere near as good, but it's quite enjoyable. Despite its cyberpunk story it's quite melodramatic (like a kind of tragedy where all the people are connected), and as a consequence, the acting is a bit strange, very over-the-top. Actors that you know are good (Robert Loggia especially, and David Warner) seem quite campy in the delivery but I think it works okay.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

Just finished a second viewing of Wild Palms, and noted a few Lynchian similarties.  First there is the obvious superficial connection between the names Wild Palms/Twin Peaks.  Each episode of WP begins with titles over swaying palm trees, echoing the swaying pines of TP.  Both series focus on seemingly perfect families with dark secrets and hidden evils.  In the beginning of WP there is a scene of lovemaking going nowhere, where Grace pats Larry the same way Arquette pats Pullman in Lost Highway.  I loved the detail of the pale white skin around Chickie's eyes from his virtual reality glasses.  The scene where we hear the scream as we see the twin tortured Tara faces in Chickie's fifties tortoiseshell glasses is quite Lynchian.  Ditto Robert Morse's horrific mimezine trip, as he watches himself sing.  The colors and curtains in the cheap dive bar are very TP.  (The choice of two-time Tony award winner Robert Morse for this aging lounge-lizard character was perfect.  Best known for his work in Broadway musicals of the 60's, his appearance in this futuristic tale adds to its surreality.)  All in all, I enjoyed WP even more on second viewing.  It is fine to look at.  The long shot of Grace in her net-surrounded hospital bed after her attempted suicide is stunning.  Also loved the long zoom in on Paige in her flame-red wedding dress, while Gimme Shelter comes up on the soundtrack.  

Gimme Shelter is percectly used in that scene isn't it.

I also loved the bit where Harry turns the lights on when Grace is in the bath...

I'm right with ya!  The use of light in general struck me throughout... many times two characters end up in front of a window, and the natural light is always super-exposed, blindingly blurry, as if the characters could float out of the window into another dimension...the over-exposure blurs the line between this world and "that" world, (which of course is integral to the storyline).

 Edit - just rewatched the episode in TP where Briggs is taken into the White Lodge, and the use of light in that scene is just like I was describing above.

I had no idea that Wild Palms was even on DVD and as cheap as this - can't wait to watch it again!

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