Witnessing so much Lost discourse on my timeline because of its arrival on Netflix is throwing me for a loop. Lost absolutely could not have survived the scrutiny of the social media age. It would’ve crushed what was special about the show.
I would even argue to say that the backlash to how it ended represents how the whole show would have been treated had the whole thing existed in the age of social media. It ended its run in the beginnings of current social media.
I remember being on the forums for that show decoding shit and playing frame detective and then they went and just kept making the show dumber and dumber haha
But Twin Peaks: The Return released in 2017, arguably during peak social media, and that didn't seem to really hurt it at all. If anything it was great seeing stuff pop up like "logposting" facebook groups that had as much fun seriously dissecting it as making shitposts.
Twin Peaks was a cold dropped mid season network show that became a sensation and alienated its viewers once they realized the show wasn’t interested in solving the central media, to the point the network made them solve it. 90% of the return’s audience was in the bag already
The Return also wasn’t interested in solving its mysteries most of the time but when it ended without a huge resolution my attitude was along the lines of “ah, but that’s twin peaks”
