First, let me say, my ten star rating is for the pilot alone. The rest of the series didn't live up to the expectations raised by the first episode, but then it's not really a story that could be upheld week after week without becoming redundant and unfunny. (It doesn't help that Lynch himself wasn't involved for much of the rest of the series' short run). So, I tend to look at the pilot as just another Lynch short film, and forget the rest of the series, because it works well in that way.
The script is so original, so clever, so startlingly different from anything else on TV before, during or since, that it really is a miracle it was aired at all-much less even played for the three weeks it did. My favorite moments are numerous, and yet, impossible to recount in a review without A, spoiling them for potential viewers, and B, even giving a hint at how funny they are to watch, even if I described them word for word, action for action.
I read a draft of the script for the pilot on the internet, which contains much dialogue and plot left out of the final product, and I believe it was for the better, entirely. Much of the humor derives from the randomness of it all, so it's not as funny if we understand the purpose of the characters dressed as natives, or the lion crashing through the scenery. In this case, Lynch appeared to simply cut the explanations and let the results speak for themselves, and speak they did!
The script is so original, so clever, so startlingly different from anything else on TV before, during or since, that it really is a miracle it was aired at all-much less even played for the three weeks it did. My favorite moments are numerous, and yet, impossible to recount in a review without A, spoiling them for potential viewers, and B, even giving a hint at how funny they are to watch, even if I described them word for word, action for action.
I read a draft of the script for the pilot on the internet, which contains much dialogue and plot left out of the final product, and I believe it was for the better, entirely. Much of the humor derives from the randomness of it all, so it's not as funny if we understand the purpose of the characters dressed as natives, or the lion crashing through the scenery. In this case, Lynch appeared to simply cut the explanations and let the results speak for themselves, and speak they did!