What can I say?
This series is mind blowing. The characters and the character development, the criss-crossing story lines and ALL surrounding the mysterious death of a high school student...

This box is worth owning just for the "perks". The original introductions to each episode by "Log Lady" (which are optional), and the International Version of the "pilot" episode which is a whole 30 minutes longer and has an alternate ending to the series...
Great Set...the only complaint I had was that It does not include the movie...
oh well...then it would have been perfect...lol

Why did it have to end?
This show was way ahead of it's time. Get this box set and wonder at how David Lynch was able to pull off getting this show into the mainstream television sets of American. Unbelievably great! I had the VHS set, but traded it in for the DVD set. Well worth it.

An outrage
I have waited very long (like many) to enjoy this DVD set. Even more so as I finally made time to be able to enjoy beat by beat this show I so love. Watched the Pilot, great they put both versions on the DVD. Then I proceed to the TV series. I watched my way through til Cooper gets shot. Then it jumps to the day Leland gets up with white hair. EXCUSE ME !!! Where is the episode where Cooper is laying in his bedroom with the giant & the visions, also showing Ben Horn & his daughter @ 1-eye Jack. WHAT THE .... !? THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE DEFINITIVE GOLD BOX EDITION. What a rip-off. I am pissed. I am not even sure I want to keep going. THX 4 ruining it all for me, whomever is responsible.

One of the best shows ever aired on network television
I can't believe they ever aired this show. It was so ahead of its time, and it still seems that way because there hasn't been a show like it since. If you like David Lynch, you cannot go another day without buying this collection, but make sure you get some cherry pie and coffee before you sit down!

noir
Lynch and Frost really paint a gorgeous portrait of the human condition. The blackness and the light, and how they almost always are side by side. The conditions that lead to one's realization that life is either half full or half empty, and the burden and responsiblity of that. The tiny nuances of human behavior that can only be picked up and interpreted by our subconsious are what give color, shadow, and depth to this portrait. Lynch is known for delving into his subconsious, trancendental meditatively?, for inspiration and substance, and it is here that he seems somehow able to create what post-plato rational/emperical proofs and structures can never ever touch; the world that is beyond the calculable apparently programmed one we can see and touch.