At first I assumed you were being facetious. But glad I checked.

You seem open to what they say about TP in vague theoretical terms, but it does not come into focus for you. You should be satisfied this is not crucial to your personal travel through life. If you were something like a professional media critic, you would be making a mistake not digging deeper.

Did you watch it when it was on TV the first time? I don't think it's the full reason, but a lot of the adoration is admiring it for how revolutionary it was at the time. Music, cinematography, pacing, and much of the acting were unique and opened new vistas for what television could be.

In my view, this is true only after the first complete watch. Too easy to miss some important details in those episodes if one is aggressively fast forwarding. No one when this first aired even could have fast-forwarded. Better to experience it more like the original generation of us did. (Preferably on an old-fashioned CRT TV... just kidding... mostly. )

I found his list of ten things to be rather helpful. Unlike most of his films, MD can be deciphered fairly well if you really want to. Without spoilers, the key is dividing the real story line from the hallucinated dream of how she wished it had been. For me that accounted for about 85% of the scenes (on about my 4th watching.) But unraveling it is not the point, just an extra game on top of the masterpiece.

Yeah… it’s normal here, though not universally normal. So not as stupid as you thought it was. Sorry.

The suspect was drinking an unknown substance known as “White Claw.”