Twin Peaks Returning after its prophesized 25 year wait.

Showtime has picked up Twin Peaks for a limited 9 episode run. All directed by Lynch himself.

It's the show that may never have been made had Lynch directed RotJ. Laura Palmer promised she'd see us again in 25 years, and that is now becoming a reality.

Who here is psyched for a return trip to the Black Lodge and who thinks this will end up being a disappointment?

Forgetting its dip in quality in the second season as Lynch lost interest, Twin Peaks was some of the most original content ever aired on broadcast TV. It was funny and horrifying all at the same time. I for one am excited.

Anyone else have any thoughts?

 

I had read somewhere, and admittedly don't remember where now, that there was a rift between Frost and Lynch in the second season as Frost wanted to bow to the network and Lynch wanted to continue to go weirder. The same article had stated that some of the more rambling and useless plot threads that made up the second season post the killer reveal were Lynch simultaneously protesting the network's notes and not giving a damn about the show anymore if it didn't allow him creative freedom.

I actually feel that the modern pay cable TV environment is what Twin Peaks has always needed. Lynch will be allowed to do what he does with no interference, which will probably push away most viewers, but for those of us who love Lynch's movies I think it may end up being the show we've always been waiting for. Lynch's pure insanity tempered by Frost's TV sensibilities without any external demands or restrictions. I'm normally a pessimistic guy, but for some reason I have a lot of optimism on this one.

 

Bumping my own ancient thread here...but is anyone else watching the reboot? I'm interested to see what people think considering the variety of expectations you could have coming into a show like this. So far, I've loved every second of this bizarre incomprehensible masterpiece.

 

Well season 3 is very different. All Lynch. No Soap Opera. But its still a fun trip.

 

Good luck getting through Season 2. It can be a bit of a slog at times in the middle. Once Lynch got his interest back for the finale it gets much more interesting though.

 

Even the soap opera stuff turns into surreal mindf@#$ stuff this season though. Man...I called that Audrey stuff wasn't all that it seems from the first time she showed up, but it didn't change how jarring and unsettling it was when it finally happened at the end of this last episode.

Man this whole thing has been a treat. So sad it has to end this week. I just want it to keep going.

 

Man, I imagine that episode will be pretty divisive, but I'll be damned if I didn't love every second of it. It was horrifying and haunting. I've been sitting here all day tossing theories and themes around in my head.

Was this whole season a dream that took place as cooper tried to escape the black lodge? Is the finale actually the real world and has Twin Peaks forever been some middle ground between reality and the lodges? Or is the finale a hellish biproduct of Coop's blind pursuit to save Laura which inadvertently causes her death when he scares her in the woods the night she dies? Is the finale Coop an amalgam of Good Coop and Mr C or is he just darker because he's been corrupted by his time in the lodge?

I know some won't like it, but that finale made me want to go back and watch the whole thing from the beginning again. I felt scared and betrayed by the ending in all the (I think) intended ways.

But one of my favorite parts is how that finale works as a meta commentary for nostalgia obsessions. How coop becomes obsessed with bringing Laura back, but when he does nothing is as he remembers it. I feel like it was a simultaneous series finale and criticism from Lynch for us even wanting Twin Peaks to come back in the first place. No matter how much we demand the past be returned, it never will fully come back and when it does both it and us may be worse off for it.