(Note: I almost wrote Charlie Kaufman, but then realized that was someone else. Twin Peaks was this totally new thing, and it’s very “off-ness” inspired the anti-comedy movement as Andy Kaufman ever did. I think the answer is that even though it seems totally goofy and antiquated now, what you have to understand is that in the 90s there was no Adult Swim yet. There was no Tim and Eric, no Unedited Footage of a Bear…hell, there was no Wayward Pines, even! There was MTV, but that was marketed to a teen audience, and was more about punk and anti-establishment and music videos (LOL) than it was about pushing the boundaries of conventional scripted television. No one ever really died (with the exception of 2/3rds of the Palmer family), so it didn’t have the highest stakes in the world. Every character needed to have a plot line in every episode, which seems redundant and forced. It was sort of a primetime spoof on soap operas, but was in fact, an hour long soap opera. Certainly it’s weird and kooky and sometimes scary, but this time around, I also saw how clunky it was.
Honestly, looking back at this show through your eyes, I’m not really sure why I was so obsessed with Twin Peaks. What they were thinking–people were getting fed up being strung along, the ratings were already dipping and this would be a boost–proved to be entirely incorrect, and the show didn’t have anywhere to go after that. That’s just a fact, and one that David Lynch was adamant about not doing, but ABC forced his hand. Well let’s work backwards here: the fact is, no one wanted this show after they revealed Laura Palmer’s killer. And that’t not even highly contested! What could anyone possibly want out of this show after we learn who killed Laura Palmer? Barring like two episodes, Season 2 was a very bad show with very bad ratings that deserved to be cancelled. Honest question here, Drew…Why is Twin Peaks so famous? Why do people still talk about it, like it deserves to come back for some reason? Is it just because of who David Lynch is? Honestly, first 8 episodes aside, there is no excuse for season 2. I firmly believe I could have had a stroke on top of my keyboard and produced that last paragraph, verbatim. Doppelgangers Leland and Cooper share a hearty laugh over the whole thing. Cooper chases a doppelganger of himself ( ohhhhhhh) around the Red Room, or maybe it’s the Doppelganger chasing him, they bump into a blue-eyed Leland, who is a character that is most definitely dead, before Cooper finally gets out of the Black Lodge. Some fire comes out of Windom Earle’s head and that’s all she wrote for Windom Earle. Fucking BOB shows up, oh hey BOB, can’t say I missed you, and BOB is pissed because only he gets to eat souls. Windom Earle shows up in the Red Room and he’s like, about to eat Heather Graham’s soul. Cooper tells Windom to eat HIS soul in exchange for Heather Graham’s soul, and everyone has blue eyes at this point, including Cooper. “Honestly, I don’t know what this shit is either.” It’s worth noting that everyone at this point is just screaming, loudly, and has blue eyes, which makes this the most horrifying prequel to Hardhome I’ve ever seen.
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