- #Twin peaks season two pushing of the killer reveal movie#
- #Twin peaks season two pushing of the killer reveal series#
Glaringly, most insulting, Twin Peaks: The Return reframes the story we thought we were watching to be about something else and calling the whole affair into question. Twin Peaks: The Return provided little resolution to the open questions from the series’ cancellation, in several circumstances it excluded characters from the original run, and posed a host of new questions it had no interest in answering. Unfortunately, David Lynch (and Frost?) wasn’t interested in any of those things.
#Twin peaks season two pushing of the killer reveal series#
Three, with Lynch and Frost involved the new series would hopefully be more akin to the series or at least a new thing rather than the dark surrealism of the movie, sans Frost. For one, how many shows get a second chance to finish their stories twenty-five years after cancellation? Two, there would finally be some resolution to the ambiguity of the series ending. When the new series was announced with both Lynch and Frost at the helm, I was ecstatic.
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The series was cancelled, no one was interested in funding new movies so, it was what it was. Written by series creator, David Lynch, without co-creator, Mark Frost, it was a prequel spin-off with a different feel and treatment of the material as well as elements that, maddeningly, called into question mythology the series had developed throughout its run. A few minor story points indicated vague details about Dale Cooper’s fate, but for the most part, FWWM, was its own thing.
#Twin peaks season two pushing of the killer reveal movie#
The movie didn’t bother to address these questions and turned in a prequel about (mostly…) the death of (seeming!) series macguffin, Laura Palmer. The series ended just about every main story-line with a painful cliffhanger that suspended many of our favorite characters in situations that put them in peril, questioned their survival, created emotional turmoil in their lives, or, in the case of main character, Dale Cooper, raised existential questions about his fate as he appeared to be possessed by series villain, BOB, a malevolent entity responsible for murder and depravity in town. The follow-up movie, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, was a stark change from the series but it still dialed up a dark, yet strangely emotional story in spite of the uncomfortable material.īut that was twenty-five years ago. Larger than life, complicated characters, action, supernatural/unearthly situations, and writing that showed the creators respected the audience’s intelligence. It was a show that gave me all of the things I loved most about my favorite shows at the time like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Lost, The X-Files.
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It was scary, it was funny, it was strange and so much more and most of all it was unapologetic about those things. An unearthed surprise from the past that struck all the right chords with me. When I discovered it in college 12 years ago, it was like I made an amazing discovery.
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It has taken time to find the right words to express my profound disappointment over not just the end of the new season (and probably the show, period), but also the continuation as a whole which was only punctuated by a surreal, non-ending ending. I’ve deleted it and restarted it three times. I started writing this reaction to the end of Twin Peaks: The Return the day after it aired.