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If Fire Walk With Me holds any clues to unlocking the more obtuse aspects of Twin Peaks- and Lynch has strongly suggested that it does-it’s a safe bet that the new season of Twin Peaks will pick up all these dangling threads and weave them into the story fans have been waiting so many years for.īut we’re saying all this now, with the benefit of decades of hindsight.

In another time-bending subplot, Annie Blackburn briefly appears in Laura Palmer’s bed, urging her to write Dale Cooper’s tragic fate into her diary. It’s probably worth noting that that prequel movie, Fire Walk With Me, provides slightly more resolution to some of these questions.

For all the weirdness-and the semi-improvised nature in which it came - the Twin Peaks finale plays by its own internal logic if you’re nerdy and obsessive enough to follow Twin Peaks down this rabbit hole, you’ll find most of the answers you need to make sense of it.
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The Black Lodge takes over the series altogether, swallowing up all conventional drama in favor of this particularly Lynchian vision of hell.īelieve it or not, the answer is closer to the former than the latter. Is this a roundabout way of suggesting that Twin Peaks, which seems to be the epicenter of a universal battle between good and evil, has descended into a purgatorial spiral? Or is it just self-referential, self-indulgent weirdness for weirdness’ sake? Instead, at the Double R Diner, a scene from the pilot repeats itself more or less verbatim, though none of the characters involved seem to be aware they’ve said and done these things before. But Lynch takes this relatively straightforward concept (and this corny execution) and throws it out.

The original finale script hints that the boundaries of time itself might have broken down as Cooper enters the Black Lodge, he briefly becomes a child, and later encounters his elderly father. But here, the Black Lodge takes over the series altogether, swallowing up all conventional drama in favor of this particularly Lynchian vision of hell.Īnd then there's all the time travel. We had seen this place briefly in Cooper's dream sequence near the beginning of a series-back when Twin Peaks was a critical darling, and its weirdness was in proportion to its night-soap plotting. That final sequence takes place in the Black Lodge-a nightmarish, apparently inescapable funhouse covered in omnipresent red drapes, and packed with smirking, blank-eyed doppelgangers of the characters Twin Peaks fans had come to know over the course of the series. More than 25 years later, it’s still the show’s finest hour-even as it laid the seeds for the show's own demise. It was one of the better stories of that troubled second season, but it was still obvious that Twin Peaks' best days were behind it.īut as it turned out, the series-which had boldly flouted so many of the rules that then governed network television-had one last audacious trick to play: the darkest, riskiest, and most riveting finale the show’s creative brain trust could cobble together. As it ended its second season-and with a third still a toss-up-series protagonist Dale Cooper was set for a climactic battle against Windom Earle, his FBI mentor-turned-psychotic adversary. By now, everyone knew who killed Laura Palmer, and Twin Peaks had struggled through an uneven second season that failed to present a mystery that was even a fraction as interesting. Twin Peaks-which began as a critical darling and quickly ballooned into a water-cooler phenomenon-had long since shed most of its viewers.
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The finale aired on June 10, 1991, opposite a rerun of Northern Exposure and a made-for-TV movie starring Charlton Heston.

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And while it's impossible to guess where that story will end up-18 hours is a lot of story-it's safe to assume it will shed new context on one of the most brilliant, infuriating hours of network TV history: the Twin Peaks series finale. In less than a week, Showtime will premiere its 18-episode revival of Twin Peaks.
