COME BACK TWIN PEAKS

COME BACK TWIN PEAKS

 

For years I have heard about this weird show called Twin Peaks and now I've seen it - every weird moment of it, except the ending the series deserved…

Oh, I have seen every episode made to this date. But, we never saw the second and last season as the producers really wanted to make it.

As viewers know, Twin Peaks was aborted early on, due to the shows producers being forced by ABC to reveal the killer of Laura Palmer halfway through the second season. This was because the show was on the chopping block due to low ratings. It was also considered unacceptable that a TV murder would remain still unsolved at the end of the first season. Going into the second season with the killer still not known was even more outrageous in those days and the network forced the TP producers to reveal the killer pronto.

However, once Laura Palmer's killer was known, the story's mystery was dispelled, and the series lost its creative mystery. The last episode of this famed series is painful to watch. Our favorite characters are hanging by the threads of unresolved plot lines and most of them wear sad faces. No more coffee, no more cherry pie. The Twin Peaks RR Diner is closed.

For good? In the last couple years, two Twin Peaks alumni have expressed an interest in resurrecting the series. One has mentioned the possibility of launching a sequel in the form of webisodes…while another, a former co-producer of the show, has talked about wanting to see the series be given a much justified television rebirth. Reaction: What a great time to do it. Today we have cable TV. A series like Twin Peaks could incarnate on a cable network like AMC or TNT. There's a lot more wiggle room for artistic expression and divergent wackiness on cable these days than there was on one of the Big Three in the early nineties. Maybe we really are evolving... 

P.S. Think about this - during the series finale, in the Red Room, didn't Laura Palmer tell Agent Cooper she'd see him in about 25 years? Who says it can't be a few years sooner...?