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- David Lynch, cinema auteur and friend to cows, has an exciting announcement for you.
Premiering in 1990 on ABC, David Lynch’s Twin Peaks was a nighttime drama that rewrote the rules of what such a creation could achieve. Slow, stylish, spooky, and hilariously quirky, Twin Peaks moved like nothing else on TV, and America went nuts for the show, with audiences only falling off as the second season wandered into proto-Lost-like confusion and “we’re clearly pulling this out of our ass”-itude. But the first season of Twin Peaks will live forever as a singularly brilliant television achievement, one that incurs enhanced belovedness around these parts. (The show is set in the Pacific Northwest, and features beautiful footage of Snoqualmie Falls in its credits).
Fast forward 25 years to last week, when vague Twin Peaks-related hubbub began quietly building, after David Lynch sent out the following tweet, quoting a beloved premonition from the original Twin Peaks:
An identical tweet was simultaneously sent out by Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost. Then came this morning, when David Lynch tweeted out “a special Twin Peaks announcement,” featuring this video:
Some specifics from Variety:
The episodes are expected to bow in early 2016, which would coincide with the 25th anniversary of the show’s demise after two seasons on ABC in 1990 and 1991. The new segs will be set in the present day and continue storylines established in the second season. Sources emphasize that the new episodes will not be a remake or a reboot but will reflect the passage of time since viewers last checked in with key characters.
Well then.
