“They only did 30 episodes … thought we’d do the 70 that are missing.” If you buy the idea that one of Lynch’s biggest influences was Alfred Hitchcock-from the dream-logic menace of Spellbound to the romantic dread of Vertigo and the shock tactics of Psycho-then Bates Motel’s attempted shotgun marriage of the two master filmmakers is not only logical but a perfectly postmodern proposition. “We pretty much ripped off Twin Peaks,” joked Bates Motel’s producer Carlton Cuse in 2013.
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Still, in honor of the series’ birthday, it’s worth putting together a syllabus of post– Twin Peaks movies and series that, taken together, suggest the scope and diversity of its seismic influence and impact. It’s almost easier to count the shows that don’t have a little bit of Twin Peaks in their creative DNA. The triumphant 2017 release of Twin Peaks: The Return, besides filling in the blanks of what it would look like if something so weird was being watched and recapped weekly (it was the best summer ever), played provocatively with the show’s mythology and enduring popularity, hinting, in the bleakest, most heartbreaking terms possible, that as much as we want to, we can’t go home again.Īs original as Twin Peaks seemed-and was-in 1990, it was the sum total of a series of inspirations, which it in turn seeded into several subsequent generations of film directors and television showrunners-some behind the heaviest hitters of their eras like The X-Files, True Detective, and Hannibal. … nice) and a raft of pieces about what David Lynch and Mark Frost’s wildly ambitious, maddeningly inconsistent, and incomparably odd mash-up of social portraiture, police procedural, unhinged soap opera, swooning romanticism, supernatural horror, Bobby soxer nostalgia, Civil War fetishism, taboo smashing, and unrepentant pro-log propaganda really means-both in terms of its endlessly teeming subplots and subtexts and as a larger cultural phenomenon.Īt once an object lesson and cautionary tale in the benefits and perils of letting an eccentric genius run wild on corporate prime time-the series’ two-season run included a lifetime’s worth of behind-the-scenes controversy and in-fighting, to the point that Lynch angrily bailed on the project save for a few key late episodes- Twin Peaks is a relic of a monocultural moment of appointment television and largely analog fan communities. This week marks the 30th anniversary of the premiere of Twin Peaks, an occasion marked by, among other things, a live-tweet by Kyle MacLachlan on Wednesday afternoon of the series pilot (beginning at 4:20 p.m.
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