, the show’s creators David Lynch and Mark Frost, and actors including Kyle MacLachlan, Ray Wise and Grace Zabriskie revisit one of the strangest and most enthralling TV shows of all time){kind=link}
Just as the release date has finally been confirmed for the brand new series of Twin Peaks, we return to where it all began. In this feature from our April 2010 issue (Take 155), where the show’s creators David Lynch and Mark Frost, and actors including Kyle MacLachlan, Ray Wise and Grace Zabriski...
Television coverage of the first Gulf War pre-empted the show and, at the end of season two, it was cancelled due to poor ratings. Meanwhile, Lynch revisited the story in a 1992 cinema prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, the subtitle coming from a poem recited by Bob.
“I was still in love with that whole world,” he says. Featuring cameos from David Bowie and Chris Isaak, the film was a critical and commercial failure. “I honestly stayed away from the prequel,” Frost says. “My argument was, they cut us off when the story was very pregnant. We could move forward and wrap things up. But he [Lynch] moved backwards instead, filling in things that already seemed somewhat resolved in my mind.”
Still, with the second series of Twin Peaks about to make its belated DVD debut, there’s no trace of lingering bad blood between Lynch and Frost, and the cast seem to view the show as a genuine calling card; a point of pride that the vicissitudes of fame cannot touch.
“It was bigger than me and Mark,” Lynch says. “It was something that just happened. No rhyme or reason to it. I always say every element is crucial: you can have beautiful music and the story sucks, or the characters are no good. But with Twin Peaks, all the stars aligned. The show came out at the right time. You couldn’t plan it, couldn’t figure it again – it was just the strangest thing.
“It caught on, not just in America, but everywhere it went. It was just a moment in time. There’s no way to explain it.”