Great news. After dropping off the project last month, David Lynch is back on board. Plus we're getting more than the previously announced 9 episodes. http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/dav...aks-showtime-revival-is-happening-1201498131/
My cousin and his friend are/were really into this show. I hadn't smoked in a few months and I had just ripped a dab when they fired this show up. They were probably somewhere in the midpoint of the season. This ol log lady bitch came on the screen and started babbling on about some shit. Hands down one of the weirdest shows I have ever seen. And I don't think it was just because of the dab.
When Showtime first announced its plans for a third season of Twin Peaks, back in October 2014, it surely could not have foreseen the endless snags in the road for the cult show’s return. As has now been well-documented, co-creator and director David Lynch quit the project back in April, after a year and four months of negotiations, citing Showtime’s unwillingness to commit enough money for the scripts to be done the way Lynch had envisioned. Showtime boss, David Nevins, was not to be deterred, however, and pushed forward with negotiations. The final result: Lynch was brought back on board (presumably with a whole load more money) and the original series order was doubled from 9 episodes to 18, with Lynch directing every one. Twin Peaks season three was slated to air in 2016 (twenty-five years after the show’s second season aired), and indeed an intended book from co-creator Mark Frost was also set to be released, spanning the events that have taken place in the eponymous town since the murder of Laura Palmer. However, recent comments from Frost have revealed that fans’ wait might be a little longer than anticipated, since the third season now won’t appear on our screens until 2017. Speaking on a visit to Baseball’s Hall of Fame, Frost discussed the return of the show in an interview posted on the hall’s website. “A lot of people always look back at Twin Peaks and say that was the start of this explosion we’ve had in good television drama, but we did it in a time when there were still only three networks. The challenge for us is to try and come back and raise the bar above what we did the last time. We’re coming back with season three of Twin Peaks after a 25-year absence. We’ve finished the scripts, we start production in September, and that will be coming out on Showtime sometime in 2017.” There was no explanation offered for the delay, but one can assume that due to hold ups in negotiations, everything else has also been pushed back. Despite having secured most of the original cast to return, shooting for Twin Peaks’ third season won’t begin until September, and with the huge episode order, that would not give the Twin Peaks team long to get the episodes to air. Frost makes a valid point about the show needing to raise the bar, and though this delay is no doubt frustrating, it might well be better to take the time to ensure Lynch gives us 18 well-rounded and well thought out episodes. When Twin Peaks first aired in 1990, there was absolutely nothing like it at all. It really was ground-breaking and divisive television; certainly not to everyone’s tastes. Since then, shows such as The X-Files have infiltrated the mainstream subconscious, and there is a wide range of shows available across all networks and streaming services (such as Wayward Pines, The Walking Deadand Supernatural), which all mean that viewers expect and demand more from their supernatural TV thrillers. There is no specific date in 2017 given for Twin Peaks season three, so it is a possibility that the series could return at the very start of 2017 – but even so, it’s still another blow to the very dedicated fanbase who are eager to see this show return. Many questions surround Twin Peaks (as has always been the case), and it will be interesting to see what (if any) clues we can gather when filming starts. Twin Peaks season three will air on Showtime in 2017.
Twin Peaks: Amanda Seyfried Lands Mystery Role on Showtime Revival By Rebecca Iannucci / September 18 2015, 3:32 PM PDT Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival is bringing Amanda Seyfried back into the TV fray. The actress has landed a major role on the ’90s series’ upcoming continuation, TVLine has learned exclusively. Details on her character are being kept under wraps, but TVLine has learned that she will be playing a pivotal new character. (Could she be Coop and Annie’s daughter?) Seyfried will appear in multiple episodes, making it her biggest TV gig since Big Love ended in 2011. Though she is best known for her film work these days, Seyfried’s TV resume also includes roles on Veronica Mars, Wildfire, All My Children and As the World Turns. A Showtime rep declined to comment. Twin Peaks co-creators David Lynch and Mark Frost have penned all episodes of the present-day continuation — which will total more than the originally announced nine hours — with Lynch directing every installment. At the Television Critics Association summer press tour in August, Showtime president David Nevins confirmed that the revival will begin shooting in September for a possible 2016 premiere, and fans can expect “familiar faces” to join returning cast member Kyle MacLachlan. “You should be optimistic that the people that you want [back] will be there, and then there will be some surprises in addition.”
Damn at this size of this cast list. The only original cast members I don't see returning are Lara Flynn Boyle (or her replacement from Fire Walk With Me) or Heather Graham http://sho-pr.com/pressclips/Twin_Peaks_Cast.pdf
Season 3 premieres on May 21 with 2 hour long episodes, and apparently eps 3 and 4 will be streaming through Showtime platforms that same night. 18 total episodes for season 3
So I've been very late to Twin Peaks, having just watched the series all the way through for the first time last year. I was saving Fire Walk With Me for right before the premiere of the new season, but I just found out my local Alamo Drafthouse is showing it in a couple weeks. Excited to be able to see it for the first time in a theater, despite the mixed reviews I've read/heard.
I got past the part where you find out who Laura's killer actually is and Jesus it gets bizarre after that. Is it worth finishing?
Been watching the first two seasons. Shit is really weird. I think it's even weird by 90s standards. Pretty cheesy too. I always thought it was a darker, more serious show than it is.
He did S1 and the first 9 episodes of S2 (up until they revealed Laura's killer). I think he came back to direct the S2 finale too but not sure how involved he was story wise.
Finished up season 2 last night. There's a pretty good stretch through the teens episodes there where absolutely nothing of consequence happens. It still has some quirkiness, but it feels less genuine than it did in the first season and first half of season 2. The final episode is a must watch, though. It ties up some of that inconsequential stuff, but I imagine it's absolutely critical for what's going to be happening in season 3. Next up is Fire Walk With Me. I don't have a Showtime subscription and I generally don't torrance, so I'm debating when I'm going to subscribe to watch season 3. I could wait until it's all out and binge it with a 1 month sub, but if the response is good early on I may not be able to resist that long.
Im so glad I watched the series before this started. I would have been so lost had I not. It's also pretty incredible they got just about all the original actors. Also pretty amazing that he was able to capture the same tone and crazy feel from 25 years ago.
I don't get Showtime otherwise I'd be watching. I'll watch eventually and see the craziness Lynch has cooked up.
it's a pretty dense show on top of the Lynch weirdness with a lot of old and now new characters and a complex ongoing storyline. I assume a lot of people trying to watch it now have never seen the original 2 seasons and FWWM or have long forgotten what actually happened and have no idea what's going on. Lynch isn't going to hold our hands through it. I've been randomly saying "helllloooo ooo oo!!!" all week. Friends and family think I'm losing it.
Eps 3 and 4 are just absurd craziness. Idk if I love it or hate it. But I invested a lot of time watching the first 2 seasons of this quackery and fuckery over the last few months , so Im sticking w it
After seeing 4.5 episodes, I don't really get what the point of returning the show was other than a straight up money grab.
The Dougie stuff is the only thing that feels meandering to me, but it gets a pass since it's such a fun character. I think this is what season 2 of the show would have been if he hadn't been forced to condense the reveal of Laura's killer in the first third, then checked out until the end. It's one big 18 hour movie we're not even 1/3 of the way into yet.