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Wednesday 17 May 2017
‘Twin Peaks’: Too weird the first time; weird enough now?

FRAZIER MOORE wraps. Instead, it has been Agent Cooper (played by soon enough for its viewers fined to four broadcast
AP Television Writer teasing fans with splashes returning lead Kyle Ma- — revealed who had killed networks and public tele-
NEW YORK (AP) — In the of hype. FBI Special Agent cLachlan) will be back in homecoming queen Laura vision. The closest thing to
current run-up to the Dale Cooper was known the weird little hamlet of Palmer. groundbreaking drama
“Twin Peaks” revival, view- to celebrate “a damn fine Twin Peaks, Washington, a But that was never the was Vietnam War-set “Chi-
ers know almost nothing cup of coffee,” but what quarter-century after the point. The point was to na Beach” and sleek-and-
about what to expect. At viewers have been privy
the same time, they know to before his reappear-
everything they need to. ance wouldn’t add up to a
There will be no critics’ re- demitasse.
views to tip them off before On the other hand, the
the series debuts Sunday “Twin Peaks” faithful have a
at 9 p.m. EDT. Showtime pretty good idea of what’s
has kept its episodes under ahead in the 18 episodes.

This image released by Showtime shows Kyle MacLachlan from the revival of “Twin Peaks.” The
series debuts Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT.
Associated Press

original ABC series aired. transport the audience sexy “L.A. Law.” Or you
He will presumably be i to a “Twin Peaks”-addled could watch “Full House”
nvestigating one or more state of mind, where those and “MacGyver” (some
fresh crimes that stir eerie viewers would be con- things never change).
echoes of a mystery that, stantly challenged, pro- No wonder Rosenberg was
way back when, nettled voked, amused and con- at least as grateful as he
the nation: “Who killed founded. was puzzled: “So much of
Laura Palmer?” Including TV critics. television is so rigidly main-
Among 217 listed cast “I’ve watched every epi- stream as well as simplistic,
members, MacLachlan’s sode,” declared the Los transparent and without
fellow returnees include Angeles Times’ Howard mystique that you almost
Madchen Amick, Richard Rosenberg a month into snap your neck doing a
Beymer, David Ducho- its run, “and I’m hopelessly double take when sight-
vny, Sherilyn Fenn, David behind and confused, but ing a series as gratuitously
Patrick Kelly, Sheryl Lee, loving it. I think.” bizarre and magnificently
Peggy Lipton, Harry Dean But too many other viewers opaque as ‘Twin Peaks,’”
Stanton, Russ Tamblyn, Ray weren’t so sure. he cheered.
Wise and Grace Zabriskie. All too soon, legions of No wonder The New York
They are joined by such them simply gave up. After Times’ John J. O’Connor
newcomers as Jim Belushi, its explosive launch in April marveled, “Nothing like it
Michael Cera, Richard 1990, the series hemor- has ever been seen on net-
Chamberlain, Laura Dern, rhaged audience. By June work prime time.”
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim 1991, “Twin Peaks” seemed No wonder The Wash-
Roth, Amanda Seyfried, as lifeless as Laura Palmer. ington Post’s Tom Shales
Eddie Vedder and Naomi ABC pronounced it dead, hailed it as “just this side of
Watts. leaving only a cult of loy- a godsend.”
Original architects Mark alists to grieve over the No wonder it made such a
Frost and David Lynch co- corpse. splash in that shallow pool
wrote this new series, with For anyone now who of TV sameness.
Lynch directing, surely wants to discover or refresh What’s truly impressive
guaranteeing that “Twin themselves on what the looking back has noth-
Peaks” Redux will repli- fuss was all about, those 30 ing to do with what “Twin
cate its predecessor’s Lyn- episodes are available for Peaks” was meant to be
chian mix of the macabre, bingeing on Netflix. about, if anything, but the
campiness and conspicu- But how to fully grasp their waves it made as a TV
ous obscurity. impact? disrupter, waves felt ever
The original series eventu- Recall that “Twin Peaks” since in the swelling ocean
ally — though not nearly erupted in a TV realm con- of programs.q