Speaking to the Television Critics Association, David Lynch and cast members of his upcoming Twin Peaks revival spoke to the new episodes’ relationship with the landmark original series. Though Lynch didn’t reveal much about the new Twin Peaks , he made it clear that, as always, its central obsession will be the death of Laura Palmer and the supernatural mysteries surrounding her last days.
“The story of Laura Palmer’s last seven days is very, very important for this,” Lynch said.
Both Lynch and his Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost are wary of making the same mistakes as the original series, in particular the original resolution of Laura Palmer’s murder, which lead to the comparatively unfocused second season.
“What killed ‘Twin Peaks’ originally — who killed Laura Palmer? — was a question that we did not ever really want to answer,” Variety reports Lynch as saying. “That Laura Palmer mystery was the goose that laid these little golden eggs. And then at a certain point, we were told we needed to wrap that up and after that, [the show] never really picked up.”
The 18 new episodes premiering on Showtime will be laser-focused by comparison, with Lynch confirming that the entire new season was written together, as a single narrative.
The new Twin Peaks premieres May 21 on Showtime.
