Twin Peaks: guide

Some 25 years after we first asked Who Killed Laura Palmer?, Twin Peaks returns.

Directed entirely by David Lynch, the new 18-part limited event series picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town were stunned when their homecoming queen Laura Palmer was shockingly murdered.

Twin Peaks is written and executive produced by series creators David Lynch and Mark Frost, and is executive produced by Sabrina S. Sutherland.

Australian Screening
In the US ,Showtime screens eps 1 & 2 and offers 3 & 5 online thereafter.

In Australia all 4 screen on Stan (new members get a free 30 Day Trial):

Monday May 22
2pm AEDT Episodes 1 & 2
(Around) 4pm AEDT Episodes 3 & 4

Previously:

If you still need to get up to speed (and let’s face it who doesn’t?) here is one appraisal:

Season one

“She’s dead. Wrapped in plastic.” It’s the mystery that enraptured TV audiences of the early 90s: who stood behind the murder of the homecoming queen, the shining star of a quaint Washington state town?

It turns out, Twin Peaks was a town only serene on the outside; there are secrets everywhere, and even Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is discovered to be living a secret double life tinged by drugs and prostitution.
FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) is sent to investigate; though everyone comes under suspicion, Cooper is aided by a series of strange dreams, coffee and pie. Which is where the show’s famous ‘Red Room’ sequences and use of phonetic reversal come in, as two supernatural individuals — The Man from Another Place (a dwarf dressed in a red suit) and The Giant — offer cryptic clues.

The killer, too, is revealed to be of a supernatural origin: Bob, a demonic spirit who takes possession of Laura’s own father Leland (Ray Wise) as a young boy. Bob spurs Leland to kill Laura, kidnapping both her and another girl, Ronette Pulaski (Phoebe Augustine).
Leland is also discovered to be responsible for the earlier murder of Teresa Banks (Pamela Gidley) in a neighbouring town, alongside the death of Laura’s doppelgänger cousin Madeleine Ferguson (Lee). But back to Bob — an inhabitant of a place called the Black Lodge, described as the extra-dimensional source of great evil, and a kind of opposite to the place of purity, the White Lodge.

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Season two

Season Two did expand the show’s narrative scope to introduce the villainy of Windom Earle (Kenneth Welsh), Cooper’s former partner and the man responsible for the death of his first true love (and wife) Caroline, however, what’s more important here is the show’s final episode.
It sees Cooper follow Earle into the Black Lodge after he kidnaps new love interest Annie (Heather Graham); here, he becomes trapped in a strange maze of two apparent Red Rooms linked by a hallway, each offering new nightmarish visions that bring together Bob, Laura Palmer, The Man from Another Place, and The Giant. He even faces a sinister doppelgänger of himself.

However, what may prove particularly crucial for Season Three is what happens once Cooper leaves the Black Lodge and returns to the normal world; everything is seemingly back to normal, until Cooper enters the bathroom, looks in the mirror, and sees Bob in the reflection.
Smashing his face into the mirror and laughing manically, this is exactly the place where Twin Peaks left us.

You can also read more on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me here.

Actors who will be reprising their roles:

• Mädchen Amick as Shelly Johnson
• Dana Ashbrook as Bobby Briggs
• Phoebe Augustine as Ronette Pulaski
• Richard Beymer as Benjamin Horne
• Catherine E. Coulson as The Log Lady
• Julee Cruise as the Roadhouse Singer
• David Duchovny as Denise Bryson
• Sherilyn Fenn as Audrey Horne
• Miguel Ferrer as Albert Rosenfield
• Warren Frost as Dr. Will Hayward
• Harry Goaz as Andy Brennan
• Andrea Hays as Heid
• Gary Hershberger as Mike Nelson
• Michael Horse as Tommy “Hawk” Hill
• David Patrick Kelly as Jerry Horne
• Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer and Maddy Ferguson
• Peggy Lipton as Norma Jennings
• Bellina Martin Logan as Louie “Birdsong” Budway
• David Lynch as Gordon Cole
• Kyle MacLachlan as Dale Cooper
• Everett McGill as Ed Hurley
• Walter Olkewicz as Jacques Renault
• Kimmy Robertson as Lucy Moran
• Wendy Robie as Nadine Hurley
• Marvin “Marv” Rosand as Cook at the Double R Diner
• Carlton Lee Russell as the Jumping Man
• Harry Dean Stanton as Carl Rodd
• Charlotte Stewart as Betty Briggs
• Al Strobel as Phillip Michael Gerard
• Carel Struycken as The Giant
• Russ Tamblyn as Dr. Lawrence Jacoby
• Ray Wise as Leland Palmer
• Alicia Witt as Gersten Hayward
• Grace Zabriskie as Sarah Palmer

Also featuring are Laura Dern; Robert Forster; Jim Belushi; Michael Cera; Ashley Judd; Tim Roth; Eddie Vedder; Trent Reznor; Jennifer Jason Leigh; Amanda Seyfried; Naomi Watts; Richard Chamberlain; and Ernie Hudson.

Source: Irish Independent, Trusted Reviews