Why Twin Peaks Will Always Have Loose Ends
Beginning in 1990 and creating a legacy of surrealism that led to its return in 2017, David Lynch's Twin Peaks became a cultural phenomenon like no other. With strange visuals, bizarre characters, and a mystery at its core, the show has bewildered and confused fans and critics alike for decades.
After the initial series ended after two seasons in 1991, the subsequent feature film Fire Walk With Me left many questions unanswered. Fans hoped that the 2017 revival series would finally tie up the loose ends from decades before. However, in true David Lynch style, the show left audiences with even more questions, which are still hanging five years later. With a show like Twin Peaks and a director like Lynch, can the loose ends ever be tied up, and more importantly, should they?
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Before Twin Peaks began airing in 1990, David Lynch already had Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, and Blue Velvet under his belt. Considering his repertoire, studios and audiences alike should have known what they were getting into with a Lynch-created TV show. However, no one could have predicted how culturally significant and utterly strange the show would be.
The plot seems simple at first glance: the body of homecoming queen Laura Palmer is discovered naked and wrapped in plastic. Around the same time, a girl called Ronette Pulaski is also discovered badly injured and in a fugue state. FBI Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) comes to town to solve the murder, but it soon becomes apparent that the town and its inhabitants are less than average.
Cooper proceeds to have strange and uncomfortable run-ins with the people of Twin Peaks, the show's tone oscillating from daytime melodrama to
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