Why David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Was Canceled

Created by David Lynch and Mark Frost’s “Twin Peaks” series, Twisted Windom Earle (Kenneth Welsh), is a great Garland Briggs (Don Davis) hostage, torturing him more about the mysterious and mysterious Black Lodge. When Earle asks the drug Brigg about what he is most afraid in the world, the Warm Heart Soldier replies: “The possibility that love is not enough.” It is a statement that, Like so much in Lynch’s work and in the exhibition itselfThere is a huge resonance and weight. In particular, opinion does not only refer to one of the biggest themes in the series, but also the true fate of the exhibition itself.

When the episode that included this scene at the beginning of 1991, the “Twin Peaks” reception to one of the most popular and exciting new programs on the network’s television had changed not only to pop culture but also their own hard fans felt that something would have disappeared. In fact, some of the key things had disappeared – Lynch, one who had taken a break from the series after the sixth period of the second season and only returned to the final of the season, and Frost, which corresponds in the same way between episodes 8 and 18. An even greater loss than the two key characters in the exhibition was its most important element: its most important element: Sheryl -lee). When this announcement happened, it left the series and its authors feel hard, and even though many new characters and plots were thrown on the wall of the Proverb, nothing got stuck, at least not in time.

To be honest, the reasons for canceling the “Twin Peaks” were countless and they worked together. In other words, there was no comprehensive reason why the show lost its legs and did not find it again until the ax came down. Still, if one of the attacks had to be chosen, which caused the entire building to fall, it was the core of the series that killed Laura, and this injury was said to have been ABC Entertainment: Bob Iger, who is now CEO of Disney.

When the story goesIger and other ABC leaders who originally sent “Twin Peaks” to cancel it, pressurize Lynch and Frost to reveal Laura’s killer as soon as possible, in the hope that it would allow them to continue the first Ballehoo pop culture of the series. Iger has denied that he intervened directly in the exhibition and claimed that revelation was part of a natural artistic process that can be true.

Ultimately, it doesn’t matter. The original plan keeps the foundation of the exhibition, Mystery Forever had started to crack almost as soon as the series began. When the feature length of the pilot was produced in 1989, the series had not yet been officially picked into the air; This was a typical practice for new programs until the streaming season began. As such, the distributor concluded an agreement that requires the pilot to write and shoot a possible theatrical distribution, unless it goes into the series. Thus, Lynch and Frost had to come up with some kind of end of the story. Fortunately, Lynch was able to do some of his biggest work of all time when he had been given such restrictions: this not only caused the series to create a sad “red room” of the series, but the corresponding circumstances also led to his conversion “Mulholland Drive” a pilot to a brilliant, eternally enigmatic movie about ten years later.

When the answer to Laura’s murder was an essentially part of the program as it went, Lynch and Frost tried to find their way back to the core concept that made Lynch excited about making a serial TV show. As the filmmaker told Entertainment Weekly in 2000“The constant story is a beautiful thing for me, and mystery is a beautiful thing for me, so if you have a constant mystery, it’s so beautiful. And you can go deeper and deeper into the story and find so many things.” He and Frost included a red -room scene in the dream of Dale Cooper (Kyle Maclachlan) in the third episode of the exhibition, they made the death of a killer Bob (Frank Silva) demon, who could have an unknown attacker and so on. Ultimately, even though Lynch was convinced that “we never intended to solve Laura Palmer’s murder,” Frost was more practical. According to his own words:

“I know […] It took us about 17 episodes that eventually reveal it, and by then people were becoming a bit of ants. “

Whether it is to put pressure on Iger and ABC, the blatant fans pressure (Lynch would tell the viewer of the story of the story to complain about “ill -awaited” answers) or the combination of the two, Lynch and Frost finally decided to reveal Laura’s killer when they did, and I think they did so great. Unfortunately, “Twin Peaks” had not been built to endure this announcement, and the show broke down. Given how much emotionally and intellectually stimulating material was raised when Lynch returned to directing the season’s finals (which was the finals of the series for some time), it is possible that if the show had received a third season, it could have found it on its foot again. Unfortunately, ABC did not reserve this opportunity.

Ultimately, despite the wishes of Lynch and Frost, it seems that “Twin Peaks” was simply a television program before its time. If it had only been able to produce six episodes during the season (as with its first season) instead of 22 (as in its second season), it would have helped, much as it would have benefited from starting a premium cable channel instead of a national network. There were other factors that had a reversal that was of course not discussed for a long time: the dissatisfaction of fans and relaxed viewers from certain plots and the main actor of the drama behind the scenes. Regardless of the cause or influenced it, “Twin Peaks” ended at the same time with a strange setback against Lynch’s work. A movie in which he tried to continue and summarize “Twin Peaks”, ” 1992 “Fire Walk with Me” Were touched so after the release so even Quentin Tarantino -likeAnd it wasn’t until “Mulholland Drive” Lynch became a beloved “HIP” movie maker again.

Despite the joy and innovation of the original series, who had to find its way into the strange world of the Prime Time Broadcast TV, it seems that “Twin Peaks” was best able to flourish in the atmosphere of perfect creative control. What “Fire Walk with Me” and 2017 Showtime Revival series “Twin Peaks: The Return” Show as they are now reasonably two of Lynch’s most famous works. And while the six (or more) “Twin Peaks” season may have been great, the series cut -off life has only made the existing much more influential and prestigious. As Cooper once promised, the journey really led us to the place for both great and strange.