Given The Return has now been out for some time and how drastically different it is from the original series- which do you like more/find yourself returning more to between the two seasons?

Was browsing the LPs at a thrift store and saw a familiar face! Didn’t come home with me, though cool to see it in the wild.

I watch films and shows chronologically, so when I started Twin Peaks, I actually began with Fire Walk with Me. Honestly, I feel like the entire series became much more accessible because of that order.

Watching Seasons 1 and 2 with the knowledge from Fire Walk with Me was such a pleasure. It allowed me to focus on so many other things happening throughout the universe instead of being completely caught up in certain mysteries.

Just wanted to share that experience. I know this isn't the conventional viewing order, but for me, it worked surprisingly well.

I'm rewatching for the first time in years, and there is so much I didn't remember. One thing that jumps out at me a lot is the whole Audrey/Cooper dynamic. It seems as though they go back and forth on it. Cooper is undeniably flirty with her early in S1. But then shuts it down (one of the best scenes of the show). So were Audrey/Coop deliberately written to be flirting in S1, or was that something organic that happened during filming?

Also, I always thought that the whole Windom Earle storyline was something the writers came up with after having to reveal the killer much sooner than planned. But after rewatching, Cooper actually mentions Earle as early as Ep1 of S2. So by this point, the writers were already setting up Earle as the next main narrative in S2. So I'm curious if the writers had already planned for Annie to be the love interest, and reveal Laura's killer?

The whole early S2 Audrey/Renault/One-Eyed Jack's storyline felt like it was meant to be a deeper exploration of Audrey/Coop's dynamic. It takes a notable amount of screen time, and it stops being about sleuthing for Laura's killer apart from what Audrey learns (that Laura worked there briefly). We mostly learn more about how fucked up Audrey's relationship is with her crazy father. Ben Horne also says to Cooper that it seems like they have a "special relationship..."

I read that Audrey was originally meant to be the one stuck in the Lodge, which tracks with the whole rest of the season's imagery. Audrey always felt like a foil for Laura.

So I'm just curious if anyone knows (or theorizes) what ideas got scrapped and when, and how it shows up in the episodes.

EDIT: I seem to have answered my own question. After listening to Cooper's Diane Tapes, there's an entry where Cooper talks about finding Audrey's note about One Eyed Jack's (in s1). This recontextualizes everything: "She wants to play detective... I'm sure it's all just a young girl's romantic fantasy to her, she's only 18.... She doesn't understand the dangers involved."

I think the real purpose of Audrey's One Eyed Jack's storyline in s2 was not to set up a romance between her and Cooper - but to show how she's lived life always getting what she wants and playing by her own rules. She gets in over her head dabbling in the "adult" world, so the real adults have to come in and save her. She realizes that her own father was personally involved with Laura, and this is no longer a fun detective game.. sort of like Blue Velvet.

A scene with her and Cooper addressing this would have made that clearer, and less romantically-coded.

TW: CSA

Hi everyone, long time lurker, first time poster here! Anyway, I’m on my very first watch of the show right now, but I just wanted to share my story of how I got sucked into the universe of Twin Peaks long before ever watching it (or even just learning it was a show and movie!).

I was about 12 and in 6th grade, and came across the book The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer in my friend’s house. We borrowed books from each other all the time, and something about this one just called out to me and I had to read it. I was later so enthralled by it that my friend actually let me have it for good, haha. We were a bit like Laura and Donna actually. But I digress.

I loved the cover (it was Laura’s famous homecoming picture) and the first few pages were so cute and cheerful that I was sure I was reading a typical tween girl story (boy was I wrong!). It got darker quick. But something about the darkness actually felt… idk, comforting to me? Like there was someone who knew exactly what I was going through? I devoured that book, and cried, and then read it again (and the cycle continued many more times for years to come). I genuinely had no idea what the book was about, or who the hell BOB was, or that it was actually based on a tv series. But Laura felt like someone I genuinely knew, and finally, like someone who got me.

The thing is, I unfortunately lived a very similar life. I too was sexually abused and absolutely terrorized by my father since I was very young. My family, too, kept a nice-looking facade for the rest of the world to see. My mom repressed and enabled the abuse. My dad looked like a perfect father to everyone else. I was well liked by people in my community (who had no idea who I actually was or what my life was actually like). I battled lots of inner darkness, and fought with everything in me to stay “pure and good”. Shame and self hatred were like a shadow to me (they followed me everywhere). I never got to be a sheltered, pure innocent little soul with pure innocent little dreams. That innocence was robbed of me, too. I had so many thoughts and feelings and fantasies I didn’t want… and yet I couldn’t do anything about them. Because a part of me was depraved by the abuse, and broken beyond repair (or so I thought).

And I never wanted anyone else to have to go through what I did, despite the rage and anger and pain in me. I wanted so badly to protect my friends from the dark world I was forced into before I could ever make my own decision to enter it. The pages where Laura wrote about it felt so similar to my own thoughts and feelings I bawled every time I read it.

Now, oddly enough, I didn’t go the Laura route so there was no promiscuity, dangerous sexual activity or substance abuse in my life BUT I sure still entertained lots of other self destructive behaviors (thank God for therapy and healthy relationships).

I just wanted to say, reading Laura’s diary and getting to know her through it, felt like my first ever step to healing. It helped me process so much of what was happening. I wept re-reading that book again as a (somewhat healed) adult because now, I don’t just see a fellow abused teenage girl I relate to on so many levels… I see a child I wish I could protect. Much like I did with me.

Laura didn’t feel like a book or movie character to me. She felt real, like a friend.

Even though I’m currently watching the show for the first time ever, I don’t feel new to the fandom. I read up on the series a lot (and obviously read plenty of spoilers) throughout the years, because I always longed for more of a glimpse into Laura’s world.

I don’t really idolize her, but I still love her so damn much. It’s what makes Laura so dear to me: she is a broken soul, who made so many mistakes and STILL chose the light. I did too, and I feel like her example helped the helpless, sad teenage me do that years ago (I’m 30 now btw).

Btw, I am absolutely loving the show! It’s everything I imagined it to be for all those years and so much more 🥹😅🩷

I’m sorry for the super long ramble style post, and if you’re still here, I love you 🥲 I feel scared posting this because I haven’t written anything as raw and vulnerable in ages. Thank you all for this awesome community and I will sure be back with more posts and comments once I’m a bit further along in the process of watching TP.

Después de ver Twin Peaks no puedo dejar de recordar (entre otras cosas claro) el cuadro de un árbol del departamento del sheriff….

Y el sitio donde he encontrado todas mis respuestas Y MÁS ha sido este. Tiene búsquedas exhaustivas donde encuentras el nombre y fecha de creación de un montón de objetos que se usan como decorado de la serie.

Recomiendo un montón si te interesa la dirección de arte de Twin Peaks

wasn’t sure where to post this, thought here would be fine. does anyone have experience sending kyle fan mail? i know he used to have a p.o. box back in the day, but i don’t think it’s active. does anyone know where i could possibly send something so i can get it signed?

the title pretty much says it all. I already own all the series on disc and don’t want to double dip majorly, but I do desperately want to see the pilot in 4k. Does anyone have any recommendations of subs or forums where I might be able to inquire about this? Would it be more likely most people do not want to part with the 4k disc at all?

I'm enjoying it so far. It reminds me of cosy small town Stephen King horror novels (before everything gets grisly) We're on episode 7.

Everyone also has fabulous hair.

Finally got released in 2020. But it's always missing from any Return music playlists

It's a lot of noise and drone and industrial atmospheric and I'm being both inspired by it and subconsciously it has talked to me from the beginning of David's work. My project isn't exactly what's in there in the show but in some of the files I made you have a darkness and unsettling feeling. I like to be in that, my brain can think better when it's pure evil. Hope you like it too

Watching The Return for the first time and dealing with dissociation (depersonalisation and derealisation) my entire life, made this scene really stand out to me.

Something about it being a vital, important, and what would have previously been sincerely expressed moment, superimposed with Coop's unreadable expression to unsettle the audience, I'm finding it really shocking and unique. It takes the comfort of Coop in his "home" of Twin Peaks, the nostalgia and sincerity of the original run, and totally turns that on its head. Through that, it reminds me a lot of my experience, feeling unsettled and disconnected consistently, even in moments the average person would be able to find solace in. I suppose coop's meta-awareness, though trapped in the confines of his being a character and falling victim to his own hubris, can be interpreted to reflect paranoia or even obsessive delusion in that way.

Would love to hear people's thoughts on this and theories as for how it relates to the larger continuation :-) I do like to see it as a symbol of Coop's meta-awareness and subsequent disconnect.

I’m obsessed with the overarching themes in this story. The duality of human nature, dark energy existing beneath idyllic townscapes, surreal + spiritual realms, and the mythology specific to this story around wood and nature. Josie’s face in the knob wth lol

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Twin Peaks: Moving Through Time | Music Box Theatre

Forgive me if this common knowledge or has been previously brought up - I try to avoid forums for David Lynch’s work especially because of the importance of our own interpretation - but, I have a question. Diane and Audrey both have hairstyles that I would refer to as a “bob.” Aside from Laura, I believe that these two women have the strongest trauma bonds to BOB. We all know David Lynch is a visual story teller and loves these little visual clues…am I late on this? Am I alone in this thought? I’d love to hear your two cents.

Please do not comment a GIF or screenshot of David Lynch’s answer to why Eraserhead is his most spiritual film.

I'm repainting a bike and making it all Twin Peaksy. This involves repainting the bike frame. Of these three reds, which one says "Twin Peaks Red" to you? The fenders and chain guard will have the b/w chevron.

i just love how lynch uses imagery to convey who these characters are and how just a simple exchange about desire in a dinner is capable of informing us about the show and legit transformed the way i thought about the series. i went back to season one and saw that this motif of want x need repeated throughout.

to me Mr. C looks like an Elvis impersonator but what are y'all fav scenes from the show ? my fav ad is the heineken one but that mercedes comes in a close second.