By Travis Johnson
The 25-years-on follow up to the seminal Twin Peaks is being fast-tracked to Australia on the streaming service, Stan. The two hour premiere will be available on May 22, the next two episodes a week after that, and then one episode per week until we’ve had all 18 hours of damn-fine-coffee-filled, suspicious-owl-haunted, Dear-lord-let-it-be-better=than-the-second-season Lynchian goodness.
Created by cloud-cuckoo auteur David Lynch and Mark Frost, Twin Peaks used the investigation of the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) by eccentric FBI ‘tec Dale Cooper (Kyl MacLachlan) to dig into the hidden underbelly of the titular logging town, turning up secrets and horrors that ranged from mundane misdeeds to the sickening and supernatural. It’s a cult phenomenon now, but at the time it was blockbuster TV. It also ended on a hell of a cliffhanger which, let’s face it, probably won’t be resolved this time around (Lynch had a whole feature film, Fire Walk With Me, to wrap things up with – he opted for confusing the hell out of most of his audience instead) – but you never know.
Every episode of the new Twin Peaks is directed by Lynch and written by him and Frost, while a truly impressive number of the original cast are returning, including Kyle MacLachlan, Mädchen Amick, Sherilyn Fenn, Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, David Duchovny, Harry Dean Stanton, Everett McGill and more, while new additions include Monica Bellucci, Jeremy Davies, Trent Reznor, Laura Dern, Robert Forster, Tim Roth, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ashley Judd, Tom Sizemore, Amanda Seyfried, Matthew Lillard, and Naomi Watts.
