"I'll see you again in twenty five years." That's the promise that Laura Palmer made to FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper. Which wouldn't be particularly odd were it not for the fact that Laura was the most famous (fictional) homicide victim in nineties America, and that she was hanging out with Cooper - the man sent to the idyllic mountain town of Twin Peaks to investigate her death in a metaphysical space that existed outside of reality and was otherwise populated by soul-sucking demons from yet another dimension. Just to top it all off, it looks like her prediction ended up being more correct than anyone probably envisioned when the lines were written, indeed, twenty five years ago. Laura will be able to make good on her premise since the cult series Twin Peaks will be returning to screens in 2016, almost three decades after it was originally cancelled. An incredibly brave and out-there show to be debuting on network television at the start of the nineties, ABC's gamble nevertheless paid off in dividends as the enigmatic, frequently bizarre and always gripping soap opera-cum-murder mystery unfolded, hooking in record numbers of viewers to a show that was, on the surface, about solving the killing of a prom queen and all the dark secrets that were subsequently revealed; but then there was also dopplegangers, Canadian crime syndicates, ghosts, UFOs, Native American spirituality, Civil War reenactments, people's souls getting trapped in the handles of dresser drawers, and a preoccupation with caffeine. As one cultural commentator at the time put it: "Brilliant! I have absolutely no idea what's going on." Indeed it turns out Twin Peaks may have been just a little too weird for TV, with the network pulling the plug at the end of the disappointing second season. In the intervening years the fandom for the show has actually gone from strength to strength, as audiences continue to pick apart the mysteries left unsolved by series creators David Lynch and Mark Frost. Well, they'll be picking apart no more, since the do announced this week that the show would return for a long-awaited third season on Showtime in 2016! No further details have been unveiled yet, aside from some winking nods to the twenty five years thing - nonetheless, here are ten things that absolutely need to happen in Twin Peaks season three.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
