10 Shocking TV Finales That Changed Everything
3. Twin Peaks
Maybe David Lynch was feeling particularly mind-screwy one morning, or maybe he’d just re-watched St Elsewhere and was aggrieved to see anyone coming for his throne as the king of strange. Whatever the case, the revival of Twin Peaks after a twenty-five-year absence from our screens—as promised within the original series—set fans speculating as to what ending the series could possibly culminate in.
Now free from the restrictions of conventional nineties network television, Lynch answered the only way he can—with a whole lot of unexplained weirdness which leaves fans still clamouring for clarity years after the revival concluded.
The revival of Twin Peaks was viewed by many as an anti-nostalgia riposte to the trend of renewing and rebooting old properties for cheap sentimentality. The result was a challenging, molasses-slow nightmare which barely relented throughout its seventeen-hour runtime.
The finale, however, managed to deliver despite all odds. Finally reunited with Laura Palmer, Agent Cooper found himself sent to a strange dimension by the evil entity JUDY. As Palmer and Cooper attempt to discern what has happened, many fans speculate that obscure elements concealed within their surroundings reveal the truth—they’re in the real world. Our reality.
Trippy, huh?