10 Things You Need To Know About Twin Peaks: The Return
6. Plot Details Are Scarce, But Promising
It's almost impossible to fathom, in this age of endless spoilers, but nobody has even the faintest Tibetan-inspired intuition of what we're going to see on Sunday.
Showtime President David Nevins let the barest hint of plot slip when the broadcast date was announced during January's Television Critics Association press tour. The events of the series centre around "Dale Cooper's epic odyssey back into Twin Peaks," but beyond that, very little is known. Mark Frost reinforced Nevins' assertion that we won't be revisiting the worn, FBI agent investigates murdered teenager formula, telling Variety that "It’s going to be very different this time around."
Exactly which version - or versions - of Dale Cooper we'll see is debatable. Cooper was infamously possessed by BOB at the coda of the original series, and his tense, ambiguous body language in the teaser trailers released thus far indicates little and confirms nothing. That said, Lynch remains in love with the character because of his boyish goodness and spiritual resolve. He told Variety very recently that: "I believe in optimism, and energy, and a kind of a Boy Scout attitude, and Cooper’s got all those things."
Of course, Lynch's latter cinematic work has explored fractured psyches and co-existing physical planes of consciousness. The famed duality of Twin Peaks is ripe for a continuation of his recurring motif.
Even the actors are in the dark; in order to cloak the entire project in mystery, all with the possible exception of lead Kyle MacLachlan were handed only the page(s) on which their own dialogue was written. Lynch apparently even made the actors turn in their scripts, once he was satisfied the right scene was in the can, before shredding them.