10 Things You Need To Know About Twin Peaks: The Return
3. Fighting Words Have Been Spoken
Expectations for the show are rampant.
David Nevins has promised the "pure, uncut heroin" version of David Lynch. This is a haunting melody to the ears of many film fans; Lynch's work is so esoteric that he has rarely been entrusted with both full creative control and a mammoth budget. He had both in spades for the Twin Peaks revival.
Series lead Kyle MacLachlan has been doing the press rounds of late. On Jimmy Kimmel this week, MacLachlan did the square root of nothing to mitigate expectations. "It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen on television or even film," he gushed. "It is earth-shattering."
MacLachlan is not alone in his hyperbole; virtually every cast member involved in the revival has spoken of the experience in terms not so much glowing as incandescent. Invariably, the filming process has been singled out as a career highlight for everybody involved. "Pinch me - it feels so goddamned good!" frothed Robert Knepper to Digital Spy. "It's been absolutely wonderful," cooed Jim Belushi in an earlier teaser. "The best kind of acting."
In between stills and ultra brief footage, Showtime released a much-derided teaser in which the show effectively took credit for Mad Men and Breaking Bad, complete with dreadful wordplay. It was hysterical, borderline arrogant - and on the aforementioned evidence, thoroughly deserved.