Twin Peaks Season 3: 10 Things That Need To Happen

1. A New Mystery

Everybody knows that the mystery of "who killed Laura Palmer?" was never meant to be solved. The murder which begins Twin Peaks and kicks off the whole plot wasn't supposed to be a driving force behind the ongoing story, but instead a catalyst for Agent Cooper's arrival in the town and the slow uncovering of all the unscrupulous elements hidden just below the surface of what otherwise looked like an idyllic Washington forest community. Then ABC got cold feet and insisted that the murder mystery be tied up right at the start of the second season, and clearly the writers floundered for a new core concept to carry the show along. Which is why crap like people getting stuffed in giant chess pieces happened. So presumably, there's going to be some sort of new mystery that will anchor the rest of the series. The mystery of what's going on with Agent Cooper and the Black Lodge probably won't be all that easy for new viewers to get into, so easing them in with something a little more palatable might be good. Perhaps they'll go back to the "time is a flat circle" thing and have another Laura Palmer-style murder of a teenage beauty queen kick things off, the investigation perhaps leading back to the evil Cooper. Whatever it is, audiences will be expecting a new mystery at the centre of Twin Peaks season three - something that can spin off all manner of weirdness and stuff that's requisite for the show. Frost has again hinted at such, with a new mystery perhaps being tied up with the new characters who are being introduced. Really the hope is just that the show will actually have something to say, rather than just trotting out all the signs and signifiers people recognise from the first go around; something more than a rose-tinted nostalgia trip, an actual plot amongst the returning stuff. Besides everything else, what people really want is for Twin Peaks season three to be a show worth watching. Don't let them down, Mark and Dave.