Twin Peaks Season 3: 10 Things That Need To Happen

8. Cherry Pie, Damn Fine Coffee And Everything Else

Not that it's got to be all darkness and gloom, anyway. That's certainly the tone of the Twin Peaks finale, and the prequel film Fire Walk With Me that David Lynch directed a few years after the show had gone off the air. There were flashes of the soap opera histrionics and surreal humour that had grounded the more troubling aspects of the show's exploration of the dark, supernatural underbelly of smalltown America in that last episode, but for the most part it was one of the more disturbing works the director has done. In fact the only thing darker was Lynch's last feature length production, Inland Empire, a gruelling three-hour trip through multiple dimensions, none of which had anything nice in store for star Laura Dern. No matter how many different wigs she put on. So a little darkness is to be expected from Twin Peaks season three, but it would be nice if they included some of the quirkier aspects of the programme's original run that so firmly planted it in pop culture. That includes all the stuff that people are so fond of quoting and riffing on, including Agent Cooper's vocal love of cherry pie and damn fine cups of coffee, the sillier aspects of the mythos like the log lady and her psychic bit of wood (oo-er), the UFOs that Major Briggs was always banging on about - it's like he new he was gonna be on both the X-Files and Stargate SG-1 a few years in the future - and generally all the goofy things that weren't, y'know, absolutely terrifying meditations on the nature of reality, time, and good versus evil. Basically fans will be clamouring for everything that Fire Walk With Me didn't include, the moments of soap opera light relief from the unrelenting darkness (including the cutaways to the actual fictional soap opera, Invitation To Love, that everyone in the town watched and seemed to parallel their own particular dramas).