When it comes to the return of one of the greatest television series of all time, everything has to be just right, and maybe that is possible now as the co-creator of Twin Peaks, Mark Frost, talked about bringing back the series for a fourth time.
Created by Frost and the late and great David Lynch, Twin Peaks is generally known as one of the greatest television ever made and when you make something like that it is very hard to let it go and maybe that’s why Twin Peaks has survived even after it was unceremoniously canceled on ABC after only two seasons in 1991. The second time we saw a Twin Peaks film was in 1992, and then it returned for its third and final* time as a Showtime series titled Twin Peaks: The Return in 2017.
The ABC and later on Showtime series is set in the fictional town of Twin Peaks, and it revolves around FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper as he goes to the town to investigate the murder of local teenager Laura Palmer. But anyone who has seen the series can tell you it was so much more than that, as it blended various genres and tried to tell original stories with a touch or sometimes a heavy dose of surrealism.
During an interview with NME, Frost said that he and Lynch were discussing how they could bring back Twin Peaks before Lynch’s tragic passing in January. He said that “we had a little bit of a recipe forming; nothing terribly formal, but it was in the wind.”
Frost isn’t actively working on a fourth season of the legendary series. He did say that he would “get around to thinking about long and hard.” Frost also emphasized that “part of our strategy going in was this was a world we had created and owned, so nobody could exploit it in destructive or stupid ways.” Which means that nobody except Frost would be able to revive the series and pump out hollow stories.