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TELEVISION Showtime takes us back to ‘ Twin Peaks’
Lynch will direct the cult show; CBS puts up a ‘ Good Fight’
PASADENA, CALIF. Your long, Twin Peak- less nightmare is almost over.
Created by Mark Frost and David Lynch, this legendary ( and legendarily odd) ABC series and its “Who Killed Laura Palmer” mystery took America by storm when it debuted in 1990. It was unlike any show anyone had ever seen, which may be why it quickly exploded into a hit and just as quickly collapsed, ending after just two seasons but leaving behind one of TV’s most devoted cult followings.
Fans celebrated in 2014 when Showtime announced it would bring the show back with Lynch and Frost in charge — and then began to panic as time passed and Peaks did not appear. Well, panic no more: The new Twin Peaks arrives on Showtime May 21 with an 18- episode run, all directed by Lynch.
He’s “one of the great film masters of my lifetime,” Showtime CEO David Nevins told TV critics Monday, “and I think that the version of Twin Peaks you’re going to see is the pure heroin version of David Lynch, and I’m very excited to be putting that out.”
In his own deadpan, elliptical way, Lynch sounds just as excited: “I love this world of Twin Peaks and I often thought about what might be happening. I often remembered the beautiful world and the beautiful characters.”
Details about that new show are a well- kept secret. But some of the original cast will return, including Mädchen Amick and Kyle MacLachlan, who became a star playing the coffee- drinking, pieeating Special Agent Dale Cooper.
“I didn’t think it was ever coming back,” says Amick. “People would ask, and I always said, ‘ No, absolutely not. There’s no way they could do that again.’ ”
Peaks is being billed as a onetime, special event, but Lynch says he hasn’t ruled out the possibility of another trip back. After all, he says, he once said he’d never return to Twin Peaks — and yet here he is. “Never say never.” A NEW ‘ FIGHT’ The Good Wife is gearing up for a fight.
The Good Fight, a spinoff of the acclaimed CBS drama, which will stream on CBS All Access starting Feb. 19 ( the first episode also will air on CBS that night), picks up a year after the original series ended last spring. Christine Baranski’s Diane Lockhart has announced plans to retire from the law firm at its center, only to find her savings have evaporated in the wake of a Ponzi scheme.
The firm refuses to take her back, so she sets out on her own with Lucca Quinn ( Cush Jumbo), who returns from Wife along with Sarah Steele, who played Eli’s daughter.
The change of presidential administrations colors the series.
The premiere episode was filmed in the week leading up to the election, and the unexpected outcome adds “a different resonance” to the new show, Baranski says, with parallels to “passing power from one generation to another.”
But it’s not inherently antiTrump: “It looks at how liberals are reacting, confusion between what’s real and what’s not real,” says co- creator Robert King.