Why there will be no season 4 of Twin Peaks, according to the co-creator of the show

One of the most daring aspects of David Lynch and “Twin Peaks: The Return” by Mark (who was essentially “Twin Peaks” season 3) was the way it seemed to give fans the closure they had always wanted, to move spectacular in the other direction in the eleventh hour. “Part 16” and “Part 17” were filled with cathartic and expected moments for lovers of “Twin Peaks”; They even presented a brief scene where all our favorite characters drag happily together, celebrating how they finally defeated the evil Bob (Frank Silva) in … Well, hitting him very hard. But then the final, “Part 18”, took us to the dark, ambiguous and aggressively Lynchian territory.

“The Return” ends with the heroic Dale Cooper (Kyle Maclachlan) bringing an alternative version of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) at the Maison de la Famille Palmer. He hopes that it will give him (and him) a feeling of peace, but when they arrive, they find a complete foreigner living in the house. Not only that, but this alternative Laura does not recognize the place. Cooper is confused and disappointed. In the street outside the Maison des Palmers, he suddenly asks: “What year is it?” It is a line that not only disorients the spectator (we realize that we do not know the answer either), but it also reminds us that Cooper is someone who has lost decades of his life thanks to the mystery of Laura Palmer. Even if he abandoned his quest to save Laura and returned to his old existence from this scene, Cooper is always a man who has been dislodged of time, and this loss will remain with him forever.

And if it was not dark enough, the final ends with Laura apparently recognizing the house before hearing the distant sound of the voice of her interior mother. She shouts, the house darkens and the credits roll. This is a last horrible note to end the show – which left its public unstable and depressed. It is a conclusion that let some fans want to be desperately more likely, but unfortunately, there will never be another season of “Twin Peaks”. Why not?

Addressing Empire Magazine (via Comicbook.com) in the wake of the death of Lynch, Frost explained that it is very unlikely that a new season of “Twin Peaks” is never carried out. As he said, “we had talked a little about where to take place a fourth season, but with David who had left us, it is difficult to imagine doing anything beyond that. We certainly have the impression that it closed the circle.”

Even before Lynch’s death, however, a fourth season did not seem very likely. When Lynch himself was questioned on this subject during a panel of the Belgrade Culture Center in Serbia in 2017 (via NME), just after “the return” ended, he seemed hesitant. “It took me four and a half years to write and film this season,” he noted, reporting that if he never did Decide to make a fourth season, it would undoubtedly be a long wait. Speaking separately at Entertainment Weekly that same year, Lynch confirmed that Showtime had not approached him to make more “Twin Peaks”, noting “, the thing has just finished! Even if there were more, it would be in four years before anyone who would see it. We should just wait and see.”

In 2018, however, Lynch said more about the “return” being the scheduled permanent final of the show. “It’s the end. It’s the end. It’s right. You have all seen the end”, as he said to viewers during an Emmy event “for your consideration” (via Indiewire).

Beyond the creative interests of Lynch and Frost, another factor to consider here is that “Twin Peaks: The Return” was not a note. As the Deadline reported at the time of its broadcast, the viewer of the series was only a fraction of what “Twin Peaks” had shot in its peak in season 1 in the early 1990s. As hard as it could be imagined, given the massive critical success of the show and the praise he won by hardcore fans “Twin Peaks”, but “The Return” Appreciated by more relaxed viewers. It was a little too bizarre and inaccessible to be a consumer success, and, frankly, it is a miracle showtime even accepted the green light as strange as “the return” in the first place (which makes it the least likely that it will do it again).

Although it is logical that viewers want more from this wonderful television series, it is ultimately for the better that “Twin Peaks” simply ended in his own terms. Yes, viewers have not obtained answers to certain questions that have harassed them for decades – such as what was really going on with Audrey (Sherilyn Fenn) – but this lack of closure is probably supposed to reflect the disorientation of poor Cooper in the last moments of the series. The hero of the show is punished for his inability to let the mystery be and to keep the past in the past, but viewers have had the opportunity to learn from his error. We can make peace from “Twin Peaks”, even if Cooper could never.

In the same interview where he confirmed that they would never be another season of “Twin Peaks”, Frost shared his reflection process and Lynch behind the last episode of “The Return”, reinforcing the idea that it was a closing note perfectly acceptable to the show as a whole. As he said:

“At the start, David and I were in two spirits on how to finish” the return “. I felt that Cooper in return and by saving Laura, then having the mystery of his death, could be an extraordinary way to bring us back to Ground Zero. Sheryl Lee was incredible.