That Gum You Like: Scattered Thoughts on Twin Peaks: The Return
I missed Twin Peaks the first time around. Which is to say that I was aware of it--aware, even at the time, that it was considered a major event, and a shattering of the norms of what television could and should do. But I was a little too young to watch it. If my mother had watched the show I might have joined her, as I did with St. Elsewhere and L.A. Law , but as far as I know she wasn't interested, and when I got old enough to start forming my own TV tastes, it was on shows that were influenced by Twin Peaks -- The X-Files , Buffy the Vampire Slayer --but not the thing itself. My second time around with Twin Peaks , I was around twenty, and a local channel started airing the show late at night. I wasn't a habitual viewer--I caught some of the first season, and a few episodes from the end of the show, including the infamous "how's Annie?" ending. The internet being a thing by that point, I went online to catch up on the parts of the show I'd missed, ...