Sefton
April 26, 2016, 12:10am
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David Lynch announced the full cast of the new Twin Peaks series. It looks like most of the original cast will return, and one notable addition is Eddie Vedder. Should be interesting.
Personally, my only requirement is Madchen Amick. As long as she’s there, I’ll watch every episode. Oh Shelley…
Holy moly! :eek: That is an astounding cast. I was especially pleased to see Ashley Judd and Monica Bellucci listed.
One name that jumped out at me: Lauren Tewes, from Love Boat !
Jragon
April 26, 2016, 8:40am
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Here’s a list someone posted on another board of characters NOT coming back (unless secretly recast, which Laura may be)
Don Amendolia (Emory Battis )The Man from Another Place )How can you have the Giant (Carel Struycken) and not The Man from Another Place in a Twin Peaks revival? While Anderson’s absence isn’t a total shock – in a Facebook post back in 2014 he mentioned his involvement was “unlikely” – it’s still a sad omission given how pivotal the character is to the show’s mythology. Johnny Horne )Mrs. Tremond/Chalfont ) - DeceasedPhillip Jeffries )Mayor Dwayne Milford ) - DeceasedDonna Hayward )Kelly took over for Boyle as Laura Palmer’s best friend Donna in the 1992 film prequel Fire Walk with Me, a re-cast that at the time was chalked up to “scheduling conflicts.” I have to say, neither omission is particularly surprising. Boyle has kept a relatively low public profile the last several years (her last credit is the little-seen 2014 family comedy Lucky Dog), and according to a recent story in Deadline it was her choice not to return. And while Kelly was a solid replacement, the re-casting proved unpopular with a segment of Twin Peaks fans, which may have caused David Lynch and Mark Frost to purge the character from the series altogether. Dick Tremayne )Blackie O’Reilly )Josie Packard )Look, I get it: Josie ended her run on the series trapped in some existential drawer handle and was, by all accounts, “dead” to the physical plane. But as any fan knows, “dead” in the world of Twin Peaks doesn’t necessarily mean “out of the running.” Alas! While Chen teased fans with a possible return late last year, it appears Josie is really and truly lost to the sands of time. Leo Johnson )Major Garland Briggs ) - DeceasedEileen Hayward )Teresa Banks )Nancy O’Reilly )Annie Blackburn )Though Cooper’s love interest Annie was living and breathing at the end of the series, she will not live on in the revival – at least not in the form of Heather Graham. Some fans were skeptical of Graham’s claim back in January that she would not be returning despite her “wish” to do so, but it turns out she was on the level all along. Vivian Smythe Niles ) - DeceasedSpecial Agent Chester Desmond )Dougie Milford ) - DeceasedCappy )Catherine Martell )Laurie hasn’t appeared on screen since 2010, and owing to her age (she’s now 84) her return as the scheming, seductive Catherine Martell was in doubt from the very beginning. Along with Chen and their late male co-stars Jack Nance (Pete Martell) and Dan O’Herlihy (Andrew Packard), Laurie made up a key part of the mill storyline on the original series, and their mutual absences seem to indicate the total closure of that subplot. Lana Budding Milford )Malcolm Sloan )Pierre Tremond/Chalfont )Evelyn Marsh )Hank Jennings )Last we saw Norma’s slimy husband Hank, she left him sitting in jail after delivering one indelible line: “I’d rather be his whore than your wife.” Yes, Norma! Still, Mulkey’s absence is a tad puzzling given that Hank was a major force in the show’s original run – and that Mulkey remains prolific as a performer. Pete Martell ) - DeceasedAndrew Packard ) - DeceasedSheriff Harry S. Truman )Ontkean’s level-headed Truman was a vital player in the original series and the yin to Cooper’s yang, but according to TVLine the actor has “fully retired from show business” – his last acting credit was in Alexander Payne’s The Descendants in 2011 – leading Lynch to replace him with Robert Forster, who was in fact the original choice for the character. Jean Renault )Judy Swain )BOB ) - DeceasedMiss Jones )Special Agent Sam Stanley )Harold Smith )Thomas Eckhardt )Windom Earle )Though Earle was seemingly killed by BOB at the end of the series, I halfway expected the dark-hearted former FBI agent to turn up in the Black Lodge somewhere in Season 3. But like Josie Packard, his demise was apparently final. Bernard Renault )FBI Agent Roger Hardy )Waiter ) - DeceasedJohn Justice Wheeler )
One really notable one for me that’s coming back is David Duchovny , which means we may see a return of probably the only decent trans character on mainstream TV.
And a good reminder of how ahead of the times Twin Peaks was.
I mean, the original show isn’t fully up-to-par with shows like The Sopranos or Breaking Bad. It doesn’t quite live up to the quality of modern day series, though possibly that’s because they were actively parodying TV their time, but the end result is that it drags the quality down.
But it was a good solid leap towards the type of TV that we have these days, and the gap between it and The Sopranos is significant.
It will be interesting to see if Lynch can find a way to push ahead of everything else again. It will be hard…but then again, we haven’t had a good mystery TV show since Twin Peaks. LOST tried, and ultimately got lost on its way. There’s still the opportunity to do something proper.
Jragon
April 26, 2016, 10:15am
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Laura? I mean Donna. And by “recast” I mean “re-recast”.