It’s been over 25 years but the fandom is stronger than ever.
Showtime will air two installments of what David Lynch describes as an 18-part movie.
Each has a title that winks at its very existence.
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First, there’s “The Return Part 1 My log has a message for you.”
“I love this world and I love the people,” the director told me back in March.
But then time passed, and now it seems like fate to go back."
Their podcast,Twin Peaks Unwrapped, has chronicled their journeys of discovery and rediscovery.
Can Cooper be saved?
We know the feeling.
(Keep them coming, by the way:twinpeaks@ew.com.)
I just finished a re-watch and was still picking up new things all these years later.
To me, one of the best things about the show is the layered puzzles.
At least that’s how I am feeling at the moment.
We’ll see."
Durant hopes to have it both ways.
Durant will see them ASAP, because he doesn’t want to hear about them from other people.
His walk of faith is a snapshot of modern pop culture fandom.
He was a child ofStar Warsand a proud geek with a passion of science fiction and comic books.
The likes ofHill Street BluesandSt.
Elsewhere, but he wanted more from the medium as he moved into adulthood.
“I always thought it had potential that was not being used,” he says.
A review of theTwin Peakspilot intrigued him and he gave the show a shot.
It was a revelation.
“I was a fan from day one, and I guess that’s it.
That’s how it got me hooked.”
“I wasn’t sure whatTwin Peakswas going to be [when I first started watching it.]
I was just really interested in the use of the medium,” says Thorne.
In the spring of 1991, the web link put the brakes on the series for good.
It didn’t work.
“It was devastating, really.
It was like, okay, that’s how it’s ending.
You kind of have to accept that it’s not a happy ending.”
And yet, Thorne’s relationship withTwin Peakswas just beginning.
“So it was just something I was doing for fun.”
And that’s how he came to know me before I knew him."
In the summer of 1991, Thorne attended the Dallas Fantasy Fair and spoke at aTwin Peakspanel.
Miller who had previously self-published a humor magazine and a comic book sought him out afterward with a proposal.
“He said, I want to do a magazine aboutTwin Peaks.'
I just immediately, without hesitation, was like, “Yeah!
Let’s do that!”
Because the show was so rich and I was bursting to write about it and to talk about it.
Again, this is long before the internet.
So it was like, how do we contact other fans and share our excitement about this show?”
Enter the Watcher of theTwin Peaksuniverse: The Log Lady.
They said Okay.'
And we were just like: Oh my God, we’re talking to the Log Lady!"
“She became a great supporter of the magazine.
She would mention it in other interviews that she’d do.
She was a supporter of allTwin Peaksfandom.
She just loved the fans.
So that was our first get.”
And they kept hustling.
(EW visited back in 1997.)
So the ball just started rolling and it was great."
“I can’t remember what the numbers were.
Maybe 10,000 copies of that issue ofX-Files?
It went into three different printings, I know for sure.
It might have been more than that.
I can’t remember.
It was so long ago!”
What Thorne knows for sure is that Wrapped In Plastic changed his life.
“We kept on getting orders, so we kept on doing it.
But until then, every year, there were six issues.
And it got better!
It looked better, the paper quality got better, my writing got much better.
But I think I learned a lot about criticism and analysis.
In 1997, Thorne graduated from Southern Methodist University with a Master’s degree in television production.
“It changed my life, it really did, and working on that magazine.”
Wrapped In Plastic ran for 75 issues.
It was billed, tongue-in-cheek, as a “giant-size hiatus' issue.”
But why did Wrapped In Plastic have to end?
“Well, a couple reasons,” says Thorne.
“We were really competing with the internet to some extent.
Everybody could get news or interviews for free, and there were a lot of websites onTwin Peaks.
Now, since then, I’ve got lots more I’d like to say about it.
But at the time, it was just hard to fill those pages.
You know, we just never did.”
For Thorne, any hope or consideration of reviving Wrapped In Plastic ended five years ago.
On November 7, 2012, Miller, 53, died in his sleep from a heart attack.
“It was a shock,” says Thorne.
… Craig and I always believedTwin Peakswould never come back.
“I’m very excited about it,” says Thorne of the new series.
“I have my feet on the ground, though.
I still believe that very much.
And that’s exciting to me.
Because that’s what I wanted from it when I first came to it back in 1990.
I don’t know what it’s going to be.
But I think it’s going to be challenging, I think it’s going to be unusual.
And I think it’s not going to be like anything else that’s on TV right now.”
