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When Bob Iger Ruined Season 2 of ‘Twin Peaks’

posted a year ago by TMC-4 (19574)
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https://collider.com/twin-peaks-season-2-bad-bob-iger/

The then-ABC president disagreed with co-creator David Lynch over whether to reveal the show's fundamental mystery.

The meddling studio executive has existed since the dawn of the moving image. Art vs. commerce has been and always will be an endless battle. One of the most known examples of a studio ruining a great thing because they need to make more money — or, even worse, because they seem to know better than the people who actually make TV and movies — is the battle David Lynch had over Twin Peaks. Lynch, one of the most beloved and iconic American filmmakers ever, engaged in a debate with CEO Bob Iger over one specific question: Who killed Laura Palmer? Said battle would not only change the path of Twin Peaks, but of Lynch's entire career, and provides a deep insight into the current situation involving Iger as well as the studios and their attempt to snuff out the ongoing writers strike (which SAG-AFTRA has just joined).

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[–] Karl Aksel (1471) a year ago

I agree with Bob.

[–] Seperatrix (1104) a year ago

I've heard Lynch say something like "the killer was never supposed to be revealed" if memory serves. But then when the time came to tell Ray Wise (Leland) that he was the killer Lynch told him that "Ray it's you, it's always been you."

So the takeaway from this is that Lynch and Frost knew who the killer was but they never planned to reveal it.

I've always found that hard to believe. I can believe that it was rushed -- by the likes of Iger -- but it's hard to believe that they never planned to reveal the killer. Ratings would have declined after awhile in that scenario also.

I think where it damaged the show was that by rushing the reveal they didn't have time to introduce the Windom Earle storyline properly in order to introduce the deeper mystery within the Twin Peaks mythology.

[–] mikethemartian (6286) a year ago

The reveal sort of let the air out of the balloon.