"Let's rock!" When co-creators David Lynch and Mark Frost announced on Monday that they were reviving their masterful mystery series Twin Peaks for a new nine-episode season airing on Showtime in 2016, fans reacted as though a murdered loved one had been brought back from the dead. The show's surreal imagery fueled parodies everywhere from Saturday Night Live to Sesame Street. its feature-level filmmaking paved the way for New Golden Age of Television standouts like The Sopranos and Mad Men, while the constant seeding of cryptic clues throughout episodes helped set a precedent for series like The X-Files, Lost, and True Detective.
But in the end, it's the characters that keep people coming back to this strange small-town saga: Laura Palmer, the homecoming queen with a dark double life; Agent Dale Cooper, the idealistic investigator sent to catch her killer; and the countless inhabitants of the both the town where she lived and the supernatural realm – the Black Lodge – lurking beneath its surface.
To celebrate the series' return, we narrowed down the sprawling cast of both the TV show and its feature-film prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me to a quick and dirty list of 30 – the characters essential to understanding the show's undying appeal. Pour yourself a damn good coffee and fire walk with us.
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