"What year is it?"
These words were spoken three years ago by the protagonist Dale Cooper at the conclusion of Twin Peaks in 2017. As powerful as they were then, they have only become stronger with age. Perhaps, it is due to finding ourselves in the middle of a pandemic in 2020 where time has appeared to warp with its disruption of most laborious routines.
"I'll see you again in 25 years," Laura Palmer informs Dale Cooper in the finale of the second season.
Most Twin Peaks fans believed that was the end, including today's guest John Thorne, author of Wrapped in Plastic: the Essential Guide of Twin Peaks. And there is no better guest to invite on to speculate as to what was going on inside the minds of Twin Peaks' creators David Lynch and Mark Frost when they penned episodes 17 and 18 of Twin Peaks, the Return.
