This New ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3 Trailer Contains Actual Footage Of People Doing Things
The marketing for the hotly anticipated and long-delayed third season ofTwin Peakshas been a masterclass in trolling, with each new preview offering only tiny snippets of footage, virtually no dialogue, and no indication of story. It’s frustrating and baffling and totally bizarre and, well, appropriate forTwin Peaksin every possible way.
The latestTwin Peaksseason 3 trailer has arrived and it offers more of the same. Heck, if offers alotmore of it! This nearly wordless montage of charactersdoing thingsis somehow creepy and effective, despite offering up a whole lot of nothing.
Like past trailers, this one cycles through characters and locations, some familiar and some not, while unsettling noise punctuates the entire preview. When characters do speak, it’s presented entirely out of context or as incidental chatter, like FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole (played by series co-creator and directorDavid Lynch) shouting “Albert!” while sitting next to FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield (played by the lateMiguel Ferrer). The more hardcore fans may be able to pick out more from this footage, but I’m aTwin Peakslightweight – I never finished the divisive second season.
Interestingly, Lynch chose to shoot all 18 episodes as one long “movie,” deciding where to create episode breaks in the editing room. This is a strange choice (one that feels perfectly suited to Lynch’s experimental style), but it could create some odd pacing. Hence, Showtime’s somewhat strange premiere roll-out, which feels built to ease people into the show.
Here’s the official synopsis, which doesn’t really describe anything:
Widely considered one of the most groundbreaking and influential broadcast series of all time, TWIN PEAKS followed the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town who were stunned after their homecoming queen Laura Palmer was shockingly murdered. The town’s sheriff welcomed the help of FBI agent Dale Cooper, who came to town to investigate the case. As Cooper conducted his search for Laura’s killer, the town’s secrets were gradually exposed. The mystery that ensued set off an eerie chain of events that plunged the inhabitants of Twin Peaks into a darker examination of their very existence. Twenty-five years later, the story continues…
