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“I loved the quirkiness and the great story only to be disappointed to find out that, at that time, the second season wasn’t available on DVD.” “I purchased the DVD box set of the first season and watched all the episodes in one sitting - I was hooked,” said Stuart. Jared also created and maintains the Twin Peaks Festival Web site (Stuart Geddes, 28, traveled all the way from Airdrie, Scotland, to attend last year’s festival after becoming hooked on the show five years ago. Since 2004, Jared, along with Californian Amanda Hicks and a small group of “TwinPeaks” fans, have run the festival. But because of the expense of holding the festival at such a remote location, it was moved back to North Bend 10 years ago. Pat Shook and her husband, Don, enjoyed the experience so much that they decided to organize a yearly festival for fans of the show to get together and share their love for the show’s eccentric characters, quirky camera angles and evocative music.Īccording to Jared, the first few years of the festival were held off Bainbridge Island, Wash., where the body of the fictional Laura Palmer was found. The studio sponsored the event and brought several stars of the film to the screening - as well as a great many cherry pies, which were served up with coffee so often on the show they became a running joke.

#Twin peaks season 4 newsweek movie

The yearly gathering of fans began in August 1992 when the movie studio distributing the feature film “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” - essentially a prequel to the television series - premiered the film in North Bend.

“On the surface, it’s just this town where everyone likes coffee and cherry pie, but then there’s this whole underbelly, and something evil coming from the woods.” “I grew up in a small town and I liked the idea that there was more happening in this boring town that I lived in than meets the eye, and that’s what ‘Twin Peaks’ is all about,” said Jared, who hails from Barton, Vt. the filming location of the fictional town for which the show was named. Jared, 29, is still a fan and currently co-organizes an annual Twin Peaks Festival in North Bend, Wash. “My mom, my sister and I would watch it religiously.” Jared Lyon, a graduate of and Web-site developer at the Rochester Institute of Technology, was immediately hooked on the show - created by filmmaker David Lynch and Mark Frost - and has watched the entire series at least 50 times. It also won three Golden Globe awards, including one for Best Television Drama, during its 1990-91 run.įans of the short-lived program had never seen anything like it and were not prepared to let it fall into television obscurity when it went off the air after just 29 episodes. The murder mystery came and went, creating a short-term sensation and a longer-lasting cult following. Who killed Laura Palmer? That was the question asked by a quirky and creepy television show that aired for just two seasons: “Twin Peaks.” He has helped organize an annual festival of fans that meets this week in North Bend, Wash. RIT Web-site developer and “Twin Peaks” aficionado Jared Lyon and his collection of “Twin Peaks” DVDs, CDs, magazines and collectibles.