On Twin Peaks, time was fluid, but there was never enough of it

On David Lynch and Mark Frost’s groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks, time is fluid. The show jumps back and forth in time, repeating history while characters try to change it, and occasionally even get frozen in it. And yet, there’s never enough of it. That fundamental truth drives people’s regrets just as often as it gives them fond memories. The future is just as overwhelming as the past. There’s too much to do and too much to see. Twenty-five years after their original 1990–1991 run of the show, Lynch and Frost finally came back to television for 18 episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return. And for the audience, after decades of waiting for answers, even those 18 hours back in the Twin Peaks world wasn’t enough time to get answers, or even...

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