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Cult TV Revival: Generational Seriality, Recap Culture, and the “Brand Gap” of "Twin Peaks: The Return"
Twin Peaks: The Return
by Matt Hills - senior lecturer in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
How do we define a cult TV series?
Cult TV
- often referred to as a cult classic
- a cult following refers to a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a piece of artwork in various media
- cult media is considered too eccentric or subversive to be appreciated by the general public or to be commercially successful
"Twin Peaks" and "Twin Peaks: The Return"
"Twin Peaks"
- a television show created by David Lynch and Mark Frost in 1990
-an FBI agent, Dale Cooper, is assigned to investigate the murder of a 17-year old schoolgirl, Laura Palmer, in the city of Twin Peaks
- 25 years later "The Return" is premiered as a continuation of the series
Generational Seriality
Generational Seriality
- relating ongoing serialised narrative to matters of the life course and ageing
- key characters from the original run are
shown to have children of their own or are represented in terms of visibly
marked ageing
- synchronising “the amount of time which has passed in our lives with that of the characters”
Brand Gap
- Agent Cooper's transformation = loss of self; does not know who he is, nor can he function as an adult
- fantastical connotations of dementia
- It knowingly contests the earlier show’s core of audience identification with Agent Dale Cooper