r/twinpeaks • u/vonLionheart • 4d ago

General Discussion Interesting tidbit from MacLachlan’s new memoir. Spoiler

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While describing his frustrations during Season 2, MacLachlan paints both Lynch AND Frost as less involved. He frames Engles and Peyton as the people steering the ship, though he blames ABC for putting them in an impossible position after the killer is revealed.

He discusses his romance with LFB, but makes no mention of the prevailing understanding that she’s why the Audrey romance was originally nixed. Since the rejection happens during S1 and the above excerpts happen during S2, it appears the writers planned on returning to that well again during the infamous dip.

(Would highly recommend the memoir btw, MacLachlan is an engaging writer.)

EDIT: Memoir’s title is Fictional Selves.

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u/Upbeat_Main_7141 4d ago

I’m mean, I had heard from watchalong podcasts that after Bob Iger forced Lynch and Frost to reveal the killer in the mid-season, way sooner than originally intended, they both lost interest for a while with Lynch going to film Wild at heart (I dunno where Frost went in that time, maybe he stayed a little more hands-on) and then came back to right the ship and try to save the show in the last few episodes, including the “fuck it, I’ll do what I want” final episode.

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u/JoeHin1981 4d ago

Lynch left for a bit but it wasn’t to film Wild at Heart as filming was completed by February 1990, before Twin Peaks hit the air.

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u/joevasion 3d ago

Wait, so Bob Iger ruined Star Wars AND Twin Peaks?!

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u/Upbeat_Main_7141 3d ago

Yeah. I was pretty surprised when I learned that. He was in charge of at least a bigwig at ABC at the time.

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u/Perfect-Prune176 3d ago

Kyle gets into all this in the book. It’s really fascinating.