Research How to Cite: Lash, D. 2020. The Dangers of Getting What You Asked For: Double Time in Twin Peaks: The Return. Open Screens, 3(1): 1, pp. 1–26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/os.21 Published: 09 July 2020 Peer Review: This article has been peer reviewed through the double-blind process of Open Screens, which is a journal published by the Open Library of Humanities. Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Open Access: Open Screens is a peer-reviewed open access journal. Digital Preservation: The Open Library of Humanities and all its journals are digitally preserved in the CLOCKSS scholarly archive service. Lash, D. 2020. The Dangers of Getting What You Asked For: Double Time in Twin Peaks: The Return. Open Screens, 3(1): 1, pp. 1–26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/os.21 RESEARCH The Dangers of Getting What You Asked For: Double Time in Twin Peaks: The Return Dominic Lash University of Bristol, GB
[email protected] The third season of Twin Peaks is chock full of uncanny, disturbing – and disturbingly humorous – doubles, most notably of its central character, played by Kyle McLachlan. This article argues that the series itself is also a kind of double, because it takes advantage of the almost unique situation in which a beloved show is continued after a quarter-century absence to superimpose itself on the new versions of Twin Peaks its fans have fantasized in the interim.