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Actress Sherilyn Fenn who played Audrey Horne on the television show 'Twin Peaks' on Nov. 20, 1989.ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images by [James Poniewozik](https://time.com/author/james-poniewozik/) ## James Poniewozik Oct 6, 2014 4:47 PM UTC Sometimes, as it turns out, the owls are exactly what they seem. Rumors had been percolating (like damn fine coffee) that _Twin Peaks_ might be returning in some form, and they went into overdrive last Friday when the show’s creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost, tweeted the same quote from the show: “That gum you like is going to come back in style.” But it couldn’t mean… They weren’t going to… No one would actually… Would they? Turns out [they would, and they are](http://time.com/3475258/twin-peaks-showtime-david-lynch/). Showtime today announced that _Twin Peaks_ is returning, as a nine-episode limited-run series, in 2016, with Frost writing and Lynch directing. Getting excited? Getting excited? Great! Now it’s time to get disappointed! Because that’s the way of these things, isn’t it? Someone announces a revival, or a reboot, or in this case a continuation, and the commentary-industrial complex begins imagining reasons why this new _Star Trek_, or _Star Wars_, or surreal Northwest mystery cannot possibly turn out well. Remember _The Phantom Menace_? Remember _Fire Walk With Me_? [That one guy is going to be that one superhero?](http://www.themarysue.com/internet-reaction-ben-affleck-batman/) [That guy from _Swingers_ is going to be in _True Detective_?](http://deadline.com/2014/09/true-detective-colin-farrell-vince-vaughn-justin-lin-confirmed-season-2-hbo-839632/) We’re doomed! (I have done this plenty of times myself, trust me.) I have no idea, of course, what the new _Twin Peaks_ will be like. It will be good, or it will be bad. But I beg you: let yourself get excited. Be happy about a thing without needing to coat it in prophylactic pessimism. Don’t give in to the defensive reflex to pre-disappoint yourself. Don’t be afraid of seeming like a sucker. I don’t know, none of us do, what Lynch and Frost will give us in two years, but I know this: \* **Two very talented people are returning to TV.** This, really, is the bottom line. Frost and Lynch don’t _need_ to make more _Twin Peaks_. That they are doing so anyway tells me they have ideas they’re excited about, and that’s reason enough for hope. \* **TV doesn’t need** **_Twin Peaks_** **anymore.** When Twin Peaks premired in 1990, it blew up our notions of what TV could and could not do: it established that TV could be idiosyncratic, could be ambitious, could be art, even, and–at least for a while–could be wildly, commercially successful. Today, the TV business is much different from what it was then. There are far more outlets, a show can survive with a far smaller audience, and it’s much easier (which is not to say easy) to find a place to take a chance wth a risky concept. For years after Twin Peaks went off the air, its dramatic drop in ratings was cited as proof of what you couldn’t do on TV–that it was dangerous to be too weird, or establish mysteries with a tricky payoff, and so on. Now, there’s less riding on a new Twin Peaks: it can succeed or fail on its own, and TV as an art form will carry on. \* **We all have an excuse to go back and watch a fantastic work of TV art.** Even the second season. If the revival does nothing else but introduce new viewers to the original, evocative, entrancing work, that will be a plus. \* **You can’t ruin a good thing retroactively.** This, really, is the most important point to me. We’ve developed this sour mindset among some series and franchise fans that an ending, or a continuation, that disappoints them negates everything that came before it. A serial needs to “stick the landing” or else I’ve “wasted” all the time I put into it. This, I’d argue, is such a crabbed and limiting view of art and entertainment. The pleasure you derive from a thing is _always_ worth it, no matter what comes afterward. There’s no prize for making the right judgment on a work of fiction two years before it exists. If you loved Twin Peaks–or even if you’re just curious–you now have an excuse to go back and look again at one of the greatest things TV ever did. And in 2016, its creators will do something great again. Or they won’t. In which case there will be plenty of time to hate it then. Why waste two years pre-hating something? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3475392/twin-peaks-showtime-new-season/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3475392/twin-peaks-showtime-new-season/"},"headline":"Go Ahead, Get Excited for the New Twin Peaks. 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