When Twin Peaks originally revealed the identity of Laura Palmer’s killer in November of 1990, it was widely considered to be a mistake on the show’s part, both by its critics and its creators. Even though “Who Killed Laura Palmer?” was the tagline of the series, and that original brought FBI Agent and coffee connoisseur Dale Cooper to the town of Twin Peaks in the first place, the show itself was always more of a surreal soap opera, with Laura Palmer’s death serving merely as the inciting incident for its many strange and dark melodramas to spring forth. A lot has changed over the years, of course, especially considering the ways in which Fire Walk with Me and Twin Peaks: The Return were able to transform the franchise‘s mythology, but still, you can hardly blame the many audience members who started to fall by the wayside when Laura’s killer was (kind of) found out. I…
