‘Dear Twitter friends, that gum you like is going to come back in style! #damngoodcoffee’. And so, with a couple of famous quotes from the show, director David Lynch sparked a social media meltdown in October 2014 by revealing that his extraordinary TV drama Twin Peaks was returning for a third season.

The first two series caused a sensation in 1990 and 1991. After the first episode, one critic described it as ‘the series that will change TV’. Time magazine declared it ‘the most hauntingly original work ever done for TV’.

Set in a small Pacific Northwest logging town, the show revolved around an investigation into the killing of Laura Palmer, whose body, wrapped in plastic, is found by the river in the pilot episode.

Set in a small Pacific Northwest logging town, the show revolved around an investigation into the killing of Laura Palmer, whose body, wrapped in plastic, is found by the riverThe BBC2 announcer introduced it as an ‘offbeat murder mystery’, but Twin Peaks was about as far away from a conventional crime show as it was possible to get. It was both perverted police procedural and subversive soap opera featuring, among many other things, demonic possession, extra-dimensional locations, an FBI agent who relied on clues given to him in dreams, a dancing dwarf with a disturbing speech pattern and, naturally, a giant.

Lynch, an Oscar-nominated film-maker with The Elephant Man, Dune and Blue Velvet under his belt, brought his unique, surreal sensibility to a show that was funny, frightening, freakish and utterly unlike anything else.

So what can we expect from the new series? Undoubtedly, the unexpected…