""Looking back on it now, I'm not convinced I was right," he said. "Deep down, I felt David was frustrating the audience, but it may well be that my demands for an answer to the question of who killed Laura Palmer threw the show into another kind of narrative disarray." Mark Frost agrees. "We paid a big price for it. You know, that was something that contributed as much as anything to the momentum falling apart.""
"From the day it premiered, Twin Peaks had a problem. Audiences wanted to know who killed Laura Palmer; David Lynch and Mark Frost weren't interested in telling them who killed Laura Palmer. When they agreed to reveal the killer, the network was apparently vindicated. Some 17 million viewers tuned in - the highest ratings the show had achieved since the season-two premiere."
Audiences demanded to know who killed Laura Palmer while creators resisted revealing the culprit. When the network pressured for a resolution, ratings spiked to about 17 million viewers, but resolving the central mystery removed the show's driving question and fractured its narrative momentum. Executives and creators later acknowledged that revealing the killer contributed to the series' decline; one creator said the revelation "killed Twin Peaks." The series continued through additional season-two episodes, but production pressures, episodic constraints, and unresolved threats like BOB complicated efforts to re-center the show's purpose, leaving storytelling unanchored amid a rushed production.
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