True Detective vs Twin Peaks

[DoktorH]

There doesn't seem to be a TV show subforum, but this seems like the most appropriate place.

There's a 3rd season of Twin Peaks in the works. Whilst googling for more information on that, I learned that it's not airing until 2016 on Showtime (in keeping with a "see you in 25 years" remark from the 2nd season) and a companion/promotional book is coming out at some point in the meantime.

I also came across the sentiment that True Detective is effectively Twin Peaks season 3. I know a lot of Ligotti fans are also Lynch fans and that arguing about True Detective is one of the reasons we can't have nice things, so I figured i would ask all the fine folks here on TLO what they make of this idea.


to me, True Detective feels more like a Laird Barron story with a Ligotti-quoting protagonist on the Gulf Coast, while Twin peaks feels like a stephen king story in the pacific northwest with Fox Mulder's laid back FBI-school buddy as the protagonist. i think you could definitely drive from one to the other if you don't mind passing through bits of Stephen King and Joe Hill novels in between.