Kyle MacLachlan says ABC’s focus on solving Laura Palmer mystery became Twin Peaks’ “entire focus”

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"But once you remove that because it was a really powerful theme, you know, that that just trying to solve that and instead of sort of softpeding that and sort of focusing on just this crazy community of people and what was going to happen there, um that became the entire focus."

Kyle MacLachlan says that ABC pushed the “Who killed Laura Palmer?” mystery as the central reason to watch Twin Peaks, and he believes that emphasis ultimately narrowed what the series was about. He says that once the show moved away from treating the killing as a way into a wider world and instead prioritised solving it, “that became the entire focus”.