The 14 stages of responding to David Lynch quitting Showtime's Twin Peaks reboot

In a battle of business versus art, can anyone really win?

Twin Peaks illustration by Sabrina Parolin.
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On Sunday, in a maddening reversal of plans first announced last October, David Lynch said he would not direct all nine episodes of Showtime's revival of the cult mystery drama Twin Peaks. "After 1 year and 4 months of negotiations, I left because not enough money was offered to do the script the way I felt it needed to be done," wrote Lynch on both Facebook and Twitter. "This weekend I started to call actors to let them know I would not be directing. Twin Peaks may still be very much alive at Showtime. I love the world of Twin Peaks and wish things could have worked out differently."

This is very, very bad news. This is an attempt to catalog my response to it.

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Scott Meslow

Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.