Even when the season 1 "Twin Peaks" aired, the biggest surprise for everyone was how much material the show gave Cheryl Lee. Her character was Laura Palmer, Introduced as a corpse in the pilot. Outside of a few small retrospective, the real Laura stays on the viewer's imagination throughout the season, with us taking her personality through the way her friends and family remember her.

It was a pretty standard, treadmill of "dead mystery girl" for Lee, so he did not expect to call back after the first episode. In a Interview for 2016 Lee reminded:

"After we shot the pilot, I stayed in Seattle and was constantly doing theater. I thought that was it. Then David (Lynch) called me a few months later and said to me," How would I feel about moving to Los Angeles? I want to get you back to the show. " I was thrilled, but I said, 'Like? He said, "I don't know, but we'll understand that."

WARNING: Spoilers Below for Season 2 of Twin Peaks.

Lynch's solution was to introduce Madeleine's "Madi" Ferguson, Laura Palmer's cousin, which looks almost like her, but with dark hair and glasses. Was it a little silly to give to Laura Dopelganger? Probably, but the audience was still on the ship. Poor sweet Madi was a well -beautiful character who helped drive the plot in the teenage story. It was fun to watch her, Donna and Jameseims make their own sleeping during the first season, and was fatal in season 2 when Madi met a similar tragic death as her late cousin.

As the show's co-creator David Frost explained, the inspiration for this identical cousin's placement comes from one of director Alfred Hitchcock's best films. "The image of the cousin (Laura) Madlin, which is certainly a homage to" Vertigo ", came into play," he explained. "The play was dense with this kind of respect, a kind of compulsive referral that was maintained by viewers and confused and entered."

WARNING: spoilers For "Vertigo" below:

As can be reminded of Hitchcock fans, Vertigo is a film about a detective named Jameses Stewart that is required to watch out for the troubled woman named Madlin (Kim Novak). Madlin dies tragically about halfway, and Scotty is shaken by her sadness when she sees another woman (also played by Kim Novak) that looks true like her.

The film quickly reveals (for us, not to Scotti) that this new woman is really the same person we met in the first half of the film. She is an actor who was engaged as part of the complex scheme by Real Madeleine's wicked husband. This morally moral discovery is secondary, however, on the real question that the film deals with: Scotty's obsession with a return to the romantic fantasy she had with Madeleine. He continues to try to get her back to Madeleine, though Madeleine in which inbuilders has never been realistic. The movie Ends with yudi herself to die In almost the same way she lied to Madeleine's death.

There are many differences between Laura/Madi on Twin Peaks and Vertigo's Madi/Yudi, but one thing remains the same: both tragic women end up as a source of obsession with the main character. Just as Scotty has been driven to recently and is in his infertile search to bring Madeleine back from the tomb, Cooper's agent on Twin Peaks ends up capturing in an alternative dimension when he tries to return to time to save Laura. (At least, we Think That's what happened. The final was a little confusing.)

Both "Vertigo" and "Twin Peaks" are stories of the way women can be treated (or abused) from men in their lives. Both crazy are regular women who still turn into bigger ideas than Skoti/Cooper, with tragic results for almost all involved. Both stories comment often impossible standards and hopes that men can put on a woman, hitting the idea in a way that still rings just even decades after each story that was first broadcast. This approach leads to both stories to have finishing endings, but it is also what led to maintain their emotional influence long after they came out for the first time.