Chad Hoffman: We had a great meeting about it and at the end of it I said, “I think you’re talking about something that kind of has the feel – for wont of a better TV term – sort of a soap opera, but not in a negative sense. Why don’t you go back and take a look at Peyton Place (the movie, not the series) and think about that piece with the quaint town and what was going on behind the scenes and just think about how something like that was done; [it] might jive with what you’re trying to do and see if there’s a connection there. If there is, come back because I’m very interested.”

Mark Frost: We hated it [Peyton Place], we didn’t even finish watching. We watched maybe half an hour. It was just a dead piece of work at that point. It said nothing to us of any relevance whatsoever and we looked at each other and said, “Why are we wasting our time with this?”