Neo-Cult and the Altered Audience: Reviving Cult TV for the Post-TV Age

From The X-Files to Friends, Gilmore Girls Twin Peaks, revivals of beloved TV series have dominated the airwaves and streaming services over last decade. media landscape has changed significantly since these series’ original airings, however, webisodes, video games, social hashtags fan communities exist alongside—and act upon—the “original” text. By focusing on Peaks this chapter theorizes return cult television as neo-cult. I use concept dialogic argue that if is defined dialogically between text, audience, industry, academy, neo-cult emerges through discourse recalling earlier iterations being reflected amplified, thus resulting in revived text becoming a self-referential or