Or take the fact that everybody is obsessed with food and drink. The surrounding Pacific North-western woods are as crisp as a countryside stroll in daylight, but creepy as hell at night. The show was filmed in and around the evocative Washington town of Snoqualmie, whose waterfall provides the series’ most iconic location. This is a series that lives on less for its storytelling (which gets more wayward the longer it goes on) and more for its rich atmosphere.įew series have been quite so obsessed by texture. As shaped by Lynch, Twin Peaks is – to use a phrase that’s often abused, but entirely apt in this case – cinematic. Fast forward to the modern TV era, and any show with ambition, from Game of Thrones to Breaking Bad, is looking to emulate the thrill of Peaks at its peak, but also to perfect and maintain it over many years. Initially, its influence lay in bringing weird Americana to the small screen – Northern Exposure, The X-Files (whose star, David Duchovny, had a breakout role here) and Desperate Housewives, where Twin Peaks’ star Kyle McLachlan found another signature role.
Cancelled prematurely after a patchy (but still rewarding) second season, Lynch followed up with divisive prequel film Fire Walk With Me, before consolidating his status as one of America’s most revered filmmakers with Mulholland Drive. Twin Peaks’ star burned brightly but faded rapidly, due partly to network pressure, but also the fact that neither the show’s makers or its audience really knew how to deal with a series like this. (And no, that’s not really a spoiler: the question remains as to who Bob’s alter-ego is.) Most of all, Twin Peaks is consistently, delightfully weird if you’re after backwards-talking dwarves and elderly waiters who transform into giants, it’s the only place on telly to go. It’s frequently funny – an entire sequence revolves around a fish being found in a coffee percolator – but often absolutely terrifying, especially when Lynch is on hand to direct Laura’s killer, the demonic Bob. It’s also a mainstream series that pushed the envelope in terms of production values and shocking subject matter. This is a parody of soap operas that quickly became just as addictive as any soap for its wild plotting, mercurial tone and fascinating characters.
Every box set binge you’ve made on Netflix likely owes something to the years-ahead-of-its-time series created by Mark Frost and ace film director David Lynch. The owls are not what they seemįrom the moment the body of prom queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) is discovered, wrapped in plastic, Twin Peaks revolutionised television. Twin Peaks has returned for its long-awaited comeback – but if you’ve never visited the North-western town where murder is the least weird thing going on, here’s everything you need to know about David Lynch’s cult 1990s TV show.
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