Twin Peaks

Created by Mark Frost, David Lynch · 1990–1991, 2017 · English

With Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick

Seasons · 0 of 3 watched

Season 1 · 1990
Season 2 · 1990
Season 3 · 2017

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What it is

When the body of Laura Palmer, a homecoming queen, washes up wrapped in plastic outside a logging town in Washington state, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper arrives to investigate. Behind the diners and the sawmill he finds affairs, drugs, corruption and something supernatural, told as a mix of soap opera, comedy and dream; a third season, in 2017, returns 25 years on.

Why it matters

David Lynch and Mark Frost brought a film director's style and a serial mystery to network television, won a Golden Globe and the TCA's Program of the Year, and opened the way for The X-Files and the auteur drama that followed.

Watching it

Length: about 43 hours.

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In the US, as of 28 October 2026. Streaming data from JustWatch.

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Influenced by1

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The Prisoner · Patrick McGoohan · 1967–1968
Co-creator Mark Frost has said The Prisoner, with its enigmatic and puzzling storytelling, was a large influence on both him and Twin Peaks.
Wikipedia, The Prisoner, Cultural impact

Influenced5

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The X-Files · Chris Carter · 1993–2002
Owes its brooding mood and uneasy swings between the uncanny and the wry to Twin Peaks, and its FBI agent Mulder echoes Dale Cooper.
Wikipedia, The X-Files, Production
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Desperate Housewives · Marc Cherry · 2004–2012
Marc Cherry said it carried a little bit of Twin Peaks, the small-town mystery he folded into its suburban soap through a neighbour's unexplained suicide.
Wikipedia, Desperate Housewives, Production
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Lost · Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof · 2004–2010
Its producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof named Twin Peaks and David Lynch as a major influence on their work.
Wikipedia, Twin Peaks, Reception and legacy
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Fargo · Noah Hawley · 2014–
Noah Hawley cited Twin Peaks as a major inspiration, above all for Fargo, his anthology of crime and strangeness in the small-town Midwest.
Wikipedia, Twin Peaks, Reception and legacy
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Atlanta · Donald Glover · 2016–2022
Donald Glover cited Twin Peaks as the inspiration for Atlanta, pitching his dreamlike comedy-drama as that show's strangeness set in the Atlanta rap scene.
Wikipedia, Twin Peaks, Reception and legacy

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