--- title: Twin Peaks description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103860/twin-peaks/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-12T15:47:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-02T23:01:57.897Z og:title: Twin Peaks og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103860/twin-peaks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65681e5b8c8ab9e9/69869f36e8524b5b20604436/t100_tv_twin-peaks1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Twin Peaks og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Twin Peaks twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt65681e5b8c8ab9e9/69869f36e8524b5b20604436/t100_tv_twin-peaks1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 12, 2014 # _Twin Peaks_ ## Video: Twin Peaks [Watch (HLS stream): Twin Peaks](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/prfCDsoe.m3u8) (0:33)  _Published 2007-09-04. David Lynch and Mark Frost turned primetime TV into a giant indie art-house theater, and regular American channel surfers by the millions became its black-turtlenecked denizens._ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff  Sherilyn Fenn and Kyle MacLaughlin in Twin Peaks Sherilyn Fenn and Kyle MacLaughlin in Twin PeaksABC Photo Archives—ABC via Getty Images David Lynch and Mark Frost made something really weird happen, and I’m not talking about Laura Palmer’s murder, a dancing dwarf, a Log Lady or an owl. They turned primetime TV into a giant indie art-house theater, and regular American channel surfers by the millions became its black-turtlenecked denizens. The story of a teen girl’s death in the Pacific Northwest—and the pie-eating, deadpan-soliloquy-spouting FBI agent investigating it—carried on the theme, from Lynch movies like _Blue Velvet_, of sordid secrets and ancient horrors hid behind a facade of wholesome Americana, proving that TV could equal or surpass film in its storytelling ambitions. _Twin Peaks_ may have had the shelf life of a freshly poured cup of coffee, but it was damn fine nonetheless. 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