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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent May 11, 2017 1:41 PM UTC  Gabriel Olsen—Getty Images; Photo Illustration by Kenneth Bachor for TIME  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent May 11, 2017 1:41 PM UTC Television history is divided into two eras: before [_Twin Peaks_](http://time.com/3476139/twin-peaks/) and after. In 1990, David Lynch and Mark Frost managed to create a surreal show built on a scaffolding of impending dread, dream logic and bizarre aesthetics. It was like nothing that came before it and inspired a generation of showrunners to push the boundaries of TV. Twenty-five years after _Peaks_ ended, Showtime is reviving the series beginning May 21\. TIME talked to the creators of some of TV’s biggest shows—[Damon Lindelof](http://time.com/4732113/damon-lindelof-leftovers-lost/) (_Lost_ and _The Leftovers_), [David Chase](http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/article/0,28804,1690753%5F1690758%5F1693580,00.html) (_The Sopranos_), [Noah Hawley](http://time.com/4667769/noah-hawley-legion-fx/) (_Fargo_ and _Legion_), Kerry Ehrin (_Bates Motel)_, Carlton Cuse (_Lost_, _Bates Motel_) and Jane Campion (_Top of the Lake_)—to ask how the two seasons of _Twin Peaks_ and David Lynch influenced their own work. **MORE:** [Everything We Know About the Return of _Twin Peaks_](http://time.com/4759458/twin-peaks-return-showtime/)  Justin Theroux in The Leftovers HBO ### **Damon Lindelof,** **_Lost_** **and** **_The Leftovers_** There is no show in television history that had more impact on me than _Twin Peaks_. My father and I would record episodes and re-watch them multiple times, pausing for conversation and debate over Agent Cooper’s [throwing technique](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emEu2-%5Fjjfk) as he hurled rocks at a glass bottle in order to rule out suspects. I was seventeen when season one aired, and while most of my peers were obsessed with “sports” and “having fun,” I was blathering on about the Black Lodge. This, of course, led me to be labeled as somewhat of a weirdo, a designation I take great pride in. The resulting banishment from teen society left me ample free time to begin writing stories myself. It goes without being said that my love for exploring mystery, and more importantly, the ambiguity surrounding it, was borne of that quiet, creepy logging town, and I literally cannot wait to revisit it.  In perhaps his most famous role, Gandolfini portrayed mob boss Tony Soprano in HBO's The Sopranos. HBO ### **David Chase,** **_The Sopranos_** If you look at TV drama since its inception, shows would tell the audience what they were going to see, show it to them and then tell them what they’ve seen. Nobody was ever puzzled by what was going on. With _Twin Peaks_, Lynch and Frost show it to you and leave you thinking, “What did I just see?” That was revolutionary, and it still is. Everything was mysterious. I don’t mean, “When did the perp killed the vic?” I mean the weather, the trees, the donuts. The dream sequences were more nightmare-like than anything I’d seen before—Fellini, Hitchcock, you name it. Lynch dug them up from the bottom of his unconscious. To articulate something that’s so strange yet feels so familiar is incredible, especially in a factory setting like a TV series where you have to do one after another, boom, boom, boom. I was just beguiled by it. As a friend of mine said the other day: Anybody making one-hour drama today who says he wasn’t influenced by David Lynch is lying.  Dan Stevens and Aubrey Plaza in Legion Michelle Faye—FX ### **Noah Hawley,** **_Fargo_** **and** **_Legion_** _Twin Peaks_ married the mundane and the odd. I don’t think an audience had ever seen that happy people and misery coexist together to create something really unsettling—creepy people smiling too much. And the music played a big part. That boomy acoustic guitar rift never shifted, no matter how terrifying or funny a scene was. I looked a lot at David Lynch’s work in thinking about _Legion_ and this idea of “the uncanny.” And in _Twin Peaks_ not every image has to be tied to information. Rather, it creates an experience. So much of storytelling is information delivery, but _Twin Peaks_ created a mood with imagery that didn’t always make sense. The [first reveal of BOB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eghSAUjeD%5Fk) is totally visual. BOB comes out of nowhere, raises a hair on your neck, and then disappears, and you wonder if it’s even real. Lynch understands the power of image.  Bates Motel -- "Hidden" -- Cate Cameron/A&E Networks LLC -- © 2016 A&E Networks, LLC. All Rights Reserved Cate Cameron—A&E Networks ### **Kerry Ehrin,** **_Bates Motel_** _Twin Peaks_, to date, is the most magical show I ever watched and it affected me deeply, as a viewer and as a creator. It’s completely original tone was mother’s milk to my brain. I would anticipate each episode with the physical excitement of a kid waiting for Santa to show up with a bag full of wonders.  UNITED STATES - MARCH 17: LOST - "The Incident," Parts 1 & 2 - Jack's decision to put a plan in action in order to set things right on the island is met with some strong resistance by those close to him, and Locke assigns Ben a difficult task, on the season finale of "Lost," WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (Photo by Mario Perez/ABC via Getty Images) Mario Perez—ABC/Getty Images ### **Carlton Cuse,** **_Lost_** **and** **_Bates Motel_** Sometimes art tickles your fancy and other times it slaps you in the face. The pilot of _Twin Peaks_ mesmerized me and left me reeling. In a single stroke of genius Mark Frost and David Lynch advanced the storytelling art of television by a mile. The full sensory experience of that pilot—images, sounds, music and the completely strange and yet utterly compelling characters—it was unlike anything I’d ever seen. The purposeful ambiguity kept my brain churning, well, forever, so far. All throughout the writing of six years of _Lost_ and five years of _Bates Motel_, _Twin Peaks_ was there, in the back of my mind. And I don’t think it’s going away anytime soon.  Elisabeth Moss -Sundance Channel original miniseries "Top of the Lake" - Photo Credit: Parisa Taghizadeh Parisa Taghizadeh—Sundance Channel ### **Jane Campion,** **_Top of the Lake_** When I first saw David Lynch’s _Eraserhead_ I felt a dormant part of my brain had been excavated. I had never seen imagery like Lynch’s yet I understood it instantly. It had a dreamlike narrative logic, hectic and unbounded. The mood was dark, awry, emotional–this for me was the language of the subconscious and I realized I instinctively knew it. The details in Lynch’s work are stunning, by equal measure seductive, extraordinary and disturbing. The dog in the awkward family living room with the guzzling puppies, the salad tossed using grandmother’s limp hands, the chicken legs moving blowing big gravy bubbles. The extreme imagery of this film and others, ejected heads, extreme violence and sexual perversion, was, he quietly suggested, inside all of us. David is without parallel in our generation, unique, disturbing, brilliant, homey and very often darkly funny, even hilarious. He is also the single most liberating inspiration of my creative life, a genius apostle of the subconscious. Lost, Fargo and Sopranos Creators on Twin Peaks' Influence ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4769270/twin-peaks-lost-fargo-sopranos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4769270/twin-peaks-lost-fargo-sopranos/"},"headline":"Creators of Lost, Fargo, The Sopranos and Other Shows on How Twin Peaks Influenced Them","datePublished":"2017-05-11T13:41:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:52.761Z","description":"'Twin Peaks' is coming back May 21. 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