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Twin Peaks

May 17, 2023

This article is about the TV series. For other uses, see Twin Peaks (disambiguation).

Twin Peaks is an American mystery serial drama television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. It premiered on ABC on April 8, 1990, and originally ran for two seasons until its cancellation in 1991. The show returned in 2017 for a third season on Showtime.

Twin Peaks
Genre
Created by
Starring
Opening themeInstrumental version of "Falling" by Julee Cruise
ComposerAngelo Badalamenti
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes48 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Cinematography
Running time
  • 45–60 minutes
  • 94 minutes ("Pilot" and "May the Giant Be With You")
Production companies
Budget>$41 million (season 3)[4][a]
Release
Original network
Picture format
Audio format
Original release
  • April 8, 1990 (1990-04-08) – June 10, 1991 (1991-06-10) (original run)
  • May 21 – September 3, 2017 (2017-09-03) (revival)
Related
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992 film)

The series follows an investigation, headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) and local Sheriff Harry S. Truman (Michael Ontkean), into the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) in the fictional town of Twin Peaks, Washington. The show's narrative draws on elements of detective fiction, but its uncanny tone, supernatural elements, and campy, melodramatic portrayal of eccentric characters also draws from American soap opera and horror tropes.[5][6][7][8] Like much of Lynch's work, it is distinguished by surrealism, offbeat humor, and distinctive cinematography.[9] The score was composed by Angelo Badalamenti with Lynch.[10]

The original run was followed by the 1992 feature film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, which serves as a prequel to the series. The initial success of the series sparked a media franchise, leading to the release of several tie-in books, including The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. The show's 2017 revival saw many of the original cast return, with Lynch directing.

In the years following the first two seasons, the show gained a devoted cult following and became referenced in a wide variety of media.[11][12][13][7] Twin Peaks is often listed among the greatest television series of all time and has received universal acclaim from critics and audiences. It is considered a landmark turning point in television drama.[14][15][16][17][18] The 2017 revival also received widespread critical acclaim.[19]

Plot and series overview

Main article: List of Twin Peaks episodes
SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast airedNetwork
18April 8, 1990 (1990-04-08)May 23, 1990 (1990-05-23)ABC
222September 30, 1990 (1990-09-30)June 10, 1991 (1991-06-10)
Fire Walk with MeAugust 28, 1992 (1992-08-28)N/A
318May 21, 2017 (2017-05-21)September 3, 2017 (2017-09-03)Showtime

Season 1

 
Season one of Twin Peaks focuses on the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer (played by Sheryl Lee, pictured in 1990).

In 1989, local logger Pete Martell discovers a naked corpse wrapped in plastic on the bank of a river outside the town of Twin Peaks, Washington. When Sheriff Harry S. Truman, his deputies, and doctor Will Hayward arrive, the body is identified as high school senior and homecoming queen Laura Palmer. A badly injured second girl, Ronette Pulaski, is discovered in a fugue state.

FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate. Cooper's initial examination of Laura's body reveals a tiny typed letter "R" inserted under her fingernail. Cooper informs the community that Laura's death matches the signature of a killer who murdered another girl in southwestern Washington the previous year, and that evidence indicates the killer lives in Twin Peaks.

The authorities discover through Laura's diary that she had been living a double life. She was cheating on her boyfriend, football captain Bobby Briggs, with biker James Hurley, and prostituting herself with the help of truck driver Leo Johnson and drug dealer Jacques Renault. Laura was also addicted to cocaine, which she obtained by coercing Bobby into doing business with Jacques.

Laura's father, attorney Leland Palmer, suffers a nervous breakdown after her death. Her best friend Donna Hayward begins a relationship with James. With the help of Laura's cousin Maddy Ferguson, Donna and James discover that Laura's psychiatrist, Dr. Lawrence Jacoby, was obsessed with her, but he is proven innocent of the murder.

Hotelier Ben Horne, the richest man in Twin Peaks, plans to destroy the town's lumber mill along with its owner Josie Packard, and murder his lover (Josie's sister-in-law), Catherine Martell (Piper Laurie), so he can purchase the land at a reduced price and complete a development project called Ghostwood. Horne's sultry, troubled daughter, Audrey, becomes infatuated with Agent Cooper and spies on her father for clues in an effort to win Agent Cooper's affection.

Cooper has a dream in which he is approached by a one-armed otherworldly being who calls himself MIKE. MIKE says that Laura's murderer is a similar entity, Killer BOB, a feral, denim-clad man with long gray hair. Cooper finds himself decades older with Laura and a dwarf in a red business suit, who engages in coded dialogue with Cooper. The next morning, Cooper tells Truman that, if he can decipher the dream, he will know who killed Laura.

Cooper and the sheriff's department find the one-armed man from Cooper's dream, a travelling shoe salesman named Phillip Gerard. Gerard knows a Bob, the veterinarian who treats Renault's pet bird. Cooper interprets these events to mean that Renault is the murderer, and with Truman's help, tracks Renault to One-Eyed Jack's, a brothel owned by Horne across the border in Canada. He lures Renault back onto U.S. soil to arrest him, but Renault is shot while trying to escape and is hospitalized.

Leland, learning that Renault has been arrested, sneaks into the hospital and murders him. The same night, Horne orders Leo to burn down the lumber mill with Catherine trapped inside and has Leo gunned down by Hank Jennings to ensure Leo's silence. Cooper returns to his room following Jacques's arrest and is shot by a masked gunman.

Season 2

 
After solving the murder of Laura Palmer, Kyle MacLachlan's (pictured here in 1991) character of Dale Cooper stays in Twin Peaks to investigate further.

Lying hurt in his hotel room, Cooper has a vision in which a giant appears and reveals three clues: "There is a man in a smiling bag", "the owls are not what they seem", and "without chemicals, he points". He takes a gold ring off Cooper's finger and explains that when Cooper understands the three premonitions, his ring will be returned.

Leo Johnson survives his shooting but is left brain-damaged. Catherine Martell disappears, presumed killed in the mill fire. Leland Palmer, whose hair has turned white overnight, returns to work but behaves erratically. Cooper deduces that the "man in the smiling bag" is the corpse of Jacques Renault in a body bag.

MIKE is inhabiting the body of Phillip Gerard. His personality surfaces when Gerard forgoes the use of a certain drug. MIKE reveals that he and BOB once collaborated in killing humans and that BOB is similarly inhabiting a man in the town. Cooper and the sheriff's department use MIKE, in control of Gerard's body, to help find BOB ("without chemicals, he points").

Donna befriends an agoraphobic orchid grower named Harold Smith whom Laura entrusted with her second, secret diary. Harold catches Donna and Maddy attempting to steal the diary from him and hangs himself in despair. Cooper and the sheriff's department take possession of Laura's secret diary, and learn that BOB, a friend of her father's, had been sexually abusing her since childhood and she used drugs to cope. They initially suspect that the killer is Ben Horne and arrest him, but Leland Palmer is revealed to viewers to be BOB's host when he kills Maddy.

Cooper begins to doubt Horne's guilt, so he gathers all of his suspects in the belief that he will receive a sign to help him identify the killer. The Giant appears and confirms that Leland is BOB's host and Laura's and Maddy's killer, giving Cooper back his ring. Cooper and Truman take Leland into custody. In control of Leland's body, BOB admits to a string of murders, before forcing Leland to commit suicide. As Leland dies, he is freed of BOB's influence and begs for forgiveness. BOB's spirit disappears into the woods in the form of an owl and the lawmen wonder if he will reappear.

Cooper is set to leave Twin Peaks when he is framed for drug trafficking by Jean Renault and is suspended from the FBI. Renault holds Cooper responsible for the death of his brothers, Jacques and Bernard. Jean Renault is killed in a shootout with police, and Cooper is cleared of all charges.

Windom Earle, Cooper's former mentor and FBI partner, escapes from a mental institution and comes to Twin Peaks. Cooper had previously been having an affair with Earle's wife, Caroline, while she was under his protection as a witness to a federal crime. Earle murdered Caroline and wounded Cooper. He now engages Cooper in a twisted game of chess during which Earle murders someone whenever a piece is captured.

Investigating BOB's origin and whereabouts with the help of Major Garland Briggs, Cooper learns of the existence of the White Lodge and the Black Lodge, two extra-dimensional realms whose entrances are somewhere in the woods surrounding Twin Peaks.

Catherine returns to town disguised as a Japanese businessman, having survived the mill fire, and manipulates Ben Horne into signing the Ghostwood project over to her. Andrew Packard, Josie's husband, is revealed to be still alive while Josie Packard is revealed to be the person who shot Cooper at the end of the first season. Andrew forces Josie to confront his business rival and her tormentor from Hong Kong, the sinister Thomas Eckhardt. Josie kills Eckhardt, but she mysteriously dies when Truman and Cooper try to apprehend her.

Cooper falls in love with a new arrival in town, Annie Blackburn. Earle captures the brain-damaged Leo for use as a henchman and abandons his chess game with Cooper. When Annie wins the Miss Twin Peaks contest, Earle kidnaps her and takes her to the entrance to the Black Lodge, whose power he seeks to use for himself.

Through a series of clues Cooper discovers the entrance to the Black Lodge, which turns out to be the strange, red-curtained room from his dream. He is greeted by the Man From Another Place, the Giant, and Laura Palmer, who each give Cooper cryptic messages. Searching for Annie and Earle, Cooper encounters doppelgängers of various people, including Maddy Ferguson and Leland Palmer. Cooper finds Earle, who demands Cooper's soul in exchange for Annie's life. Cooper agrees but BOB appears and takes Earle's soul for himself. BOB then turns to Cooper, who is chased through the lodge by a doppelgänger of himself.

Outside the lodge, Andrew Packard, Pete Martell and Audrey Horne are caught in an explosion at a bank vault, a trap laid by the dead Eckhardt.

Cooper and Annie reappear in the woods, both injured. Annie is taken to the hospital but Cooper recovers in his room at the Great Northern Hotel. It becomes clear that the "Cooper" who emerged from the Lodge is in fact his doppelgänger, under BOB's control. He smashes his head into a bathroom mirror and laughs maniacally.

Season 3

Main article: Twin Peaks (season 3)

25 years after the cliffhanger ending of the season two,[20] FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) remains trapped in the Black Lodge and prepares his return to the world. Cooper's doppelgänger—possessed by the evil spirit Bob—lives in Cooper's place and works to prevent his own imminent return to the Black Lodge with the help of various associates. Meanwhile, the mysterious murder of a librarian in Buckhorn, South Dakota attracts the attention of FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole (David Lynch) and his colleagues, while a message from the Log Lady (Catherine Coulson) leads members of the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department to reopen investigations into the events surrounding the 1989 murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee).

Season 3 of Twin Peaks was announced on October 6, 2014 as a limited series that would air on Showtime. David Lynch and Mark Frost wrote all the episodes, and Lynch directed. Frost emphasized that the new episodes were not a remake or reboot, but a continuation of the series and film, and the passage of 25 years is an important element of the plot.[21] The third season is also known as Twin Peaks: The Return and Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series.

Most of the original cast returns, including Kyle MacLachlan, Mädchen Amick, Sherilyn Fenn, Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, and several others. Additions include Jeremy Davies, Laura Dern, Robert Forster, Tim Roth, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Amanda Seyfried, Matthew Lillard, and Naomi Watts.[22]

Cast

Main article: List of Twin Peaks characters

Main cast

Secondary cast

Recurring cast

Production

Development

In the 1980s, Mark Frost worked for three years as a writer for the television police drama Hill Street Blues, which featured a large cast and extended story lines.[23] Following his success with The Elephant Man (1980) and Blue Velvet (1986), David Lynch was hired by a Warner Bros. executive to direct a film about the life of Marilyn Monroe named Venus Descending, based on the best-selling book Goddess. Lynch recalls being "sort of interested. I loved the idea of this woman in trouble, but I didn't know if I liked it being a real story."[24] Lynch and Frost first worked together on the Goddess screenplay, and although the project was dropped by Warner Bros., they became good friends. They went on to work as writer and director for One Saliva Bubble, a film with Steve Martin attached to star, but it was never made either. Lynch's agent, Tony Krantz, encouraged him to do a television show. Lynch said: "Tony I don't want to do a TV show."[25] He took Lynch to Nibblers restaurant in Los Angeles and said: "You should do a show about real life in America—your vision of America the same way you demonstrated it in Blue Velvet." Lynch got an "idea of a small-town thing", and though he and Frost were not keen on it, they decided to humor Krantz. Frost wanted to tell "a sort of Dickensian story about multiple lives in a contained area that could sort of go perpetually". Originally, the show was to be titled North Dakota and set in the Plains region of North Dakota.[26]

After Frost, Krantz, and Lynch rented a screening room in Beverly Hills and screened Peyton Place, they decided to develop the town before its inhabitants.[23][27] Due to the lack of forests and mountains in North Dakota, the title was changed from North Dakota to Northwest Passage (the title of the pilot episode), and the location to the Pacific Northwest, specifically Washington.[26][27] They then drew a map and decided that there would be a lumber mill in the town.[23] Then they came up with an image of a body washing up on the shore of a lake.[23][28] Lynch remembers: "We knew where everything was located and that helped us determine the prevailing atmosphere and what might happen there."[28] Frost remembers that he and Lynch came up with the notion of the girl next door leading a "desperate double life" that would end in murder.[27] The idea was inspired, in part, by the unsolved 1908 murder of Hazel Irene Drew in Sand Lake, New York.[29]

Lynch and Frost pitched the idea to ABC during the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike[30] in a ten-minute meeting with the network's drama head, Chad Hoffman, with nothing more than this image and a concept.[28] According to the director, the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer was initially going to be in the foreground, but would recede gradually as viewers got to know the other townsfolk and the problems they were having.[28] Lynch and Frost wanted to mix a police investigation with a soap opera.[28] ABC liked the idea and asked Lynch and Frost to write a screenplay for the pilot episode. They had been talking about the project for three months and wrote the screenplay in 10 days.[31] Frost wrote more verbal characters, like Benjamin Horne, while Lynch was responsible for Agent Cooper. According to the director, "He says a lot of the things I say."[23] ABC Entertainment President Brandon Stoddard ordered the two-hour pilot for a possible fall 1989 series. He left the position in March 1989 as Lynch went into production.[32] They filmed the pilot for $4 million with an agreement with ABC that they would shoot an additional "ending" to it so that it could be sold directly to video in Europe as a feature film if the TV show was not picked up.[27] ABC's Bob Iger and his creative team took over, saw the dailies, and met with Frost and Lynch to get the arc of the stories and characters.[32] Although Iger liked the pilot, he had difficulty persuading the rest of the network executives. Iger suggested showing it to a more diverse, younger group, who liked it, and the executive subsequently convinced ABC to buy seven episodes at $1.1 million apiece.[30] Some executives figured that the show would never get on the air or that it might run as a seven-hour mini-series,[33] but Iger planned to schedule it for the spring. The final showdown occurred during a bi-coastal conference call between Iger and a room full of New York executives; Iger won, and Twin Peaks was on the air.[28]

Each episode took a week to shoot, and after directing the second episode, Lynch went off to complete Wild at Heart, while Frost wrote the remaining segments.[32] Standards and Practices had a problem with only one scene from the first season: an extreme close-up in the pilot of Cooper's hand as he slid tweezers under Laura's fingernail and removed a tiny "R". They wanted the scene to be shorter because it made them uncomfortable, but Frost and Lynch refused, and the scene remained.[32]

Casting

 
Veteran film actress Piper Laurie (pictured here in 1990) helped cement the Twin Peaks cast.

Twin Peaks features members of a loose ensemble of Lynch's favorite character actors, including Jack Nance, Kyle MacLachlan, Grace Zabriskie, and Everett McGill. Isabella Rossellini, who had worked with Lynch on Blue Velvet, was originally cast as Giovanna Packard, but she dropped out of the production before shooting began on the pilot episode.[34] The character was then reconceived as Josie Packard, of Chinese ethnicity, and the role given to actress Joan Chen.[35] The cast includes several actors who had risen to fame in the 1950s and 1960s, including 1950s film stars Richard Beymer, Piper Laurie, and Russ Tamblyn. Other veteran actors included British actor James Booth (Zulu), former The Mod Squad star Peggy Lipton, and Michael Ontkean, who co-starred in the 1970s crime drama The Rookies. Kyle MacLachlan was cast as Agent Dale Cooper. Stage actor Warren Frost was cast as Dr. Will Hayward.

Due to budget constraints, Lynch intended to cast a local girl from Seattle as Laura Palmer, reportedly "just to play a dead girl".[24] The local girl ended up being Sheryl Lee. Lynch stated: "But no one—not Mark, me, anyone—had any idea that she could act, or that she was going to be so powerful just being dead."[24] And then, while Lynch shot the home movie that James takes of Donna and Laura, he realized that Lee had something special. "She did do another scene—the video with Donna on the picnic—and it was that scene that did it."[24] As a result, Sheryl Lee became a semi-regular addition to the cast, appearing in flashbacks as Laura, and portraying another, recurring character: Maddy Ferguson, Laura's similar-looking cousin.

The character of Phillip Gerard's appearance in the pilot episode was originally intended to be only a "kind of homage to The Fugitive. The only thing he was gonna do was be in this elevator and walk out", according to David Lynch.[24] However, when Lynch wrote the "Fire walk with me" speech, he imagined Al Strobel, who played Gerard, reciting it in the basement of the Twin Peaks hospital—a scene that appeared in the European version of the pilot episode, and surfaced later in Agent Cooper's dream sequence. Gerard's full name, Phillip Michael Gerard, is also a reference to Lieutenant Phillip Gerard, a character in The Fugitive.

Lynch met Michael J. Anderson in 1987. After seeing him in a short film, Lynch wanted to cast the actor in the title role in Ronnie Rocket, but that project failed to get made.

Richard Beymer was cast as Ben Horne because he had known Johanna Ray, Lynch's casting director. Lynch was familiar with Beymer's work in the 1961 film West Side Story and was surprised that Beymer was available for the role.[36]

Set dresser Frank Silva was cast as the mysterious "Bob". Lynch himself recalls that the idea originated when he overheard Silva moving furniture around in the bedroom set, and then heard a woman warning Silva not to block himself in by moving furniture in front of the door. Lynch was struck with an image of Silva in the room. When he learned that Silva was an actor, he filmed two panning shots, one with Silva at the base of the bed, and one without; he did not yet know how he would use this material. Later that day, during the filming of Sarah Palmer having a vision, the camera operator told Lynch that the shot was ruined because "Frank [Silva] was reflected in the mirror". Lynch comments: "Things like this happen and make you start dreaming. And one thing leads to another, and if you let it, a whole other thing opens up."[37] Lynch used the panning shot of Silva in the bedroom, and the shot featuring Silva's reflection, in the closing scenes of the European version of the pilot episode. Silva's reflection in the mirror can also be glimpsed during the scene of Sarah's vision at the end of the original pilot, but it is less clear. A close-up of Silva in the bedroom later became a significant image in episodes of the TV series.[38]

Music

Main article: Music of Twin Peaks
 
"Twin Peaks Theme"
A 30 second sample of Angelo Badalamenti's Twin Peaks theme
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The score for Twin Peaks has received acclaim; The Guardian wrote that it "still marks the summit of TV soundtracks".[10] In fall 1989, composer Angelo Badalamenti and Lynch created the score for the show. In 20 minutes they produced the signature theme for the series. Badalamenti called it the "Love Theme from Twin Peaks". Lynch told him: "You just wrote 75% of the score. It's the mood of the whole piece. It is Twin Peaks."[39] While creating the score, Lynch often described the moods or emotions he wanted the music to evoke, and Badalamenti began to play the piano. In the scenes dominated by young men, they are accompanied by music that Badalamenti called Cool Jazz. The characters' masculinity was enhanced by finger-snapping, "cocktail-lounge electric piano, pulsing bass, and lightly brushed percussion".[39] A handful of the motifs were borrowed from the Julee Cruise album Floating into the Night, which was written in large part by Badalamenti and Lynch and was released in 1989. This album also serves as the soundtrack to another Lynch project, Industrial Symphony No. 1, a live Cruise performance also featuring Michael J. Anderson ("The Man from Another Place").

An instrumental version of the song "Falling" became the theme to the show, and the songs "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart", "The Nightingale", "The World Spins", and "Into the Night" (found in their full versions on the album) were all, except the last, used as Cruise's roadhouse performances during the show's run. The lyrics for all five songs were written by Lynch.[40] A second volume of the soundtrack was released on October 30, 2007, to coincide with the Definitive Gold Box DVD set.[41]

In March 2011, Lynch began releasing The Twin Peaks Archive – a collection of previously unavailable tracks from the series and the film via his website.[42][43]

Filming locations

 
Snoqualmie Falls in June 2008

FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper states, in the pilot episode, that Twin Peaks is "five miles south of the Canadian border, and twelve miles west of the state line". This places it in the Salmo-Priest Wilderness. Lynch and Frost started their location search in Snoqualmie, Washington, on the recommendation of a friend of Frost. They found all of the locations that they had written into the pilot episode.[27] The towns of Snoqualmie, North Bend and Fall City – which became the primary filming locations for stock Twin Peaks exterior footage – are about an hour's drive from the town of Roslyn, Washington, the town used for the series Northern Exposure. Many exterior scenes were filmed in wooded areas of Malibu, California.[35] Most of the interior scenes were shot on standing sets in a San Fernando Valley warehouse.

The soap opera show-within-the-show Invitation to Love was not shot on a studio set, but in the Ennis House, an architectural landmark designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles.[44]

Filming

Mark Frost and David Lynch made use of repeating and sometimes mysterious motifs such as trees (especially fir and pines), coffee and doughnuts, cherry pie, owls, logs, ducks, water, fire — and numerous embedded references to other films and TV shows.[45]

During the filming of the scene in which Cooper first examines Laura's body, a malfunctioning fluorescent lamp above the table flickered constantly, but Lynch decided not to replace it, since he liked the disconcerting effect that it created.[35]

Cooper's dream at the end of the third episode, which became a driving plot point in the series's first season and ultimately held the key to the identity of Laura's murderer, was never scripted. The idea came to Lynch one afternoon after touching the side of a hot car left out in the sun: "I was leaning against a car—the front of me was leaning against this very warm car. My hands were on the roof and the metal was very hot. The Red Room scene leapt into my mind. 'Little Mike' was there, and he was speaking backwards... For the rest of the night I thought only about The Red Room."[24] The footage was originally shot along with the pilot, to be used as the conclusion were it to be released as a feature film. When the series was picked up, Lynch decided to incorporate some of the footage; in the fourth episode, Cooper, narrating the dream, outlines the shot footage which Lynch did not incorporate, such as Mike shooting Bob and the fact that he is 25 years older when he meets Laura Palmer's spirit.

In an attempt to avoid cancellation, the idea of a Cooper possessed by Bob came up and was included in the final episode, but the series was cancelled even before the episode was aired.[46]

Response

Before the one-and-a-half-hour pilot premiered on TV, a screening was held at the Museum of Broadcasting in Hollywood.[47] Media analyst and advertising executive Paul Schulman said: "I don't think it has a chance of succeeding. It is not commercial, it is radically different from what we as viewers are accustomed to seeing, there's no one in the show to root for."[47] The show's Thursday night time slot had not been a good one for soap operas, as both Dynasty and its short-lived spin-off The Colbys did poorly.[47] Twin Peaks was also up against the hugely successful sitcom Cheers.

Initially, the show received a positive response from TV critics. Tom Shales, in The Washington Post, wrote: "Twin Peaks disorients you in ways that small-screen productions seldom attempt. It's a pleasurable sensation, the floor dropping out and leaving one dangling."[48] In The New York Times, John J. O'Connor wrote: "Twin Peaks is not a send-up of the form. Mr. Lynch clearly savors the standard ingredients ... but then the director adds his own peculiar touches, small passing details that suddenly, and often hilariously, thrust the commonplace out of kilter."[49] Entertainment Weekly gave the show an "A+" rating, and Ken Tucker wrote: "Plot is irrelevant; moments are everything. Lynch and Frost have mastered a way to make a weekly series endlessly interesting."[50] Richard Zoglin in Time magazine said that it "may be the most hauntingly original work ever done for American TV".[51]

The two-hour pilot was the highest-rated movie for the 1989–90 season with a 22 rating and was viewed by 33% of the audience.[52] In its first broadcast as a regular one-hour drama series, Twin Peaks scored ABC's highest ratings in four years in its 9:00 pm Thursday time slot.[53] The show also reduced NBC's Cheers's ratings. Twin Peaks had a 16.2 rating, with each point equaling 921,000 homes with TVs.[53] The episode also added new viewers because of what ABC's senior vice-president of research, Alan Wurtzel, called "the water cooler syndrome", in which people talk about the series the next day at work.[53]

But the show's third episode lost 14% of the audience that had tuned in a week before.[54] That audience had dropped 30% from the show's first appearance on Thursday night. This was a result of competing against Cheers, which appealed to the same demographic that watched Twin Peaks. A production executive from the show spoke of being frustrated with the network's scheduling of the show. "The show is being banged around on Thursday night. If ABC had put it on Wednesday night it could have built on its initial success. ABC has put the show at risk."[54]

In response, the network aired the first-season finale on a Wednesday night at 10:00 pm instead of its usual 9:00 pm Thursday slot.[55] The show achieved its best ratings since its third week on the air with a 12.6 and a 22 share of the audience.[56] On May 22, 1990, it was announced that Twin Peaks would be renewed for a second season.[57]

During the first and second season, the search for Laura Palmer's killer served as the engine for the plot and captured the public's imagination, although the creators admitted that this was largely a MacGuffin; each episode was really about the interactions between the townsfolk.[30] The unique (and often bizarre) personalities of each citizen formed a web of minutiae that ran contrary to the town's quaint appearance. Adding to the surreal atmosphere was the recurrence of Dale Cooper's dreams, in which the FBI agent is given clues to Laura's murder in a supernatural realm that may or may not be of his imagination. The first season contained only eight episodes (including the two-hour pilot episode). It was considered technically and artistically revolutionary for television at the time and geared toward reaching the standards of film.[58]

Critics have noted that Twin Peaks began the trend of accomplished cinematography now commonplace in today's television dramas.[59] Lynch and Frost maintained tight control over the first season and served as showrunners, handpicking all of the directors, including some whom Lynch had known from his days at the American Film Institute (e.g., Caleb Deschanel and Tim Hunter) and some referred to him by those he knew personally. Lynch and Frost's control lessened in the second season as the two became less involved with the series, corresponding with what is generally regarded as a decrease in the show's quality once the identity of Laura Palmer's murderer was revealed. While Frost and Lynch technically remained showrunners after "Episode 14", the episode in which the killer's identity was revealed, Lynch had little creative control over the direction of the series from that point forward other than the season finale; Frost became less involved after "Episode 16" and became more involved again with "Episode 26" onwards. After "Episode 14", series producers Harley Peyton and Robert Engels served as additional showrunners along with Frost and Lynch.

The aforementioned "water cooler effect" put pressure on the show's creators to solve the mystery. Although they claimed to have known from the series' inception the identity of Laura's murderer,[35] Lynch never wanted to solve the murder, while Frost felt that they had an obligation to the audience to solve it. This created tension between the two men.[27]

Its ambitious style, paranormal undertones, and engaging murder mystery made Twin Peaks an unexpected hit. Its characters, particularly MacLachlan's Dale Cooper, were unorthodox for a supposed crime drama, as was Cooper's method of interpreting his dreams to solve the crime. During its first season, the show's popularity reached its zenith, and elements of the program seeped into mainstream popular culture, prompting parodies, including one in the 16th-season premiere of Saturday Night Live, hosted by MacLachlan.[60]

Critical acclaim

See also: List of awards and nominations received by Twin Peaks
 
David Lynch at the 42nd Primetime Emmy Awards on September 16, 1990, where Twin Peaks was nominated for fourteen awards. He was nominated for directing and co-writing the pilot episode.
Critical response of Twin Peaks
SeasonRotten TomatoesMetacritic
191% (114 reviews)96 (16 reviews)
263% (161 reviews)—
394% (459 reviews)74 (26 reviews)

For its first season, Twin Peaks received fourteen nominations at the 42nd Primetime Emmy Awards, for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Kyle MacLachlan), Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Piper Laurie), Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Sherilyn Fenn), Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (David Lynch), Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series (David Lynch and Mark Frost), Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series (Harley Peyton), Outstanding Art Direction for a Series, Outstanding Achievement in Main Title Theme Music, Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore), Outstanding Achievement in Music and Lyrics, and Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series. Out of its fourteen nominations, it won for Outstanding Costume Design for a Series and Outstanding Editing for a Series – Single Camera Production.[61] On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season received a 91 percent approval rating with an average score of 8.95 out of 10 based on 114 reviews, with a critics consensus of: "Twin Peaks plays with TV conventions to deliver a beguiling – and unsettling – blend of seemingly disparate genres, adding up to an offbeat drama with a distinctly unique appeal."[62] Metacritic scored the season a 96 out of 100 based on 16 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[63]

For its second season, it received four nominations at the 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards, for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Kyle MacLachlan), Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Piper Laurie), Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series, and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series.[61] On Rotten Tomatoes, the second season received a 63 percent approval rating with an average score of 7.65 out of 10 based on 161 reviews, with a critics consensus of: "Twin Peaks answers its central question with diminishing returns while struggling to establish worthy new mysteries, but there are enough mesmeric flourishes to keep devotees dreaming of what lies in the Red Room."[64]

At the 48th Golden Globe Awards, it won for Best TV Series – Drama, Kyle MacLachlan won for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series – Drama, Piper Laurie won for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV; while Sherilyn Fenn was nominated in the same category as Laurie.[65]

The pilot episode was ranked 25th on TV Guide's 1997 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.[66] It placed 49th on Entertainment Weekly's "New TV Classics" list.[67] In 2004 and 2007, Twin Peaks was ranked 20th and 24th on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever,[68][69] and in 2002, it was ranked 45th of the "Top 50 Television Programs of All Time" by the same guide.[14] In 2007, UK broadcaster Channel 4 ranked Twin Peaks 9th on their list of the "50 Greatest TV Dramas".[70] Also that year, Time included the show on their list of the "100 Best TV Shows of All-Time".[15] Empire listed Twin Peaks as the 24th best TV show in their list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time".[71]

In 2012, Entertainment Weekly listed the show at no. 12 in the "25 Best Cult TV Shows from the Past 25 Years", saying: "The show itself was only fitfully brilliant and ultimately unfulfilling, but the cult lives, fueled by nostalgia for the extraordinary pop phenomenon it inspired, for its significance to the medium (behold the big bang of auteur TV!), and for a sensuous strangeness that possesses you and never lets you go."[16] The series has been nominated for the TCA Heritage Award six consecutive years since 2010.[72] It was ranked 20th on The Hollywood Reporter's list of Hollywood's 100 Favorite TV Shows.[73]

Declining ratings

 
As the series' ratings started to decline, the producers added Heather Graham (seen here in 2011) to the cast.

With the resolution of Twin Peaks' main drawing point (Laura Palmer's murder) in the middle of the second season, and with subsequent story lines becoming more obscure and drawn out, public interest began to wane. This discontent, coupled with ABC changing its timeslot on a number of occasions, led to a huge drop in the show's ratings after being one of the most watched television programs in the United States in 1990. Due to the Gulf War, Twin Peaks was moved from its usual time slot "for six weeks out of eight" in early 1991, according to Frost, preventing the show from maintaining audience interest.[74] A week after the season's 15th episode placed 85th in the ratings out of 89 shows, ABC put Twin Peaks on indefinite hiatus,[75] a move that usually leads to cancellation.[76]

An organized letter-writing campaign, dubbed COOP (Citizens Opposed to the Offing of Peaks), attempted to save the show from cancellation.[77] The campaign was partly successful, as the season returned to airing on Thursday nights for four weeks from late March. The series then went on another hiatus, before the final two episodes of the season aired back-to-back on June 10.

According to Frost, the main storyline after the resolution of Laura Palmer's murder was planned to be the second strongest element from the first season that audiences responded to: the relationship between Agent Cooper and Audrey Horne. Frost explained that Lara Flynn Boyle, who was romantically involved with Kyle MacLachlan at the time, had effectively vetoed the Audrey–Cooper relationship, forcing the writers to come up with alternative storylines to fill the gap.[78][79] Sherilyn Fenn corroborated this claim in a 2014 interview, stating: "[Boyle] was mad that my character was getting more attention, so then Kyle started saying that his character shouldn't be with my character because it doesn't look good, 'cause I'm too young... I was not happy about it. It was stupid."[80] This meant the artificial extension of secondary storylines, such as James Hurley and Evelyn Marsh, to fill in the space. After ratings began to decline, Agent Cooper was given a new love interest, Annie Blackburn (Heather Graham), to replace the writers' intended romance between him and Audrey Horne.[81][82] Despite ending on a deliberate audience-baiting cliffhanger, the series finale did not sufficiently boost interest, and the show was not renewed for a third season, leaving the cliffhanger unresolved.

Lynch expressed his regret at having resolved the Laura Palmer murder, saying that he and Frost had never intended for the series to answer the question and that doing so "killed the goose that laid the golden eggs". Lynch blamed network pressure for the decision to resolve the Palmer storyline prematurely.[83] Frost agreed, noting that people at the network had in fact wanted the killer to be revealed by the end of season one.[84]

In 1993, cable channel Bravo acquired the license to rerun the entire series, which began airing in June 1993.[85] These reruns included Lynch's addition of introductions to each episode by the Log Lady and her cryptic musings.[86]

Looking back, Frost has admitted that he wished he and Lynch had "worked out a smoother transition" between storylines and that the Laura Palmer story was a "tough act to follow".[33] Regarding the second season, Frost felt that "perhaps the storytelling wasn't quite as taut or as fraught with emotion".[33]

Influence

Writing for The Atlantic in 2016, Mike Mariani wrote that "It would be tough to look at the roster of television shows any given season without finding several that owe a creative debt to Twin Peaks", stating that "Lynch's manipulation of the uncanny, his surreal non-sequiturs, his black humor, and his trademark ominous tracking shots can be felt in a variety of contemporary hit shows."[9] In 2010, the television series Psych paid tribute to the series by reuniting some of the cast in the fifth-season episode "Dual Spires". The episode's plot is an homage to the Twin Peaks pilot, where the characters of Psych investigate the death of a young girl in a small town called "Dual Spires". The episode also contains several references to the original show. Twin Peaks actors that guest-star in the episode are Sherilyn Fenn, Sheryl Lee, Dana Ashbrook, Robyn Lively, Lenny Von Dohlen, Catherine E. Coulson and Ray Wise. Prior to the airing of the episode, a special event at the Paley Center for Media was held, where the actors from both shows discussed the episode.[87][88]

Reviewers and fans of four seasons of Veena Sud's U.S. TV series The Killing have noted similarities and borrowed elements from Lynch's Fire Walk with Me and Twin Peaks, and compared Sud and Lynch's works.[89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96]

Carlton Cuse, creator of Bates Motel, cited Twin Peaks as a key inspiration for his series, stating: "We pretty much ripped off Twin Peaks... If you wanted to get that confession, the answer is yes. I loved that show. They only did 30 episodes. Kerry [Ehrin] and I thought we'd do the 70 that are missing."[97]

Twin Peaks served as an inspiration for the 1993 video game The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, with director Takashi Tezuka citing the series as the main factor for the creation of the "suspicious" characters that populate the game, as well as the mystery elements of the story.[98] The show has also influenced a number of survival horror and psychological thriller video games—most notably Alan Wake,[99] Deadly Premonition,[100] Silent Hill,[101] and Max Payne.[102] The 1998 open world adventure video game Mizzurna Falls was reminiscent and an homage to Twin Peaks.[103]

The American animated show Gravity Falls repeatedly referenced the Black Lodge along with other elements of Twin Peaks throughout its run.[104]

Riverdale, an American teen drama, is noted for its many homages to Twin Peaks. Along with many thematic similarities and direct references, Mädchen Amick appears in both series.[105] In an interview promoting the second season of Riverdale, showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa remarked that "all roads on Riverdale lead back to Twin Peaks".[106]

The song "Laura Palmer" by the band Bastille was written influenced by the "slightly weird, eerie" atmosphere of the show.[107]

While the series is not usually described as science fiction, it has been noted to have been influential on that genre.[108]

Future

Since Season 3 ended in 2017, Lynch and Frost have expressed interest in making another season of Twin Peaks.[109][110] Lynch has been asked in several interviews if he would continue, once saying "I don't know, I have a box of ideas, and I'm working with producer Sabrina S. Sutherland, kind of trying to go through and see if there's any gold in those boxes."[111] Lynch also said one more story was "calling to him" involving the character of Carrie Page.[112] In a Reddit AMA on June 22, 2020, star Kyle MacLachlan said Cooper was his "favorite role of all time" and that he would "absolutely" return to another season "without even seeing the script".[113]

Merchandise

Home media

Main article: Twin Peaks home video releases

The series was released on VHS in a six-tape collection on April 16, 1995; however, it did not include the original pilot episode.[114] The series was also released on LaserDisc in a sixteen-disc set in 1991 in Japan.[115] The same set was later released in the U.S. across four different volumes from 1993 to 1994; neither release contained the original pilot nor Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

On December 18, 2001, the first season (episodes 1–7, minus the pilot) of Twin Peaks was released on DVD in Region 1 by Artisan Entertainment.[116] The box set featured digitally remastered video and was noted for being the first TV series to have its audio track redone in DTS.[117]

The second-season release was postponed several times, and the release was originally canceled in 2003 by Artisan due to low sales figures for the season 1 DVD.[118] The second season was finally released in the United States and Canada on April 3, 2007, via Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment/CBS DVD.[119]

On October 30, 2007, the broadcast version of the pilot finally received a legitimate U.S. release as part of the Twin Peaks "Definitive Gold Box Edition". This set includes both U.S. original network broadcast and international versions of the pilot. The set also includes all episodes from both seasons, deleted scenes for both seasons, and a feature-length retrospective documentary. Entertainment Weekly gave the box set a "B+" rating and wrote: "There are numerous fascinatingly frank mini-docs here, including interviews with many Peaks participants; together, they offer one of the best available portraits of how a TV hit can go off the rails."[120]

In July 2013, it was revealed that a Blu-ray version of the complete series would be released.[121] In January 2014, Lynch confirmed the Blu-ray release and that it would contain the pilot, season 1, season 2, new special features, and possibly the film.[122] It was announced on May 15, 2014, that the Blu-ray box set containing the complete series of Twin Peaks, the film Fire Walk With Me, and The Missing Pieces, the long-awaited release of 90 minutes of deleted scenes from the film, would be released on July 29, 2014.[123]

Twin Peaks: From Z to A, a 21-disc limited edition Blu-ray box set, which includes all the television episodes, Fire Walk with Me, The Missing Pieces, previously released special features, six hours of new behind-the-scenes content, and 4K versions of the original pilot and episode 8 from The Return, was released on December 10, 2019. Additionally, Twin Peaks: The Television Collection, a Blu-ray and DVD collection of the original series, The Return, and all previously released special features, was released on October 15, 2019.[124]

Online, the original series is available through Paramount+, while The Return is available with Showtime's "Anytime" service for pay-TV subscribers and its over-the-top separate service.[125] Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is available via HBO Max.

Books, audio and virtual reality

Main article: Twin Peaks books

During the show's second season, Pocket Books released three official tie-in books, each authored by the show's creators (or their family), which offer a wealth of backstory. The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, written by Lynch's daughter Jennifer Lynch, is the diary as seen in the series and written by Laura, chronicling her thoughts from her twelfth birthday to the days leading up to her death. Frost's brother Scott wrote The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes. Kyle MacLachlan also recorded Diane: The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper, which combined audio tracks from various episodes of the series with newly recorded monologues.[126] Welcome to Twin Peaks: An Access Guide to the Town offers information about the history, flora, fauna, and culture of the fictitious town and was published in the same format as a then-current real-world series of travel guides.

Twin Peaks: Visual Soundtrack is a LaserDisc that plays like an elaborate music video. The show's entire soundtrack album is played over silent video footage shot by a Japanese TV crew visiting the Snoqualmie, Washington, locations where the series was shot.[127]

Published a year before the series return to TV, The Secret History of Twin Peaks, a novel by series co-creator Mark Frost, "places the unexplained phenomena that unfolded in Twin Peaks in a layered, wide-ranging history, beginning with the journals of Lewis and Clark and ending with the shocking events that closed the finale".[128] It was published on October 18, 2016.[129]

Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier was released October 31, 2017. A follow-up to The Secret History of Twin Peaks, it was also written by Frost. The novel fills in details of the 25 years between the second and third seasons, and expands on some of the mysteries raised in the new episodes.[130]

Twin Peaks VR, a virtual reality game developed by Collider Games and Showtime in collaboration with David Lynch, was released on December 13, 2019. Players can explore familiar locations while solving puzzles to help Special Agent Cooper and Gordon Cole. The game is available on Oculus Rift, Vive and Valve Index.[131]

Theatrical film

Main article: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

The 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is a prequel to the TV series. It tells of the investigation into the murder of Teresa Banks, and the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer. Director David Lynch and most of the television cast returned for the film, with the notable exceptions of Lara Flynn Boyle, who declined to return as Laura's best friend Donna Hayward and was replaced by Moira Kelly, and Sherilyn Fenn due to scheduling conflicts. Also, Kyle MacLachlan returned reluctantly as he wanted to avoid typecasting, so his presence in the film is smaller than originally planned. Lynch originally shot about five hours of footage that was subsequently cut down to two hours and fourteen minutes. Most of the deleted scenes feature additional characters from the television series who ultimately did not appear in the finished film. Around ninety minutes of these scenes are included in the complete series Blu-ray that was released on July 29, 2014.[123]

Fire Walk with Me polarized critics upon its release, especially in comparison to the widespread acclaim of the series. However, the film was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.[132][133] It grossed a total of US$1.8 million in 691 theaters in its opening weekend and went on to gross a total of $4.1 million in North America.[134] The film has developed a cult following over time and been critically reevaluated, with some critics considering the film one of Lynch’s major works.[135][136]

The release of the third season in 2017, which made many references to the film, led to additional renewed interest.

Notes

  1. ^ This amount represents the total qualified expenditures for the California Film & Television Tax Credit and excludes other non-qualifying costs.

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This article is about the TV series For other uses see Twin Peaks disambiguation Twin Peaks is an American mystery serial drama television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch It premiered on ABC on April 8 1990 and originally ran for two seasons until its cancellation in 1991 The show returned in 2017 for a third season on Showtime Twin PeaksGenreSerial drama Surrealism 1 Mystery Drama 2 Horror 3 Created byMark Frost David LynchStarringKyle MacLachlan Michael Ontkean Madchen Amick Dana Ashbrook Richard Beymer Lara Flynn Boyle Sherilyn Fenn Warren Frost Peggy Lipton James Marshall Everett McGill Jack Nance Ray Wise Joan Chen Piper Laurie Kimmy Robertson Eric Da Re Harry Goaz Michael Horse Sheryl Lee Russ TamblynOpening themeInstrumental version of Falling by Julee CruiseComposerAngelo BadalamentiCountry of originUnited StatesOriginal languageEnglishNo of seasons3No of episodes48 list of episodes ProductionExecutive producersMark Frost David Lynch Sabrina S Sutherland 2017 CinematographyRon Garcia Pilot Frank Byers episodes 2 30 Peter Deming episodes 31 48 Running time45 60 minutes 94 minutes Pilot and May the Giant Be With You Production companiesLynch Frost Productions Propaganda Films Spelling Television Twin Peaks Productions Showtime season 3 only Rancho Rosa Partnership season 3 only Budget gt 41 million season 3 4 a ReleaseOriginal networkABC 1990 91 Showtime 2017 Picture formatNTSC 1990 1991 HDTV 1080i 2017 Audio formatDolby Surround 2 0 Dolby Digital 5 1Original releaseApril 8 1990 1990 04 08 June 10 1991 1991 06 10 original run May 21 September 3 2017 2017 09 03 revival RelatedTwin Peaks Fire Walk with Me 1992 film The series follows an investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper Kyle MacLachlan and local Sheriff Harry S Truman Michael Ontkean into the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer Sheryl Lee in the fictional town of Twin Peaks Washington The show s narrative draws on elements of detective fiction but its uncanny tone supernatural elements and campy melodramatic portrayal of eccentric characters also draws from American soap opera and horror tropes 5 6 7 8 Like much of Lynch s work it is distinguished by surrealism offbeat humor and distinctive cinematography 9 The score was composed by Angelo Badalamenti with Lynch 10 The original run was followed by the 1992 feature film Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me which serves as a prequel to the series The initial success of the series sparked a media franchise leading to the release of several tie in books including The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer The show s 2017 revival saw many of the original cast return with Lynch directing In the years following the first two seasons the show gained a devoted cult following and became referenced in a wide variety of media 11 12 13 7 Twin Peaks is often listed among the greatest television series of all time and has received universal acclaim from critics and audiences It is considered a landmark turning point in television drama 14 15 16 17 18 The 2017 revival also received widespread critical acclaim 19 Contents 1 Plot and series overview 1 1 Season 1 1 2 Season 2 1 3 Season 3 2 Cast 2 1 Main cast 2 2 Secondary cast 2 3 Recurring cast 3 Production 3 1 Development 3 2 Casting 3 3 Music 3 4 Filming locations 3 5 Filming 4 Response 4 1 Critical acclaim 4 2 Declining ratings 5 Influence 6 Future 7 Merchandise 7 1 Home media 7 2 Books audio and virtual reality 8 Theatrical film 9 Notes 10 References 11 Sources 12 External linksPlot and series overview EditMain article List of Twin Peaks episodes SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedFirst airedLast airedNetwork18April 8 1990 1990 04 08 May 23 1990 1990 05 23 ABC222September 30 1990 1990 09 30 June 10 1991 1991 06 10 Fire Walk with MeAugust 28 1992 1992 08 28 N A318May 21 2017 2017 05 21 September 3 2017 2017 09 03 Showtime Season 1 Edit Season one of Twin Peaks focuses on the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer played by Sheryl Lee pictured in 1990 In 1989 local logger Pete Martell discovers a naked corpse wrapped in plastic on the bank of a river outside the town of Twin Peaks Washington When Sheriff Harry S Truman his deputies and doctor Will Hayward arrive the body is identified as high school senior and homecoming queen Laura Palmer A badly injured second girl Ronette Pulaski is discovered in a fugue state FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate Cooper s initial examination of Laura s body reveals a tiny typed letter R inserted under her fingernail Cooper informs the community that Laura s death matches the signature of a killer who murdered another girl in southwestern Washington the previous year and that evidence indicates the killer lives in Twin Peaks The authorities discover through Laura s diary that she had been living a double life She was cheating on her boyfriend football captain Bobby Briggs with biker James Hurley and prostituting herself with the help of truck driver Leo Johnson and drug dealer Jacques Renault Laura was also addicted to cocaine which she obtained by coercing Bobby into doing business with Jacques Laura s father attorney Leland Palmer suffers a nervous breakdown after her death Her best friend Donna Hayward begins a relationship with James With the help of Laura s cousin Maddy Ferguson Donna and James discover that Laura s psychiatrist Dr Lawrence Jacoby was obsessed with her but he is proven innocent of the murder Hotelier Ben Horne the richest man in Twin Peaks plans to destroy the town s lumber mill along with its owner Josie Packard and murder his lover Josie s sister in law Catherine Martell Piper Laurie so he can purchase the land at a reduced price and complete a development project called Ghostwood Horne s sultry troubled daughter Audrey becomes infatuated with Agent Cooper and spies on her father for clues in an effort to win Agent Cooper s affection Cooper has a dream in which he is approached by a one armed otherworldly being who calls himself MIKE MIKE says that Laura s murderer is a similar entity Killer BOB a feral denim clad man with long gray hair Cooper finds himself decades older with Laura and a dwarf in a red business suit who engages in coded dialogue with Cooper The next morning Cooper tells Truman that if he can decipher the dream he will know who killed Laura Cooper and the sheriff s department find the one armed man from Cooper s dream a travelling shoe salesman named Phillip Gerard Gerard knows a Bob the veterinarian who treats Renault s pet bird Cooper interprets these events to mean that Renault is the murderer and with Truman s help tracks Renault to One Eyed Jack s a brothel owned by Horne across the border in Canada He lures Renault back onto U S soil to arrest him but Renault is shot while trying to escape and is hospitalized Leland learning that Renault has been arrested sneaks into the hospital and murders him The same night Horne orders Leo to burn down the lumber mill with Catherine trapped inside and has Leo gunned down by Hank Jennings to ensure Leo s silence Cooper returns to his room following Jacques s arrest and is shot by a masked gunman Season 2 Edit After solving the murder of Laura Palmer Kyle MacLachlan s pictured here in 1991 character of Dale Cooper stays in Twin Peaks to investigate further Lying hurt in his hotel room Cooper has a vision in which a giant appears and reveals three clues There is a man in a smiling bag the owls are not what they seem and without chemicals he points He takes a gold ring off Cooper s finger and explains that when Cooper understands the three premonitions his ring will be returned Leo Johnson survives his shooting but is left brain damaged Catherine Martell disappears presumed killed in the mill fire Leland Palmer whose hair has turned white overnight returns to work but behaves erratically Cooper deduces that the man in the smiling bag is the corpse of Jacques Renault in a body bag MIKE is inhabiting the body of Phillip Gerard His personality surfaces when Gerard forgoes the use of a certain drug MIKE reveals that he and BOB once collaborated in killing humans and that BOB is similarly inhabiting a man in the town Cooper and the sheriff s department use MIKE in control of Gerard s body to help find BOB without chemicals he points Donna befriends an agoraphobic orchid grower named Harold Smith whom Laura entrusted with her second secret diary Harold catches Donna and Maddy attempting to steal the diary from him and hangs himself in despair Cooper and the sheriff s department take possession of Laura s secret diary and learn that BOB a friend of her father s had been sexually abusing her since childhood and she used drugs to cope They initially suspect that the killer is Ben Horne and arrest him but Leland Palmer is revealed to viewers to be BOB s host when he kills Maddy Cooper begins to doubt Horne s guilt so he gathers all of his suspects in the belief that he will receive a sign to help him identify the killer The Giant appears and confirms that Leland is BOB s host and Laura s and Maddy s killer giving Cooper back his ring Cooper and Truman take Leland into custody In control of Leland s body BOB admits to a string of murders before forcing Leland to commit suicide As Leland dies he is freed of BOB s influence and begs for forgiveness BOB s spirit disappears into the woods in the form of an owl and the lawmen wonder if he will reappear Cooper is set to leave Twin Peaks when he is framed for drug trafficking by Jean Renault and is suspended from the FBI Renault holds Cooper responsible for the death of his brothers Jacques and Bernard Jean Renault is killed in a shootout with police and Cooper is cleared of all charges Windom Earle Cooper s former mentor and FBI partner escapes from a mental institution and comes to Twin Peaks Cooper had previously been having an affair with Earle s wife Caroline while she was under his protection as a witness to a federal crime Earle murdered Caroline and wounded Cooper He now engages Cooper in a twisted game of chess during which Earle murders someone whenever a piece is captured Investigating BOB s origin and whereabouts with the help of Major Garland Briggs Cooper learns of the existence of the White Lodge and the Black Lodge two extra dimensional realms whose entrances are somewhere in the woods surrounding Twin Peaks Catherine returns to town disguised as a Japanese businessman having survived the mill fire and manipulates Ben Horne into signing the Ghostwood project over to her Andrew Packard Josie s husband is revealed to be still alive while Josie Packard is revealed to be the person who shot Cooper at the end of the first season Andrew forces Josie to confront his business rival and her tormentor from Hong Kong the sinister Thomas Eckhardt Josie kills Eckhardt but she mysteriously dies when Truman and Cooper try to apprehend her Cooper falls in love with a new arrival in town Annie Blackburn Earle captures the brain damaged Leo for use as a henchman and abandons his chess game with Cooper When Annie wins the Miss Twin Peaks contest Earle kidnaps her and takes her to the entrance to the Black Lodge whose power he seeks to use for himself Through a series of clues Cooper discovers the entrance to the Black Lodge which turns out to be the strange red curtained room from his dream He is greeted by the Man From Another Place the Giant and Laura Palmer who each give Cooper cryptic messages Searching for Annie and Earle Cooper encounters doppelgangers of various people including Maddy Ferguson and Leland Palmer Cooper finds Earle who demands Cooper s soul in exchange for Annie s life Cooper agrees but BOB appears and takes Earle s soul for himself BOB then turns to Cooper who is chased through the lodge by a doppelganger of himself Outside the lodge Andrew Packard Pete Martell and Audrey Horne are caught in an explosion at a bank vault a trap laid by the dead Eckhardt Cooper and Annie reappear in the woods both injured Annie is taken to the hospital but Cooper recovers in his room at the Great Northern Hotel It becomes clear that the Cooper who emerged from the Lodge is in fact his doppelganger under BOB s control He smashes his head into a bathroom mirror and laughs maniacally Season 3 Edit Main article Twin Peaks season 3 25 years after the cliffhanger ending of the season two 20 FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper Kyle MacLachlan remains trapped in the Black Lodge and prepares his return to the world Cooper s doppelganger possessed by the evil spirit Bob lives in Cooper s place and works to prevent his own imminent return to the Black Lodge with the help of various associates Meanwhile the mysterious murder of a librarian in Buckhorn South Dakota attracts the attention of FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole David Lynch and his colleagues while a message from the Log Lady Catherine Coulson leads members of the Twin Peaks Sheriff s Department to reopen investigations into the events surrounding the 1989 murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer Sheryl Lee Season 3 of Twin Peaks was announced on October 6 2014 as a limited series that would air on Showtime David Lynch and Mark Frost wrote all the episodes and Lynch directed Frost emphasized that the new episodes were not a remake or reboot but a continuation of the series and film and the passage of 25 years is an important element of the plot 21 The third season is also known as Twin Peaks The Return and Twin Peaks A Limited Event Series Most of the original cast returns including Kyle MacLachlan Madchen Amick Sherilyn Fenn Sheryl Lee Ray Wise and several others Additions include Jeremy Davies Laura Dern Robert Forster Tim Roth Jennifer Jason Leigh Amanda Seyfried Matthew Lillard and Naomi Watts 22 Cast EditMain article List of Twin Peaks characters Main cast Edit Kyle MacLachlan as Special Agent Dale Cooper an FBI agent assigned to investigate the murder of Laura Palmer Michael Ontkean as Sheriff Harry S Truman the local sheriff Madchen Amick as Shelly Johnson a young diner waitress in an abusive marriage Dana Ashbrook as Bobby Briggs Laura s boyfriend Richard Beymer as Benjamin Horne a local businessman who owns the Great Northern Hotel Lara Flynn Boyle as Donna Hayward Laura s best friend Sherilyn Fenn as Audrey Horne Benjamin s daughter and classmate of Laura Warren Frost as Dr Will Hayward Donna s father and the town physician Peggy Lipton as Norma Jennings owner of the Double R diner James Marshall as James Hurley a classmate and friend of Laura and Donna Everett McGill as Ed Hurley James uncle and friend of Sheriff Truman Jack Nance as Pete Martell husband of Catherine Martell Ray Wise as Leland Palmer Laura s father and Horne s lawyer Joan Chen as Jocelyn Josie Packard Catherine s sister in law and owner of the lucrative Twin Peaks mill Piper Laurie as Catherine Martell Josie s sister in law and a businesswoman Kimmy Robertson as Lucy Moran season 2 recurring season 1 the sheriff station secretary Secondary cast Edit Eric Da Re as Leo Johnson Shelly s husband and a trucker who often has run ins with the law Harry Goaz as Deputy Sheriff Andy Brennan a naive deputy Michael Horse as Deputy Sheriff Tommy Hawk Hill an expert tracker Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer and Madeline Maddy Ferguson two identical cousins Laura a popular and beloved Twin Peaks resident is killed and her death brings Maddy to town Russ Tamblyn as Dr Lawrence Jacoby the town psychiatrist Kenneth Welsh as Windom Earle Agent Cooper s former partner at the Bureau season 2 Recurring cast Edit Wendy Robie as Nadine Hurley Big Ed s wife Don Davis as Major Garland Briggs Bobby s father who is involved in classified Air Force experiments Chris Mulkey as Hank Jennings Norma s husband out on parole Gary Hershberger as Mike Nelson a friend of Bobby s Grace Zabriskie as Sarah Palmer Laura s mother Catherine E Coulson as Margaret Lanterman The Log Lady a mysterious resident of the town who always carries a log around Ian Buchanan as Dick Tremayne a menswear salesman wooing Lucy Mary Jo Deschanel as Eileen Hayward Donna s mother Frank Silva as Killer BOB a suspect in Laura s murder Al Strobel as Phillip Michael Gerard MIKE The One Armed Man a shoe salesman David Patrick Kelly as Jerry Horne Ben s brother and business partner Miguel Ferrer as Special Agent Albert Rosenfield a Bureau agent who frequently assists Agent Cooper John Boylan as Mayor Dwayne Milford the town s mayor Victoria Catlin as Blackie O Reilly the madam of One Eyed Jacks Charlotte Stewart as Betty Briggs Bobby s mother David Lynch as Bureau Chief Gordon Cole the local Bureau Chief who comes to Twin Peaks to assist in Laura s case Heather Graham as Annie Blackburn Norma s sister season 2 Robyn Lively as Lana Budding Milford town vixen and later Dougie Milford s wife and the Mayor s girlfriend season 2 Dan O Herlihy as Andrew Packard Josie s husband and Catherine s brother season 2 Billy Zane as John Justice Wheeler a young business partner of Benjamin Horne season 2 Don Amendolia as Emory Battis James Booth as Ernie Niles Norma s stepfather Michael Parks as Jean Renault a Canadian criminal involved with One Eyed Jacks season 2 Carel Struycken as The Giant a mysterious entity who gives Agent Cooper clues to find Laura s killer season 2 Phoebe Augustine as Ronette Pulaski Laura s classmate who survived the attack on them both Robert Davenport pilot only and Robert Bauer as Johnny Horne Audrey s brother who has special needs Lenny Von Dohlen as Harold Smith a local shut in who was involved with Laura season 2 Hank Worden as The Elderly Room Service Waiter a Great Northern employee who unwittingly aids Cooper in his investigation season 2 Michael J Anderson as The Man from Another Place a mysterious entity who appears in Cooper s dreams in the Red Room alongside Laura Jan D Arcy as Sylvia Horne Audrey s mother and Ben s wife David Duchovny as DEA Agent Denise Bryson a transgender DEA agent who assists Cooper season 2 Tony Jay as Dougie Milford the Mayor s brother and Lana s husband season 2 Walter Olkewicz as Jacques Renault Jean Renault s brother who is a suspect in Laura s death David Warner as Thomas Eckhardt a businessman involved with Josie and the mill season 2 Annette McCarthy as Evelyn Marsh a woman whom James meets while traveling out of town season 2 Jessica Wallenfels as Harriet Hayward Donna s sister Alicia Witt as Gersten Hayward Donna s sister Andrea Hays as Heidi waitress at the Double R DinerProduction EditDevelopment Edit In the 1980s Mark Frost worked for three years as a writer for the television police drama Hill Street Blues which featured a large cast and extended story lines 23 Following his success with The Elephant Man 1980 and Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch was hired by a Warner Bros executive to direct a film about the life of Marilyn Monroe named Venus Descending based on the best selling book Goddess Lynch recalls being sort of interested I loved the idea of this woman in trouble but I didn t know if I liked it being a real story 24 Lynch and Frost first worked together on the Goddess screenplay and although the project was dropped by Warner Bros they became good friends They went on to work as writer and director for One Saliva Bubble a film with Steve Martin attached to star but it was never made either Lynch s agent Tony Krantz encouraged him to do a television show Lynch said Tony I don t want to do a TV show 25 He took Lynch to Nibblers restaurant in Los Angeles and said You should do a show about real life in America your vision of America the same way you demonstrated it in Blue Velvet Lynch got an idea of a small town thing and though he and Frost were not keen on it they decided to humor Krantz Frost wanted to tell a sort of Dickensian story about multiple lives in a contained area that could sort of go perpetually Originally the show was to be titled North Dakota and set in the Plains region of North Dakota 26 After Frost Krantz and Lynch rented a screening room in Beverly Hills and screened Peyton Place they decided to develop the town before its inhabitants 23 27 Due to the lack of forests and mountains in North Dakota the title was changed from North Dakota to Northwest Passage the title of the pilot episode and the location to the Pacific Northwest specifically Washington 26 27 They then drew a map and decided that there would be a lumber mill in the town 23 Then they came up with an image of a body washing up on the shore of a lake 23 28 Lynch remembers We knew where everything was located and that helped us determine the prevailing atmosphere and what might happen there 28 Frost remembers that he and Lynch came up with the notion of the girl next door leading a desperate double life that would end in murder 27 The idea was inspired in part by the unsolved 1908 murder of Hazel Irene Drew in Sand Lake New York 29 Lynch and Frost pitched the idea to ABC during the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike 30 in a ten minute meeting with the network s drama head Chad Hoffman with nothing more than this image and a concept 28 According to the director the mystery of who killed Laura Palmer was initially going to be in the foreground but would recede gradually as viewers got to know the other townsfolk and the problems they were having 28 Lynch and Frost wanted to mix a police investigation with a soap opera 28 ABC liked the idea and asked Lynch and Frost to write a screenplay for the pilot episode They had been talking about the project for three months and wrote the screenplay in 10 days 31 Frost wrote more verbal characters like Benjamin Horne while Lynch was responsible for Agent Cooper According to the director He says a lot of the things I say 23 ABC Entertainment President Brandon Stoddard ordered the two hour pilot for a possible fall 1989 series He left the position in March 1989 as Lynch went into production 32 They filmed the pilot for 4 million with an agreement with ABC that they would shoot an additional ending to it so that it could be sold directly to video in Europe as a feature film if the TV show was not picked up 27 ABC s Bob Iger and his creative team took over saw the dailies and met with Frost and Lynch to get the arc of the stories and characters 32 Although Iger liked the pilot he had difficulty persuading the rest of the network executives Iger suggested showing it to a more diverse younger group who liked it and the executive subsequently convinced ABC to buy seven episodes at 1 1 million apiece 30 Some executives figured that the show would never get on the air or that it might run as a seven hour mini series 33 but Iger planned to schedule it for the spring The final showdown occurred during a bi coastal conference call between Iger and a room full of New York executives Iger won and Twin Peaks was on the air 28 Each episode took a week to shoot and after directing the second episode Lynch went off to complete Wild at Heart while Frost wrote the remaining segments 32 Standards and Practices had a problem with only one scene from the first season an extreme close up in the pilot of Cooper s hand as he slid tweezers under Laura s fingernail and removed a tiny R They wanted the scene to be shorter because it made them uncomfortable but Frost and Lynch refused and the scene remained 32 Casting Edit Veteran film actress Piper Laurie pictured here in 1990 helped cement the Twin Peaks cast Twin Peaks features members of a loose ensemble of Lynch s favorite character actors including Jack Nance Kyle MacLachlan Grace Zabriskie and Everett McGill Isabella Rossellini who had worked with Lynch on Blue Velvet was originally cast as Giovanna Packard but she dropped out of the production before shooting began on the pilot episode 34 The character was then reconceived as Josie Packard of Chinese ethnicity and the role given to actress Joan Chen 35 The cast includes several actors who had risen to fame in the 1950s and 1960s including 1950s film stars Richard Beymer Piper Laurie and Russ Tamblyn Other veteran actors included British actor James Booth Zulu former The Mod Squad star Peggy Lipton and Michael Ontkean who co starred in the 1970s crime drama The Rookies Kyle MacLachlan was cast as Agent Dale Cooper Stage actor Warren Frost was cast as Dr Will Hayward Due to budget constraints Lynch intended to cast a local girl from Seattle as Laura Palmer reportedly just to play a dead girl 24 The local girl ended up being Sheryl Lee Lynch stated But no one not Mark me anyone had any idea that she could act or that she was going to be so powerful just being dead 24 And then while Lynch shot the home movie that James takes of Donna and Laura he realized that Lee had something special She did do another scene the video with Donna on the picnic and it was that scene that did it 24 As a result Sheryl Lee became a semi regular addition to the cast appearing in flashbacks as Laura and portraying another recurring character Maddy Ferguson Laura s similar looking cousin The character of Phillip Gerard s appearance in the pilot episode was originally intended to be only a kind of homage to The Fugitive The only thing he was gonna do was be in this elevator and walk out according to David Lynch 24 However when Lynch wrote the Fire walk with me speech he imagined Al Strobel who played Gerard reciting it in the basement of the Twin Peaks hospital a scene that appeared in the European version of the pilot episode and surfaced later in Agent Cooper s dream sequence Gerard s full name Phillip Michael Gerard is also a reference to Lieutenant Phillip Gerard a character in The Fugitive Lynch met Michael J Anderson in 1987 After seeing him in a short film Lynch wanted to cast the actor in the title role in Ronnie Rocket but that project failed to get made Richard Beymer was cast as Ben Horne because he had known Johanna Ray Lynch s casting director Lynch was familiar with Beymer s work in the 1961 film West Side Story and was surprised that Beymer was available for the role 36 Set dresser Frank Silva was cast as the mysterious Bob Lynch himself recalls that the idea originated when he overheard Silva moving furniture around in the bedroom set and then heard a woman warning Silva not to block himself in by moving furniture in front of the door Lynch was struck with an image of Silva in the room When he learned that Silva was an actor he filmed two panning shots one with Silva at the base of the bed and one without he did not yet know how he would use this material Later that day during the filming of Sarah Palmer having a vision the camera operator told Lynch that the shot was ruined because Frank Silva was reflected in the mirror Lynch comments Things like this happen and make you start dreaming And one thing leads to another and if you let it a whole other thing opens up 37 Lynch used the panning shot of Silva in the bedroom and the shot featuring Silva s reflection in the closing scenes of the European version of the pilot episode Silva s reflection in the mirror can also be glimpsed during the scene of Sarah s vision at the end of the original pilot but it is less clear A close up of Silva in the bedroom later became a significant image in episodes of the TV series 38 Music Edit Main article Music of Twin Peaks Twin Peaks Theme source source A 30 second sample of Angelo Badalamenti s Twin Peaks theme Problems playing this file See media help The score for Twin Peaks has received acclaim The Guardian wrote that it still marks the summit of TV soundtracks 10 In fall 1989 composer Angelo Badalamenti and Lynch created the score for the show In 20 minutes they produced the signature theme for the series Badalamenti called it the Love Theme from Twin Peaks Lynch told him You just wrote 75 of the score It s the mood of the whole piece It is Twin Peaks 39 While creating the score Lynch often described the moods or emotions he wanted the music to evoke and Badalamenti began to play the piano In the scenes dominated by young men they are accompanied by music that Badalamenti called Cool Jazz The characters masculinity was enhanced by finger snapping cocktail lounge electric piano pulsing bass and lightly brushed percussion 39 A handful of the motifs were borrowed from the Julee Cruise album Floating into the Night which was written in large part by Badalamenti and Lynch and was released in 1989 This album also serves as the soundtrack to another Lynch project Industrial Symphony No 1 a live Cruise performance also featuring Michael J Anderson The Man from Another Place An instrumental version of the song Falling became the theme to the show and the songs Rockin Back Inside My Heart The Nightingale The World Spins and Into the Night found in their full versions on the album were all except the last used as Cruise s roadhouse performances during the show s run The lyrics for all five songs were written by Lynch 40 A second volume of the soundtrack was released on October 30 2007 to coincide with the Definitive Gold Box DVD set 41 In March 2011 Lynch began releasing The Twin Peaks Archive a collection of previously unavailable tracks from the series and the film via his website 42 43 Filming locations Edit Snoqualmie Falls in June 2008 FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper states in the pilot episode that Twin Peaks is five miles south of the Canadian border and twelve miles west of the state line This places it in the Salmo Priest Wilderness Lynch and Frost started their location search in Snoqualmie Washington on the recommendation of a friend of Frost They found all of the locations that they had written into the pilot episode 27 The towns of Snoqualmie North Bend and Fall City which became the primary filming locations for stock Twin Peaks exterior footage are about an hour s drive from the town of Roslyn Washington the town used for the series Northern Exposure Many exterior scenes were filmed in wooded areas of Malibu California 35 Most of the interior scenes were shot on standing sets in a San Fernando Valley warehouse The soap opera show within the show Invitation to Love was not shot on a studio set but in the Ennis House an architectural landmark designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles 44 Filming Edit Mark Frost and David Lynch made use of repeating and sometimes mysterious motifs such as trees especially fir and pines coffee and doughnuts cherry pie owls logs ducks water fire and numerous embedded references to other films and TV shows 45 During the filming of the scene in which Cooper first examines Laura s body a malfunctioning fluorescent lamp above the table flickered constantly but Lynch decided not to replace it since he liked the disconcerting effect that it created 35 Cooper s dream at the end of the third episode which became a driving plot point in the series s first season and ultimately held the key to the identity of Laura s murderer was never scripted The idea came to Lynch one afternoon after touching the side of a hot car left out in the sun I was leaning against a car the front of me was leaning against this very warm car My hands were on the roof and the metal was very hot The Red Room scene leapt into my mind Little Mike was there and he was speaking backwards For the rest of the night I thought only about The Red Room 24 The footage was originally shot along with the pilot to be used as the conclusion were it to be released as a feature film When the series was picked up Lynch decided to incorporate some of the footage in the fourth episode Cooper narrating the dream outlines the shot footage which Lynch did not incorporate such as Mike shooting Bob and the fact that he is 25 years older when he meets Laura Palmer s spirit In an attempt to avoid cancellation the idea of a Cooper possessed by Bob came up and was included in the final episode but the series was cancelled even before the episode was aired 46 Response EditBefore the one and a half hour pilot premiered on TV a screening was held at the Museum of Broadcasting in Hollywood 47 Media analyst and advertising executive Paul Schulman said I don t think it has a chance of succeeding It is not commercial it is radically different from what we as viewers are accustomed to seeing there s no one in the show to root for 47 The show s Thursday night time slot had not been a good one for soap operas as both Dynasty and its short lived spin off The Colbys did poorly 47 Twin Peaks was also up against the hugely successful sitcom Cheers Initially the show received a positive response from TV critics Tom Shales in The Washington Post wrote Twin Peaks disorients you in ways that small screen productions seldom attempt It s a pleasurable sensation the floor dropping out and leaving one dangling 48 In The New York Times John J O Connor wrote Twin Peaks is not a send up of the form Mr Lynch clearly savors the standard ingredients but then the director adds his own peculiar touches small passing details that suddenly and often hilariously thrust the commonplace out of kilter 49 Entertainment Weekly gave the show an A rating and Ken Tucker wrote Plot is irrelevant moments are everything Lynch and Frost have mastered a way to make a weekly series endlessly interesting 50 Richard Zoglin in Time magazine said that it may be the most hauntingly original work ever done for American TV 51 The two hour pilot was the highest rated movie for the 1989 90 season with a 22 rating and was viewed by 33 of the audience 52 In its first broadcast as a regular one hour drama series Twin Peaks scored ABC s highest ratings in four years in its 9 00 pm Thursday time slot 53 The show also reduced NBC s Cheers s ratings Twin Peaks had a 16 2 rating with each point equaling 921 000 homes with TVs 53 The episode also added new viewers because of what ABC s senior vice president of research Alan Wurtzel called the water cooler syndrome in which people talk about the series the next day at work 53 But the show s third episode lost 14 of the audience that had tuned in a week before 54 That audience had dropped 30 from the show s first appearance on Thursday night This was a result of competing against Cheers which appealed to the same demographic that watched Twin Peaks A production executive from the show spoke of being frustrated with the network s scheduling of the show The show is being banged around on Thursday night If ABC had put it on Wednesday night it could have built on its initial success ABC has put the show at risk 54 In response the network aired the first season finale on a Wednesday night at 10 00 pm instead of its usual 9 00 pm Thursday slot 55 The show achieved its best ratings since its third week on the air with a 12 6 and a 22 share of the audience 56 On May 22 1990 it was announced that Twin Peaks would be renewed for a second season 57 During the first and second season the search for Laura Palmer s killer served as the engine for the plot and captured the public s imagination although the creators admitted that this was largely a MacGuffin each episode was really about the interactions between the townsfolk 30 The unique and often bizarre personalities of each citizen formed a web of minutiae that ran contrary to the town s quaint appearance Adding to the surreal atmosphere was the recurrence of Dale Cooper s dreams in which the FBI agent is given clues to Laura s murder in a supernatural realm that may or may not be of his imagination The first season contained only eight episodes including the two hour pilot episode It was considered technically and artistically revolutionary for television at the time and geared toward reaching the standards of film 58 Critics have noted that Twin Peaks began the trend of accomplished cinematography now commonplace in today s television dramas 59 Lynch and Frost maintained tight control over the first season and served as showrunners handpicking all of the directors including some whom Lynch had known from his days at the American Film Institute e g Caleb Deschanel and Tim Hunter and some referred to him by those he knew personally Lynch and Frost s control lessened in the second season as the two became less involved with the series corresponding with what is generally regarded as a decrease in the show s quality once the identity of Laura Palmer s murderer was revealed While Frost and Lynch technically remained showrunners after Episode 14 the episode in which the killer s identity was revealed Lynch had little creative control over the direction of the series from that point forward other than the season finale Frost became less involved after Episode 16 and became more involved again with Episode 26 onwards After Episode 14 series producers Harley Peyton and Robert Engels served as additional showrunners along with Frost and Lynch The aforementioned water cooler effect put pressure on the show s creators to solve the mystery Although they claimed to have known from the series inception the identity of Laura s murderer 35 Lynch never wanted to solve the murder while Frost felt that they had an obligation to the audience to solve it This created tension between the two men 27 Its ambitious style paranormal undertones and engaging murder mystery made Twin Peaks an unexpected hit Its characters particularly MacLachlan s Dale Cooper were unorthodox for a supposed crime drama as was Cooper s method of interpreting his dreams to solve the crime During its first season the show s popularity reached its zenith and elements of the program seeped into mainstream popular culture prompting parodies including one in the 16th season premiere of Saturday Night Live hosted by MacLachlan 60 Critical acclaim Edit See also List of awards and nominations received by Twin Peaks David Lynch at the 42nd Primetime Emmy Awards on September 16 1990 where Twin Peaks was nominated for fourteen awards He was nominated for directing and co writing the pilot episode Critical response of Twin PeaksSeasonRotten TomatoesMetacritic191 114 reviews 96 16 reviews 263 161 reviews 394 459 reviews 74 26 reviews For its first season Twin Peaks received fourteen nominations at the 42nd Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Kyle MacLachlan Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Piper Laurie Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Sherilyn Fenn Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series David Lynch Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series David Lynch and Mark Frost Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series Harley Peyton Outstanding Art Direction for a Series Outstanding Achievement in Main Title Theme Music Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series Dramatic Underscore Outstanding Achievement in Music and Lyrics and Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series Out of its fourteen nominations it won for Outstanding Costume Design for a Series and Outstanding Editing for a Series Single Camera Production 61 On Rotten Tomatoes the first season received a 91 percent approval rating with an average score of 8 95 out of 10 based on 114 reviews with a critics consensus of Twin Peaks plays with TV conventions to deliver a beguiling and unsettling blend of seemingly disparate genres adding up to an offbeat drama with a distinctly unique appeal 62 Metacritic scored the season a 96 out of 100 based on 16 reviews indicating universal acclaim 63 For its second season it received four nominations at the 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Kyle MacLachlan Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Piper Laurie Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series 61 On Rotten Tomatoes the second season received a 63 percent approval rating with an average score of 7 65 out of 10 based on 161 reviews with a critics consensus of Twin Peaks answers its central question with diminishing returns while struggling to establish worthy new mysteries but there are enough mesmeric flourishes to keep devotees dreaming of what lies in the Red Room 64 At the 48th Golden Globe Awards it won for Best TV Series Drama Kyle MacLachlan won for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series Drama Piper Laurie won for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series Mini Series or Motion Picture Made for TV while Sherilyn Fenn was nominated in the same category as Laurie 65 The pilot episode was ranked 25th on TV Guide s 1997 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time 66 It placed 49th on Entertainment Weekly s New TV Classics list 67 In 2004 and 2007 Twin Peaks was ranked 20th and 24th on TV Guide s Top Cult Shows Ever 68 69 and in 2002 it was ranked 45th of the Top 50 Television Programs of All Time by the same guide 14 In 2007 UK broadcaster Channel 4 ranked Twin Peaks 9th on their list of the 50 Greatest TV Dramas 70 Also that year Time included the show on their list of the 100 Best TV Shows of All Time 15 Empire listed Twin Peaks as the 24th best TV show in their list of The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time 71 In 2012 Entertainment Weekly listed the show at no 12 in the 25 Best Cult TV Shows from the Past 25 Years saying The show itself was only fitfully brilliant and ultimately unfulfilling but the cult lives fueled by nostalgia for the extraordinary pop phenomenon it inspired for its significance to the medium behold the big bang of auteur TV and for a sensuous strangeness that possesses you and never lets you go 16 The series has been nominated for the TCA Heritage Award six consecutive years since 2010 72 It was ranked 20th on The Hollywood Reporter s list of Hollywood s 100 Favorite TV Shows 73 Declining ratings Edit As the series ratings started to decline the producers added Heather Graham seen here in 2011 to the cast With the resolution of Twin Peaks main drawing point Laura Palmer s murder in the middle of the second season and with subsequent story lines becoming more obscure and drawn out public interest began to wane This discontent coupled with ABC changing its timeslot on a number of occasions led to a huge drop in the show s ratings after being one of the most watched television programs in the United States in 1990 Due to the Gulf War Twin Peaks was moved from its usual time slot for six weeks out of eight in early 1991 according to Frost preventing the show from maintaining audience interest 74 A week after the season s 15th episode placed 85th in the ratings out of 89 shows ABC put Twin Peaks on indefinite hiatus 75 a move that usually leads to cancellation 76 An organized letter writing campaign dubbed COOP Citizens Opposed to the Offing of Peaks attempted to save the show from cancellation 77 The campaign was partly successful as the season returned to airing on Thursday nights for four weeks from late March The series then went on another hiatus before the final two episodes of the season aired back to back on June 10 According to Frost the main storyline after the resolution of Laura Palmer s murder was planned to be the second strongest element from the first season that audiences responded to the relationship between Agent Cooper and Audrey Horne Frost explained that Lara Flynn Boyle who was romantically involved with Kyle MacLachlan at the time had effectively vetoed the Audrey Cooper relationship forcing the writers to come up with alternative storylines to fill the gap 78 79 Sherilyn Fenn corroborated this claim in a 2014 interview stating Boyle was mad that my character was getting more attention so then Kyle started saying that his character shouldn t be with my character because it doesn t look good cause I m too young I was not happy about it It was stupid 80 This meant the artificial extension of secondary storylines such as James Hurley and Evelyn Marsh to fill in the space After ratings began to decline Agent Cooper was given a new love interest Annie Blackburn Heather Graham to replace the writers intended romance between him and Audrey Horne 81 82 Despite ending on a deliberate audience baiting cliffhanger the series finale did not sufficiently boost interest and the show was not renewed for a third season leaving the cliffhanger unresolved Lynch expressed his regret at having resolved the Laura Palmer murder saying that he and Frost had never intended for the series to answer the question and that doing so killed the goose that laid the golden eggs Lynch blamed network pressure for the decision to resolve the Palmer storyline prematurely 83 Frost agreed noting that people at the network had in fact wanted the killer to be revealed by the end of season one 84 In 1993 cable channel Bravo acquired the license to rerun the entire series which began airing in June 1993 85 These reruns included Lynch s addition of introductions to each episode by the Log Lady and her cryptic musings 86 Looking back Frost has admitted that he wished he and Lynch had worked out a smoother transition between storylines and that the Laura Palmer story was a tough act to follow 33 Regarding the second season Frost felt that perhaps the storytelling wasn t quite as taut or as fraught with emotion 33 Influence EditWriting for The Atlantic in 2016 Mike Mariani wrote that It would be tough to look at the roster of television shows any given season without finding several that owe a creative debt to Twin Peaks stating that Lynch s manipulation of the uncanny his surreal non sequiturs his black humor and his trademark ominous tracking shots can be felt in a variety of contemporary hit shows 9 In 2010 the television series Psych paid tribute to the series by reuniting some of the cast in the fifth season episode Dual Spires The episode s plot is an homage to the Twin Peaks pilot where the characters of Psych investigate the death of a young girl in a small town called Dual Spires The episode also contains several references to the original show Twin Peaks actors that guest star in the episode are Sherilyn Fenn Sheryl Lee Dana Ashbrook Robyn Lively Lenny Von Dohlen Catherine E Coulson and Ray Wise Prior to the airing of the episode a special event at the Paley Center for Media was held where the actors from both shows discussed the episode 87 88 Reviewers and fans of four seasons of Veena Sud s U S TV series The Killing have noted similarities and borrowed elements from Lynch s Fire Walk with Me and Twin Peaks and compared Sud and Lynch s works 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 Carlton Cuse creator of Bates Motel cited Twin Peaks as a key inspiration for his series stating We pretty much ripped off Twin Peaks If you wanted to get that confession the answer is yes I loved that show They only did 30 episodes Kerry Ehrin and I thought we d do the 70 that are missing 97 Twin Peaks served as an inspiration for the 1993 video game The Legend of Zelda Link s Awakening with director Takashi Tezuka citing the series as the main factor for the creation of the suspicious characters that populate the game as well as the mystery elements of the story 98 The show has also influenced a number of survival horror and psychological thriller video games most notably Alan Wake 99 Deadly Premonition 100 Silent Hill 101 and Max Payne 102 The 1998 open world adventure video game Mizzurna Falls was reminiscent and an homage to Twin Peaks 103 The American animated show Gravity Falls repeatedly referenced the Black Lodge along with other elements of Twin Peaks throughout its run 104 Riverdale an American teen drama is noted for its many homages to Twin Peaks Along with many thematic similarities and direct references Madchen Amick appears in both series 105 In an interview promoting the second season of Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre Sacasa remarked that all roads on Riverdale lead back to Twin Peaks 106 The song Laura Palmer by the band Bastille was written influenced by the slightly weird eerie atmosphere of the show 107 While the series is not usually described as science fiction it has been noted to have been influential on that genre 108 Future EditSince Season 3 ended in 2017 Lynch and Frost have expressed interest in making another season of Twin Peaks 109 110 Lynch has been asked in several interviews if he would continue once saying I don t know I have a box of ideas and I m working with producer Sabrina S Sutherland kind of trying to go through and see if there s any gold in those boxes 111 Lynch also said one more story was calling to him involving the character of Carrie Page 112 In a Reddit AMA on June 22 2020 star Kyle MacLachlan said Cooper was his favorite role of all time and that he would absolutely return to another season without even seeing the script 113 Merchandise EditHome media Edit Main article Twin Peaks home video releases The series was released on VHS in a six tape collection on April 16 1995 however it did not include the original pilot episode 114 The series was also released on LaserDisc in a sixteen disc set in 1991 in Japan 115 The same set was later released in the U S across four different volumes from 1993 to 1994 neither release contained the original pilot nor Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me On December 18 2001 the first season episodes 1 7 minus the pilot of Twin Peaks was released on DVD in Region 1 by Artisan Entertainment 116 The box set featured digitally remastered video and was noted for being the first TV series to have its audio track redone in DTS 117 The second season release was postponed several times and the release was originally canceled in 2003 by Artisan due to low sales figures for the season 1 DVD 118 The second season was finally released in the United States and Canada on April 3 2007 via Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment CBS DVD 119 On October 30 2007 the broadcast version of the pilot finally received a legitimate U S release as part of the Twin Peaks Definitive Gold Box Edition This set includes both U S original network broadcast and international versions of the pilot The set also includes all episodes from both seasons deleted scenes for both seasons and a feature length retrospective documentary Entertainment Weekly gave the box set a B rating and wrote There are numerous fascinatingly frank mini docs here including interviews with many Peaks participants together they offer one of the best available portraits of how a TV hit can go off the rails 120 In July 2013 it was revealed that a Blu ray version of the complete series would be released 121 In January 2014 Lynch confirmed the Blu ray release and that it would contain the pilot season 1 season 2 new special features and possibly the film 122 It was announced on May 15 2014 that the Blu ray box set containing the complete series of Twin Peaks the film Fire Walk With Me and The Missing Pieces the long awaited release of 90 minutes of deleted scenes from the film would be released on July 29 2014 123 Twin Peaks From Z to A a 21 disc limited edition Blu ray box set which includes all the television episodes Fire Walk with Me The Missing Pieces previously released special features six hours of new behind the scenes content and 4K versions of the original pilot and episode 8 from The Return was released on December 10 2019 Additionally Twin Peaks The Television Collection a Blu ray and DVD collection of the original series The Return and all previously released special features was released on October 15 2019 124 Online the original series is available through Paramount while The Return is available with Showtime s Anytime service for pay TV subscribers and its over the top separate service 125 Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me is available via HBO Max Books audio and virtual reality Edit Main article Twin Peaks books During the show s second season Pocket Books released three official tie in books each authored by the show s creators or their family which offer a wealth of backstory The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer written by Lynch s daughter Jennifer Lynch is the diary as seen in the series and written by Laura chronicling her thoughts from her twelfth birthday to the days leading up to her death Frost s brother Scott wrote The Autobiography of F B I Special Agent Dale Cooper My Life My Tapes Kyle MacLachlan also recorded Diane The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper which combined audio tracks from various episodes of the series with newly recorded monologues 126 Welcome to Twin Peaks An Access Guide to the Town offers information about the history flora fauna and culture of the fictitious town and was published in the same format as a then current real world series of travel guides Twin Peaks Visual Soundtrack is a LaserDisc that plays like an elaborate music video The show s entire soundtrack album is played over silent video footage shot by a Japanese TV crew visiting the Snoqualmie Washington locations where the series was shot 127 Published a year before the series return to TV The Secret History of Twin Peaks a novel by series co creator Mark Frost places the unexplained phenomena that unfolded in Twin Peaks in a layered wide ranging history beginning with the journals of Lewis and Clark and ending with the shocking events that closed the finale 128 It was published on October 18 2016 129 Twin Peaks The Final Dossier was released October 31 2017 A follow up to The Secret History of Twin Peaks it was also written by Frost The novel fills in details of the 25 years between the second and third seasons and expands on some of the mysteries raised in the new episodes 130 Twin Peaks VR a virtual reality game developed by Collider Games and Showtime in collaboration with David Lynch was released on December 13 2019 Players can explore familiar locations while solving puzzles to help Special Agent Cooper and Gordon Cole The game is available on Oculus Rift Vive and Valve Index 131 Theatrical film EditMain article Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me The 1992 film Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me is a prequel to the TV series It tells of the investigation into the murder of Teresa Banks and the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer Director David Lynch and most of the television cast returned for the film with the notable exceptions of Lara Flynn Boyle who declined to return as Laura s best friend Donna Hayward and was replaced by Moira Kelly and Sherilyn Fenn due to scheduling conflicts Also Kyle MacLachlan returned reluctantly as he wanted to avoid typecasting so his presence in the film is smaller than originally planned Lynch originally shot about five hours of footage that was subsequently cut down to two hours and fourteen minutes Most of the deleted scenes feature additional characters from the television series who ultimately did not appear in the finished film Around ninety minutes of these scenes are included in the complete series Blu ray that was released on July 29 2014 123 Fire Walk with Me polarized critics upon its release especially in comparison to the widespread acclaim of the series However the film was nominated for the Palme d Or at 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