A crime drama mixed with healthy doses of the surreal, this series is about FBI Agent Dale Cooper, who travels to the small logging town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer. Almost nothing is as it seems, however, and the show’s sometimes eerie visuals, oddball characters and wild dream sequences drive the point home.
Critic Review’s
“It’s stunning for a TV mystery. It’s actually mysterious. The mood, the characters, the surreal quality of how the story is told, are something different. It has a slow hypnotic movement, a style like a boxer in slo-mo. It hit me with tremendous energy and made me abandon despair at the state of TV mysteries. [5 Apr 1990]”- Marvin Kitman.
Twin Peaks … is like nothing you’ve seen in prime time — or on God’s earth. It may be the most hauntingly original work ever done for American TV.- Richard Zoglin.
What Mr. Lynch does so well is to imbue something as ordinary as small-town America with an inchoate threat, an ax waiting to fall. In short, Twin Peaks is creepy… After two episodes, Twin Peaks is riveting. And it’s so cool, it’s chilly.- Robert Goldberg.
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