History Series / TwinPeaks

''Twin Peaks'' is a GenreBusting television series created by Creator/DavidLynch and Mark Frost. Starting out as a hybrid CrimeTimeSoap[=/=]DetectiveDrama, premiering on April 8, 1990 as a MidseasonReplacement on Creator/{{ABC}}, it quickly took off for parts unknown with a pervasive supernatural element. The series eventually revealed itself to be an OccultDetective story with very surreal elements that smacked of off-kilter MagicRealism. Basically, it had a little bit of everything.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: BOB -- all caps.
** Not to be confused with [[http://www.subgenius.com "BOB!"]].

* BlackComedy: Windom Earle is a FUNNY guy, even if he is a complete psychopath. It also helps that most of the humor is [[KickTheSonOfABitch at Leo's expense.]] The sequel season plays around with even more BlackComedy elements, such as OutWithABang at the hands of something that looks like TheGreys and a clumsy, mentally addled tenant stumbling on a grim but almost comically exaggerated murder scene in her neighbor's apartment.

** "Film/Dune1984": Baron Vladimir Harkonnen engages in depravity that is reminiscent of BOB's as both rape and kill to get their rocks off. Additionally both characters can fly away and are defeated by a character with supernatural abilities.

*** Dale Cooper and Paul Attreides have similar zen-like demeanors that make them almost impervious to fear. Both also survive assassination attempts, are betrayed by a close confidant and go on to live either a double life or with a different culture for a significant length of time before their respective valiant returns.

** "Film/Dune1984": Baron Vladimir Harkonnen engages in depravity that is reminiscent of BOB's as both rape and kill to get their rocks off. Additionally both characters can fly away.

** Norma Jennings is still operating her dinner 25 years later with no sign of Big Ed in her life but still financially stable and seemingly happy. [[spoiler: Eventually, she separates from her business partner at the same time as Ed separates from Nadine, and [[EarnYourHappyEnding Ed and Norma finally marry.]]]]

* AmbiguousDisorder
** In the first episode, Audrey Horne comes across this way, which coupled with her mentally disabled brother makes the Horne family seem [[DysfunctionJunction particularly dysfunctional]] right off the bat.
** Nadine has some obvious mental problems, exhibited by her violent mood swings and paranoid behavior. She seems to have made a lot of ground by The Return.

* CreatorProvincialism: Maddie is from Missoula, Montana, where Creator/DavidLynch was born.

** Played with in how [[spoiler:BOB's]] victims are treated. Ronette Pulaski is a young pretty white woman who suffers the same rape and torture as Laura did and even goes to the same school. However, her attack barely seems to effect anyone but her parents. The root of this may be that her parents are clearly much less well-off than Laura's. Teresa Banks got it even worse, being also young, white and pretty, but her complete lack of any social connections and standing would have caused her violent death to pass by entirely unnoticed, if not for certain details attracting the FBI's attention.

* FreakierThanFiction: The most insane and improbable things mentioned in ''The Secret of History of Twin Peaks'' are things that actually happened. Whereas things like people catching a glance of The Giant in the woods and the the soul of the Log Lady's husband being trapped in her log are pretty benign and dull by comparison.

* ConspiracyKitchenSink: "The Secret History of Twin Peaks" doubles down on this including the FantasyKitchenSink the series already had, including everything from UFO's to Meriwether Lewis's death and nuclear waste on Twin Peaks, to make things worst is left unclear how much does any conspiracy plays with the others and how much does each side knows, for instance the FBI seems to know pretty well about the mystical elements meanwhile the USAF knows about alien life.

* TheUnfought: [[spoiler: Cooper and his Doppelganger never confront each other due to the latter being gunned down by Lucy before Copper arrives. Applies to Cooper and BOB too since it's Freddy Sykes than gets to take down the BigBad.]]

* AnythingThatMoves:
** Laura Palmer. [[spoiler:Considering her part-time job...]]
** Also, BOB, apparently.

* WidgetSeries: It's a detective show created by Creator/DavidLynch. What did you expect?

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Both the original series and the movie were ''very'' popular in Japan, to the point where much of the cast starred in a series of clever coffee commercials.

''Twin Peaks'' is a GenreBusting early-nineties television series created by Creator/DavidLynch and Mark Frost. Starting out as a hybrid CrimeTimeSoap[=/=]DetectiveDrama, premiering on April 8, 1990 as a MidseasonReplacement on Creator/{{ABC}}, it quickly took off for parts unknown with a pervasive supernatural element. The series revealed itself to be an OccultDetective story with very surreal elements, that smacked of off-kilter MagicRealism. Basically, it had a little bit of everything.

The story takes place in Twin Peaks, Washington, [[QuirkyTown a sleepy rural slice of Americana]] where everyone seems to know everyone. [[BunnyEarsLawyer Eccentric FBI agent]] Dale Cooper is called to the town after Laura Palmer -- a high school senior and homecoming queen -- is discovered dead and wrapped in plastic.

Cooper teams up with Harry S. Truman, the town's trusty (though skeptical) Sheriff, as they investigate the murder, which Cooper believes may be linked to an unknown serial killer he has been tracking for years. It quickly becomes apparent that ''everyone'' in Twin Peaks [[SoapOpera has their own secrets to hide]], and Laura's shocking death may be the powderkeg to bring it all out into the open. Meanwhile, Cooper finds himself visited by [[MindScrew enigmatic dreams and visions]], which he believes may be the key to finding the true culprit.

The eight-episode first season of ''Twin Peaks'' was a surprise ratings success -- to the point of denting the competing goliath that was ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' -- and it was renewed for ''twenty-two'' more episodes. This ended up causing numerous problems, mainly because [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants the showrunners had never really expected or intended]] for the show to run ''that'' long; they were also forced by ABC to conclusively answer certain key mysteries ''in the middle of the season'', undercutting the narrative of the show. To justify [[TheMainCharactersDoEverything Cooper remaining in Twin Peaks]], an old foe from his past arrives in town to menace him in cryptic ways, and this storyline eventually dovetails with the Laura Palmer murder. The 1992 movie ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe'' functions as [[TemporalParadox both a prequel]] ''[[TemporalParadox and]]'' [[TemporalParadox a sequel]], though infamously does not resolve any of the plot lines left hanging in the series.

As the series was a huge ratings draw for a time, it naturally influenced and inspired across all media. Aside from being the first live-action TV series to have feature film-quality production, it also paved the way for shows like ''Series/TheSopranos'' (which stole its dream sequences), ''{{Series/Carnivale}}'' (whose own showrunners/creators drew heavily on the mystical Manichaean themes and crypto-Masonic imagery that were Mark Frost's signatures in ''Twin Peaks'') and ''Series/TheXFiles'' (which also featured FBI agents investigating paranormal cases). It also has a notable influence on the animated series ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' in terms of setting and focus on both mysteries and supernatural elements. As far as video games influenced by ''Twin Peaks'' go, they range from the obvious like ''VideoGame/MizzurnaFalls'', ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'', ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'', ''VideoGame/AlanWake'', and ''VideoGame/ThimbleweedPark'' to the less so like ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent'', ''VideoGame/LoneSurvivor'', ''VideoGame/MaxPayne 2'', ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', and even ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening''.

After years of rumors of a return, a sequel series titled ''Twin Peaks: The Return'' premiered on Showtime in 2017. As referenced in a cryptic line from the first season, we return to Twin Peaks 25 years later. Lynch and Frost returned as showrunners along with a large section of the original cast. The resulting season majorly ups the surrealism factor of the story and provides a final resolution (such as it is) to the series. Following ''The Return'', both Lynch and Frost have expressed interest in possibly making a fourth season at some point, but Lynch also stated that will be at least a while before he gets around to that decision, although he has hinted that the SequelGap won't be as drastic this time around.

* SweaterGirl: Audrey

* PowerWalk: The first shot of Season 2, Episode 9.

* MixAndMatch

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: The movie ''Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me''. Subverted in that it was [[spoiler:actually a prequel]]. Well, [[TemporalParadox sort of...]]