Twin Peaks: How One Show Transformed TV

How Twin Peaks Changed Television Forever

In April 1990, ABC premiered Twin Peaks, a surreal murder mystery created by David Lynch and Mark Frost—and television was never the same. What started as a small-town whodunit about the death of Laura Palmer quickly became a cultural phenomenon that shattered every rule of network TV. This video explores how Twin Peaks changed television forever, from serialized storytelling and cinematic visuals to dream logic, unsettling horror, and fandom-driven mystery.

We break down how Twin Peaks defied genre, why ABC took the risk to air one of the weirdest shows in primetime history, how “Who killed Laura Palmer?” became a nationwide obsession, and why revealing the killer altered the show’s fate.

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