Like anyone with an appetency for great television receiver , I feel a golf hole in my heart when Sunday approached with no fresh True Detective . But I have a solution . Why not stop out the first , vivid season of nineties score Twin Peaks ? The show still has a skittish , weird good luck charm after all these years .
Twin Peaks was a sensation when it first aired in 1990 on ABC . Created by Mark Frost ( Hill Street Blues ) and weirdo auteur David Lynch ( Blue Velvet , Dune ) , the murder mystery was moody and bizarre , full of gorgeous timber factories and all in girls , fashionable dream episode , and portents from a supernatural realm . call after the small town where the action takes place , Twin Peaks set the stage for the kinds of groundbreaking series we now see regularly on cable television service networks like HBO , Showtime and AMC .
Twin Peaks is visually sensational , set in a beautiful pine tree forest in Washington State , decently on the Canadian borderline . The townspeople is a bastion of genuine rural innocence , but is also secretly crawling with corruption and crime . There ’s a clearly True Detective feel to Twin Peaks , with our hero , FBI Agent Dale Cooper ( an unbelievable Kyle MacLachlan ) , coming into town because the lovely homecoming queen Laura Palmer ( Sheryl Lee ) has been recover murdered .
We forthwith learn that there is a supernatural element to the crime when Cooper begins having weird , prophetical dreams .
He match odd townsfolk like the “ log ma’am , ” who carries a log like a baby and can read what the owls are saying . There are creepy-crawly cue , like the phrase “ fire pass with me . ” And then , of course , there are Laura ’s class fellow — the safe girl Donna ( Lara Flynn Boyle ) and the big girl Audrey ( Sherilyn Fenn ) , along with unbelievable carrying into action from an unbelievable cast of actors ( let in Michael Ontkean and Piper Laurie ) who oversee to take the air the personal line of credit between emo and goofy with informality .
The more that Agent Cooper learns , the more he realizes that the problems in Twin Peaks are alike to those that Rust and Marty discover in Louisiana . They start at the top of the townspeople ’s economical and societal pyramid , and wind up poisoning the futures of ingenuous kids , honest blue pinch workers , and nice kinfolk who call for nothing more from life than a good cup of coffee and some cherry red pie .
Lynch has a flare for combine an almost platitudinal sense of humor with vivid repugnance , and he and co - Maker Frost managed to make the first season of Twin Peaks into an addicting , multi - superimposed mystery that give in and out of the spirit world to finally unwrap the straight horror of little town lifetime . Unlike True Detective , Twin Peaks is full - bore supernatural phantasy . But the intent world is just a variety of twisted reflection of real life story , and in the end there are flesh - and - blood people who are guilty of the crimes that drew Laura into the flak with nothing to shield her from evil .
If you want a good enigma full of weird presentiment and quirky humor , you ca n’t go wrong by queuing up the first season of Twin Peaks on Netflix , orgrabbing the videodisk setand mainlining it this week .
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