Ostensibly about the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) in a tiny rural town in the state of Washington, Lynch and Frost’s drama would quickly prove that it was ahead of its time in every way.
The central murder mystery and the soapy lives of the residents were the accessible and intriguing entry points for most viewers. But hiding beneath those familiar tropes was the decidedly unfamiliar. Lynch’s moody, cinematic visuals looked like they were plucked from the cinema, light years beyond the uniform look of other comedies and dramas.
Then there was the off-kilter way everything was presented. From FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan)’s incessantly peculiar voice memos to a mysterious “Diane”, to all the emotionally heightened performances underscored by Angelo Badalamenti’s jazzy, noir music, Twin Peaks was weird, beguiling and sometimes frightening. There was nothing like it anywhere else on the television dial, which is why audiences initially gravitated to it in droves.
One of the writers helping Lynch and Frost craft the first season of the series was first-time television writer Harley Peyton. Coming off a big-screen hit with his screenplay adaptation of Less Than Zero (1987), Peyton found himself mingling with more and more of his writing peers. In early 1990, Peyton was invited by his friend, Mark Frost, to a screening of the pilot of Twin Peaks.
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