‘Twin Peaks’ Made Peak TV Possible (And Now It’s Coming Back, For Reasons We Might Not Question Too Closely)

Here’s the thing, and why the sequel won’t matter so much: “Without Twin Peaks, and its big-bang expansion of the possibilities of television, half your favorite shows wouldn’t exist. The absorptive, all-in serial, sonically and visually entire, novelistically cantilevered with deep structure and extending backwards into the viewer’s brain, was simply not a thing before Lynch and Frost. With Twin Peaks they effectively renegotiated TV’s contract with its audience.”