The Terrifying Brilliance of TWIN PEAKS

#twinpeaks #davidlynch #halloween
A deep dive into the history of Twin Peaks, its rise and fall as a cultural phenomenon, and its lasting legacy in the horror genre and pop culture at large.
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▶ CHAPTERS ▶
0:00 - Introduction
2:06 - Welcome To Twin Peaks
11:49 - Peaks And Valleys
18:35 - The Return
23:09 - One More Thing
▶ MUSIC ▶
Into the Night - Amplitude Problem
Fallen - Collins
Walk With Me - Collins
Laura's Secrets - Sonic Synergist

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[@TheBuckMuscles]

I didn't know the future Disney CEO was the guy that ruined Twin Peaks. This makes sense now....

[@LegendLength]

I agree with him though. It would've been worse without revealing Leyland. That was a great scene and didn't take anything away from the series. Lynch is mad due to the power struggle which is understandable. Not because of that decision.

[@legatejakius5386]

@@LegendLength you are objectively wrong about this.

[@omalone1169]

​@legatejakius538622:3₩ disturbing mysteries are always lurking in plain sight

[@JadeDawson-so5go]

I just want to time travel and give Lynch and Frost all of the budgeting they could possibly want so we could have had the true version of Twin Peaks, completely free from exec influence.

[@JadeDawson-so5go]

@@LegendLength At the very least, surely you can agree that it should have happened at the end of the season.

[@brennaleeann213]

11:04 saying twin peaks has no one to root for is insane when Cooper is genuinely one of the sweetest most delightful characters ever conceived????

[@Sand-Walker13]

Even though I'm just now getting into the show, I have to agree. Cooper is such a dear

[@Ninnybroth]

It might be out of print, but there's the Autobiography of Dale Cooper. More and deeper into his delightful self.

[@PaulRWorthington]

Favorite book. And the ebook in on Amazon Kindle. @@Ninnybroth

[@tyewilson9478]

​@Ninnybroth Out of print and pretty difficult to find, but mire than worth a read for sure! It even gives you a glimpse of the start of Fire Walk With Me but with Cooper as the agent. I believe Kyle wanted a smaller role in the movie, so Lynch rewrote the beginning.

[@Ninnybroth]

@@tyewilson9478 You know there's a "Secret Diary of Laura Palmer" too, right? Also def worth the read!

[@snakedogman]

So Bob Iger was already an idiot before destroying Disney.

[@AlexusYoung-ds1tc]

Fred Freiberger who was the producer who was in charge of the hokey season 3 of Star Trek, also reputably killed Space 1999 when he took over during season 2 to make it more star treky and americanized. Both ended after he took the reigns proving the upper echelons in charge sometimes is not a good thing.

[@austinbarnes3855]

Keep forgetting that Josie is still stuck in a wooden door knob😂

[@intergalacticspacecanoe4659]

Lölz.. Knob..

[@Faby07aleixo]

I watched the whole return thinking she somehow would come back lmao

[@tyewilson9478]

​@Faby07aleixo she's there if you pay close enough attention

[@Faby07aleixo]

@@tyewilson9478 I honestly need to rewatch it

[@IndiephantomSofaSinema]

Glad you identify Bob Iger as the real BOB and villain here.

[@SamM_Scot]

Laura Palmer murder was never meant to be solved and that idiot along with board ruined the original run of TV show. I'm still mad about it and what could've been not having to wait all these later. We still got the incredible classic Mulholland Drive though, which was originally a new TV show pilot with same Twin Peaks feel that was turned into a movie :-)

[@chrisjfox8715]

​@@SamM_Scot Lynch almost certainly wouldve never had the impetus to even think up Mulholland Drive if not for his negative experiences making Dune and Twin Peaks

[@pedrob3953]

Typical short-sighted risk-averse media executive who interferes too much with artistic decisions.

[@HooktonFonnix]

The Return is one of my favorite seasons of any show ever. It's a perfect conclusion

[@michaelwills1926]

Lynch was really going somewhere with this concept. I wish it had been given the time to unfold as originally envisioned.

[@WeeG-bwc77]

So the guy who helped destroy Twin Peaks is also working to ruin Disney now too? Damn, what a track record.

[@alejandrogonzalez3250]

I don't why the line "what year is it?" hits so hard, nothing feels real after that.

[@alfredlear4141]

For all you youngsters out there. It was a time before the internet, in the uk we had 4 tv channels unless you had a "new" sky bcb satellite dish. This TV series was an epic work of art that was watched due to word of mouth alone. It invented its own genre.

[@jimmyb2655]

when Twin peaks came back in 2017, my friend and I watched it weekly, then as soon as possible, got the bluray and watched it all again from season 1.

[@omalone1169]

Who is the trans person

[@jimmyb2655]

​@@omalone1169 David Duchovny plays DEA Agent Dennis, Denise Bryson.

[@gazegirl6011]

If you never played Alan Wake, I strongly recommend it. Especially Alan Wake 2, that series has STRONG Twin Peaks influences.

[@alinggaalts27]

yea, ive been thinking is twin peaks an Altered World Event or like a threshold too

[@Pawfict]

Thanks for the suggestion! Need more twin peaks things in my life

[@Fillitwithbreeemium]

100%

[@craig260691]

Yes definitely, Alan Wake lead me to Twin Peaks and David Lynch.

[@NoVACorpsGaming]

After finishing Alan Wake 2 I binged the WHOLE of Twin Peaks for the first time, and it’s so beautiful to see all of the Lynch-isms that Sam Lake injected into his world. I have absolutely loved this experience!

[@mattgilbert7347]

The brutal critique of American society in The Return (selling one's own BLOOD just to survive) was a bold and welcome choice by the creators. Not to mention the critique of us Twin Peaks fans. We didn't *need* more Twin Peaks. We *wanted* it. *Want*.

[@lonnie6954]

I think any other reboot would have started with the penultimate episode. Instead we get the journey there; the return. It made the first time through a little frustrating but I think it makes for good rewatching and keeps it from just being a rehash.

[@RogueBoyScout]

I think that's why I didn't watch it to the end. I remember posting in a TP Facebook group after the 3rd episode "you ever get the feeling Lunch is trolling us" By us I mean the audience, the fans, and like you say, everyone that WANTED it. I found I didn't need it. And also, I learned that with Lynch, sometimes a cup of coffee is just a cup of coffee. Edit: I did watch the Trinity Bomb episode because I was told it was probably one of the best things David had put to screen. I will say, it wasn't hyperbole. The juxtaposition with NIN is just FANtastic.

[@allenandrews2380]

Bob also represents the team of showrunners behind the camera. Also the audience, " the machine" that financialy depends on selling murder and violence for profit. The whole " we killed Laura" thing. Very cool. Meta story telling.

[@Faby07aleixo]

Yep, if you really think about it, twin peaks is about how we like to see people being murdered and abused on the TV for our own satisfaction, and we watch it so much we end up don't realizing how badly it makes us trivialize a dn excuse those subjects, even in real life.

[@larissagreenleaf9798]

As others have said, this deserves WAY more views. What a perfect summary. The way you’ve articulated everything so eloquently has honored Lynch’s masterpiece.

[@thebasedgodmax1163]

to clarify though, the show isn't "Lynch’s masterpiece", because that continues to push an incorrect narrative. it was a TV show, with much more people involved than David Lynch. heck, considering the idea of Laura was inspired by a story his grandmother told him, Mark Frost is arguably more important to the show's existence as a story. Lynch is of course a large presence, he helped to create it, and all of The Return is just him and Frost, and his idiosyncratic style present in Blue Velvet (the best example of it when the show debuted) was very clearly something the writers wanted to replicate. however, out of the 48 total episodes of the show (all seasons combined), Lynch only has writing credits on 22 of them, only 4 of which are the original show. most of the original show was Frost, Harley Peyton and Robert Engels, the latter of which co-wrote FWWM.

[@SnapperChannel]

Need some coffee and cherry pie after watching this

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Always a good combo. Highly recommend it.

[@uweparthum5906]

the eucharistic bread to the Twin Peaks religion, if I'm not mistaken.

[@alainvosselman9960]

@@uweparthum5906 Well said

[@danielgarlock2074]

Perfect

[@mikaela12979]

I'm a 90s kid. This film's soundtrack is imbedded in my brain.

[@timavers]

Probably the best analysis under 30 minutes. Damn fine video.

[@bergstrom716]

Corn pom flicks has the best videos on twin peaks you will thank me later

[@gv280z]

still crushing on Peggy Lipton and Madgen Amick, they're both so dang beautiful in this

[@MattDraper]

This is the best video you've ever made.

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Thanks so much, man! That's incredibly high praise. I've always had a special place in my heart for Twin Peaks so it's awesome to finally take the time and talk about it!

[@owensreviews625]

Man, this really makes me want to watch Twin Peaks

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

do it do it do it

[@6Haunted-Days]

Ummmmm so watch it what TF 🙄😂

[@jclcc9996666666]

Yes it's awesome u should

[@GreggNowhere]

It blows my mind how lionized Bob Iger is in media nowadays when his approach to it is so absolutely anti-art.

[@hojathoo]

At the end of the day the business people will succeed in the business. I’d be skeptical of anyone considered an artist who occupies a corporate role. They are not artists they are money pawns

[@RogueBoyScout]

Ahh yeah. Let me tell you something. Hating someone for being good at their job is called tall poppy syndrome. It's sad, it's pathetic, and finally ignorant. Bob Iger is NOT an artist. He is a PRODUCER, he is THE MONEY. You don't like what he does, seriously, put up. Crowdfund. Go to college and do the work. Otherwise just shut up. Because Shareholders aren't asking how you feel for a reason.

[@GreggNowhere]

@RogueBoyScout Or instead, how about I don't do any of that, and you continue being an anti-art weirdo on the Internet?

[@Anon_Spartan]

I''ll never forget how Twin Peaks season 3 was actually the Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated series. Totally unexpected but pretty good!

[@vincentwhitehead]

honestly, they should’ve saved BOB’s reveal for the season two finale…. That way, the pacing wouldn’t have been screwed up AND it would’ve opened the door for the original series to be kept running

[@rodlong1802]

Never realized how True Detective season 1 vibes are similar to Twin Peaks

[@alainvosselman9960]

I never understood the series although i really liked it. But one day i looked at it again after i had learned to understand 'in a practical sense' what anti social is.. it all made such an aweful sense. And the world around me started to look like Twin Peaks. Looking back at it, it is kind of genius in the way it shows this evil that is out there. Loved the characters, the story and the music made me wanna learn to play jazz and still at it today. So thanks for that Mr Badalamenti. Great video.. love how you can hear a certain admiration in the narration.

[@bk138gt6]

Fire walk with my is a great movie. The Return was great too. Great video!

[@thebasedgodmax1163]

great underrated video. really appreciate shining light onto everyone who made this show so great, whereas many others simply talk about David Lynch only, when just like any good TV series the show's genius comes from a highly talented team.

[@travismartin4863]

David lynch really crafted a masterpiece with season 3. I truly hope showtime will get a clue & sign up for a fourth season. The season finale though great, felt like it was just getting started.

[@ChrisLamia]

I wonder if a main stream show like this could even get made today and I’m even talking about how bizarre or weird the show is. The way so much of this show was really just a slice of life story about the townspeople of Twin Peaks doesn’t seem like something that could get made today. It’d get classified as “filler” and be filtered out. It’s really unfortunate because the slice of life stuff is a big part of what makes this show so special and different from other shows

[@ginofrancejr555]

Excellent review David Lynch is one of the most creative minds in cinema and twin peaks along with blue velvet Eraserhead and muholand Dr are his masterworks

[@jingye88]

Twin peaks walked with me in my younger years

[@jonnekallu1627]

I've seen two versions on the "fire walk with me" poem. One says: "one chance out" The other says: "one chants out" which is canon?

[@mikejett2733]

Twin peaks even got a game seris called deadly premonishion

[@patrickn8355]

Fire walk with me is amazing

[@uweparthum5906]

pyr a mid - a fire in the middle

[@mikejett2733]

Lost highway was also a twin peaks movie

[@SparkHoundCam]

I feel like Mark Frost doesn’t get enough love.

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

I get that, I think a lot of that comes from Lynch being the big name on the movie and beyond, but I really like Frost’s writing. He’s got such a great voice for hard-boiled cloak-and-dagger stuff

[@ursaminorjim]

Thank you for a really lovely essay!

[@AlexusYoung-ds1tc]

Damn good coffee ☕ and awesome donuts 🍩 thrown in makes it a pinnacle of success with a northwest kinda' style.

[@samael22]

This deserves a lot more views.

[@larrytolson4135]

AW is great. AW2 is absolutely brilliant. It’s my game of the decade, because I don’t believe anything will top it. I especially LOVE the musical sequence…

[@robotaholic]

I adore everything about David Lynch and your thumbnail is so awesome,! Is there any way I can find a high quality version?

[@lilxibibi]

6:18 Tony Soprano: He's just like me

[@carlosjavier7293]

The born of Antony

[@GroundbreakGames]

I watched a few of these as a kid but never really understood what was going on. Now I live in WA state and am feeling inspired to go check the series out again. Thanks!

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Glad you liked the video, and even gladder that you're planning to revisit the show! I think Twin Peaks is weird as heck but also really special. For my money, there's nothing out there quite like it.

[@nauglefest]

Very good melodic guitar around the 22 minute mark.

[@goodboyconformist]

Great video. Thank you.

[@tybaker2745]

Awesome video man. Great explanation. Watched fire walk with me for the first time the other day only because I was going through watch David linch movies. Had no idea about the series. Plan to watch the early series and the return. Also, what’s the first song? Sounds like a remix of the theme song of twin peaks

[@m.s.6545]

Brilliant commentary of a masterpiece.

[@alexandrebeaudry8377]

God damn, i realize I forgot everything. It's like if i never understand half of it.

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

The real magic of a show like this is that I don't think there's ever one true way of understanding it. There's always a new angle I keep picking up whenever I come back, and I find that really special.

[@MichaelDalhke]

Hey great video! I'll show it to some friends before they watch it! Bobby IS the BEST! I was lucky enough to meet him and Sheryl (Laura Palmer). Happiest day of my life!

[@katesjanice]

GREAT SHOWS! The best ever made.

[@julian9898]

Is this same Bob Iger who’s fucking up Disney?

[@JoeLovesComics]

Fascinating video!

[@Y-two-K]

Great video :)

[@RallyTheTally]

Who can really say there's no one to root for in Twin peaks?

[@Ph.D_of_Lagomorph]

I see twin peaks, I click and like 😍😍😍

[@Dzanarika1]

It is imprinted in our dna, and we are always in love with it all over again. It is such a strange and beautiful mystery ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@alexpowers5117]

Did anybody ever watch northern exposure not the same but it was also a show in a town with interesting people

[@imdiyu]

This video deserves millions of views.

[@BenLindsay3001]

I absolutely loved the original series. Season one is perfect. And season two is severely underrated. Up until episode 16 is as perfect as season one. Sure up until episode 23 is not as good it was nice to see more of the great characters. The plot with windom Earle is great and I adore cooper and Annie’s story. And that finale is just amazing. I have seen the return but I had mixed feelings on it.

[@EvanLyman]

The song starting at 11:50, which sounds like a remix/interpolation of Into the Night by Julee Cruise, is a huge banger

[@SamM_Scot]

Greatest TV show ever made in my opinion that had a major part on how I viewed and listened to media. Although I loved The Return I do prefer the ground-breaking original 90s run with its flaws in some of the second season along with the devastatingly dark classic movie Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me :-)

[@francescafontanez6106]

Completely excellent!

[@katesjanice]

The best show ever on TV!

[@stevensavage7442]

I Love this series.

[@TheJasonmoretti]

That was great..thanx

[@Johnston212]

I tried to watch the original series years ago. 2,756 years later...I have absolutely no idea what the hell I watched

[@android65mar]

Loved Twin Peaks - great television!

[@JonzStoneroadAvalon808]

I love this!!!!!

[@erikbuchanan4648]

If your looking for something similiar to Twin Peaks, I'd recommend the podcast, Welcome To Night Vale books and podcast. It has a Lychian vibe, but more campy.

[@hopebringer2348]

This is incredible

[@Hursh1]

Damn fine cup of coffee

[@kungfuquaker1]

David Lynch is on the autism spectrum, and Dale Cooper has been called the greatest autistic character on television. Although that also applies to Gil Grissom of CSI. Lynch said that Blue Velvet was based on his time in Spokane. Although, he lived his formative years in Boise, Idaho and I see a lot of that reflected there as I grew up in Boise.

[@patrickn8355]

*My log saw it.*

[@Baron_Blue_Max]

Psyche did a great spoof episode of Twin Peaks

[@thecontainerthecontents6889]

"you fuk us once, shame on us. You fuk us twice, shame on you" Twin Peaks season 3 is one of the greatest things I've ever seen. It doesn't always work flawlessly perhaps, but I cannot recall anything quite as inventive and occult as this. And even the trajectories that initially you wonder if this is a good decision, they start to work over time. Juggling this many characters, and keeping almost every scene either funny or riveting... the ability to make you laugh and then bring back high levels of menace in back to back scenes, and it works somehow, when really it shouldn't. It feels like I'm watching a show that shouldn't work, and yet it's a masterpiece about good and evil, choice, and echoing destiny.

[@TheNicole8787]

Wow I lived this

[@harryrodd4383]

Just about to finish the original series for the first time, its been a great show but boy did season 2 go off the rails. Couldn't figure why it went so wrong so quickly, but behold, it was Bob Igor, what an asshole. Thanks for the video.

[@chrisjfox8715]

Tbh I think it could've been okay to reveal the killer *IF* there had been a solid plan in place as to what the next move was going to be...not doing it just to do it then hoping for the best. When season 2 does gain its footing again, I think it's fantastic. The lull that's in between has everything to do with Lynch mostly walking away and seemingly no one left behind having much clue where they were headed with the narrative as a whole.

[@paralleluniverses4615]

nice job

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

Thanks! This has been one of my faves for a long time, and it was awesome finally getting to talk about it.

[@mikequinn211]

Excellent

[@MadDogRyan]

I'm a rookie mangaka my greatest influence as a storyteller is Atsushi Okubo he makes a lot references to this show and uses the batshit crazy surrealism of the show as one of the reoccurring themes across his multiple series not to mention the Persona video game series I'm quite addicted to visually references it a ton

[@imwithname843]

Fire walk with Me.

[@ryanbenson4610]

Love this show

[@malloryharding882]

I loved all of Roald Dahl books as a kid, even his short stories for adults! (Which I was definitely too young to be reading) Absolutely adored the old Willy Wonka movie too!

[@MyLateralThawts]

Iger ruined Twin Peaks, now he’s doing the same to Disney.

[@randylahey8207]

That show could've been so good, but it went too far away from the main plot line into the stories of the people of the town, which wasn't executed nearly as well. The episodes with Bob are brilliant and watchable over and over again. It's a shame what could've been...

[@bubruss5925]

Love me some twin peaks.

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

HELL yeah, love to see it

[@boywonderrr71]

Hey Look, Bob Iger killed Twin Peaks before Disney Star Wars and Marvel!!

[@CIS101]

As 1:07 it was 1990 not 1989, but I'm liking the narration so far.....

[@caitlinthompson7238]

Where can I find this remix of Into the Night, please?

[@ForEveryKindofGeek]

The track is by an artist called "Amplitute Problem" I discovered on Bandcamp. There are actually multiple albums of Twin Peaks remixes you can buy there, either track by track or all at once!

[@CIS101]

As of 17:27 if Season 1 got all of that unexpected recognition then maybe the series really did impact Television and/or American culture. Maybe it showed studio execs that audiences could appreciate programming far more sophisticated than sitcoms.

[@CIS101]

As of 24:14 pretty good so far. This was one of the most unusual shows ever on TV, but I don't get any sense of how it changed Television in the years since. Also, I don't think the police procedure aspect is the point. I feel that agent Cooper represents the audience, but his FBI authority allows him, and David Lynch to peel back onion concealing the mysteries of Twin Peaks.

[@Ninnybroth]

One of the ways TP changed TV: Maddie's attack was the first time any woman on TV had been shown getting hit in the face by a man. Nobody had ever seen such a brutal and realistic assault on a show. It was shocking for audiences back then. Now it's done all the time so we forget how this was a first. Most TV murders of women cut away, or somehow sensualized the violence, faded out or obscured the camera angle, skipped the blood, over-dramatized the noises or motions, or otherwise only alluded to the violence. I remember everyone in the room went dead-silent when Maddie was attacked and no one spoke for a few minutes after the episode ended.

[@Baron_Blue_Max]

Blue Velvet is another classic

[@gufbrindleback]

Twin Peaks is a TV Show.

[@tommydeamon7657]

Fire walk with me

[@CIS101]

I'm still not sure what to think of the Return. I found it much more difficult to digest than the original.

[@chrisjfox8715]

It's definitely got its moments and an overall appeal, I just wish there was a way I could get a tighter edit of it

[@sirako]

I liked this video, yes, nice.

[@sirako]

Twin Peaks is my favorite forever. The music 80's synth like is awesome

[@saonarabalo1800]

represent the third season of Twin Peaks with the two doubles Agent Cooper, Daggie and the bad Cooper who has taken over Cooper's body not the mind which remains still and stuck in a dream, if we remember correctly Cooper becomes Daggie and remains in that family recovering positive energy and recovering the strength to fight with the bad Bob, many characters help, in the end the good wins, I don't think Agent Cooper died second he woke up, unfolding the future and taking Laura into another dimension, time leap, in fact we also find the waitress who worked with Carrie Page in the future... the photo of Laura dying disappears, so Cooper saves Laura but takes her to another place and year... Laura forgets her old life, even if then with the mother's voice remembers everything and perceives the evil that still exists, Cooper only then realizes that he has not managed to eliminate the evil entity, and Carrie's cry is just so strong, she remembers, she feels the evil.. Said this would require another series of twin peaks where this time leap is resolved and we see both Cooper and Daggie, the two worlds, understand if Laura's mother is the one to be eliminated... there are still things to resolve, dreams and reality. we want the fourth season

[@jameswilliam2003]

Wow. I can't believe Bob Iger keeps destroying everything until now.

[@ChristopherATuttle]

btw, your text at opening has a significant typo…. the quote is “one CHANCE” out between two worlds.” not CHANTS. it’s s important, the “one chance out” is essential to the story