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Twin Peaks

★ 8.5 93K votes 2017–2017 1 season · 18 episodes
ExperimentalFormally adventurous television that breaks the rules.This show: 10/10Stylized directionBold, signature formal choices.This show: 10/10UnsettlingA creeping sense of unease and wrongness that gets under your skin.This show: 10/10AtmosphericMood and place thick enough to touch.This show: 10/10Puzzle plotNonlinear timelines, twists and structural games that reward attention.This show: 9/10Slow burnDeliberate pacing where the payoffs are earned over long stretches.This show: 9/10Mystery boxCentral riddles sustained across whole seasons.This show: 9/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 9/10
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Starring
Kyle MacLachlanSheryl LeeMichael HorseChrysta BellMiguel FerrerDavid Lynch
Written by
David LynchMark Frost
Starring
Kyle MacLachlanSheryl LeeMichael HorseChrysta BellMiguel FerrerDavid Lynch
Written by
David LynchMark Frost
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
03k6k9k12k

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About

"Lynch unleashed, unfiltered, and unwilling to explain itself"

Twenty-five years after the original series left off, FBI Agent Dale Cooper's return to the world is anything but simple, as David Lynch fractures the story across dreamscapes, doppelgangers, and small towns far from Twin Peaks itself. It is slow, hypnotic, and often bewildering, trading tidy mystery-solving for pure mood and dread. Long static shots, unsettling sound design, and sudden bursts of violence or comedy replace conventional plotting. It feels less like a revival than an art film stretched across eighteen hours, demanding patience but rewarding it with images you won't shake off.

Watch it for

the boldest, strangest television Lynch ever made, treating narrative logic as optional.

Maybe skip if

you dislike slow, abstract storytelling that resists easy explanation or closure.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 1
8.6120K1816h 54m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Part 18.5
8K59 min
▶2Part 28.6
8K53 min
▶3Part 38.4
7K57 min
▶4Part 48.4
7K55 min
▶5Part 58.0
6K56 min
▶6Part 68.0
6K56 min
▶7Part 78.6
6K56 min
▶8Part 88.8
10K56 min
▶9Part 98.2
6K58 min
▶10Part 108.0
6K53 min
▶11Part 118.9
6K57 min
▶12Part 127.6
5K55 min
▶13Part 138.3
5K59 min
▶14Part 148.9
6K56 min
▶15Part 158.6
5K55 min
▶16Part 169.5
8K57 min
▶17Part 179.4
7K59 min
▶18Part 188.7
6K57 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Kyle MacLachlan Dale Cooper, Dougie Jones
Sheryl Lee Laura Palmer, Carrie Page
Michael Horse Deputy Chief Tommy 'Hawk' Hill
Chrysta Bell FBI Agent Tammy Preston
Miguel Ferrer FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield
David Lynch FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole
Robert Forster Sheriff Frank Truman
Kimmy Robertson Lucy Brennan
Naomi Watts Janey-E Jones
Laura Dern Diane Evans

Crew

Mark Frost

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