David Lynch and Mark Frost's ABC mystery drama premiered in April 1990 and drew 35 million viewers to its pilot — an unprecedented audience for an experimental network drama. Though it ran for only two seasons before cancellation, Twin Peaks permanently expanded what was considered acceptable on mainstream American television: surrealism, Jungian dream logic, and unresolved narrative ambiguity entered primetime. Its influence is visible in every "prestige mystery" that followed, from Lost to True Detective to The Leftovers.
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