10 Best Single Horror TV Seasons Ever

3. Twin Peaks - Season 1

Twin Peaks Agent Cooper
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While it also works as a drama series or a thriller, Twin Peaks is undoubtedly a prime piece of horror television. Well, at least the first and third seasons are; the less said about Season Two, the better. The fact that David Lynch himself has regularly slated how "stupid" and "ridiculous" that second year is should tell you all you need to know.

2017's Twin Peaks: The Return was phenomenal, yet it's hard to look past the show's debut year when looking at the all-time great seasons of horror TV. The basic premise of that first season was the question of who killed Laura Palmer, yet Twin Peaks was so, so much more.

While some of the seasons featured elsewhere on this list revolve around jump scares, terrifying creatures or supernatural chicanery, Twin Peaks was a meticulous slice of psychological horror. The mystery of Laura's death was the driving force of that first season - and the early part of Season Two - but it was the unsettling journey of unravelling this puzzle that really had audiences hooked.

FBI Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) sups coffee and eats Double R pie, all as dread is amped up through trippy dream sequences, chilling visuals and an exquisite use of sound. Unfortunately, Twin Peaks' second season lost so much of its lustre when it finally solved Laura's death just seven episodes into its 22-episode run.

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