10 TV Shows That Worked Despite Their Absurd Premise

There is nothing particularly different or groundbreaking about a detective story or a murder mystery on its most basic level. In fact, this is one of the most overused premises for a TV show ever, but Twin Peaks took the idea and turned it into arguably the strangest series of all time.

Kyle MacLachlan’s Dale Cooper was an incredibly likeable detective whose love for coffee was legendary, and in the small town of Twin Peaks he discovered that there was so much more going on than one young girl being killed. Even that doesn’t do justice to the sheer weirdness of the show.

There was a ‘waiting room’ that connected to another dimension where people spoke backwards and nothing made sense, more creepy cherry pie than you know what to do with, and an ending that saw the main character with a demented look in his eye screaming and hysterically laughing into a mirror.

In fact, the conclusion of the show’s first run made absolutely so little sense that an entirely new season was created to try and explain it 26 years later. However, this simply raised more questions than answers.