11 Scariest Horror-Themed TV Shows To Binge-Watch This Halloween 2020
4. Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks is ostensibly a murder mystery, centring around Dale Cooper’s (Kyle MacLachlan) investigation into the murder of Laura Palmer.
However, the show is just as concerned with the lives of Twin Peaks’ oddball residents; the show often feels like the world’s most bizarre soap opera, dealing with everything from torrid love affairs to the possible alien abduction of the town’s residents.
While the small, wholesome American town setting with a sinister underbelly feels somewhat like the setting of a Stephen King novel, Twin Peaks is something unique, owing to the unmistakable influence of its creator, David Lynch.
Like all of Lynch’s work there is an uncanny and surreal undercurrent running just beneath the show's surface which occasionally erupts into scenes of outright horror, the most notable in Twin Peaks being the appearances of a homicidal spirit named Bob and the scenes set in the Red Room.
Dale is often whisked away to the Red Room when he dreams: it’s there that Dale meets the deceased Laura Palmer, who seems to want to share the secret of her killer, but Dale is unable to understand Laura who can only communicate while talking backwards.
Twin Peaks first eight-episode season is almost perfect, but the show’s popularity prompted the second season’s expansion to twenty-two episodes, and predictably the quality suffered; the plot is stretched paper thin over the course of the second season.
The show returned for a third season in 2017, retaining the original two seasons trademark weirdness while adding lots of explicit gore.