12 Most Anxiety-Inducing Sci-Fi TV Shows EVER

5. Twin Peaks

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More than any other show listed here, Eraserhead director/ renowned weirdo/ Cleveland Show star David Lynch's Twin Peaks is impossible to classify in generic terms, given that there's nothing generic about this small town soap opera/ mystery/ cop procedural/ sci fi horror/ sort of maybe metaphorical pseudo-religious tract.

Told you it was impossible to simply summarize the appeal of Cooper and co.

What's impossible to deny, however, is that from JUDY to BOB, the show is undoubtedly one of television's most surreal and terrifying hypnotic nightmares, an explanation-free quagmire of unsettling imagery and trippy terror designed to tear your adrenaline gland a new one with each passing episode.

And for God's sake don't watch the Return without securing a Valium prescription beforehand...

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