00:02The arrival of Twin Peaks in 1990
00:05was like nothing the world had ever experienced before.
00:09It was something different than that just pulled you in.
00:16It was blazing its own trail, and it was glorious.
00:19Twin Peaks was my gateway drug
00:21that inspired me to do this for a living.
00:23I'm sterile.
00:24Even though it didn't go on for very long,
00:27it changed how people saw things.
00:30It died early, like James Dean, you know,
00:31that was part of the magic of it.
00:41The first season of Twin Peaks hit, and it really caught on.
00:45But the second season, the ratings fell off.
00:48The network moved it to Saturday night,
00:50and Saturday night, you know, was not the night.
00:52The younger demographic was home watching TV.
00:55And also, they told you who killed Laura Palmer.
01:01Which, for some fans, ended the show.
01:04And then the Gulf War happened.
01:07You gotta remember, that was the first live television war.
01:15The final two episodes were pretty devastating,
01:18because it has a bunch of cliffhangers.
01:21Cool.
01:21That left a lot of people really unsatisfied for a long, long time.
01:28There were some people, when Twin Peaks ended,
01:30that were like, there are all these loose ends.
01:34You gotta remember, this was before the internet,
01:37before YouTube, before the streams.
01:39There was still this community of fans who wanted more.
01:44I was still very much interested in Twin Peaks.
01:48I thought there was a lot to talk about.
01:50So, I co-produced the magazine Wrapped in Plastic
01:53for about 13 years with my partner, Craig Miller.
01:57We formed this little tight-knit group
01:59through Wrapped in Plastic, the magazine,
02:01and then the Twin Peaks Festival was born.
02:06The fan world and the way that they've rallied around this show,
02:09it's a community.
02:13Getting into Twin Peaks in the 90s was difficult.
02:17There was no way for anyone to go onto their computer
02:20or anything like that to watch Twin Peaks.
02:23People had copies of the VHS tapes they would circulate,
02:26but there really wasn't a lot of avenues
02:30for people to talk about it in depth.
02:32Hey.
02:33One of the biggest changes that happened
02:35was when there were streaming services
02:38and that brought in a new generation of fans.
02:41The show found its way to a lot of different people
02:44all around the world, actually,
02:46and Twin Peaks universe started to explode
02:49like a mushroom cloud.
02:51This little gold digger just wants his money.
02:55The timeless quality of this show is very evident.
03:00To this day, there are people that are young
03:02that are discovering the original Twin Peaks
03:04on Tumblr or Twitter.
03:06Twin Peaks stays relevant and important
03:09because Twin Peaks stayed subversive
03:11and didn't define itself.
03:13The fact that it wasn't on for a long period of time
03:16allowed it to be celebrated like a rock star
03:18who dies at the age of 27.
03:20It now has this place in history
03:26You can't really watch television right now
03:29without seeing the imprint of Twin Peaks and David Lynch.
03:32In our small way at Ray Donovan,
03:34the Hollywood noir, the way we shoot,
03:37we now write visually.
03:39When JJ and I created Lost together,
03:41JJ just said,
03:43we aspire to Twin Peaks.
03:45We should be so lucky to have the cultural impact
03:48and the artistic impact that Twin Peaks did.
03:52In working with different writers on different shows
03:54since Twin Peaks,
03:55Desperate Housewives or Sex and the City,
03:57the writers would say to me,
03:58I didn't really think it was possible to do this,
04:01but because of Twin Peaks,
04:03suddenly I felt empowered.
04:04This is my vision.
04:08There's people who have come up to me over the last 25 years
04:12who just still worship Twin Peaks,
04:15and a lot of them weren't alive when it was on the air in 1990.
04:19There's no other show that's ever been like it.
04:21There probably will never be another show like it.
04:23There must be something in it
04:26that gets people to a good place
04:29in the Department of Thinking and Feeling.
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