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EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
Twin Peaks - Season 1 Episode 01: Pilot
The series follows idiosyncratic FBI Agent Dale Cooper as he travels to the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of seemingly innocent high schooler Laura Palmer.
26 July 1959, Bay City, Michigan, USA
23 January 1919, Mannville, Alberta, Canada
2 February 1949, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
1 February 1965, Detroit, Michigan, USA
30 December 1934, Los Angeles, California, USA
25 November 1953
25 December 1939, Midwest City, Oklahoma, USA
2 February 1933, London, England, UK
May 14, 2017
Another actor might have overplayed the part, but I love MacLachlan's performance here. He's gleefully enthusiastic about his new surroundings, yet professional to the last.May 31, 2017
Cooper's precision will be challenged by the increasingly supernatural mystery. He is the most appropriate avatar for Twin Peaks, modulating continually between a peculiar humor and the plain peculiar.May 17, 2017
David Lynch and Mark Frost's pilot episode for Twin Peaks is still one of the best pieces of television ever made for a network.June 13, 2017
This first episode does an astonishing job of establishing a labyrinthine nexus of characters, and pacing each of their storylines beautifully.May 19, 2017
If you haven't watched the pilot in a while, know this: It's still about as effective an opening salvo as TV has ever produced.May 19, 2017
Twin Peaks does an exceptionally good job of establishing its characters as well as their secrets and indeed their motivations, taken or not taken, for killing Laura, or at least wanting her dead.May 19, 2017
Big in the 90s was the trend where teenagers would start spontaneously start crying and running around screaming right before the transference of bad news.