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Twin Peaks

The film is a prequel whose final scene happens after the series ends, which is why nobody agrees on where it goes.

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Where to start with Twin Peaks

Broadcast order, then the film, then the revival. The film is set before everything and is still the wrong place to start, because it names Laura Palmer's killer, and the series spends a season and a half withholding exactly that.

  1. 1
    Twin Peaks, season 1 Twin Peaks

    Eight episodes including the feature length pilot, which is the best hour and a half of television in the whole thing. A murder investigation that behaves like nothing else on 1990 network television.

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    Twin Peaks, season 2 Twin Peaks

    Twenty two episodes. The murder is solved part way through under network pressure and the middle of the season sags badly, but the last few episodes are the reason the rest exists.

  3. 3
    Fire Walk with Me Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    The last seven days of Laura Palmer's life, made after the cancellation. Watched here it is a prequel you already know the ending of, which is the point, and its closing scene is set after the season 2 finale.

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    The Missing Pieces Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

    Ninety minutes of scenes cut from that film, released in 2014. Not a story of its own, but it puts the town's cast back into a film that had almost none of them, and one scene feeds straight into The Return.

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    The Return Twin Peaks: The Return

    Eighteen parts made twenty five years later, and the only continuation. It leans on the film at least as heavily as on the series, so the two steps before this one are not optional decoration.

Then what? Mark Frost's two books sit either side of The Return and are for people who want more rather than people who need it: The Secret History of Twin Peaks was published a year before it and The Final Dossier a month after it ended. There will be nothing further. David Lynch died in January 2025, and Mark Frost has said since that a fourth season is hard to imagine without him.

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