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[Gary] The arrival of Twin Peaks in 1990
was like nothing the world had ever experienced before.
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It was something different,
and it just pulled you in.
It was blazing its own trail, and it was glorious.
Twin Peaks was my gateway drug that inspired me to do this for a living.
I'm sterile.
Even though it didn't go on for very long,
it changed how people saw things.
It died early like James Dean, you know?
That was part of the magic of it.
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The first season of Twin Peaks hit, and it really caught on.
[both moaning]
But in the second season, the ratings fell off.
[John] The network moved it to Saturday night,
and Saturday night, you know, was not the night
the younger demographic was home watching TV.
And also, they told you who killed Laura Palmer...
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...which for some fans ended the show.
And then the Gulf War happened.
[explosions]
You got to remember, that was the first live television war.
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[mirror shatters]
The final two episodes were pretty devastating,
because it has a bunch of cliffhangers.
[Harry] COOP-
That left a lot of people really unsatisfied
for a long, long time.
[cackling]
[Jordan] There were some people, when Twin Peaks ended,
that were like, "There are all these loose ends."
[explosiom tires squealing]
You got to remember, this is before the Internet,
before YouTube, before the streams.
There was still this community of fans
who wanted more.
I was still very much interested in Twin Peaks.
I thought there was a lot to talk about.
So I coproduced the magazine Wrapped in Plastic
for about 13 years with my partner Craig Miller.
[Rob] We formed this little tight-knit group
through Wrapped in Plastic, the magazine.
And {hen me Twin Peaks Festival was bum.
[Kyle] The fan world, in the way
that they have rallied around this show,
ifs a community.
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[John] Getting into Twin Peaks in the '90s was difficult.
There was no way for anyone to go onto their computer
or anything like that to watch Twin Peaks.
People had copies of the VHS tapes they would circulate,
but there really wasn't a lot of avenues
for people to talk about it in-depth.
Hey.
One of the biggest changes that happened
was when there were streaming services,
and that brought in a new generation of fans.
[Pieter] The show found its way to a lot of different people
all around the world, actually,
and the Twin Peaks universe started to explode like a mushroom cloud.
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This little gold digger just wants his money.
[baby cooing]
[Jordan] The timeless quality of this show is very evident.
To this day, there are people that are young
that are discovering the original Twin Peaks
on Tumbir, Twitter.
Twin Peaks stays relevant and important
because Twin Peaks stayed subversive
and didn't define itself.
[Damon] The fact that it wasn't on for a long period of time
allowed I! to be celebrated,
like a rock star who dies at the age of 27.
It now has this place in history.
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[David] You can'! really watch television right now
without seeing the imprint of Twin Peaks and David Lynch.
In our small way at Ray Donovan,
the Hollywood noir, the way we shoot.
We now write visually.
[Damon] When JJ and I created Lost together,
JJ just said, "We aspire to Twin Peaks.
We should be so lucky to have the cultural impact
and the artistic impact that Twin Peaks did."
[person shouts]
In working with different writers on different shows since Twin Peaks-
Desperate Housewives or Sex and the City-
the writers would say to me,
"I didn't really think it was possible to do this,
but because of Twin Peaks, suddenly I felt empowered.
This is my vision. "
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[Gary] There's people who have come up to me
over the last 25 years
who just still worship Twin Peaks,
and a lot of them weren't alive when it was on the air in 1990.
There's no other show that's ever been like it.
There probably will never be another show like it.
[Lynch] There must be something in ft
that gets people to a good place
in the department of thinking and feeling.
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