Twin Peaks (1990-1991): Besides "Arrested Development" another series I watched over the past semester and just recently finished is "Twin Peaks." The best way to describe it would be I guess to say it's a David Lynch soap opera, and all the expectations that go with that. It's written as a show with a central mystery of who killed Laura Palmer, but it's directed and acted with a sense of weirdness and off-the-wall humor and dialogue. The latter is what made this show so great and unique. Creating a mood on television is very rare on television, and only when you get a gifted film director like David Lynch did television finally get a show that combined great writing with a great sense of mood and atmosphere.
