The bird, the scream, and everything in between.
The bird in the opening credits.
Is the bird a visual representation ofTwin Peaks' bucolic natural setting?
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Is it foreshadowing the importance of the ill-fated Waldo the myna bird?
Or is it just a very scenic shot of a bird?
(Its probably just a very scenic shot of a bird.)
Angelo Badalamenti’s score.
The sound of a dream waking up from a nightmare.
Also, “Audrey’s Dance” rocks.
Lauras body found under the log.
Audrey changing into her high heels at school.
Audrey Horne (Sherilynn Fenn) evocatively changes her footwear right before class starts.
In the cinema ofWizard of Ozobsessive Lynch, red shoes are never just red shoes.
(We forgive the questionable pilot haircut, Audrey!)
Andy bursting into tears at the crime scene.
The shot pointed up toward the fan in the Palmer household.
The Briggs family kitchen.
What should be a brief moment of exposition instead packs so much weirdness into a few seconds.
Mrs. Briggs answering the phone and immediately picking up a pair of scissors!
Heidi (Andrea Hays), the German waitress at the Double R.
Her laugh is truly haunting.
She seems like a nice person.
The decor inside the Great Northern.
The jackets on top of jackets!
The dancing guy in the high school.
What is his story?
Did he know Laura?
Has he been possessed by BOB?
Is he a strange cryptid on leave from the White Lodge?
The girl running through the school courtyard.
A primal moment of invasive terror.
Ronette Pulaski walking the railroad tracks.
Dale Cooper dictating to Diane as he drives into Twin Peaks.
- Cooper’s first meeting with Harry.
(“Douglas firs!”
Its no wonder the sheriff takes an immediate liking to this odd, gleeful FBI agent.
The lights flickering in the morgue.
A famous behind-the-scenes accident that Lynch improvised into an entire aesthetic.
Or maybe it’s just a note of realism: Hey, sometimes the lights don’t work right.
The slow zoom on Laura Palmers eye in the videotape.
She is dead, and yet, she lives.
The deer head on the table at the bank.
The hug Big Ed (Everett McGill) gives Donna when she shows up at his Gas Farm.
The man belongs on Mount Everest.
Diane, Im holding in my hand a small box of chocolate bunnies.
As Hawk wonders years later in the revival series, Isit about the bunny?
The introduction of the Log Lady.
We meet the town mystic flicking the lights off and on (hmmm, see No.
- at the town meeting.
Without even saying a word, the late and astoundingly great Catherine E. Coulson makes quite an impression.
The paper at the crime scene.
Donnas sister Harriet working on her poem.
She finally settles on “the full blossom of the evening.”
In a more just world, Harriet’s poetry got collected into a tie-in book.
Julee Cruise singing at the Roadhouse.
And do most bikers spend their nights listening to downtempo, atmospheric jazz?
Every single one of Dana Ashbrooks line deliveries.
His star turn as Bobby Briggs invents every hardcore-wounded-funny-freaky teen performance of the next 30 years.
Most memorable of all, though, is his freakish barking in the prison cell.
The final scene between Doc Hayward and Donna.
There are many bad dads inTwin Peaks, but kindly Doc (Warren Frost) is an exception.
Its a hopeful final note after an episode of very bleak discoveries.
Lucy’s doughnut smorgasbord.
The policeman’s dream.
And Lucy lays this out every night?
Forget Silicon Valley tech giants, the best perks are at the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department.
The final nighttime shot of the log on the beach
Love a full-circle ending!
BOB’s face in the mirror when Sarah Palmer screams.
Another famous on-set accident that Lynch miraculized into cosmic wonder.
Zabriskie’s shriek wraps the pilot on a new level of fear beyond coherence.
Frank Silva’s accidental appearance in the mirror edgedTwin Peakscloser to its supernatural undercurrents.
Thirty years later, we’re all still screaming.
