Lynch then embarked on another noirish project, the opaque and surreal murder-mystery Twin Peaks that – unusually for notable film directors of the period – was envisioned as a TV series;Lynch developed it with former Hill Street Blues writer Mark Frost. A mix of small town comedy, police procedural and surreal dreamworld, and described as “the most hauntingly original work ever done for American TV” — Andrew Pulver

I still believe that the Twin Peaks series was something unique in the history of television. In another article in The Guardian, journalist Peter Bradshaw called Lynch “the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream”. I couldn’t have said it better myself.