Audience and Expectations
- Rotten Tomatoes. (n.d.). Twin Peaks. Retrieved from https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/twin_peaks/s01/e01Also known as 'The Northwest Passage' the two-hour pilot episode of Twin Peaks originally aired April 8, 1990.
It scored a 100% on the Tomatometer. The Tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans. It represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show. - Rotten Tomatoes. (n.d.). Twin Peaks. Retrieved from https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/twin_peaks/s01/e02'Traces to Nowhere' is known as episode 2. It scored a 100% on the Tomatometer. The Tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans. It represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show.
Awards
- IMDb. (2001). Awards. Retrieved from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098936/awards?ref_=tt_ql_op_1Twins Peaks won many awards, including a Primetime Emmy and a Golden Globe.
Reviews
- Murray, N. (2017, April). ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 1, Episode 1: Wrapped in Plastic In. Retrieved fromhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/watching/twin-peaks-recap-season-1-episode-1.html"When the two-hour pilot episode of “Twin Peaks” aired on ABC on the evening of April 8th, 1990, it arrived with a lot of hype and not much warning. The network had promoted the show with cryptic ads, suggesting that viewers could expect a soapy murder mystery and adding a tagline that would turn out to be true: “If you miss it tonight, you won’t know what everyone’s talking about tomorrow.” (Murray, 2017)
- Gray, T. (2007, May). ‘Twin Peaks’ Original Series in 1990: Oddball, but ‘Brilliant Television’. Retrieved from https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/twin-peaks-original-series-1990-david-lynch-mark-frost-1202431356/“Twin Peaks,” a continuation of the 1990 series that is unique in TV history — the show has maintained a fan base after a quarter century, even though there were only 30 episodes, most of them low-rated.
- Baran, A. (2015, May). How Twin Peaks led a fan into and out of trouble. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/may/29/how-twin-peaks-fan-trouble-northwest-passage"Do films and TV influence behaviour, and for good or for ill? The answer is still hotly debated, so one film-maker decided to make a documentary about it" (Baran, 2015)