Blog Archive » Britain’s Next Top Model Cycle 5 – Episode # 1. The blog of Dr. John. H. Watson. Asian Drama Torrents. In Pictures: TV's Biggest Losers - Past Life - Forbes.com. Twin Peaks: How Laura Palmer's death marked the rebirth of TV drama | Feature | Television & radio | The Observer. It's hard to recall now the excitement generated by David Lynch's Twin Peaks when it first aired on British television back in 1990. But it managed to make staying in seem urgent and exhilarating. There were Twin Peaks evenings, at which fans gathered in each other's houses to watch this revolutionary entertainment, a sort of surreal soap-cum-murder-mystery. Offices practically had to install water-coolers just so their staff could stand around them and speculate on who killed Laura Palmer. It was one of those moments when American popular culture reminded us just how cool it could be.
It also marked a decisive turning point in US television drama. Before Twin Peaks there was plenty of well-made American TV, though it was mostly generic and limited in ambition. But Lynch, a cinema auteur, tore up conventions and almost single-handedly reinvented TV drama. The audience was not just hooked but enthralled, beguiled and bewildered. Suddenly television was full of possibilities. Sheryl Lee.