The Cult Following: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks Inspired All Of These TV Shows

True Detective Did Their Homework Thanks To Peaks

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The incredible first season of HBO’s crime anthology borrowed plenty of Peaks’ atmosphere, especially once Rust Vohle and Martin Hart uncover an increasingly bizarre underworld of a small-town corruption involving “Yellow King.”

“Time is a flat circle,” muttered by Matthew McConaughey’s wrung-out investigator sounds something that Agent Cooper would mutter to himself at the Double R Diner.