Truman ( Michael Ontkean), the town's trusty (though skeptical) Sheriff, as they investigate the murder, which Cooper believes may be linked to an unknown serial killer he has been tracking for years. Eccentric FBI agent Dale Cooper ( Kyle MacLachlan) is called to the town after Laura Palmer ( Sheryl Lee) - a high school senior and homecoming queen - is discovered dead and wrapped in plastic.Ĭooper teams up with Harry S. The story takes place in Twin Peaks, Washington, a sleepy rural slice of Americana where everyone seems to know everyone. Basically, it had a little bit of everything. The series eventually revealed itself to be an Occult Detective story with very surreal elements that smacked of off-kilter Magic Realism.
Starting out as a hybrid Crime Time Soap/ Detective Drama, premiering on Apas a Midseason Replacement on ABC, it quickly took off for parts unknown with a pervasive supernatural element. Twin Peaks is a Genre-Busting television series created by David Lynch and Mark Frost.