When it comes to neo-noir crime dramas, the arrival of Twin Peaks at the start of the 1990s completely changed the game. The show created by David Lynch and Mark Frost employed the themes and tropes of film noir in ways that hadn’t been seen before on the small screen.

In fact, nothing on TV since Twin Peaks has embodied the noir aesthetic so powerfully. Most of the best neo-noir shows have come in the past three decades, yet none of them capture the original spirit of film noir quite as well as their seminal forerunner.

It’s no surprise that a show co-written and co-directed by David Lynch should be so immersed in the traditions of noir cinema. Lynch was famously an avid fan of film noir, as his feature-length masterpieces Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive illustrate. Sever

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