BorednButter

At its core, Twin Peaks is an enticing idea in a unique setting. Devoted to showing what the effects of a death of a lovable girl in a small town are, in all their devastating glory. Not only does this episode set up a setting, characters, tone, and story, but it regards the cycle of mourning with as much heart as could be mustered. The show gives a damn about music, sound, writing, costumes, and plenty of cinematography alternating being either avant-garde or beautifully traditional.

One of the best staple horrors. The opening scene is one of the greatest in film, rife with references and trope subversion, all built up into making this horror have the intelligence of the most vindictive thrillers. This pattern generally continues for the rest of the movie.

A movie laced with some fantastic scenes and striking, if not a little corny, visuals.

You learn every character's motivations, mindset, and relatability in each scene, either directly or through the use of music and cinematography, with many especially creative, purposeful scenes to emphasize all the character building. Each character starts being built upon a very deliberate character arc, with very deliberate character flaws, which leads to them being well-developed characters. Everyone becomes distinctly deplorable AND innocent, and it's that dichotomy that makes this show so damn great.

The episode where everything good happens for most of the characters for once, but is dangerously good. Definitely should've been awarded for striking cinematography and music choice.