The eighty-first TV show: #435 Twin Peaks
Man, that was a ride. We watched the full original run of the series (minus the movie) and it was an amazing treat. The world of Twin Peaks feels so realised, it's easy to slip in, which allows for a heightened mystery - it's a soap opera with a mystic crime story mixed in. It's fascinating and, ignoring the less interesting second half of the second season, has many things to hold your attention. What's going on, how will it resolve, but also, what weird thing does it come up with next? And the season finales steadfastly refuse to tie up plotlines, to the point where we got the big reveal partway through the second season, to help with the outrage.
I hate to call this Lynchian. While elements of his work are present and have a noticeable influence, a lot of other notable elements come from Mark Frost (the soap-within-a-soap being one of the meta elements that is such) and people imitating Lynch's style - and in the best cases putting their spin on it. Kyle MacLachlan, playing Dale Cooper, the protagonist of the series, is impeccable, creating a fully formed, quirky character that help in a strange world that wants to stay grounded.
And then there are the red curtain rooms and mystical happening, but I feel that also just needs to be experienced, really. Go do that instead.