Run! Hide! It’s the 13 most terrifying TV episodes to watch this Halloween
Piper Laurie: a life in pictures
April 2023
Name and shame
Kara Walker’s breakup was in a museum – so I went home and started writing my memoir
Emma Forrest
The point of reading a book, seeing an art show or listening to an album is to be absorbed – but this can also be bewildering and, at times, dangerous
January 2023
Deviant obsessions: how David Lynch predicted our fragmented times
His work is freaky and frightening, yet today the Twin Peaks director cuts an almost cosy figure. As he turns 77 – a number of significance – we explore how real life caught up with his dark visions
December 2022
Angelo Badalamenti obituary
Composer who created scores for the director David Lynch including his 1986 film Blue Velvet and the TV series Twin Peaks
Angelo Badalamenti was a master composer who created theme music history with Twin Peaks
Daniel Dylan Wray
The composer had an esteemed career working with David Bowie and Nina Simone, but it was his unique partnership with David Lynch that set a benchmark for dramatic scores
Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch’s composer on Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet and more, dies aged 85
Musician collaborated with Lynch on multiple projects and albums, and also worked with the likes of Paul McCartney, David Bowie and Nina Simone
August 2022
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me at 30: David Lynch’s underrated masterwork
Critics were lukewarm upon release but the resulting decades have been kinder to the unsettling prequel that takes a look at the real Laura Palmer
July 2022
Veteran British actor David Warner, star of The Omen and Tron, dies aged 80
‘My voice lends itself to sadness – I carry a lot of grief’: Rebekah Del Rio, David Lynch’s musical muse
June 2022
Caleb Landry Jones: ‘Acting was the only place you were allowed to scream or cry’
Julee Cruise obituary
August 2021
‘A right good piss-up’: Kyle MacLachlan has a crack at Australian accent from Sydney quarantine
Twin Peaks star, who is in Australia to film Joe Exotic, employs local lingo during a monologue about life locked in a hotel
March 2021
Six hours, 25 minutes
'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now
Continuing our series on a year of bumper pandemic viewing, our critics finally watch the shows that had passed them by, from Downton to Twin Peaks
October 2020
Twin Peaks and Blacklist actor Clark Middleton dies at 63
The star of the hit TV shows and films including Sin City and Birdman died after contracting West Nile virus
May 2020
The joy of small things
From Friends to the Fresh Prince, a theme tune can be as immortal as the show itself
Opening music is the entrée to something delicious – sometimes I prefer it to the actual programme
April 2020
Twin Peaks at 30: some damn fine outfits but what do they mean?
Twin Peaks at 30: the weird and wonderful show that changed television
March 2020
This much I know
Kyle MacLachlan: ‘I don’t understand all of Twin Peaks’
The actor, 61, talks about Agent Cooper, working with David Lynch and how he got it wrong with Showgirls
December 2019
Does it matter if a television show tops the best-film lists?
Simran Hans
The lines between cinema and TV are becoming blurred, says film critic Simran Hans
