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Why did it take me almost two decades to get around to this show? A friend has been bugging me for years to give it a try, and now I have his Definitive Gold Box Edition DVD set on my coffee table, I can't get enough. David Lynch's vision of small town America is almost dreamlike, and the characters are so vivid, complex and memorable that you can overlook some of the more soap opera-style aspects of the plot. Dale Cooper is an absolute legend, and I got such a crush on Maddy Ferguson it wasn't funny. Most other crime shows treat murders like a scoreboard, ratcheting up the body count as ratings dip and interest start to flag. The investigation into Laura Palmer's death is the exact opposite. From the opening scenes of the pilot, you get a sense that her dying has ripped the heart out of the whole town and everyone from the local sheriff's department to the FBI wants to find out as much as they can about who she was and why and how she died. I haven't made it through the whole series yet (no spoilers please!) and can already feel the withdrawal symptoms lurking outside my door. I've been promised a copy of Fire Walk With Me in the not too distant future, but doesn't that end on a cliffhanger too?

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"So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold."

(Clive Barker: Sacrament)