Forget ‘Widow’s Bay,’ TV’s Most Influential 2-Season Mystery Thriller Is Streaming Free

Apple TV’s new darling, Widow’s Bay, follows a cursed New England island-town, full of kooky characters and supernatural mysteries. The show cleaned up at the 2026 Emmys, winning a whopping 14 awards. Widow’s Bay is original in its execution and details, but it couldn’t exist without TV’s most influential mystery thriller of all time, Twin Peaks. Created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, Twin Peaks first aired over 30 years ago in 1990. Today, it’s streaming on PlutoTV, free with ads. The show follows FBI Agent Dale Cooper, played by Kyle MacLachlan, in his investigation into the death of Laura Palmer, a high-school girl from the small Pacific Northwest town of Twin Peaks. It’s a simple premise, but the quirky side-characters and expansive exploration of the central events drives Cooper directly into the mysteries of life, death, cruelty, and love.