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Rediscover The OA, a TV show with echoes of late director David Lynch

The death of David Lynch, who shaped decades of film and TV, is bound to hurt. Rediscovering a show called The OA helps, with its Twin Peaks-style echoes of small-town US and other Lynchian themes, says Bethan Ackerley

By Bethan Ackerley

5 March 2025

THE OA Brit Marling Season 1 Episode 6

Prairie Johnson (Brit Marling) returns home with secrets to tell

JoJo Whilden/Netflix


Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij
Netflix

Like many film fans, I was heartbroken by the recent death of David Lynch. A trailblazing director and painter, he was perhaps the most influential visual artist of the past 50 years, responsible for haunting works of film and TV like Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway and, of course, Twin Peaks. “Visionary” seems too small a word to describe him.

While reading tributes to Lynch, I stumbled across a list of TV shows influenced by his work. One of those…

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