Twin Peaks or The X-Files

[Beaubier]

They’re both two very different shows, too different for me to feel that comfortable comparing them.

I love them both.

If I *had* to choose one, I’d go with Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks season 3 was some of the best television of the past decade, and its first season was so iconic and wonderful. Meanwhile, X-Files after Duchovny left was significantly weaker, and much worse once Scully was made a recurring. I liked the newest seasons for the one off episodes, but the mythology episodes stank.. especially hated what CC ended up doing with William and Scully in the finale. And I say that as someone who generally enjoyed the mythology arc, as convoluted as it became, through the earlier series.

[Starter Set]

I prefer X-files but i agree with Beaubier than it's kinda hard to make a fair comparaison between the two considering how different an experience they are.

[MyriVerse]

Twin Peaks suffers from just being too weird, plus it's pretty much a parody and not to be taken remotely seriously.

So... X-Files by a mile... except for the recent reboot episodes (they can all pretty much go to hell for that).

[C_Miller]

Easily Twin Peaks. I love the X-Files. It's one of my favorite shows of all time, but from a production standpoint, Twin Peaks is just so much more interesting. David Lynch just has a stronger creative vision than Chris Carter. As such, Twin Peaks is far more cohesive.

[Coal Tiger]

Twin Peaks by a thousand miles... and I love X-Files (mostly) but Twin Peaks is just straight up art.

[Flash Gordon]

Twin Peaks.

The first few seasons of the X-Files are great TV, but it doesn't compare to Lynch for me.

[matthew]

What is wrong with you people. :P The X-Files is The X-Files

[Ilan Preskovsky]

The X-Files, definitely, in terms of the original run. Not least because you can write off a good half of Twin Peaks' second and final season. In terms of revivals, though, Twin Peaks: The Return is to the new X-Files (save for the Darin Morgan episodes, of course) what the Big Lebowski is to Deuce Bigalow. I mean, I actually very much enjoyed the non-mythology episodes of the X-Files revival but Twin Peaks: The Return is a work of art that may just be David Lynch's masterpiece. And that's saying something.

[Frobisher]

Twin Peaks The Return episode 8 alone is better than the X-Files, and probably anything.

[Joker]

I like them both and don't find them comparable. Thankfully I don't have to chose, and this thread was started by spamming anyway.

[luprki]

I loved the X-Files.
I hated Peaks

[GOLGO 13]

Girls were much hotter on TP. Even the dead girl was hawter than Skully. That's all that was special about it.

[obatalla]

Peaks is way too weird to enjoy as you would an xfiles not comparable

[GOLGO 13]

Peaks is way too weird to enjoy as you would an xfiles not comparable

David Lynch has a unique & interesting mind. Others call him a madman. Either is fair.

[Panfoot]

I love both series but I would have to take Twin Peaks, I'd say it had higher highs then the X-Files and it's lows weren't as bad as some of the later day X-Files(both endings to the X-Files were pretty bad along with a good chunk of the original last season).