Article: Troubling, Transcendent `Twin Peaks'; On ABC, David Lynch's Existential Pulp

This Mayberry, this Peyton Place, this Lumberton, this Grover's Corners, this Morgan Creek, this Never Land, this Eden. This Twin Peaks. Will it be all things to all people? Certainly not. But for the adventurous explorer in the normally tame wilds of television, "Twin Peaks" is just this side of a godsend.

How to describe it-ABC's new limited-run prime-time serialized drama? In the second episode of "Twin Peaks," airing Thursday, a teenage girl named Donna says to her mother, "It's like I'm having the most beautiful dream and the most terrible nightmare all at once." Exactly.

Tonight, at 9 on Channel 7, ABC finally unveils the two-hour "Twin Peaks" premiere, which opens with a montage ...

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