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Article: How will we remember the Nineties? No.1: Twin Peaks
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- February 21, 1999
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EVERY decade gets the T-shirt it deserves. For the Eighties it
was the one which asked: "Who Shot JR?". Ten years on, with the
Nineties just beginning and Dallas staggering into its final season,
American TV threw up another conundrum and another T-shirt, this
time
a darker one for an age in which child abuse, satanism, drugs and
pornography were to loom large in the public consciousness. That
question was: Who Killed Laura Palmer?
Twin Peaks premiered in the US in April, 1990, and, as its first,
ground-breaking series drew to a close, found itself drawing