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Article: `Twin Peaks' flops toward overdue death
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 26, 1991
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Y Y ou know it, I know it. I'll bet even Bob knows it.
"Twin Peaks" peaked months ago.
Ever since we learned who killed Laura Palmer, the series has
been twisting and flopping like a doomed fish on deck. Now ABC has
dumped it into "hiatus," which is the television equivalent of
purgatory. Although six new episodes remain, the network will say
only that they will air sometime this season.
That means the last episode's contrived transformation of Josie
Packard into a drawer knob could be our final image from what started
as the freshest, funniest, scariest show on television.
But the long, slow death of "Twin Peaks" really began last fall,
when ABC moved the series to Saturday night. ...