Article: `Twin Peaks' flops toward overdue death

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. ...

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