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Article: The Parallel Reality of `Wild Palms' // ABC's Event Series Picks Up Where `Twin Peaks' Left Off
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 9, 1993
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Three years ago, filmmaker David Lynch fascinated and befuddled
millions of television viewers with the surreal premiere of "Twin
Peaks."
Although the two-hour debut episode generated high Nielsen
ratings and public interest, the weird weekly program quickly began
to lose large portions of its audience as the murder-mystery plot
turned into a maze of obtuse digressions. Lynch seemed to lose
interest, ABC lost its patience, and the series died with a sigh in
June, 1991.
The quirky genre survived, however, spawning the CBS dramas
"Northern Exposure" and "Picket Fences."
Now there's "Wild Palms," ABC's four-part, six-hour "event"
series, beginning at 8 p.m. May 16 on WLS-Channel 7. This ...