Article: THE SEASON'S REAL PEAK WHILE 'TWIN PEAKS' HAS SLIPPED INTO PARODY, 'SHANNON'S DEAL' KEEPS DELIVERING THE GOODS

"Twin Peaks" is not the best new series of the year. It isn't the best written of the season; it doesn't have the best characters or the best acting; it isn't the most emotionally involving; it doesn't have the best music; it doesn't take the most risks. "Twin Peaks" is not even the best series of the year in which Miguel Ferrer (Albert, the FBI agent) plays an unctuous government official.

The winner in all those categories, hands down, is "Shannon's Deal," which has a special episode at 10 tonight on Channel 4. "Shannon's Deal" is the other second-season series created by a non-mainstream director, but while David Lynch has allowed "Twin Peaks" to turn into a parody of itself, John ...

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