Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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George Wendt describes his stage role -- as an alcoholic commodities trader who has gambled away his marriage, career and net worth -- as "Norm's evil twin." There isn't even that much difference between Wendt's characters. The guys gathered to roast in the tribal sweat lodge and discover the "wild men" within are losers, not predators, full of thwarted yearning and silly sweetness. One moment rises to real wit: a dream sequence in which a neglected son of a rich man summons his father, only to find the old man is as usual too busy and has sent...
...thought Twin Peaks was weird? Get ready for Wild Palms...
...minutes, and a lot of them might be zapping off to Married . . . with Children. But those who fall for Wild Palms could fall hard: what we have here may be TV's next cult hit. Or at the very least, the most spellbinding mini-series to come along since Twin Peaks...
...comparison to David Lynch's skewed soap opera is impossible to avoid, so best to get it out of the way quickly. Wild Palms would not exist if Twin Peaks hadn't paved the way. But Wild Palms is a total original -- just as daring as and perhaps even more demanding than Lynch's series. Twin Peaks, for all its weirdness, was at bottom a simple murder mystery: Who killed Laura Palmer? Wild Palms is denser and more disorienting, a paranoid dream play that bombards us with freaky characters and mystifying plot twists, tying them together only hours later...
Another part of the gamble is scheduling Wild Palms to air in the middle of the high-pressure May sweeps. The network is hoping that the series, like Twin Peaks, will be unusual enough to attract an audience that rarely watches network TV, but not too weird to turn off the Home Improvement crowd. Whatever happens, ABC programmers claim they have learned one lesson from their last experiment in prime-time surrealism: unlike Twin Peaks, Wild Palms will not drag on indefinitely. The mini-series has a fixed ending (unfortunately, a rather lame one), and there are no plans...