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...outline, ABC's heralded new series Twin Peaks sounds like an amalgam of familiar TV genres. A touch of true-crime docudrama, a dash of Columbo, a jot of Knots Landing. But in the darkly idiosyncratic world of director David Lynch, terms like murder mystery and soap opera don't begin to tell the tale. Twin Peaks, which debuts Sunday as a two-hour movie, is like nothing you've seen in prime time -- or on God's earth. It may be the most hauntingly original work ever done for American...
...surpassing strangeness of Twin Peaks is not easy to pinpoint. Despite a few grisly touches, the show has little to offend in terms of sex or violence. Its distinctiveness is almost purely a matter of style. The pace is slow and hypnotic, the atmosphere suffused with creepy foreboding, the emotions eerily heightened. The news of Laura Palmer's murder inspires spasms of grief in everyone from the girl's mother to the crew-cut school principal, who bursts into tears after announcing her death over the p.a. system. In other hands, this might be melodramatic; in Lynch...
...Twin Peaks spins out a whodunit that may or may not be solved by the end of the show's seven-week run. (For a European video version of the pilot, Lynch shot an alternate ending that seems to solve the crime. In it, the actors walk and speak their lines backward, and the film is reversed.) But the two-hour movie, which spans the 24-hour period after discovery of the body, stands superbly on its own. More than a dozen characters are introduced -- all of them connected, each dwelling in a private world -- from the widowed owner...
...Whether Twin Peaks will work as a continuing series remains to be seen. The second episode (co-written by Lynch but directed by Duwayne Dunham) shifts into more conventional gear as the murder investigation begins to unfold. At worst, Twin Peaks could turn into an aesthete's version of "Who Shot J.R. ?" At best, it will be mesmerizing...
Lynch and his partner, former Hill Street Blues writer Mark Frost, developed Twin Peaks by drawing a map of the fictional town. "We knew where everything was, and it helped us decide what mood each place had, and what could happen there," says Lynch. "Then the characters just introduced themselves to us and walked into the story." The pilot was written in only nine days and shot in 23. Lynch was apprehensive about the restrictions of TV but found the experience satisfying. "I didn't feel we compromised, and I felt good...