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Only! Long before the series' April premiere, ecstatic critics were priming TV viewers to expect the unexpected. Lynch's two-hour pilot didn't disappoint. It was frantic and lugubrious in turn, a soap opera with strychnine. In one night, the show had hip America hooked. Twin Peaks stoked a media frenzy unseen since the Dallas heyday. But this time the director, not the star, was the prime beneficiary. David Lynch...
...would seem a bizarre monologue almost anywhere else, but not in the Soviet Union. Though comrades have stood in line ever since strains of the Internationale first wafted over Red Square, the queues are longer and crankier these days, thanks to chronic shortages. Biding one's time to buy soap or bread has become the form of public life most readily available to the masses. Soviets spend so much time waiting that the lines have generated a culture all their own: part rumor mill, information exchange, social club and town meeting...
Like the wind that whistled through the Douglas firs in the town of Twin Peaks, a fresh breeze seemed to be blowing across the TV landscape last spring. The success of David Lynch's wild-at-heart soap opera forced network executives to make a fast reassessment. Twin Peaks defied some of TV's most basic dramatic rules -- it was too murky, too slow moving, too coy about solving its mystery -- yet it attracted a fanatically devoted audience. Viewers, it seemed, were a lot more willing to sample unusual, challenging fare than anyone had expected. Just...
...Family and Mission: Impossible. The most audacious hits of the past few seasons -- thirtysomething, The Wonder Years, The Simpsons -- did not invent new genres, but at least they invested them with a distinctive style or voice. Even Twin Peaks did not depart radically from the conventions of TV soap operas: what the audience responded to was Lynch's idiosyncratic take on the format...
Mull is a financial wizard. "I buy this for one year," she says, cradling a half-gallon jug of Palmolive liquid soap. She ducks back into the kitchen and brings out a half-gallon jug of molasses. "This is for six months. You make pancakes with it. I buy everything big." Her monthly budget is tightly knotted around fixed costs: $400 goes for rent, not including gas and electric bills; Lorena's school, Immaculate Conception, is $80 a month; $15 goes to Mervyn's department store for clothes bought earlier; food takes $40 a week; Mull's bus pass...