Subject: Re: Twin Peaks vs. Northern Exposure; L
From: porges@inmet.inmet.com
Date: 1991-06-10, 14:38
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

> >/* Written  6:43 pm  Jun  9, 1991 by rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu in alt.tv.twin-peaks */
> >In article <1991Jun9.203806.24781@ccu.umanitoba.ca> platt@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dave Platt) writes:
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>> >>What bothers me about shows like NE is that they borrow the superficial 
>> >>aspects of shows like TP and add little of their own. 

> >Horseshit.  If NE is indeed derivative (and I suppose it is, to some
> >extent), it's St. Elsewhere that it owes a lot of its style to, and
> >the other character-driven comedy-dramas of the 80s.  NE has
> >acknowledged TP, but that doesn't mean that they built their show
> >around the TP approach.
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    I'd call NE "FRANK'S PLACE with white people."
-- Don Porges
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