Subject: Re: Twin Peaks vs. Northern Exposure; Lynch works; TP on HBO or Showtime?
From: marks@skat.usc.edu (Louise Marks)
Date: 1991-06-10, 08:45
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies,alt.tv.twin-peaks

platt@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dave Platt) writes:


> >Northern Exposure? A possible TP substitute? Dream on. Although they 

Not a substitute, but a damn fine show in its own right.

> >bothered. I haven't seen much of NE, but it seems like the audience
is asked 

You haven't seen enough.  Give it a chance.


> >I'd like to think that (Andy Brennan and Nadine notwithstanding) TP never 
> >tries (tried?) to made fun of the residents of the town. Even in the comic 
> >parts (with a few lapses, like the Pine-Weasel riot scene), the humour 
> >comes  out of a sense of the weirdness of it all, not a sense of 
> >malice. So count me out as one of the TP fans who will "jump ship" to NE.

No malice in NE that I've noticed.  The show is about a clash of
"world views" for lack of a better term.  Cicely's population includes
two main elements: a native population which has successfully combined
certain aspects of "mainstream" culture with their own; and some
non-native "eccentrics" or "free spirits" who have been drawn to and
thrive in the tolerant atmosphere.

Place a New York Jewish YUPPIE doctor in this environment
involuntarily, and offbeat humor results.  No malice here.


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