[Cowboy Bob]

Twin Peaks went off the rail halfway through its first season. The first few weeks were good, but then they ran out of ideas. No way this show could have gone on forever.

[cuban leaf]

Twin Peaks went off the rail halfway through its first season. The first few weeks were good, but then they ran out of ideas. No way this show could have gone on forever.

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Yep. I had TV at the time and even visited the town it’s based on. But it got weird(er).

[Calvin Locke]

I think half the problem with new shows is that the producers don't develop an outline beyond a half dozen epis or so, mostly because of the fickleness of suits (primarily at Fox...).

The other half is the constant tuning that *somebody* demands, and the je ne sais quoi that attracted viewers is lost.

Part of that may be that the pilot was written by a real, high-priced veteran writer, and then after the contract is signed, the third string writers are brought in.

[SevenofNine]

I agree that little guy with own language even David Chase inspirated to dream sequence with Tony Soprano on that

[BCW]

I figured it out before the end of the 1st season...then again, I was in college doing my internship under Professor Holmes @ UofL in Profiling Serial Murderers...