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TwoBillsDrive forum member has a question about a TV show...

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A while ago there was a 'sci fi' show that involved a small town that had 'troubles' (aka wierd happenings) . anyone remember the name of this show?

Obviously Eerie comes up as a suggestion,but the whole thread is basically a "what to watch next" for Eerie, Indiana fans.

NYTimes lists six types of shows influenced by Twin Peaks

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When ABC started airing “Twin Peaks” in the spring of 1990, television was on the cusp of a slowly unfolding revolution. The proliferation of new cable outlets and the widespread use of VCRs to “time-shift” programs meant TV writers and producers could experiment with different ways of telling stories, knowing that even their freakiest ideas had the potential to find an audience. Over time, the striking imagery, curious tone and narrative playfulness of “Twin Peaks” — so radical when the show debuted — became more common across the dial.

In the decades since, networks and cable channels have continued producing shows directly or indirectly influenced by “Twin Peaks.” Many of those series ran longer than “Twin Peaks” itself, perhaps because they effectively isolated its more mainstream elements and put them at the center. Just by trying out so much that felt new and inspired, the show’s creators, Mark Frost and David Lynch, inadvertently spawned an array of TV subgenres that have been called “Twin Peaks”-esque. Like the following:

Everyone Is Eccentric

A little over a month after “Twin Peaks” aired its Season 1 finale, CBS did a soft summer launch of its new drama “Northern Exposure,” which also took place out in the sticks — Alaska, to be exact — in a community populated by eccentrics with complicated back stories. Though the show wasn’t as dark or kinky, the similarities were so unmistakable that “Northern Exposure” actually parodied the look and tone of “Twin Peaks” in one of its first-season episodes as a way of acknowledging the elephant in the room.

When both shows became hits, the “quaint hamlet as a reflection of America at its weirdest” became even more common as a premise, for shows like “Picket Fences,” “Eerie, Indiana” — even “Gilmore Girls.” None of those series took much from “Twin Peaks” beyond their similar settings (although “Eerie” had a supernatural component, too).

Special Features with Stacey Shaw reviews Eerie, Indiana

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Back in the very early 90’s on weekend mornings, Channel 4 would show the quirky, crazy but always cool Eerie Indiana. It was designed for kids but watching it now there is just as much to keep you entertained as an adult, including a guest appearance from a very young Tobey Maguire and a regular cameo part by the great John Astin The story begins with the Teller family moving to the town of Eerie in Indiana. The family’s youngest child Marshall just wants to go home to New Jersey but is stuck in the most normal looking place in the world, the Stepford wives would call this place heaven. The houses are bright and perfect, the lawns are always mowed, the basketball team dribble balls down the street in perfect sync with one another, and Elvis lives on Marshall’s new paper route…wait what? Yes Elvis lives in Eerie, and he seems pretty happy there. What can you honestly expect when the town of Eerie is exactly the same size and shape as the Bermuda Triangle? There are many more oddities in Eerie just waiting to be discovered and investigated. The one problem is that nobody believes him – well, no-one except Simon, a ten-year old boy who believes in each and every oddity and helps Marshall with his investigations.

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Reddit thread on the weirdly prophetic Eerie, Indiana episode, Zombies in PJs

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Read it here:

Esquire.com: Twin Peaks May Be Returning, but the Teen Noir It Created Never Left

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Many, if not most, of the reviews of the new season of Twin Peaks—David Lynch's surreal, small-town soap-slash-fantasy Americana noir that transformed television 25 years ago and that improbably returns this month to Showtime—will reference Riverdale, the CW show where Archie, the red-headed doofus from Archie Comics, is hot.

Yes, critical conversation will compare this auteur-driven, surreal, monumental television series to a teen drama where Cole Sprouse of The Suite Life fame plays Jughead as a brooding art boy whose dad is a gang member played by Skeet Ulrich. This fact might embarrass the more cinephilic people in the Twin Peaks audience: Riverdale is many things, but one thing it is not is an auteur show, and it definitely is not cinematic.
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