Stephen Harber Sep 16, 2019
The truth is out there, and two kids in the small midwestern town of Eerie, Indiana found it long before Mulder and Scully did.
It was The X-Files before The X-Files.
Well, sort of. When Twin Peaks suddenly vanished at the end of its controversial second and final season in 1991, it left in its wake a void shaped like a weird small town full of mysteries, and Northern Exposure wasn’t filling it. Someone had to step in and claim the mantle that Agent Cooper and the quirky townspeople had left somewhere at ABC.
Later that fall, someone did. Rival network NBC premiered a show about another tiny, unassuming town with a high population of gigantic and bizarre mysteries: Eerie, Indiana, the center of weirdness for the entire planet.
Unlike Twin Peaks, this was a squeaky-clean family show starring underage middle schoolers who definitely would not be...
The truth is out there, and two kids in the small midwestern town of Eerie, Indiana found it long before Mulder and Scully did.
It was The X-Files before The X-Files.
Well, sort of. When Twin Peaks suddenly vanished at the end of its controversial second and final season in 1991, it left in its wake a void shaped like a weird small town full of mysteries, and Northern Exposure wasn’t filling it. Someone had to step in and claim the mantle that Agent Cooper and the quirky townspeople had left somewhere at ABC.
Later that fall, someone did. Rival network NBC premiered a show about another tiny, unassuming town with a high population of gigantic and bizarre mysteries: Eerie, Indiana, the center of weirdness for the entire planet.
Unlike Twin Peaks, this was a squeaky-clean family show starring underage middle schoolers who definitely would not be...
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