The short pop-culture essay book pioneered by the 33 1/3 series has slowly become and industry unto itself, with lots of small publishers getting into the game with various media bing covered. It's a great, fun idea, and open to lots of different approaches: a book can be a semiotic deconstruction or an oral history, or use the original work as inspiration for a novella. Unfortunately, a lot of them fall into a very particular trap: writing for a mass audience who perhaps has never experienced the work being discussed, and spending way too long trying to describe it. This book is like that. It's not a history of the show, it doesn't delve too deeply into the themes, or the impact of the show. After finishing it, actually, I'm struggling to even come up with what it DOES do. It reads almost like a 100-page Wikipedia entry on Twin Peaks, which I guess would be fine for Twin Peaks neophytes, but why on Earth would they read this book in the first place? ( )