Everyone seems to agree that the Lynchboro arc owes a lot to Twin Peaks, yet according to IMDB this arc premiered a few months before the pilot episode of David Lynch's hit series which seems strange. I can't believe the name of the town is a coincidence.
Whay do you people think?
Twin Peaks did used a lot of themes that were in David Lynch's earlier works. Most notably Blue Velvet.
shareNice to see that there's continuing interest in this superior show.
While Wiseguy was being shot, and maybe written, in Vancouver BC, the Vancouver Film Festival screened a movie version of Twin Peaks. I attended the festival that year, but didn't see that film because of an (obviously mistaken, in retrospect) impression that it was some sort of soap opera movie about the Twin Peaks neighbourhood of San Francisco. I believe that the version shown at the Film Festival was the one known as "the International Pilot" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks_media_releases#International_p ilot).
Although I've had a hard time confirming exact dates, I do know that the Twin Peaks movie showed at the Film Festival at least several months, and maybe more, before Wiseguy's Lynchboro arc. It's easy to imagine that the Wiseguy writers saw Twin Peaks at the Film Festival (or some other one) and decided to tip their collective hats to Lynch's, er, unique vision. After some of the preliminary stuff (like the crying deputy sheriff, for instance), the Lynchboro plot certainly went off in its own direction.