The Little That Remains... The Death (and Resurrection?) of Twin Peaks and Sherlock Holmes
This article contains spoilers for both the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and the television show Twin Peaks, up through and including the end of both of these series. Read on at your own peril… "Is it future or is it past?" --- The Man From Another Place, Twin Peaks “A few words may suffice to tell the little that remains.” --- John Watson, The Final Problem BRIAN: There is nobody alive today who knows what it was like to read Doyle’s “The Final Problem” when it was first published. According to all accounts, the shockwaves that this story sent throughout that era’s pop culture were devastating. Holmes was dead! Sherlock Holmes --- the Great Detective, champion of the oppressed, the one person who could always be counted on to solve the crime and bring justice to the wronged, be they privileged or poor. His stories had regaled the readers of The Strand magazine for years; had become a very part of those ...