Wild Palms is a American Televised series in 90 minutes an episode double and 5 45 minutes episodes, created by Oliver Stone and Bruce Wagner according to the Comic of this last and diffused between the May 16th and the June 11th 1993 on the network ABC. In France, the series was diffused in 1996 on Arte.

Synopsis

In 2007, with Los Angeles, a quiet lawyer, Harry Wyckoff, runs quiet days with his Grace wife and their two children. But it makes strange dreams, including/understanding a Rhinocéros and a Tatouage in form of palm tree.

One day, a friend, Paige Katz, requires of him to find his/her son who has disappeared for five years. But she works for Wild Palms , a tentacular company prosecuted by the cabinet of Wyckoff, and this last loses its work.

The owner of Paige, the senator Anton Kreutzer, founder of the synthiotic religion, which seeks to develop the Virtual reality, offers then a station at Chanel 3 to him.

But Harry observes strange incidents around him, which multiply in the general indifference…

Distribution

Data sheet

  • Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto

Episodes

See also: Episodes of Wild Palms

    1: A life without history ( Everything Must Go ) 90 minutes
    2: A strange world ( The Floating World )
    3: The Alarm clock of the wire ( Rising Sounds )
    4: Phantoms ( Hungry Ghosts )
    5: Hello! I must from go away ( Hello I Must Be Going )

Comments

One finds some similarities with Twin Peaks, so much so that many criticisms refer to Wild Palms by using the expression " Twin Palms".

The series establishes parallels with the myth of Oedipus. Two characters have the torn off eyes and another keep silent his/her father and flees with the woman of this last.

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