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"Geoff Stults has dismissed comparisons between his new show Happy Town and Twin Peaks. Stults, who stars as Tommy Conroy in the series, explained that Happy Town is more &amp;quot;grounded in reality&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;[Twin Peaks] was 20 years ago, so it was a little before my TV watching time,&amp;quot; he told Zap2It. &amp;quot;But it&amp;#039;s hard to compare. &amp;quot;I hate when people start using comparisons. I think some marketing exec was sitting around and was like, &amp;#039;Oh, this show is kinda dark, it reminds me of Twin Peaks&amp;#039;, only because it&amp;#039;s set in a small town and there&amp;#039;s a mystery to it.&amp;quot; He continued: &amp;quot;There are elements that are similar, but Happy Town is way more grounded in reality. There are mystical elements to the main arc of who is this &amp;#039;Magic Man&amp;#039; or Magic Person or whatever this entity is that has basically been abducting people in such a way that it&amp;#039;s unexplainable.  &amp;quot;But it&amp;#039;s not aliens, there&amp;#039;s no crop circles or s**t like that. All of the craziness that is being done is obviously being done by a human being.&amp;quot; Stults added that the show solves the mystery by the end of the season but explained that it could return for another run. &amp;quot;That was one of the promises we wanted to keep - we are revealing who the Magic Man is at the end of the eighth episode,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s one of those things where we didn&amp;#039;t want to keep dragging it out and dragging it out and then people are like, &amp;#039;Well, isn&amp;#039;t that going to end the show?&amp;#039;. Absolutely not. It&amp;#039;s such a fundamental shake-up that it turns the show in such an incredible different direction. There is plenty more story there.&amp;quot; Happy Town premieres tonight at 10/9c on ABC. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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