'Happy Town' is 'different from Peaks'

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 "grounded in reality".

"[Twin Peaks] was 20 years ago, so it was a little before my TV watching time," he told Zap2It. "But it's hard to compare.

"I hate when people start using comparisons. I think some marketing exec was sitting around and was like, 'Oh, this show is kinda dark, it reminds me of Twin Peaks', only because it's set in a small town and there's a mystery to it."

He continued: "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 'Magic Man' or Magic Person or whatever this entity is that has basically been abducting people in such a way that it's unexplainable.

"But it's not aliens, there'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."

Stults added that the show solves the mystery by the end of the season but explained that it could return for another run.

"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," he said. "It's one of those things where we didn't want to keep dragging it out and dragging it out and then people are like, 'Well, isn't that going to end the show?'. Absolutely not. It's such a fundamental shake-up that it turns the show in such an incredible different direction. There is plenty more story there."

Happy Town premieres tonight at 10/9c on ABC.