TS TV: A Twin Peaks Podcast

Oh boy! It’s been 25 years! Twin Peaks is back! I can’t WAIT to find out what is going on with my favorite boy Dale Cooper! Oh boy he’s on screen talking to the giant! Oh, but – what’s that? He is “far away”? Oh! Okay! See you!
Anyway! A guy called Sam is being paid to watch a mysterious glass box, and thinks it’s probably fine if him and his girlfriend Tracey have sex on the job – OH NO NO IT’S NOT THEY’RE GETTING KILLED BY A GHASTLY FIGURE! EEK!
Oh my god it’s EVIL DALE COOPER, or as people seem to call him, Mr. C! What dastardly plans has HE been getting up to?? We don’t know yet. He drives a car epic style, administers violence, and picks up two henchpeople.
Anyway! A lady called Ruth Davenport is found dead in Buckhorn, South Dakota. Or rather, her head is found, laid on top of a Mysterious Unknown Body. Fingerprints of the local principal, Bill Hastings, played by the illustrious Matthew Lillard, are found all over the apartment, so Bill is brought in for questioning and seems really scared and confused about it all.
Now you might be asking : hey what about “Twin Peaks”? Well have no fear: Dr Jacoby gets a bunch of shovels! Jerry Horne has a Legal Weed business and is like come on Ben Horne you’re fuckin your secretary right??? And Ben is like No, I Respect Women Now. Lucy tells an insurance guy there are TWO Sheriff Trumans! Also she has a kid with Andy! And Hawk gets a Mysterious Log Message from the log lady that just might kick off another round of Supernatural Investigation !!!!!!
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Things mentioned:
The Rise of the Golden Idol
Perfect Tides: Station to Station
The Psychic Burden of Being Watched
Aimé Césaire – Discourse on Colonialism (the imperial boomerang)
Jacob Geller’s male living spaces video (Nebula only)
David Lynch on Product Placement
Jesse Pinkman playing RAGE in Breaking Bad
How Takeout Culture Has Changed Twin Peaks’ Relationship to Coffee (very minor spoilers for The Return part 5)
DePiglio
“The Western Carpet Bit” – I fully forget if this is something I ever mentioned on recording genuinely please comment on the Patreon post if this means anything to you lmao
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And now…. the thrilling conclusion!
Laura puts the ominous painting up, and it gives her a Black Lodge Dream. We learn the following:
the little man is The Arm, and he sounds like this
he and the Tremonds/Chalfonts want her to take that green ring, but Dale says NOT to.
dead Annie appears in her bed and tells her: “I've been with Dale and Laura. the good Dale is in the lodge and he can't leave. write it in your diary.”
It's terrifying!
The next evening, Laura is going out tricking/partying with Jacques Renault, and Donna insists on coming with. (also on the way the log lady gives her a heartbreaking log lady intro prophecy.) Laura is like fine Donna come if you want, you can't handle this, fuck you, but then when seeing Donna get date raped, freaks out and takes her home. there's a lot more to the scene but we'll get to it.
Leland picks Laura up from Donna's, and while they're driving, MIKE shows up and screams at Leland about creamed corn and “the thread will be torn”. Leland remembers killing Teresa banks after setting up a threesome with her and then realizing it was with Laura.
That night, Laura goes to buy cocaine with Bobby, which turns out to be from the shitty deer meadow deputy which I only realized now on like my 4th viewing, and Bobby kills him.

Now things get really grim. Leland/BOB drugs Sarah and assaults Laura, during which she finally sees that BOB is truly Leland. the angel in Laura's painting disappears. Laura sobs all day in school and no one cares. and then it's the beginning of the end we know: she meets with James, tells him his Laura went away, that he doesn't know her, that she loves him, then runs off to meet with ronette, Leo, and Jacques. Leo and Jacques rape ronnette and Laura, then Leland shows up, knocks out Jacques, and Leo flees.
Leland takes the girls to the train car, followed by MIKE. Bob tells Laura he wants to possess her. Ronette is saved by a guardian angel. MIKE tosses The Ring into the train car, then leaves. Laura puts the ring on, which seems to either force BOB to kill her or prevent him from possessing her. either way, he kills her.
After dumping her body, wrapped in plastic, BOB goes to the black lodge via Glastonbury Grove. MIKE and the arm demand all their “garmonbozia (pain and sorrow)”, which BOB manifests as blood from a hovering puppet Leland, which seems to turn into creamed corn. Laura's body is found and a monkey whispers “Judy”.
In a final scene that makes me cry every time, Laura is now in the Lodge with Dale, sobbing, and then her angel appears. crying, smiling, laughing, and crying some more, she finds a glimpse of sublime beauty in the heart of unimaginable suffering.

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Things mentioned:
Fred and Ginger Astaire
The Sopranos
Sadie’s “Laura Palmer x Himemiya Anthy Toxic Yuri” sonnet
The National Turkey Federation for some fucking reason
The Great Went Phish.net Page
doesthedogdie fwwm bisexual cheating
Wild at Heat (1990)
Karl Jung
The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia (2019)
“women’s suffering is transcendental” meme
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Hi everyone! Time to cry watching the best movie ever made!
So first things first, we spend the first half hour following FBI agent CHET DESMOND as he investigates the Teresa Banks in Deer Meadow murder a year before Laura Palmer dies. He gets intro’d to the case by Gordon Cole via Dancing Clue Girl, and then the case swiftly goes nowhere as he is rebuffed by every resident of Deer Meadow, which seems to be like an anti-Twin Peaks. Then, when reaching for Teresa's special green ring under a trailer, he disappears!!!
Around the same time, at the FBI field office in Philadelphia, Dale Cooper is looking at himself in the security camera because of an unsettling dream he had, when suddenly, “the long lost Phillip Jeffries” appears, played by David Bowie. He says:
I'm not gonna talk about Judy.
Now who do you think that is there?! (pointing to dale)
I've been to one of their meetings. It was above a convenience store.
We live inside a dream!
and then disappears – or was never there? The scene is overlaid with a nightmarish sequence of “Lodge Entities”, seemingly above said convenience store, where the following things happen:
Ms Tremond and her grandson are there. the grandson says “fell a victim” pointing at BOB.
The Arm says “this is a formica table. green is its color” and “with this ring i thee wed”
A guy in a weird mask jumps and says “electricity”
Afterwards, Dale goes to the trailer park where “let's rock!” has been written on Desmond's car. He tells Albert that he's sure the killer will strike again, but knows not where or when.

Heartbreaking smash cut to: TWIN PEAKS, ONE YEAR LATER. The intro song plays as Laura walks to school with Donna, does cocaine, and meets Bobby and James. She gives a heartbreaking speech to Donna about falling in space forever and the angels are all gone. She then finds pages ripped out from her secret diary, freaks out and gives the rest to Harold, who doesn't believe her about BOB and all that. She says BOB wants to be her and she has a flash of a scary possessed makeup face.
While Laura is preparing to do meals on wheels, Ms Tremond (or Chalfont) and her grandson give her an ominous painting and a message that “the man behind the mask” is looking for her secret diary. She runs home in a panic, finds BOB in her room who snarls at her, then runs out in a panic. When she sees Leland emerge from the house, she realizes he might be BOB.
That evening, Leland seems to punish Laura for this by tormenting her at dinner about being filthy and having to wash her hands.

PART TWO of our Fire Walk With Me coverage will be out NEXT WEEK!

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Things mentioned:
Columbo
Face/Off (1997)
Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Decision to Leave (2022)
The Montreal Expos and their famous mascot “Youpi!”
this superposition wave gif
Various Doomed Romances (Revenge of the Sith, Berserk, Romeo and Juliet)
Revolutionary Girl Utena
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WE MADE IT GANG!! And our reward: one of the best episodes of television ever aired. Half its runtime is a nightmare sequence of Dale Cooper walking in and out of 2 identical rooms witnessing a carousel of visions ranging from unsettling to profoundly horrifying. And it's all held together by a profound return of sauce that the show has been missing and an insistence on bringing tragedy and horror back to Twin Peaks.
Let's get the B plots out of the way first. Nadine’s head bonk did bring her memories back, but she's forgotten all about Mike the snake, in a scene that is shocking for how much it's played for straight-faced, tragic pathos. Likewise, Donna's “is Ben my dad” plotline’s only resolution is Doc Hayward punching out Ben Horne, which is convincingly played as upsetting and horrific. Audrey chains herself to the Twin Peaks Bank to protest Ghostwood, which also happens to be where there's a safety deposit box that Andrew Packard realizes the key from the ingot opens up. Inside that safety deposit box: a bomb! Which kills? Everyone? And a replay of the pilot's intro scene to the diner is interrupted when Sarah Palmer returns to deliver a spirit message to Garland Briggs: “I'm in the Black Lodge with Dale Cooper. I'm waiting for you.”
Speaking of, Dale follows Windom and Annie into the Black Lodge, which turns out to be the red room from his dream way back in episode 2. He sees the Man From Another Place, the little man from his dream, dance to a soulful jazz song. He sees Laura Palmer, who tells him she'll see him again in 25 years. He sees the old waiter and/as the giant, who brings him coffee, which the Man From Another Place seems to freeze solid then transform into burnt oil. He sees Maddy, who says to watch out for her cousin. He sees a version of the Man From Another Place with cataract-white eyes who says “doppelganger” threateningly. He sees a similarly cataracted doppelganger Laura who does the worst scream in the world. He runs away and realizes he's bleeding. He sees his dead body next to Annie's. He sees Annie, except she's Caroline, except she’s Annie, except she's evil Laura, except she's Windom Earle. Windom says he'll let Annie live in exchange for Dale's soul. Dale immediately agrees. BOB appears and kills Windom Earle. Dale runs away as an Evil Dale doppelganger emerges. Dale sees a Leland Palmer doppelganger who says “I did not kill anybody”. Dale runs and runs and runs from his doppelganger but gets caught. BOB’s face laughs horribly.
A full day later, Harry sees Dale and Annie having reemerged from the Black Lodge, both passed out. The next morning, “Dale” “wakes up”, and says he needs to brush his teeth. In the bathroom, he slams his head into the mirror, revealing BOB in his reflection, and repeats “How’s Annie? How’s Annie? How’s Annie?”, heralding the return of evil in the form of Dale Cooper.
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Things mentioned:
Tampopo (film)
EXPOSURES Montreal
Emile Is Missing (short film)
Leaving the Party (podcast)
Photos taken by Richard Beymer during the filming of this episode
Strange Fruit (Billie Holiday’s rendition)
Songs: Ohia - Crab Orchard
Twin Perfect’s Twin Peaks video essay (Lily still can’t watch... no fair)
P.T. (game)
Little Shop of Horrors (film)
Shoplifters (film)
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Leo frees Garland Briggs from the clutches of Windom Earle so that he can “save Shelly”. As a punishment, Windom puts Leo in “the spider contraption”. Garland wanders his way to giving Dale some cryptic clues. Dale, who by the way had sex, finally goes oh my god I need to go to the Miss Twin Peaks pageant, having seemingly really just entirely ignored the more obvious clue the Giant gave him last episode. And what do you know, Annie wins the pageant and is immediately kidnapped by Windom Earle, in a sequence where the show gives us its best and its worst, serving really cool strobe light effects and really bad transmisogyny.
Speaking of the pageant, most of our B-plots happen there too: Donna confronts Ben and he doesn't say he's her dad, but she does, so make of that what you will. Lucy chooses Andy as her baby daddy, but he's gotta find Dale to tell him his Petroglyph Discovery. Audrey is strong-armed by Beninto giving a Tree Speech, and Lana does a Racist Dance.
As for non-pageant B-plots: Andrew finally shoots open the final ingot puzzle box, revealing…a key!!!! Nadine gives an epic Powerpoint about how good she is at wrestling, but is jealous about Ed and Norma getting married.
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Things mentioned:
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Dark Souls
Étienne-Jules Marey
Géraldine Tobe
Twin Peaks (restaurant chain)
I Think You Should Leave: "Baby Cries" sketch
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Rear Window
Davidsocial.com

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