The Night Vale recap is very quick this week, partly because it’s a very cerebral episode about life and identity and carving forgotten languages into insanely tall monoliths, but mostly because Elizabeth finally watched all of 2017’s Twin Peaks: the Return AND HAS SOME QUESTIONS.

SPOILERS AHOY. Listen in as we go over our favorite and least favorite moments (seriously, what the absolute hell, Lynch?) of this weird, weird show. Shout out in the comments if you’ve got any Twin Peaks theories! The weirder the better!

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The outro this week is a clip from the Twin Peaks ending theme by Angelo Badalamenti.

And to the surprise of absolutely no one, recording yourself speaking backwards in order to play it forwards is a lot harder than it looks. Kathryn found this site where you can type in what you want to say and it’ll break down the backwards version phonetically.

We talked about the first four episodes of Twin Peaks the Return on this episode back in 2018.

Here’s the link to Kathryn’s review of Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier, which Mark Frost wrote to accompany the season.

And here’s a link to Kathryn’s review of The Secret History of Twin Peaks, which is a little drier, but still a lot of good info.

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