If you’re here, it must be Season 1, Episode 6, “Cooper’s Dreams.” Standard Spoiler Alert: Watch before listening! This week, Jonathan focuses on “Women in Charge,” specifically director Lesli Linka Glatter and actor Catherine Coulson, aka The Log Lady; Jennifer sheds light on themes of smoke, fire and hell; Colin ponders the spirit world and who can get there; and Damon cranks up the music of Twin Peaks, notably the collaboration of Lynch, Badalamenti, and Cruise. We Twist on the oddest oddities in episode 6, from cookie jars to untouched sodas.

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S1, E6 NOTES: 

Lesli Linka Glatter (episode director)

Angelo Badalamenti (series composer)

Amazing Stories (1985-87, Sci Fi Channel TV series)

Interview with Lesli Linka Glatter (2020, Filmmaker Magazine)

Now and Then (1995, film, directed by Lesli Linka Glatter)

Catherine Coulson (Margaret Lanterman, aka The Log Lady) 

His Dark Materials (2019-present, HBO TV series)

Blue Velvet (1986, film, directed by David Lynch)

Julee Cruise discography (series vocals)

This Mortal Coil (1987-91, UK musical collaboration)

Tim Buckley’s “Song to the Siren” (cover by This Mortal Coil)

Lost Highway (1997, film, directed by David Lynch)

Crazy Clown Time (2011, debut album of David Lynch)

Twin Peaks soundtrack

Snoqualmie Falls, Washington (site of Twin Peaks’s famous waterfall)

Diegetic music (cinema sound technique)

Cornish College’s Raisbeck Hall (site of The Roadhouse interior)

Knut Hamsun (influential Norwegian writer and Nazi sympathizer)