Did you pack for rain? Things are getting very dark and turbulent in Twin Peaks for Season 2, Episode 4, “Laura’s Secret Diary”! As always, spoilers for this ep, so watch before listening! 

This week, Jennifer sets us up for a discussion of the episode’s epic opening scene; Jonathan gets down and dirty with lies, deceptions, and Hank Jennings; Damon looks to the skies and confronts a very portentous story; and Colin tries to pin down a master genre for Twin Peaks and conjures something called Gothic Absurdism. For the Twist we recommend our favorite Lynchian TV, film, and music! 

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S2, E4 NOTES:
Walter Olkewicz (1948-2021, Jacques Renault)
Jerry Stahl (episode writer)
Permanent Midnight (1998, film, directed by David Veloz)
Todd Holland (episode director)
Chris Mulkey (Hank Jennings)
PalmPilot (1997, early PDA (personal digital assistant))
Emery Battis (1915-2011, American actor known for his Shakespeare roles)
Gothic fiction (literary genre)
Absurdism (philosophical perspective)
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757, treatise on aesthetics by Irish philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke)
The Castle of Otranto (1757, novel, by Horace Walpole)
Dracula (1897, novel, by Bram Stoker)
Waiting for Godot (1953, play, by Samuel Beckett)
Bela Lugosi is Dead (1979, seminal post-punk single by UK band Bauhaus)
Coen Brothers (b. 1954, filmmaking twins)
Todd Haynes (b. 1961, director)
Julianne Moore (b. 1960, actor)
Atom Egoyan (b. 1960, director)
David Byrne (b. 1952, musician)
Cut-Up Technique (literary technique)
Jonathan Demme (1944-2017, director)
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (b. 1952, actor)