TS TV: A Twin Peaks Podcast

Folks, these recaps aren’t getting any easier. So Coop was falling in space, right? He lands on a brutalist structure where a lady with no eyes who moves like your graphics card is dying tells him to be really quiet because something really scary is banging on the door. They go upstairs where they’re now on the roof of a box floating in space. Then something crazy happens which I have no idea how anyone could have seen coming: Coop sees MAJOR GARLAND BRIGGS as a FLOATING HEAD IN SPACE???? Whaaaaat?!?!

He goes back inside where a lady who looks a lot like Ronnette Pulaski tells him to go through a giant electrical outlet. He does, and it seems like his soul is supposed to go into Mr C, who’s da king of da highway, but instead it gets redirected into….Dougie, A third copy of Dale/Mr C, who MIKE tells us was “manufactured” for this purpose.

As Dougie, Dale is completely stunned and seems to remember nothing. He almost gets assassinated but escapes by dropping his keys. Despite several “will this get his memory back????” fakeouts, he spends the rest of the episode wandering a place as twisted and labyrinthine as the black lodge itself: a casino.

Meanwhile: Gordon Cole, Albert, and our new, cuntiest FBI Agent Tammy Preston learn Something about Coop! And in Twin Peaks, Hawk, Andy, and Lucy debate whether the missing thing the log lady told them about is a chocolate bunny, and Jacoby spray-paints his shovels gold.

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Slay the Spire (game)

They Might Be Giants

Lily's video "Why the New York Times Loves Stupid Questions"

Amy Winehouse (her album Back to Black)

The Beast (film)

No Country for Old Men (film)

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Dale is back for real! It's weird. Anyway! Bill Hastings says he wasn't at Ruth Davenport's apartment but he did have a dream that he was, which is weird. His wife is really happy he's in jail, but then she gets killed by Mr C. Speaking of Mr C, he gets busy this episode: he tells us he doesn't Need, he Wants, and then he starts killing his underlings, who were trying to take him out on behalf of... Philip Jeffries? He then calls Philip Jeffries using his FBI suitcase phone, but it is actually someone else? In all this we learn these things about him:

• He's supposed to be pulled back into the black lodge, but has a plan
• He's looking for something represented by an ace of spades with a weird ant head shape drawn on it?
• He met with Garland Briggs recently

Meanwhile: a guy named Duncan Todd, played by the guy who had the Mulholland Drive Winkies dream, gives someone a job and is scared of his evil boss. Hawk gets a call from the Log Lady as he's scoping out Glastonbury Grove, where red curtains appear. Sarah Palmer has a new HDTV, which isn't ominous at all! Shelley's worried her daughter is dating the wrong guy. And James? James is still cool. James was always cool.

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Mandy, Indiana - URGH (album)

Cairn (spoilers from 0:05:15 to 0:07:10)

Skyscraper Live (TV special)

Lola Sebastian

Free Solo (documentary)

LMFAO (uncle-nephew duo)

Lord of the Rings (books)

By Storm - My Ghosts Go Ghost (album)

Targets (film)

I Think You Should Leave

Promising Young Woman (film)

Red Rooms (and our episode on it)

What Happens Next (webcomic)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Windom Earle is playing OFF THE BOARD! Which mostly means he’s abandoned his whole chess-murder-revenge-on-Dale thing – which the show retcons as having been just a ruse the whole time – to focus on his true passion, Getting Into The Black Lodge. To that end, he dresses up as a horse with Leo to kidnap Garland Briggs and gets really good at Photoshop. Coop continues to just... have meetings about how Windom Earle is messed up, and keeps romancing Annie, wilfully oblivious to all the clues that he’s getting Spiritually Doomed. And speaking of: the spirits are back! They're making everyone's hand shake and spooky_drone.mp3 play!

Meanwhile: Audrey and Jack have a tearful, sexy farewell. Donna keeps finding “Is Ben My Dad” clues without it really going anywhere. Thomas Eckhardt opens Catherine's box; inside he finds another box, and inside THAT box... some sort of ingot? And the Miss Twin Peaks contest is happening real soon, for real you guys, we promise!

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• Long Story Short (TV show)
• Jandek
• Demons’ Souls, the original version and remake. Rough timing on this release, tbh – RIP Bluepoint :(
• Mulholland Drive (Check out our TS TV DVD episode on it!)
• “Hopelessly reliant on the ingot” Tumblr post

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Hey listener, do you think Windom Earle’s plans had enough moving pieces yet? OF COURSE NOT! So he puts one of the background guys from Wayne’s World in a giant chess piece, shoots him with a crossbow, and leaves him as a gift at the gazebo where he saw Dale and Annie going on an obscenely romantic date.

Meanwhile: Pete tells Catherine that Andrew Eckhard’s epic puzzle box will take YEARS to open, but then he drops it and it opens…. to reveal ANOTHER PUZZLE BOX!!! The Miss Twin Peaks Contest is the site of many contestations, such as Bobby being a shithead to Shelly, Ben trying to make it Environmental, and Lana trying to sex-magic her way into a guaranteed win. Dick Tremayne hosts a wine-tasting event. Donna confronts her parents about the Ben Horne Secret but it doesn’t go anywhere. Audrey’s boy Jack does go somewhere though – but where??

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• Five Nights at Freddy’s came out after Sadie left high school
• Gabber is Dutch raver music, not British. Sorry, Dutch people

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• The Sixth Sense
• Media Club Plus
• Jandek - Where Do You Go from Here
• Jacob Geller’s new book, “You’re Not Overthinking It”
• WPlace.live
• Les Cowboys Fringants - Break syndical

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The cliffhanger from last episode resolves into a bizarre sex assassination and then is never mentioned again. Weird LOL! Anyway! Dale and Harry have more pressing things on their plates, such as: Windom Earle schemes to kill the winner of the Miss Twin Peaks Contest, their Completely Innocent Bonsai Gift, and checking out a spooky cave. Gordon Cole is back in town, immediately reinstates Coop back into the FBI, and then they both fall in love with diner babes.

Meanwhile: Audrey is gonna go on a “full fucking flight and dinner” with Jack but gets redirected to becoming the Horne Business New Good Deeds Lady. She also teams up with Donna a bit to investigate Ben’s mysterious dealings with Donna’s mom. Donna gets a postcard from James. Coop REALLY hits it off with Annie, and Andy and Windom Earle do some crazy shit to a cave.

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• Black Eyes (band)
• Ice T presents: Mac Book repair
• Father John Misty
• William Friedkin – Sorcerer (also Cruising)
• Jandek
• Lady Emily

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