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Part Fourteen knocked it out of the park. Very little disagreement out and about in podcast land. Even the most frustrated podcasts had to give Grace Zabriskie props on her performance. Most podcasts think Cole should've mentioned Janey-E by name when he called the FBI Vegas office, mentioned the international pilot being referenced in James' …
Continue reading "Last Week in Twin Peaks Podcasts, Week of August 13th to August 19th"
BY JOHN BERNARDY In my previous article, Dale Cooper's Yellow Brick Road, I made some humerous-with-hindsight guesses of which characters could be compared to characters in Wizard of Oz, though I did settle on Cooper being all the yellow brick road travellers in one. I'm not going to reassess my picks even though Part Fourteen made …
Continue reading "We Long To See The Wizard, The Wonderful Wizard Of Lodge"
BY JOHN BERNARDY It's been fourteen Parts of Twin Peaks The Return and we just want Our Cooper to do something. We want him to wake up from this odd Dougie Jones phase of his existence and take action. ANY action, at this point. Our "hero", our "protagonist", joined a conga line once, is that …
Continue reading "Come On, Hero, Do SOMETHING! (Or, Evil Will Always Triumph Because Good Is Dumb)"
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Angels, as we all know, are an important theme throughout Fire Walk With Me, and it is a theme that is recurring gently through The Return. We are encountering angels in all forms, including the helpers in life, the protectors and the kind-hearted. The entire story of Twin Peaks has a strong basis in spirituality. …
Continue reading "LAURA IS THE ONE – THE IMPORTANCE OF ANGELS"
We are nearing the end of our journey, friends! This summer love will soon, sadly, be coming to an end. This week, the story moves along at a shockingly brisk pace. Even more surprisingly, gone is the jumping around between locales. We spend most of our time in the good old Pacific Northwest. That means …
Continue reading "Sure Is A Mystery, Huh?: Twin Peaks Part 14 Review"
Times have always been troubled in America--but they seem particularly so as of late. Hate and violence seem to stalk us, largely because of our (perhaps willful) refusal to confront the demons of our own national past. Now would seem to be a good time for a fully empowered FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle …
Continue reading "Evil Times Complicate Cooper’s Lovably Ridiculous Perfection"
With The Return (see what I did there?) of Twin Peaks to our TV screens in May, it would seem as though everyone had suddenly caught a case of Peaks fever. But for many of us who have been fans for countless years, the fever never abated; we've been living in a constant state of …
Continue reading "Setting the Stage: The Intersection of David Lynch & Burlesque"
“Black Lodge/White Lodge” is the 25 Years Later version of the popular point/counterpoint style of debating, wherein two sides take opposing views and hash it out on stage. Here, we’ll be debating the finer points of Twin Peaks lore, in writing, for your reading pleasure.Today’s debaters are: Mat Gost and Eileen MykkelsThe topic is: Was Diane telling …
Glastonbury Grove, Twin Peaks. 2440 Sycamore Street, Buckhorn. Sycamore Street, Ranco Rosa, Las Vegas. Three places. One of them, of course, long known to all Twin Peaks fans: Glastonbury Grove and its 12 Sycamore trees in the Ghostwood forest outside of town. The other two are new ones seen in Twin Peaks: The Return. What's …
Continue reading "Lost in the woods – The connection between Sycamores and portals, part 2"
