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“Harold’s world was in his words. The suicide note has to be a message.” These were the words spoken by Donna Hayward to Agent Dale Cooper after the body of Harold Smith was found hanged in his orchid nursery. His home was trashed, pages of Laura Palmer's secret diary torn and scattered across the floor. …
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Obscured as the narrative is, it took me a while to realize that Diane Evans and Laura Palmer are the heroes of Twin Peaks Season 3. But they absolutely are. How can I say that when clearly Kyle MacLachlan was present through the entire series? Because he (mostly) played the roll of the villain. The …
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One of the deepest mysteries conjured by the transmedia combination of The Secret History of Twin Peaks, The Return, and The Final Dossier is the role or roles of F.B.I. Agent Tamara (Tammy, TP) Preston. As new episodes continued to drop in the original May-September 2017 run of The Return, the trend within the Twin …
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Agent Cooper surprised many with his actions at the end of Part 17, going back to the night that Laura Palmer died and attempting to alter the course of events that night. The question is why? Many very plausible explanations have been given by Twin Peaks theorists and scholars but none have completely convinced me. The …
[COOPER] Do you have the seed? Do you have the seed? I need you to make another one. [GERARD] I understand. With this little exchange, we were given a glimpse into the process for manufacturing a tulpa, this time for making Dougie Jones v2.0. You need a DNA sample (a little hair ripped from the …
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The following is a guest post from Richard Austin. We hope you enjoy it! No-one knew if Twin Peaks was going to get picked up by the network. The change of leadership at ABC and the fact that it was so radically different from what was out there at the close of the 1980’s that …
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Major Briggs had Dougie's wedding ring in his stomach. It has this inscription: "To Dougie, with love, Janey-E." Constance Talbot (who you know is a good soul because she and Albert hit it off) found the ring there during the autopsy. This is about all that's known about it. I went down this rabbit hole …
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"This is the water, and this is the well, drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within." Those words, now legendary among fans of Twin Peaks, in many ways the all new 'Fire Walk With Me' poem, will be dissected for years to come no doubt, and I'm …
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A lot of people love the Wally Brando scene and a lot of people hate it, but it's not often investigated as to why it was included in Season 3 in the first place. This column will do just that, and I'll start off by saying I think the scene’s telling us a lot more …
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This article comes to us from Lou Ming, who is expanding here upon ideas he debuted in the Twin Peaks subreddit. His bio follows the article. It’s worth noting that in The Return there are exactly three scenes of couples having intercourse. Each of these instances share the same basic construction: a passive male mounted by …