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No scene in Twin Peaks Season 3 is ever cut and dry whether it is set in material reality or Lodgespace. As I said in Part 1 of this theory: Fans are constantly debating if the Roadhouse is material or non-material, if Audrey is in a mental institution or the Black Lodge. Fans debate if the Las …
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This was a conversation I was eager to have. Emma (aka the Vlog Lady) was a constant companion of many (myself included) during the run of Twin Peaks: The Return last summer via her popular YouTube channel. Her insights and reaction videos provided endless sources of inspiration and analysis, and so we thought we'd look …
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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I can’t be the only one who secretly hoped Diane was just the name Cooper gave to his tape recorder, can I? Perhaps it’s a silly thing to hope for, but I liked the quirkiness of the idea. This isn’t to say I was at all displeased with Laura Dern’s performance as Diane, or with …
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Don't die. It goes without saying that Part 6 of Twin Peaks: The Return is a tough watch, because two people do die, in truly shocking circumstances. Due to those scenes it is easy to forget the other huge things that happen in this episode; the revelation of a woman we had all been waiting …
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I had the chance to bring back some memories with John Thorne recently when we looked back at Parts 1 through 4. We talked about expectations (or lack thereof), speculated about some of the lingering mysteries, and John reminisced about the opportunity of a lifetime: attending the Hollywood premiere of Twin Peaks: The Return on …
The thing I thought about Part 4 the first time was “We just got a ton of scenes in Twin Peaks; it looks like we’re finally settling in to the real story and we’ll start figuring out how Peaks figures in to all these other towns’ plotlines, and it’ll eventually come together starting now.” And …
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During the run-up to Season 3 of Twin Peaks, I ran across the Twitter account of Kaci, more commonly known as The Homicidal Homemaker, host of her self-described "spooktacular horror cooking show and horror food blog, that also features recipes inspired by Twin Peaks." Every day is Halloween for Kaci; she has a passion for all things …
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I am a fortunate Twin Peaks fan. Sometimes I meet others who have never seen the show, and I get to talk with them about their experiences winding through the show, the film, the books, the music. Other times, I meet people like Keith Gow. I Twitter-met Keith in April 2017, then my wife and …
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Phillip Jeffries famously says in Part 17 about Gordon Cole: "He'll remember the unofficial version." And that's great. That clears everything right up. But sarcasm aside, it CAN mean a number of plausible things, one of which I explained as a section of my previous column's memory theory: in a nutshell, I think this mentioned "unofficial version" is a lodge-adjacent "memory" …