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Full disclosure: I’ve been peering through the bushes into a gazebo where Mark Zandi (a.k.a. The Woodsman) has been living and working for several years. I think the first time that I saw and/or heard about him was when Twin Peaks Season 3 was being filmed in Washington State in 2015. His mysterious social media …
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Way back when I was writing my weekly column, 'Who Killed Ruth Davenport?' whilst Series 3 was airing, I wrote about my hunch that there was more to the scene between Gordon Cole, Albert and The French Woman, played by Berenice Marlohe. She appeared only in this scene in Part 12 and I wrote an immediate …
Symbols. Waterfalls. Basements. Mythology. The maps of Twin Peaks. The red curtains. Laura, Teresa and Maddy. The secretive work of Major Briggs. Alchemy. Rivers. Portals. Demons and entities. The sound at the Great Northern. Mountains. Caves. Visual analysis. The Black Lodge. Rivers. The palace of the Fireman and Señorita Dido. Mike. Time. And, maybe most …
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In the Twin Peaks universe, motels have been visited and revisited quite a few times over the years. Motels have been made locations of importance, huge and small, and places for happenings of strange, funny, mundane or even supernatural events. Some of the motels are only seen once or twice. Others, however, are fundamental to …
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The following is a guest feature from Jason Crawford! “There’s a body?” “There’s a body, alright.” This is the exchange between Lieutenant Knox and Detective Macklay when discussing the death of Major Briggs in Twin Peaks: The Return. And it is within this simple exchange that I can see the total meaning of Lynch and …
Welcome back to Listening Post Alpha! For this last installment of the Superstitions in Twin Peak Series, I’m following up on ideas that are more thematic rather than independent occurrences as well as dealing overall with the prominent numbers appearing therein. I don’t claim to have caught every instance of a 7 for example (there …
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So it’s been a while since the end of Series 3 and my millions of thoughts have started to percolate nicely. I have many, many! questions left unanswered as we all do but none more so than, what did happen to Major Garland Briggs and what was he doing for the last 25 years? Way …
Every episode of The Return left my mind reeling under an electrical storm of ideas, connections and questions. That’s part of what made watching this new incarnation of Twin Peaks such a unique and compelling experience. Nothing else on TV does this. As I watched Part 11, in which the FBI agents visit Bill Hasting’s …
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The original run of Twin Peaks left us well aware of the 12 Sycamore trees standing in a circle at Glastonbury Grove, where the portal to the Black Lodge (or Waiting Room, or The Red Room) is located. In more recent times, Twin Peaks: The Return has hinted that Sycamores have connections to at least …
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Oh how I love thee Part 11 of Twin Peaks the Return – you have embodied everything that is brilliant about this series in one episode; terrifying, weird as hell, grotesque and really, really funny. I’ll be covering, as always, the trail of clues in Buckhorn, South Dakota. Two cars pull up on a dusty …
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