Things Are Getting Strange
A Twin Peaks rewatch podcast. Get yourself a nice cup of the blackest coffee you can find, a slice of damn fine cherry pie and join us!
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Episodes
151 episodes
This Could Be a Case for Bryson and Scully
As part of Checkmate, we get a little side-tracked into how The X-Files could almost be a spin-off from Twin Peaks - still staring Duchovny with Anderson, but with Duchovny remaining as Denise.Possibly better w...
Special Agent Audrey Horne
Content Warning: the episode of Twin Peaks discussed contains depictions of transphobia and domestic abuse/violence against women.zzzzzzzzzzWait! Ignoring the James scenes, the episode is still fun if a little distracted. W...
Denise Origins
Content Warning: the episode of Twin Peaks discussed contains depictions of transphobia.Seeing as its the episode somewhat confusingly titled Masked Ball, it means David Duchovny is here! We talk a lot about his role as Denise and...
Reverse Nepotism
So... now what?Well, the series needs to keep Cooper in town, so there's a very abrupt owls coming home to roost moment for the wildly illegal stuff he's pulled previously in the series.But we also have other plotlines that won't ...
Relationship Speedrun
Well. We're here. Now the cast catch up with the viewer and the whole who killed Laura Palmer part of the plot is resolved. But there's another 13 episodes to go...Outside of murder, the other plots from the series continue...
Tonal Whiplash
Something of a dramatic reversal into comedy after the darkness of the last episode... We discuss why some people aren't keen on this, but get into the likely reason why Twin Peaks is like this..
Horse in the Room
Content Warning: discussions of sexual abuse, violence against women, murder of women, abuse of minors and yellowface.So, we come, inevitably, to the horse in the Palmer household. With all the horrors that entails and all the rev...
Chiwowow
Cooper finally contends with his litany of illegal actions! For a few minutes. Then he starts withholding medication...Twin Peaks continues!We talk about James's perplexing timing to resolve last episode's cliffhanger and...
Whole Damn Town
Back to Twin Peaks!We briefly talk about upcoming X-Files news (both old and new!) and The Amazing Digital Circus finale (don't worry, we're not about to spoil anything) before diving headlong into the Pacrific...
Fool for a Lawyer
We get a bit hung up on how Maddy's hair has changed over the course of the series. And reach silly conclusions about the potential Laura Palmer-ifiction of every woman in Twin Peaks. Sort of like Third Impact. Or carcenisation.Otherwise...
The Philosophy of Albert
If you're watching along with the series, what perpetual cynic Albert believes in might come as rather a surprise in The Man Behind the Glass. Especially moments after his giddy glee about the pop-culture provenance of the gun used to ...
Cheese Pig
So much coma! We wind up talking about how much of a trope the soap opera coma is... and how Twin Peaks weirdly (for Leo anyway) plays it closer to reality than most...We get side-tracked onto The Fourth Kind for a whil...
British Accent
Twin Peaks gets off to a slightly unusual second season start...We discuss comas and how it feels so oddly distanced from season 1. Also get minorly fixated on the previously unmentioned Hayward daughter.
Shred of Humanity
Hard to ignore how good Piper Laurie is in this episode. And in general in this series!We've reached the all too soon end of season 1 of Twin Peaks and it feels like everything's happening, so many cliffhangers and dangling plot...
The Sheriff's Secret Police
Watch as Dale Cooper fends off Audrey's attempts at seduction in order not to bring the FBI into disrepute shortly before making use of the Bookhouse Boys because they need to do something across the Candian border! Not saying he shouldn't have...
Very Good. Now Shoot Him Again
Twin Peaks continues to tease that a solution to its central mystery can only be imminent! Birds singing and perpetual music get their explanations here!But in the meantime, we continue to complain about James, continue to enjoy...
Llama Sneeze
Feels like everyone is turning out to be psychic in Twin Peaks... Laura Palmer, Sarah Palmer, Dale Cooper... Hank Jennings?! Or at least we don't have a good way for him to call right after the letter he sent (presumably days earlier) ...
Pie Heaven
You may be shocked - SHOCKED - to learn Twin Peaks immediately swerves away from naming Laura Palmer's killer despite explicitly promising such an answer last episode. Such is the way of Twin Peaks, and these days its well kno...
Burns Suit
The Red Room makes its appearance in Twin Peaks! If you've been wondering how the series has the reputation it has, it all ramps up from here.We talk backwards talking, our "clues" for the central mystery, compare the series to ...
Cooper's Luggage
The soap opera continues, though we will note how Cooper seems to travel. Or at least which items seem essential. We're still a bit early, not quite to the kind of thing Twin Peaks would become famous for... But there's still some weir...
The Best Costumes
Join us as we take a trip into the Pacific North-West... To a town with a population way too high for how its depicted. And an eccentric population.We are, of course, talking about Twin Peaks this time. Taking in the views of th...
Embracing the Infinite
Alas we have reached the end of Darkplace with so much of the series still left unglimpsed... What sights and truths could it reveal? Maybe that Dean Learner actually can act since once again he actually does for a brief moment....
Theme of Batteries
Looking past the less than subtle "borrowing" of John Carpenter's back-catalogue, we end up zeroing in on the actual theme of Scotch Mist! Doesn't have much to do with xenophobia, fog, mist but is very prevalent in the episode!I...