Episode 1: Traces to Nowhere

Delightful, enthralling, dynamic, exciting.

Cooper in gravity boots, sock suspenders, bed hair, speculating about JFK to Diane.
next scene at breakfast with Audrey - do your palms ever itch?
that iconic photo of Laura in the aftermath of the post mortem.
Shelley finds bloody clothes in Leo's washing.
James gets interviewed, Cooper knowing he didn't do it.
Leo finds out his bloody clothes are missing.
Noiseless drapes.
Harry says he's starting to feel like Dr Watson.
Katherine being slutty.
Mrs Palmer does a mental when Donna visits, sees Bob at the end of the bed.
Leo beating Shelley cos of his missing shirt.
Dr Jacobey with the half heart locket.

not Twin Peaks, but shares the ancestry...

Experiment in Terror 1962




★★★½

The first 15 minutes or so of this is terrific - It clearly inspired David Lynch with Twin Peaks (the female protagonist lives in Twin Peaks!) and Wild At Heart, and the sweaty, wheezy, shadowy bad guy with the rasping voice just gets to you.

Tie that with the hot-night-in-the-city saxophone score dripping off the walls (by Henry Mancini), and the cute sister who seems a prototype for Audrey Horne in Twin Peaks being threatened, intimidated and made to strip off, and you have a film with some very tense moments.

Unfortunately the movie doesn't live up to the great opening, and becomes a police procedural whenever the police are focussed on, diffusing the great atmosphere and tension somewhat. If it had sustained the atmosphere throughout, this would be a 9/10 movie.

^will watch... fyi, eraserhead on bluray released!

Hadn't heard, looks like 9/16 in the States, Criterion. Will also include new restorations of Lynch's "Six Short Films" which have been released previously and a new documentary as well as old ones.

Hopefully there are great things in store for the Mulholland Dr. and Lost Highway Blu-Rays.

I'm well into disc two of the set... I can feel a distinct difference when Lynch is not the director. I can almost surmise that the series works in an extreme abbreviated form which would be as such: Pilot, ep1, ep2, Fire come walk with me. At the end of ep2 cooper awakes from a dream and abruptly makes a phone and claims... "I know who killed Laura Palmer!" and Fire walk with me exposes us to the truth.

The rest of the series is just the jouney... albeit a very entertaining David Lynchian Sherlock Holmes journey.

Russ Tamblyn is great in his roll that is not neither War of the Gargantuas or West side story.

This series is great, Agent Cooper the GOAT TV character

I'll be naming my newborn son Cooper as a tribute

Episode 2:



Audrey swaying to music, Nadine figuring out silent drapes work best with grease, Leo figuring out Shelley is cheating on him, Ben and Jerry eating enormous baguettes, one-eyed Jacks and a nervous girl going with Ben Horne, James and Donna sitting on a sofa, a card saying 'Jack With One Eye', Invitation to Love being switched off by a pensive Shelley, Cooper throwing rocks at a bottle as 'J' people are read out, and it being displaced with Dr Jacobey, smashed with Leo Johnson,

ALBERT,

the sheriff's threat, Leland dancing crazily with Laura's picture, Cooper's dream, dancing dwarf, 'sometimes my arms bend back', Cooper's hair.


"I know who did it".


Cliff Notes: The finest single episode of TV drama ever made.

Episode 3

Cooper and Audrey over breakfast, Cooper explaining the code that needs cracking to Harry, Truman punches Albert over Laura's body, cousin Maddy comes to visit, Bobby and his dad talk about wisdom.

Albert gives his report, Cooper asks Diane to look into real estate around Twin Peaks, Nadine talks to Ed about watching Ed and Norma together in high school, Audrey sneaks around behind the walls. The funeral, with Bobby being nutty, and then Leland jumping on the coffin.

"This must be where pies go when they die."

Josie tells Harry about 2 books, Cooper talks to jacobey at Laura's grave, Josey is frightened and Harry tells her nothing will happen to her.

Cooper talks to Hawk about souls - dream souls. Leland finding his only peace in dancing, Cooper and Hawk toast Laura.

Dance with me! Please! Somebody!

Three is where the series changes slightly... and it shows in the feeling and style slightly. Different director at the helm.

Episode 4

Bob's sketch and a necklace, all in a dream, invitation to love, Dr Jacobey being questioned, Cole on the phone, Cooper has already seen Bob in his dream, Hawk finds the one armed man and Andy drops his gun, one armed man doesn't know a thing - at first, Audrey turns detective, Hank's parole board, a vet's office, Shelley and Bobby and Leo's bloody shirt, Ben and Catherine talking business in bed, Bobby's shirt says 'dick', gun practice, 'we're gonna need more coffee,', the diner gals discuss their 4 men, James meets Maddy, Hank gets parole, Audrey gets her way with daddy and gets the okay to work in the department store, Waldo the bird, the bloody shirt planted at Jacques Renault's, Leo and Ben, Donna and James find the necklace gone, the owl is what it seems, Pete and Josie talk fishing, Hank and Josie talk fishy.

It's getting very complicated.

this book looks pretty cool



http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/...o16817532.html

Ep 5



Sons of Odin singing, Cooper ranting to Diane, coffee with Audrey, Ben and Jerry and a leg of lamb, freaky Leland, doughnut and joe for a tired Cooper, flesh world, a wet haired Shelley with a gun and a dressing gown, Norma tells Ed about Hanks parole, Audrey gets her job on the perfume counter, James tells Donna about his nymphodrunk mother, more donuts, red drapes, Maddy and Donna and James at the diner, Hank arrives, Bobby cries about Laura in Jacobey's office, tracking through the woods to Renaults cabin, the log lady, the owls and the woods and the men and the girls, there's always music in the air, Waldo, poker chip from one eyed jacks, the Iceland reception, Catherine and Ben over a desk and talking about burning down the mill, spied on by Audrey. Leland crazy dancing that he can't stop. Josey and Ben…Leo returns home but Hank beats him up. Shelley pulls the gun.and shoots. Maddy finds a tape in Laura's room. Audrey in Cooper's bed. "Don't make me leave. Please."

Just bought this on Kindle

Episode 6

Cooper says it's wrong. Lucy gets some news, Waldo needs to feel playful, Ronette and Laura and Leo and Jacques all at the cabin, shot Leo sees Bobby and Shelley, Laura's tape, Audrey hears Horne's Department store manager recruiting for Jacks, "every day, give yourself a present", Nadines drape runners are rejected, Josey shows Harry pictures of Ben and Catherine and talks of the fire being planned, Coop in a tux, Catherine finds Josie and Ben have put life insurance on her, Waldo gets shot by Leo, "hurting me, stop it, Leo, no." Visit to Jacks.Maddy in a Laura wig,

Audrey ties a knot in a cherry stem. WOW.

Jacques deals, Jacoby gets a call from Laura/Maddy. A meeting is arranged. Bobby sees Laura.

James and Donna break into Jacobey's office.

Bobby plants drugs on James' bike.

Someone else is watching it all.

Episode 7

Jemma and Donna in Jacoby office, Jacoby seeing "Laura" and getting cowshed by the masked man, Cooper beating the house, Audrey in pink, Cooper talks to Jacques, "bite the bullet, baby", Jacques is arrested, shot by Andy, the guy that lights Laura's fire, "isn't sex weird?", Leo puts Shelly in the barn, Hank wants his backpay from Josie, Catherine and Pete being sweet, Andy and Lucy kiss, "I'm pregnant", Jacques tells of the party, Jacoby had a heart attack and tells he saw Laura, Bobby rings sheriff as Leo and says to check for James, Hank cosying up to Norma, Nadine says 'Goodbye', Leland hears they caught the man, James brought in for the drugs in his gas tank, Ben making a deal at Jacks, burning mill and Catherine rescues Shelley, Leland suffocates Jacques, Leo attacks Bobby with an ax but gets shot by Hank, Audrey with old crone sewing card to her, Ben turns up in Audrey's room, Cooper gets shot.

For the twin peaks fans, here's a podcast I was involved with recently covering the pilot and season 1

http://www.thegoodthebadandtheodd.co...son-1-odd-068/

TY

So Mark Frost and David Lynch both tweeted the same message simultaneously today:

Dear Twitter Friends: That gum you like is going to come back in style! #damngoodcoffee

Does this mean what I think it means???

It means somewhere, there's always music in the air.

I stayed up late last night listening to some of your podcast instead of studying for my exam . It was fun hearing your enthusiasm and your discussion. Thanks for sharing!

Will you study for the exam already!

Yeah, it was fun. I thought I knew a lot about Twin Peaks, but Mike blew me away...

Just one in a series of poor choices I made this week

I really did enjoy listening to you and Mike talk about this series that you both love, all the obscure details and references to episodes that sparked my own memory. It sort of lifted my spirits. I enjoy hearing people talk about things they are passionate about. Very cool.

Twin Peaks to return on Showtime!!!

Wow.

I have the weirdest boner