Duncan and Bo Go to Twin Peaksies: That’s What You Get with Chet!

Let’s be honest withe each other.  This is a long show.  We spend almost five hours discussing everything in between the final scene of Twin Peaks season two and the new episodes.  We begin with The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, a real bummer of a book written by Jennifer Lynch.  Why is this book such bad fan service?  Why is Leo so much cooler?  Then, we turn our attention to Fire Walk with Me, which is way better than you remember.  We comb through this much-maligned film to point out what a great horror movie it is.  Also, it’s a terribly, terribly sad movie.  Chet gets a voice, and we truly begin to unpack the mythology of Twin Peaks.  If you thought that was weird, we then go to The Missing Pieces, a collection of outtakes and extended scenes that help flesh out this universe.  And, finally, we deep dive on the lore with Mark Frost’s The Secret History of Twin Peaks, a terrific epistolary novel in which we learn all sorts of weird and wonderful trivia, including owl-people, Hawk dunking on James and the horror trope roots of the Twin Peaks universe. It’s time to nerd out on the spirits of the Black Lodge, Duncan’s [...]

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