April 2020 Patreon podcasts: LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #15 - Season 2 Episode 7 and LOST IN THE MOVIES #66 - Twin Peaks Cinema: Laura (+ the Bernie campaign, listener feedback, podcast recommendations, film capsules: David Lynch shorts, John Carpenter "alien" films including The Thing & They Live, Hotel Room, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Twin Peaks Reflections: Waiter, Gersten, Diane, the hospital, Ronette's bridge, Audrey at One Eyed Jack's/Part 18 & much more)

I thought April's main podcast episode would be a quickie; instead it transformed into either my second or third-longest monthly entry. It's been a busy three months, so there was a lot to cover: films watched, podcasts listened to, projects and plans to update, and - perhaps especially - a monumental political moment to discuss. That episode is divided into three separate parts: one Twin Peaks-themed, one politics-themed, one film-themed. And both of my Lost in Twin Peaks episodes are split up too: each covers a major Lynch episode of season two and I had too much to say to fit it all into a three-hour audio file (not to mention the convenience of giving listeners space between them).

Both coincidentally and by design, some of my major Twin Peaks-related coverage arrives at the same time I'm renewing my Journey Through Twin Peaks video series. This includes one of the key "Twin Peaks Cinema" entries, on the 1944 noir Laura (I'll follow with the perhaps equally important Vertigo next month). Most famously, this film lent several character names to the series but its core idea is also poetically echoed in Twin Peaks - including in season three (which I've never really had the opportunity to discuss before, despite touching on the two works' relationships in the past). For good measure, I include my 2011 review in the "Opening the Archive" reading series.

As for Lost in Twin Peaks, this month we reach the exact halfway point of the series and perhaps the most important episode of any: the killer's reveal...

Lost in Twin Peaks #15A: S2E7, Part 1 (Lonely Souls/"Episode 14")

Lost in Twin Peaks #15B: S2E7, Part 2 (Lonely Souls/"Episode 14")

Lost in the Movies #66A
(Path through Journey Through Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks Listener Feedback: The Big Sleep, Mark Frost interview book, Windom/Mr. C and tulpas, "Twin Peaks Reflections": Waiter, Gersten, Diane, hospital, Ronette's bridge, Audrey at One Eyed Jack's/Part 18 & more)

Lost in the Movies #66B
The Bernie campaign & the populist left (+ podcast recommendations)

Lost in the Movies #66C
"Twin Peaks Cinema" - Laura (+ capsules on David Lynch's shorts and Hotel Room, Frank Capra's dark side and The Bitter Tea of General Yen, John Carpenter "alien" films: They Live, Village of the Damned, The Thing, the Spanish Civil War in The Silence of Others and The Fallen Sparrow, Federico Fellini's Il Bidone, 3 "Disneylands" in Pinocchio, Ken Burns' The Congress & more)

NOW AVAILABLE: Lost in Twin Peaks #9 - Season 2 Finale/S2E1 (May the Giant Be With You/"Episode 8") open to all patrons

Podcast Line-Ups for:

Lost in Twin Peaks #15A

INTRO

THE OPENING OF THE EPISODE

DIRECTOR/WRITER (+ Mary Sweeney)

PRODUCTION CONTEXT

TV CONTEXT (when it aired, ratings, surrounding shows including background on the Lynch/Frost show American Chronicles)

HISTORICAL CONTEXT (#1 movie: Child's Play 2, world events including Chandra Shekhar as Prime Minister, TIME cover: Ronald Reagan - discussion of Reagan's relation to Lynch and Twin Peaks)

MEDIA COVERAGE

FAN RECEPTION w/ Usenet quotes, dugpa forum comments

PERSONAL RECEPTION

GENERAL REPUTATION

Lost in Twin Peaks #15B

THE FEEL OF THE EPISODE

THE STRUCTURE OF THE EPISODE

"PREVIOUSLY ON" RECAP

WHO KILLED LAURA PALMER? (new clues, the big picture)

SCENES ORGANIZED BY LAURA STORY

Murder / Family / Bobby / Donna / Employment / Ben / Maddy / Giant clues / Harold & secret diary

SCENES ORGANIZED BY NON-LAURA STORY

Packard family / Briggs family / Horne family / Ghostwood deal & Saw Mill fire / Shelly, Bobby & Leo / James & Donna / Ed & Norma / Cooper & Audrey / Ben & One Eyed Jack's / Leo's boots / Super Teen Nadine / standalone scenes / dormant storylines

LOCATIONS

CHARACTERS

COFFEE, PIE & DONUTS (+ other food & smoking)

THE UNCANNY/SPIRIT WORLD

WHAT IS TWIN PEAKS?

WHO IS AGENT COOPER?

WHO IS LAURA PALMER?

READINGS/CLIPS FROM MY OTHER WORK (including overlooked coverage of previous episodes)

LOG LADY INTRO & NEXT TIME PREVIEW

CLOSING STATEMENT ON THE WHITE HORSE (from David Bushman) 

 SPOILER SECTION

CHARACTER MILESTONES & BEHIND THE SCENES

CLIP OF "THE SECOND COMING" (read by Harold Pinter)

Lost in the Movies #66A

INTRO

MONTHLY UPDATE (recently published): YouTube announcement, 30th anniversary episode Twitter threads, "Dark Dreams on the Radio" teaser, Journey Through Twin Peaks chapter 29 on Lynch/Frost in 2006-07

MONTHLY UPDATE (work in progress): describing "The Path through Journey Through Twin Peaks"

TWIN PEAKS REFLECTIONS: The waiter, Gersten, Diane / Hospital, Ronette's bridge / Audrey at One Eyed Jack's + Part 18

LISTENER FEEDBACK including my Journey Through Twin Peaks teaser (Dark Dreams on the Radio), Carmen Sternwood & more in The Big Sleep, Rebel Without a Cause & Natalie Wood, Conversations with Mark Frost, "The Experiment," Natural Born Killers clip follow-up, What Did Jack Do, YouTube comments ("curtain call" scene in Pt. 18, Side by Side video on Fellini, Cinepoem: What the Soul Desires, Windom Earle/Annie/Mr. C & tulpas, Solaris, the Journey Through Twin Peaks series, killer's reveal)

Lost in the Movies #66B

PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS including online irony culture & politics, Chapo reacts to Bernie's defeat, journalists cover Tara Reade's Biden accusation, South Carolina's black electorate, grassroots progressives & Resistance liberals, Elizabeth Warren's betrayal, Democrats' suburban moderate shift, the Bernie campaign vs. marginal 2000s activism, Tara Reade accuses Biden of sexual assault, progressive leverage in the Democratic Party, 1960 Primary documentary, criticizing the Bernie campaign & the Brooklyn left, left & right populism

POLITICS: Aftermath of the 2020 Bernie campaign - reading my immediate reaction Twitter thread, NY Times' Inequality Project hypocrisy, Bernie in the primaries, Bernie in the coronavirus crisis, the young online left in 2016 - 2020, the need for left populism and outreach to independents/nonvoters, blackpill vs. redpill vs. bluepill, the emerging Democratic electorate vs. populist insurgency, Bernie's political identity, non-electoral left outreach, AOC backlash as she navigates party and movement, is it over or just beginning, and in what direction?

Lost in the Movies #66C

TWIN PEAKS CINEMA: Laura

OPENING THE ARCHIVE: Laura essay + Journey Through Twin Peaks clips & 32 Days of Movies clip

FILM CAPSULES

David Lynch work including Duran Duran Unstaged, Crazy Clown Time, Hotel Room - Tricks/Getting Rid of Robert/Blackout, DavidLynch dot com era, my experience of Lynch in the 2000s, Industrial Soundscape, The Bug Crawls, The Inland Empire backyard - misremembered content of "Room to Dream" scene, Cooking Quinoa with David Lynch, The Disc of Sorrow is Installed, The Cannes Diary 

Other films: Baraboo, Godzilla 2014, Virus, John Carpenter "alien" films including They Live, Village of the Damned, The Thing, The Fallen Sparrow, The Silence of Others, Il Bidone, Maine's Home Movies, The Rules of the Game, The Congress, The Buddha, Sonic the Hedgehog, Pinocchio, The Bitter Tea of General Yen with reference to Meet John Doe & Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

OUTRO