LOST IN TWIN PEAKS: Teaser for Patreon podcast (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #16)

Yesterday was February 24, the day in 1989 that FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper arrived in Twin Peaks, Washington to investigate the murder of popular local teenager Laura Palmer. Most if not all who listen to this podcast or visit this site will already be quite familiar with this David Lynch/Mark Frost show - your enthusiasm for Twin Peaks is probably how you found me in the first place. In the off-chance it isn't and you aren't, stick around (at least for a little bit): this episode and the larger podcast it samples and promotes are meant for first-time as well as veteran viewers. Since 2019, I've been covering Peaks episodes as part of my monthly podcast Lost in Twin Peaks (and as early as 2018 I covered episodes of the third season, retroactively incorporated into this project) which eschews spoilers until a separate section at the end of each entry while still offering a deep, deep dive into all aspects of the show. In this teaser, my longest episode for this public podcast, I play clips ranging from about three to six minutes from those patron episodes and invite you to hear more.

The samples include the following subjects: the podcast's regular format; Donna and James as secondary leads, the opening credits, and the first indications of the Laura Palmer investigation in the pilot; the strange distance Peaks travels in its first season alone, and the scene/act structure of that season's finale; the writing and shooting of the episode that resolves the mystery; what the episode concluding the investigation tells us about the characters of Cooper and Laura and the town of Twin Peaks; the development of the Lodge mythology in season two; the historical context of the period when the show went on hiatus and was nearly cancelled; and my thoughts on the very last moments of season three.

And there are hours more where that came from...

This cross-post was accidentally kept in draft mode for 2 days, it was supposed to go up on Thursday.

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LINKS FOR EPISODE 16

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MY RECENT WORK

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Journey Through Twin Peaks Part 5A - Over the Mountain Pass (first half)

Journey Through Twin Peaks Part 5B - Over the Mountain Pass (second half)

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Journey Through Twin Peaks Part 5 - Over the Mountain Pass

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Journey Through Twin Peaks: Part 5 - Over the Mountain Pass

A two-hour journey bringing us back to Twin Peaks

(available in eight individual chapters or as a two-volume video essay)

This is a follow-up to Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Journey Through Twin Peaks; images related to Part 5 are featured in my first and upcoming (live in mid-March) second collection of screenshots.

Follow the path through Journey Through Twin Peaks to keep track of the upcoming Part 6

What's onscreen: a tale of two creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost, who were far apart fifteen years ago yet found themselves collaborating once again, on a revival of their most beloved work, within a decade. Although divided up into several different arrangements depending how you watch, this tale unfolds in four stories that coalesce into a fifth.

Upstream Color (LOST IN THE MOVIES podcast #15)

In an unusual approach, I discussed this film - an avant-garde sci-fi(ish) drama from the early teens which seems to be following a semi-hidden mythology - without reading up on its background or the interpretive theories that emerged. Then I paused the recording halfway through, read a bit more, and returned to discuss what I'd found. Pigs, parasitical worms, musical composition, gods, creators, and scammers all swirl around a confused couple drawn to one another for reasons they can't quite explain. Rather than straightforwardly establish the rules of the universe he's set in motion, Shane Carruths allows us to wander inside of it, trying to figure out the mechanics for ourselves. I found the work intriguing, exasperating, and surprisingly amusing (despite its serious tone) given the absurdity inherent in the premise. Along with the film, this podcast mentions my recent completion of Journey Through Twin Peaks Part 5; since I'm still exporting the full video(s) for Vimeo and planning to officially cross-post that and the other chapters on Tuesday, this is actually the first mention on this site of that benchmark. So make sure you check out the link below, if you haven't already, to watch my video essay on Mark Frost - my most ambitious undertaking yet.

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LINKS FOR EPISODE 15

Skywhales

(animated film I compared to Upstream Color)

FAQ: Upstream Color

by Forest Wickman (Slate)

The 'Upstream Color' Cheat Sheet: 10 Things That Might Help You Understand Shane Carruth's Beguiling Sci Fi Epic (SPOILERS)

by Eric Kohn (Indiewire)

Everything you were afraid to ask about "Upstream Color"

by Daniel D'Addario (Salon)

MY RECENT WORK

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The Bookhouse Boy: Mark Frost's Fiction and Nonfiction (Journey Through Twin Peaks Chapter 35)

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Episode 75 - Twin Peaks Cinema: Rebel Without a Cause (+ Twin Peaks Reflections: Hardy, Mountie, Harry's cabin, high school, Super Nadine/Dune, In a Lonely Place & more)

January 2021 Patreon podcasts: LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #24 - Season 2 Episode 16 and LOST IN THE MOVIES #75 - Twin Peaks Cinema: Rebel Without a Cause (+ Twin Peaks Reflections: Hardy, Mountie, Harry's cabin, high school, Super Nadine/Dune & more)

My main podcast episode this month kicks off with an update on Journey Through Twin Peaks explaining why, yet again, I'm offering a more pared-down episode (since the Mark Frost video is taking up most of my time) but also why I can reasonably expect the long-delayed chapter to finally go up soon. In fact, today is the sixth anniversary of when I finished presenting the first Journey series in 2015, and it seems likely that I'll finish my work right on that mark (the exporting will probably take so long that I'm not expecting to upload until tomorrow; still, keep your eyes on my YouTube channel or Twitter feed...).

In another surprise last-minute pick, "Twin Peaks Cinema" focuses on the iconic James Dean classic, whose most obvious influence on Twin Peaks is the moody motorcyclist James Hurley, although its impact can be felt in more subtle ways too. My archive reading highlights another Nicholas Ray-directed fifties film set in Los Angeles and starring a soon-to-be-deceased mythic legend, while "Twin Peaks Reflections" settles on some minor characters, brief but evocative locations, and the pairing of one of the wackiest comic subplots with one of Lynch's more humorless films.

My newest Lost in Twin Peaks episode this month (between $1 and $5/month patrons, I'm bracketing the midseason) is an unexpected two-parter. There's a lot of plot to digest before Josie ends up in that drawer pull, but I also dig deep into the C.O.O.P. campaign to bring the show back (as well as the subsequent political career of one of its founders) and contemporaneous events like the release of The Silence of the Lambs and the breakthrough of Tonya Harding. There is a mini-history podcast inside every Twin Peaks episode recap!

Lost in Twin Peaks #24A - S2E16, Part 1 (The Condemned Woman/"Episode 23")

Lost in Twin Peaks #24B - S2E16, Part 2 (The Condemned Woman/"Episode 23")

NOW AVAILABLE: Lost in Twin Peaks #18 ("Dispute Between Brothers") open to all patrons

Lost in the Movies patron edition #75: Twin Peaks Cinema - Rebel Without a Cause (+ Twin Peaks Reflections: Hardy, Mountie, Harry's cabin, high school, Super Nadine/Dune, In a Lonely Place & more)

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