Lost in the Movies: belated February 2021 Patreon podcasts: LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #25 - Season 2 Episode 17 and LOST IN THE MOVIES #76 - Twin Peaks Cinema: Kings Row / Political Reflections: Pandemic, Protest, Election, Insurrection & The Future (+ Us, Brideshead Revisited, documentaries on the Roosevelts, Reagan, and Lee Atwater, podcast recommendations, listener feedback, Twin Peaks Reflections: Nicky, Dougie, Hide-Out Wallie's, Timber Falls Motel, Milford family/The Secret History & more)

belated February 2021 Patreon podcasts: LOST IN TWIN PEAKS #25 - Season 2 Episode 17 and LOST IN THE MOVIES #76 - Twin Peaks Cinema: Kings Row / Political Reflections: Pandemic, Protest, Election, Insurrection & The Future (+ Us, Brideshead Revisited, documentaries on the Roosevelts, Reagan, and Lee Atwater, podcast recommendations, listener feedback, Twin Peaks Reflections: Nicky, Dougie, Hide-Out Wallie's, Timber Falls Motel, Milford family/The Secret History & more)


I promised this one - or rather, these ones - a long time ago, but kept postponing. The bonus sections, featuring film capsules, podcast recommendations, political reflections, and listener feedback, were originally planned for the summer but work on Journey Through Twin Peaks videos pushed them back to February (same with my "Twin Peaks Cinema" coverage of the dark small town melodrama Kings Row, starring Ronald Reagan, which I wanted to discuss in conjunction with a documentary on the fortieth president). Then, for complicated reasons, I found myself working on several projects simultaneously while also traveling for the first time since the pandemic began (as well as getting sucked into the drama surrounding the stimulus vote in Congress) - so the "February" podcasts ended up getting published in March.

Hopefully, the material was worth the wait. Kings Row was a particularly fascinating work to dig into between its social drama, psychological motifs, and dark family dynamics; it makes an interesting comparison point not just to Peaks but to other films discussed as "Twin Peaks Cinema" like Peyton Place and Our Town. Only after recording was I reminded that the same director, Sam Wood, helmed both Our Town and Kings Row - so perhaps I'll have more to say on those films from that angle in the future. At one point, I also hoped to offer full "film in focus" reviews on the 2019 horror film Us, Jordan Peele's clever, twisty follow-up to Get Out (which I reviewed a couple years ago), and Brideshead Revisited, the definitive arthouse-TV literary adaptation. Although I ended up shaving them down to extended capsules, I will definitely be revisiting both titles in other mediums.

Elsewhere, listener feedback ranged across numerous aspects of Twin Peaks (from the zeitgeist of its different eras to the collaboration between Lynch and Frost to its impact on multiple video games). Podcast recommendations on historical, cinematic, and political subjects were divided into four mini-episodes with all the accompanying links in the show notes. And my political reflections ended up standing on their own as a ninety-minute episode...unsurprisingly, given that 2020 was arguably the most historically significant year in America since 1968 even if just for the pandemic (which takes up less than ten minutes, although it hovers in the background of everything else).

That's just a small sample of what's in these podcasts; I even had to excise and save more than half the film capsules and the Journey Through Twin Peaks feedback for upcoming episodes. I did get up my belated Lost in Twin Peaks coverage of the comeback (?) episode where the late second season really begins, which was also meant to publish in February. My "March" rewards will be a little late too, but only by days in this case. So stay tuned. Meanwhile, here are links to all the podcasts, followed by a detailed rundown of the content for each one....











Podcast Line-Ups for...

Episode 76

INTRO including line-ups for all the bonus episodes

BELATED MONTHLY UPDATE (recently published)
Journey Through Twin Peaks Part 5 - Over the Mountain Pass including chapter 35 on Mark Frost & screenshot collection, Upstream Color podcast, Lost in Twin Peaks teaser on public podcast, The Lobster podcast

BELATED MONTHLY UPDATE (behind the scenes)
standalone videos for The Return, watched/recorded Angel Face, The Big Sleep, Bigger Than Life for future Twin Peaks Cinema & selected other upcoming w/ archive reading of Spade & Marlowe, scheduled Mad Men season 4 viewing diary, began watching Mad Men season 5, wrote/recorded YouTube announcement, Lost in Twin Peaks: template for upcoming episodes, outlined characters/prior work/media & fan responses/narratives & began outlining historical context

TWIN PEAKS REFLECTIONS:
Nicky, Dougie / Hide-Out Wallie's, Timber Falls Motel / Milford family + The Secret History of Twin Peaks

KINGS ROW

OPENING THE ARCHIVE: Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (after Brideshead Revisited capsule) + a few additional comments

OUTRO


bonus - Film Capsules

INTRO

REAGAN

THE ROOSEVELTS

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED

US (includes Twin Peaks reference)

OTHER FILMS
The Whales of August / On the Shores of Nova Scotia / Beautiful Brazil / An Unseen Enemy / A Letter to Three Wives / Civilisation / The Landlord / Nightmare Alley / It Came From Outer Space (includes Twin Peaks reference) / Santa Claus / The Enchanted Cottage / Trial by Trigger (includes brief Twin Peaks reference) / The Glass Key / Out of Darkness / Lynch's feature filmography / Vertigo / Peyton Place / Walt Disney / Waking Sleeping Beauty / Rocky II / Land of the Pharoahs / Ancient Egypt / The Blood of Jesus / religious films as their own industry / Christiane F. (includes Twin Peaks reference) / Knights of the Round Table / The Statue of Liberty / Rasputin and the Empress


bonus - Listener Feedback

INTRO - WHY THIS IS LATE

INTRO - FEEDBACK LINE-UP

INTRO - THIS MULTI-PART EPISODE'S PRESENTATION

LISTENER FEEDBACK includes...
Twin Peaks & video games
Explaining the ep. 17 wake
Audrey, Cooper & Cooper's downfall
Sunset Boulevard
Importance of season 2 subplots (w/ reference to Wally Brando & Frank Truman)
Did the climax of season 3 go wrong?
More importance of season 2 subplots & Mark Frost's contributions/tensions with Lynch
Laura (1944)
Seattle-based cast members in Twin Peaks
Cooper's empty/full coffee
Anticipating Twin Peaks in 2014 and recalling that and the late 80s/early 90s zeitgeist


bonus - Political Reflections

COVID-19 PANDEMIC & ECONOMIC CRISIS (lockdown, stimulus, re-opening)

BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS & MASS UPRISING
(including George Floyd, BLM before and during Trump, controversies around violence, "defund the police", liberal/conservative cultural reactions, libertarian hypocrisy with CHAZ, lessons of protests & primaries, centrists blame slogans for loss)

PROGRESSIVE PRIMARY VICTORIES IN THE SUMMER

TRUMP 2020'S CULTURE WAR OBSESSION

VOTER DEMOGRAPHICS IN THE 2020 ELECTION

TRUMP'S UNIQUENESS & COLLAPSE OF RIGHT-WING POPULISM

STOP THE STEAL & THE JANUARY 6 INSURRECTION

COMICAL END TO TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN...BUT WHEN WOULD ELITES ALLOW A COUP?

TRUMP'S SECOND IMPEACHMENT

TRUMP & REPUBLICANS GOING FORWARD

FORCE THE VOTE, MOVEMENT MORALE, TWO-PRONGED OUTREACH & POTENTIAL SPLITS IN THE LEFT

STIMULUS BILL & MINIMUM WAGE LEVERAGE

DEMOCRATS & THE LEFT IN 2022, 2024 & BEYOND


bonus - Podcast Recommendations (1 of 4)

Topics include: Forrest Gump, Indonesia & the Cold War - meant to say U.S. *opposed*, not supported anti-colonial movements during the Cold War, Ingmar Bergman, Barbara Smith & the origin of identity politics, breadth of Bernie's support, left polarization around identity politics/culture war, Stephanie Kelton & Modern Monetary Theory, prospects of state failure/revolution in 2020, David Duke's political career, Klansmen, Nazis, Pinochet & where the right draws a line


bonus - Podcast Recommendations (2 of 4)

Topics include: The 2010s decade, the contemporary dirtbag left and the 60s New Left, the loyal left vs. swing voters in the Democratic Party


bonus - Podcast Recommendations (3 of 4)

Topics include: A-bomb anniversary & Hollywood propaganda, Bad conditions for the Left in the UK


bonus - Podcast Recommendations (4 of 4)

Topics include: Navalny, Putin, and nuanced analysis, Thomas Frank & anti-populism (+ Bill Ayers), more tributes to Michael Brooks

coda for podcast recommendations (mentions political reflections as well; see above)


Lost in Twin Peaks #25 - S2E17 (Wounds and Scars/"Episode 24")

INTRO

THE OPENING OF THE EPISODE

DIRECTOR/WRITER

PRODUCTION & TV CONTEXT (including end of Gulf War during hiatus + when it aired, ratings, surrounding shows)

HISTORICAL CONTEXT (#1 movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II, Oscars for 1990, Mike Tyson paternity, TIME cover: Yeltsin vs. Gorbachev) - no media coverage this week

"PREVIOUSLY ON" RECAP

FAN RECEPTION/PERSONAL RECEPTION & THE FEEL OF THE EPISODE

THE STRUCTURE OF THE EPISODE (including top storyline)

SCENES ORGANIZED BY STORY

Ghostwood (pine weasel) / Ed & Norma / Josie & Harry / Cooper & Audrey / Windom Earle & Cooper's history / Mystery of the woods / Super Teen Nadine / MT Wentz (Norma's mother) / Ben goes good / Audrey & JJW / Norma's sister / Mystery box / Ben & Eileen / Miss Twin Peaks

LOCATIONS

CHARACTERS (introductions, first interactions, rankings, hot streaks, absences, returns)

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

MYTHOLOGY

WHAT IS TWIN PEAKS?

WHO IS AGENT COOPER?

WHO IS LAURA PALMER?

READINGS FROM MY OTHER WORK

LOG LADY INTRO & NEXT TIME PREVIEW

SPOILER SECTION (for future episodes)

CHARACTER/DIRECTOR MILESTONES & EPISODE RANK (forgot to include Annie book spoiler, will discuss next time)

READING FROM MY OTHER WORK



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