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Twin Peaks S2E13: Checkmate

Coop gets the lowdown from Major Briggs on his space spirit journey, and learns of some pretty rad visions and not too much else. Then he and Denise initiate Operation Boymoder to snag the nefarious Canadians, with a TS Gambit in the back pocket for when Ernie's profuse sweat makes things go south. 

Meanwhile: Dick and Andy launch their own investigation into whether Little Nicky is the devil from da bible. Ed and Norma MAKE OUT!!!!!! Then Hank beats Ed up!! Then Nadine beats Hank ...

Twin Peaks S2E12: The Black Widow

Dale decides to buy a house in Twin Peaks, and settles on the insanely cursed Dead Dog Farm. But oh mon dieu…. there was a cocaine deal done right there?? And they left their coke lying around and it could clear his name !!!! What a deus ex machina! The only thing crazier would be if Garland Briggs reappeared in the middle of the night wearing a pilot’s outfit! Now let me take a big sip of this water….

Meanwhile: old newspaperman Dougie Milford dies from a heart attack from fuckin...

Twin Peaks S2E11: Masked Ball

TS Denise Bryson, FBI top dog, sashays into Twin Peaks to harsh-but-fairly investigate Cooper's case, and get in a lil dancing on the side. Garland's disappearance might have something to do with the Black and White Lodges. Nadine has the hots for Mike The Snake which gets her recruited into the wrestling team. James rides his big dumb motorcycle directly into softcore 🌽 (sorry, don't want this episode to get blocked). Andy and Dick Tremayne’s dad competition is complicated by the fact t...

TS TV DVD: Mulholland Drive

VERTIGO SPOILERS 1:19:29 to 1:21:20

TWIN PEAKS SEASON 2 FINALE SPOILERS 2:16:55 to 2:19:30

Also our next TS TV DVD episode will be THE BEAST (2023)

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A mysterious dark haired woman is being driven somewhere in a limo....and then her drivers are about to kill her but their car gets hit by some carousing teens. She escapes and stumbles her way into a house some lady is leaving a...

Twin Peaks S2E10: Dispute Between Brothers

The show opens with an offputtingly serene Leland funeral sequence, where we also learn that Dwayne and Dougie Milford, the mayor and the publisher of the local newspaper, are brothers and angry at each other?

Coop is very sad to have to say goodbye to Twin Peaks, but duty calls and he’s off to do FBI stuff….. or is he??? Turns out he’s under investigation, sponsored by Jean Renault and the dastardly RCMP! To take the edge off, he goes fishing with Garland Briggs, who…disappears...

Twin Peaks S2E9: Arbitrary Law

It’s another Big Episode! It starts with Dale announcing He Will Find The Killer Today, and the boys telling to do a vision quest about it, as they all turn to the camera and say what the episode will be. He investigates the mysterious Mrs. Tremond with Donna’s help, but it turns out she maybe never existed? But the new Mrs. Tremond gives him a page of Laura’s diary where she foresaw her death after having the same dream Dale had way back in episode 2. Inspired by this, Dale talks to MI...

TS TV DVD: Vertigo

A retired police detective is hired to surveil a young woman who seems to be possessed by the spirit of her grandmother, but develops an obsession with her that threatens to derail the investigation, both of their lives, and – worst of all – the world tour!!! It's Vertigo, baby.

(Heads-up: this episode discusses Twin Peaks up to S2E7 “Lonely Souls”, including a character death and major reveal. Listen at your own risk!)

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Twin Peaks S2E8: Drive With a Dead Girl

Around the town: Bobby has a new dumbass get rich quick scheme: blackmail! Norma's mom is in town, with her new husband, Ernie “The Professor” Niles, who it turns out Hank knows from prison. Jerry is doing a horrendous job as Ben’s lawyer, but at least the brothers can reminisce about Louise Dombrowski’s sexy flashlight dance. His day gets even worse when Pete, now in sicko mode, shows up to deliver a recorded extortion from Catherine. Lucy is back with her sister, Gwen, and Gwen’s ...

Twin Peaks S2E7: Lonely Souls (ft. Riley of Goddamn Gamecube)

Well, here we are: THE episode of Season 2. Shelly has to quit her job at the diner. Bobby looks for Leo’s stash of drug money, and instead finds a mysterious cassette tape. Mr Tojamura sheds his disguise. Harold has killed himself. Dale arrests Ben Horne for the murder of Laura Palmer. And finally... it happens again.

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TS TV Does Fantasia 2025: I Live Here Now, The Serpent's Skin, The Wailing & more!

In a very special episode of TS TV DVD, we talk about every movie we watched at Fantasia, North America's premier genre film festival. We've got a Soviet musical about the devil, an assortment of animated gems, a surreal abortion flick featuring SHERYL LEE (aka Laura Palmer), and two horror movies about – gasp – being Australian 😱

Which lucky movies will earn our inaugural PALME D'OLL awards? Stick around and find out!

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Twin Peaks S2E6: Demons

Dale brings the rescued Audrey to the Bookhouse, where she says some very almost-incriminating things about her father. He starts feeling bad about endangering Audrey with his cross-border raids, but Harry says ehh just don’t think about it. Then his boss and best friend, Gordon Cole, shows up! With CLUES! Yayy! And a spooky chess note from Windom Earle… oh no…. AND they find the one-armed man, who gives us a real lore dump about the Spirit World, and the cliffhanger that BOB is…. in ...

Twin Peaks S2E5: The Orchid's Curse

Dale learns where Audrey by changing his perspective and finding her sexy letter. He gets a few clues about lesbians living next to the old Palmer house and Philip Gerard(?) living at a motel taking medicine. Then him and harry plan a daring heist into One Eyed Jack’s and rescue Audrey. While that happens, Jean kills Blackie and then captures Hank, er, “Daryl Lodwick”. In a mirror heist, Donna and Maddy try to steal Laura’s diary from Howard, which goes horribly.

Meanwh...

TS TV DVD: Eraserhead

This week we're taking on David Lynch's first film and ETERNAL FREAK CLASSIC, Eraserhead! A sad little Jack Nance and his girlfriend attempt to raise a freaky little Eraserhead baby sent down by... God? Baby haters, do not interact!

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Twin Peaks S2E4: Laura's Secret Diary

Dale gets a confession from Leland for the murder of Jacques Renault, and puts him up for trial. Donna investigates Harold’s having Laura’s diary, is mostly just sad, but it’s weird that Harold is so insistent on NOT giving it to the cops.

Meanwhile, the elusive travel writer M.T. Wentz is visiting the town, the show gears up to get really racist with Josie’s continuing plotline and the introduction of Yellowface Guy, Hank is up to no good and gets beat up, and Andy is ...

Twin Peaks S2E3: The Man Behind the Glass

Coop will not leave Ronnette Pulaski alone, but it’s worth it guys: he found a letter “B”. He fills Harry and Albert in about his giant visi

Coop will not leave Ronnette Pulaski alone, but it’s worth it guys: he found a letter “B”. He fills Harry and Albert in about his giant visions, and then Harry and Albert go enemies to lovers. Leland tells Coop about his childhood memory of Bob, with new information for us: he wanted to “play with fire”. Blackie and (gasp!)...

TS TV DVD: Red Rooms

Enter the ~xX sick and twisted world Xx~ of RED ROOMS, a 2023 film about two women who connect over their shared interest in Ludovic Chevalier, a Montreal man on trial for the livestreamed murder of three teenage girls. One of the women insists he's innocent, the other... well, you'll see.

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Twin Peaks S2E2: Coma

(Sorry this is a couple days late, we're putting stuff in place to make sure our podcast host pushes properly to the Patreon! Shouldn't happen again!)

Garland Briggs has a special message for Dale – from space! And he gets a phone call from Audrey, who’s used her wiles to get info on Laura from Emory Battis, the perfume counter creep – but she just might be caught!

Meanwhile: Donna’s meals on wheels quest introduces her to an old lady, a magician boy, and a recluse. Andy�...

Twin Peaks S2E1: May The Giant Be With You

Dale’s been shot! What a cliffhanger! It’s September 1990, and I’ve been itching for some narrative resolution all summer! But David Lynch says no no no – instead, you get the slowest glass of warm milk in the world, and some Giant Prophecies! After (kinda) recovering, Coop gets brought up to speed on the crazy events of the finale and learns the following clues:

• Laura knew some weird poetry

• Jacoby had her necklace

• Leo has an alibi

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2025-06-02 14:32:30 +0000 UTC View Post

TS TV DVD: Sunset Boulevard

This month on the bonus show, we're taking on the classic film noir SUNSET BOULEVARD. A struggling screenwriter takes refuge from in the home of fading film star Norma Desmond, and gradually becomes enmeshed in her fantasy world – to DEADLY results :O

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Twin Peaks S1E7: The Last Evening

Season 1 goes out with a bang, with as much capital-p Plot as almost the rest of the season combined. Jacoby gets the shit beaten out of him! Coop catches weaselly Jacques Renault, with the help of Andy’s surprisingly straight shooting – but then Leland kills him! Andy’s gunplay gets him a conversation with Lucy, and she’s pregnant! Leo burns the mill down, with Shelly and Catherine in it! Then he gets shot – again! James gets grilled by the cops after listening to Laura’s tape wi...

Twin Peaks S1E6: "Realization Time"

(DISCO ELYSIUM SPOILERS from 05:53-16:10)

Dale Cooper becomes the world’s first cop to not try to sleep with a high schooler. Audrey pursues her investigation, following the trail from the Horne store perfume desk to One-Eyed Jack’s. Donna, James, and Maddy disguise Maddy as Laura to lure out Dr. Jacoby, but they’re being followed by Bobby, who’s being followed by... someone?

Also: a history lesson on the sick freak who invented motion pictures, and a (pretty long...

Note for listeners

Hey, folks! Lily here.

I wanted to let you know this week's episode (S1E6, "Realization Time") is going to be a few days late. Sadie was planning to edit it last week, but a stressful life thing ate up all of her free time, so I'm taking over the edit to give her a break. I'll get it on the feed ASAP, likely on Thursday.

The good news: we're in the home stretch of season 1 of Twin Peaks! Only two weeks from today, you'll get our episode on the legendary S1 finale, and from there, ...

TS TV DVD: Wasteland

This week on the bonus show, we dig into WASTELAND, the absurdist animated film from indie darling Jonni Peppers. The first entry in her ongoing "The Blindfold" pentalogy, Wasteland follows a loosely-affiliated group of weirdos in an alternate-universe California where cults abound and all conspiracy theories are true. Spoilers: it rules!!

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Wasteland is for sale on Gumroad, is watchable on the ...

Twin Peaks S1E5: Cooper's Dreams

DISCO ELYSIUM SPOILERS TALK 2:33-11:51

The Investigation makes headway both mundane and uncanny, finding out that Jacques Renault was managing advertisements for both Laura and Ronnette in Flesh World. In terms of the spirit world, however, the log is now ready to speak, and reveals potent clues about the night of Laura's murder. The boys then find TWO cabins, the second containing the scene of at least some of the crimes done to Laura.

Meanwhile, the Icelanders are coming, Leland...

Twin Peaks S1E4: The One-Armed Man

The investigation continues apace as Sarah Palmer's vision, a bust on Jacques Renault’s apartment, and bevy of birds answer some questions and raise even more. Not to be left out of the investigative frenzy, Audrey and Donna both vow to uncover the truth behind Laura's death themselves. Meanwhile, Coop gets some Boys Time in with the Gun Boys, the plot to burn down the mill heats up, Bobby is up to no good, and Norma's husband Hank is up for parole, despite his insistence on ominously sucki...

TS TV DVD: The Straight Story (with Jacob Geller)

In our very first PATREON EXCLUSIVE BONUS EPISODE with SPECIAL GUEST JACOB GELLER, we talk about David Lynch’s Most Normal Movie: The Straight Story!!!!

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Twin Peaks S1E3: Rest In Pain

After last week’s crazy cliffhanger, Cooper announces almost directly to the camera that his dream contains clues that will solve everything, but also that he forgot the most important part. As a sign that he has become a bona fide citizen of Twin Peaks, the Bookhouse Boys invite him into their secret club dedicated to fighting the evil in the woods. To that end, they’ve kidnapped a French Canadian. Laura Palmer’s funeral inspires the men of Twin Peaks to punch each other. Meanwhile, Au...

Twin Peaks S1E2: Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer

With the help of his colleague Albert and the power of throwing rocks, Dale makes some stunning advances in the case. Meanwhile, Ben Horne is a goofy dipshit, the bozo boys get a scare from Leo, Josie does some snooping, and Nadine scores huge.

Also: two delicious waters, a surprising amount of Elden Ring talk, and a plea from a cat named Mushroom :)

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