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Things Are Getting Strange

Nick & Kim

A Twin Peaks rewatch podcast. Get yourself a nice cup of the blackest coffee you can find, a slice of damn fine cherry pie and join us!

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S13 · E21
September 17 · 54 min
Frankenstein's Leo
Leo's back! He's risen... From the slaaaaaaaaab. Not sure how coming back from brain-death turns you into Frankenstein's monster but here we are! Regrettably James's subplot is ongoing, but at least the Lana - or the Twin Peaks succubus - plot seems to be coming to an end. Support the show
S13 · E20
August 20 · 54 min
This Could Be a Case for Bryson and Scully
As part of Checkmate, we get a little side-tracked into how The X-Files could almost be a spin-off from Twin Peaks - still staring Duchovny with Anderson, but with Duchovny remaining as Denise. Possibly better we got the series' as we do. Alas, we are stumbling into Twin Peaks' infamous troubled season 2 period where the soap opera aspects ramp up and things get weirder. Just not in the sense we would want... Support the show
S13 · E19
August 13 · 54 min
Special Agent Audrey Horne
Content Warning: the episode of Twin Peaks discussed contains depictions of transphobia and domestic abuse/violence against women. zzzzzzzzzz Wait! Ignoring the James scenes, the episode is still fun if a little distracted. We discuss Bobby being terrible (what else is new?) and a theoretical otherworld where meeting Denise irrevocably changes Audrey's entire career. Also the Black Widow does her thing. Maybe. Though witchcraft tends not to show up in autopsies. Support the show
S13 · E18
August 6 · 54 min
Denise Origins
Content Warning: the episode of Twin Peaks discussed contains depictions of transphobia. Seeing as its the episode somewhat confusingly titled Masked Ball, it means David Duchovny is here! We talk a lot about his role as Denise and how Twin Peaks manages to largely side-step a lot of problems with how she is depicted and treated in the episode. We spend a lot less time on James' new sideplot, which... yeah... Support the show
S13 · E17
July 30 · 58 min
Reverse Nepotism
So... now what? Well, the series needs to keep Cooper in town, so there's a very abrupt owls coming home to roost moment for the wildly illegal stuff he's pulled previously in the series. But we also have other plotlines that won't just end... Though the series does seem to have completely forgotten Maddy even existed. Support the show
S13 · E16
July 23 · 50 min
Relationship Speedrun
Well. We're here. Now the cast catch up with the viewer and the whole who killed Laura Palmer part of the plot is resolved. But there's another 13 episodes to go... Outside of murder, the other plots from the series continue... Support the show
S13 · E15
July 16 · 42 min
Tonal Whiplash
Something of a dramatic reversal into comedy after the darkness of the last episode... We discuss why some people aren't keen on this, but get into the likely reason why Twin Peaks is like this.. Support the show
S13 · E14
June 25 · 1 hr 7 min
Horse in the Room
Content Warning: discussions of sexual abuse, violence against women, murder of women, abuse of minors and yellowface. So, we come, inevitably, to the horse in the Palmer household. With all the horrors that entails and all the reveals. Please bear in mind the content warnings - we don't dwell on the details but do touch on what happens and the associated discomfort. Apart from the unmitigated horrors, there are nice moments of levity and continued soap opera shenanigans. And of course, the answer to the question posed by the pilot. Support the show
S13 · E13
June 18 · 48 min
Chiwowow
Cooper finally contends with his litany of illegal actions! For a few minutes. Then he starts withholding medication... Twin Peaks continues! We talk about James's perplexing timing to resolve last episode's cliffhanger and how Shelly is evaporating audience sympathies in her and Bobby's escapades. Bonus points if you know what a vicuna coat is and who's most likely to own one... Support the show
S13 · E12
June 11 · 48 min
Whole Damn Town
Back to Twin Peaks! We briefly talk about upcoming X-Files news (both old and new!) and The Amazing Digital Circus finale (don't worry, we're not about to spoil anything) before diving headlong into the Pacrific Northwest. We get hung up on how ambiguous the layout of Twin Peaks itself is even now and celebrate that Audrey is finally getting rescued! Support the show
S13 · E11
May 14 · 47 min
Fool for a Lawyer
We get a bit hung up on how Maddy's hair has changed over the course of the series. And reach silly conclusions about the potential Laura Palmer-ifiction of every woman in Twin Peaks. Sort of like Third Impact. Or carcenisation. Otherwise this is a kind of a place-holder episode with setups for the future and some typical soap-opera moments. Where has Mike gotten to...? Support the show
S13 · E10
May 7 · 58 min
The Philosophy of Albert
If you're watching along with the series, what perpetual cynic Albert believes in might come as rather a surprise in The Man Behind the Glass. Especially moments after his giddy glee about the pop-culture provenance of the gun used to shoot Cooper. While discuss Doctor Jacoby's surprising home-life, Donna's improbably horrible timing and why we are at best indifferent to James and the love-tangle he seems intent on flinging himself head first into. Support the show
S13 · E9
April 2 · 50 min
Cheese Pig
So much coma! We wind up talking about how much of a trope the soap opera coma is... and how Twin Peaks weirdly (for Leo anyway) plays it closer to reality than most... We get side-tracked onto The Fourth Kind for a while purely because of how it used owls and how that might be a kind of inference back to this series... Support the show
S13 · E9
March 26 · 57 min
British Accent
Twin Peaks gets off to a slightly unusual second season start... We discuss comas and how it feels so oddly distanced from season 1. Also get minorly fixated on the previously unmentioned Hayward daughter. Support the show
S13 · E8
March 19 · 1 hr 23 min
Shred of Humanity
Hard to ignore how good Piper Laurie is in this episode. And in general in this series! We've reached the all too soon end of season 1 of Twin Peaks and it feels like everything's happening, so many cliffhangers and dangling plot-threads! And somehow while talking about the series we loop in things like Clueless and Psychonauts... Support the show
S13 · E7
March 5 · 56 min
The Sheriff's Secret Police
Watch as Dale Cooper fends off Audrey's attempts at seduction in order not to bring the FBI into disrepute shortly before making use of the Bookhouse Boys because they need to do something across the Candian border! Not saying he shouldn't have resisted Audrey, but the latter also feels distinctly dodgy. At this point in the series everyone seems to be converging at One Eyed Jack's or about to commit arson. Or making *checks notes* Laura Palmer's cousin dress up as her in order to lure her psychiatrist out of his office in order to steal an audio cassette made by Laura Palmer... Support the show
S13 · E6
February 12 · 56 min
Very Good. Now Shoot Him Again
Twin Peaks continues to tease that a solution to its central mystery can only be imminent! Birds singing and perpetual music get their explanations here! But in the meantime, we continue to complain about James, continue to enjoy every time Bobby shows up on-screen, and remain hopelessly fixated on Maddy and who's playing her in this series. Also the mill-arson plot is just getting more tangled by the minute. Support the show
S13 · E5
February 5 · 59 min
Llama Sneeze
Feels like everyone is turning out to be psychic in Twin Peaks... Laura Palmer, Sarah Palmer, Dale Cooper... Hank Jennings?! Or at least we don't have a good way for him to call right after the letter he sent (presumably days earlier) was opened. But! For those who know the kind of things Twin Peaks is famed for may be interested that this is the first time an owl has an on-screen presence. Also Maddy looks very set to just make all the relationship tangle even more complicated... Support the show
S13 · E4
January 29 · 1 hr 3 min
Pie Heaven
You may be shocked - SHOCKED - to learn Twin Peaks immediately swerves away from naming Laura Palmer's killer despite explicitly promising such an answer last episode. Such is the way of Twin Peaks, and these days its well known this was never quite what David Lynch and Mark Frost wanted to focus on, and yet... the answer is out there still. In the meantime we talk a fair amount about the funeral at the centre of Rest in Pain and bring up Ringu once again. Support the show
S13 · E3
January 15 · 53 min
Burns Suit
The Red Room makes its appearance in Twin Peaks! If you've been wondering how the series has the reputation it has, it all ramps up from here. We talk backwards talking, our "clues" for the central mystery, compare the series to (variously) Insidious, Neon Genesis Evangelion and professional wrestling! Also come to a startling realisation about the Horne brothers... Support the show

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