Twin Peaks S02E22: “Beyond Life and Death” (10/6/91)
Less than twenty-four hours away from the return of Twin Peaks, it’s hard to know what to say about the final episode that hasn’t been said. All up, this is probably my [...]
May 2017
Lynch: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
In some ways, Fire Walk With Me, David Lynch’s notorious prequel to Twin Peaks, plays as two quite distinct films: the investigation by Special Agents Chester Desmond [...]
Twin Peaks S02E21: “Miss Twin Peaks” (10/6/91)
After the incredible conclusion to “The Path to the Black Lodge,” it’d be hard for the follow-up episode, “Miss Twin Peaks,” not to be a bit of a comedown, so [...]
Twin Peaks S02E20: “The Path to the Black Lodge” (18/4/91)
If there’s an “underrated” episode in Twin Peaks, then it has to be “The Path to the Black Lodge,” which kickstarts the final three episodes of the series – a [...]
Twin Peaks S02E19: “Variations and Relations” (11/4/91)
As the title might suggest, “Variations and Relations” acts as a bridge to the final three episodes of Twin Peaks, forming the connective tissue that allows the [...]
Twin Peaks S02E18: “On the Wings of Love” (4/4/91)
As the title might suggest, the eighteenth episode of the second season of Twin Peaks has an overwhelmingly romantic, domestic focus. That’s not to say, exactly, that it [...]
Twin Peaks S02E17: “Wounds and Scars” (28/3/91)
Throughout the second season of Twin Peaks, there was a steady influx of new characters, but “Wounds and Scars,” the seventeenth episode, provided the only two – with [...]
Twin Peaks S02E16: “The Condemned Woman” (16/2/91)
With “Slaves and Masters,” director Diane Keaton reintroduced a warmth and sensuality that had been lacking in Twin Peaks for some time, and “The Condemned Woman” [...]
Twin Peaks S02E15: “Slaves and Masters” (9/2/91)
Like the previous episode of Twin Peaks, “Slaves and Masters” has a quite heightened cinematic style, but in a completely different way, since this time around it’s not [...]
Twin Peaks S02E14: “Double Play” (2/2/91)
“Double Play” marks the beginning of a fairly cinematic string of Twin Peaks episodes that all, in one way or another, seem to anticipate Lynch’s stamp on the season [...]