Twin Peaks S02E13: “Checkmate” (19/1/91)
The thirteenth episode of the second season of Twin Peaks is where things start to pick up again after the free fall caused by the closure of the Laura Palmer case. In part, [...]
May 2017
Twin Peaks S02E12: “The Black Widow” (12/1/91)
If there’s any one consistent register to “The Black Widow,” the twelfth episode of the second season of Twin Peaks, it’s bemusement. Most of the action focuses on [...]
Twin Peaks S02E11: “Masked Ball” (15/12/90)
Poised halfway between the Laura Palmer and Wyndham Earle narrative arcs, “Masked Ball” may be the most tentative, hesitant, self-doubting episode in the entirety of Twin [...]
Twin Peaks S02E10: “Dispute Between Brothers” (8/12/90)
“Dispute Between Brothers” officially feels like the beginning of the third “part” of Twin Peaks, if not the third season per se, since this is the point at which the [...]
Twin Peaks S02E09: “Arbitrary Law” (1/12/90)
In many ways, “Arbitrary Law” feels like the last episode of the second season of Twin Peaks – or at least the last episode that’s focused directly on Laura [...]