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 [...]

“Drive with a Dead Girl,” the eighth episode of the second season of Twin Peaks, had a lot to live up to. For one thing, it’s the first episode in the series that [...]

“Lonely Souls” was the third episode of the second season of Twin Peaks to be directed by David Lynch and it’s probably my favourite. Like Lynch’s previous episodes, [...]

Following on from “Laura Palmer’s Diary,” “The Orchid’s Curse” was one of the most tightly plotted and structured episodes in the second season of Twin Peaks, [...]

Despite the title, the fourth episode of the second season of Twin Peaks doesn’t contain that much of a focus on Laura’s diary, nor on Donna’s relationship with the [...]

“Traces to Nowhere” was the first “official’ episode in the first season of Twin Peaks and is so differentiated from the pilot that it is still frequently referred to [...]

April 8. 1990 – this is where it all began. Although I didn’t see Twin Peaks until ten years after it aired, there has been no film or television series that has [...]

One of the most difficult things to do, presumably, as a queer person, is to confront inequality in the face of death. Of course, death is the great leveller, but the [...]

One of the strangest series to grace our screens in 2016 was Search Party, a dark comedy about a group of New York hipsters whose world is turned upside down when they [...]

Over the last five to ten years there’s been a movement away from classical cinematic suspense. As a teacher who has co-ordinated units on horror cinema, I’ve noticed [...]