Podcasts by The Lodgers | A Twin Peaks Podcast
Kate Rennebohm and Simon Howell go through the entire run of TWIN PEAKS, from the pilot to the last gasp of THE RETURN, with a couple dozen fantastic guests in tow. Special attention is paid to the context of its release, its place in David Lynch's overall body of work, and its use of style and theme.
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announcing The Akerman Year! from 2021-11-05T07:00
We have a new podcast! It's about Chantal Akerman. We talk about it for a couple of minutes before leaving you alone again. More info on Twitter: twitter.com/akermanpod You can find the first, intr...
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Episode Thirty: Unwrapping The Return from 2019-02-05T11:00
Christmas has come early for Kate and Simon, whose gratis copies of Twin Peaks‘ third season on Blu-Ray prompted the first of two concluding episodes of The Lodgers. In this episode, Kate and Simon...
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Episode Thirty-One: The Eternal Return (ft. Dennis Lim and Tom McCarthy) from 2019-02-05T11:00
With The Return long concluded and the once-shiny Blu-Ray sets gathering dust, The Lodgers must come to an end. Opting to try and take things out with a bang, Kate and Simon are joined by not one b...
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Episode Twenty-Nine: Enjoy Yourself, it's Later Than You Think (ft. Adam Nayman and the cast of The Lodgers) from 2019-02-05T10:00
After a considerable, scheduling-necessitated delay, we've brought back Adam Nayman to help us consider just where the season’s final episodes take us, how they affect our view of the series as a w...
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Episode Twenty-Seven: Goodnight, Margaret (ft. Byron Davies) from 2019-02-05T10:00
An emotionally intense and cathartic episode of The Return sparks a wide-ranging discussion with returning guest Byron Davies. Touched upon: whether we can allow/permit ourselves to accept Ed and N...
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Episode Twenty-Eight: [redacted on FBI orders] (ft. Miriam Bale) from 2019-02-05T10:00
Part 16 of The Return marks the eventful continuation of the series’ climax, including at least one massive event fans have been anticipating for many weeks: the return of Jerry Horne! And also may...
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Episode Twenty-Six: Me, a Tulpa? (ft. Dr. Sara Ann Swain) from 2019-02-02T01:00
After a couple of weeks in which The Return taunted and tantalized viewers by holding back on incident, “Part 14” decided to blitz us with a ton of new, bizarre, and exciting developments. Dr. Sara...
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Episode Twenty-Five: Sonny, Sonny, You're Gonna Die (ft. Seth Mnookin) from 2019-02-02T00:00
Seth Mnookin (of MIT’s Graduate Science Writing program, Vanity Fair, and a whole bunch of other very cool stuff) for some reason felt compelled to ask if he could come onto our little Twin Peaks p...
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Episode Twenty-Four: Horne Under a Bad Sign (ft. Glenn Kenny) from 2019-02-01T23:00
Just in time for the episode that frustrated the broadest set of Twin Peaks viewers, New York Times / rogerebert.com (rogerebert.com) writer Glenn Kenny joins us to tackle the upside of frustration...
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Episode Twenty-Three: Candie Crush (ft. Joel Bocko) from 2019-02-01T22:00
Special guest and Lynch scholar Joel Bocko (@lostinthemovies), one of the internet’s most prolific Twin Peaks experts, joins us to dissect the intense, hilarious, and momentous “Part 11,” as well a...
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Episode Twenty-Two: Under the Starry Night, Long Ago from 2019-02-01T21:00
After last week’s recording session from hell (don’t ask), Kate and Simon scale it back and go guest-free to take on one of The Return‘s most tonally dynamic and extreme episodes. Topics include: D...
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Episode Eighteen: This Podcast Contains a Coded Message (ft. Byron Davies) from 2019-02-01T06:30
“Part 7” marks a huge turning point in The Return…or does it? Guest Byron Davies joins us to dive deep into some fresh philosophical tangents as we ponder what it means that the series has (apparen...
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Episode Nineteen: Atom and his Brakhage (ft. Olivier Creurer) from 2019-02-01T06:00
Twin Peaks trended on Twitter worldwide on the back of its wildest episode yet, but what did its new levels of experimentation amount to? Kate and Simon dive into the episode with returning guest O...
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Episode Twenty-One: Foot-With-Mouth Disease (ft. Jessica Bardsley) from 2019-02-01T06:00
Jessica Bardsley rejoins us following her triumphant original-run appearance to help Kate and Simon tackle one of the more notoriously talky episodes of The Return: Part 9. We apologize for the lat...
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Episode Twenty: The All-Dougie Radio Funtime Hour (ft. Adrienne and Jonathan Turnbull-Reilly) from 2019-02-01T06:00
With no new episode this week, Kate and Simon are joined by guests Adrienne and Jonathan Turnbull-Reilly help us sift through listeners’ (and their!) burning Twin Peaks questions. We didn’t bother ...
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Episode Seventeen: Coop On, Coop Off (ft. Matt Croombs) from 2019-02-01T00:00
Things get a little more heated than usual at Lodgers HQ when returning guest Matt Croombs joins us to talk “Part 6” of The Return. The more extreme elements of the new season come to the fore as K...
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Episode Sixteen: Tit for Tati (ft. Justine Smith) from 2019-02-01T00:00
With the new season’s airing schedule finally normalizing, Kate and Simon are joined by returning guest Justine Smith to try to sort out the new season’s relationship to the original Twin Peaks, th...
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Episode Nine: "Lonely Souls" from 2019-01-31T23:00
Laura Palmer’s killer is revealed, unraveling all that came before – or does it? Once again flying solo so as to hog a momentous episode, Kate and Simon discuss the impact of learning the “true” id...
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Episode Ten: What About Bob? (ft. Ethan Vestby) from 2019-01-31T23:00
With the help of special guest Ethan Vestby of These Boys Are Good Boys, Kate and Simon accelerate the podcast’s pace and tackle the next four episodes, beginning to delve into what we will be not ...
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Episode Fourteen: "Fire Walk With Me" (ft. Adam Nayman) from 2019-01-31T23:00
New episodes of Twin Peaks land this Sunday (holy balls!), and that can only mean one thing: it’s time to revisit Fire Walk With Me, Lynch’s divisive, brutal film chronicling the final days of Laur...
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Episode Fifteen: You're Just a Stranger's Dream from 2019-01-31T23:00
Whatever you want to call it – Season 3, a “limited series,” or something new entirely, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks revival is finally upon us, and tasked with discussing its first four...
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Episode Seven: Attack of the Plant Vaginas (ft. Sara Swain) from 2019-01-31T23:00
Kate and Simon face down a couple of occasionally patchy but still fascinating episodes with the help of the brilliant (Dr.!) Sara Ann Swain: “The Man Behind the Glass” and “Laura’s Secret Diary.” ...
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Episode Eleven: Crimes Against Aesthetics (ft. Olivier Creurer) from 2019-01-31T23:00
“The legend of how awful [these episodes] are shades your approach to them…not everything in them is terrible…” We wrestle with perhaps the darkest, most awful stretch of Twin Peaks episodes we pos...
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Episode Thirteen: There Is No Death from 2019-01-31T23:00
The final episodes of Twin Peaks‘ original ABC run are covered on this week’s podcast, and the momentous occasion brings out a lot of feelings in Kate and Simon – as well as a lot of profound nerde...
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Episode Eight: The Gifted and the Damned from 2019-01-31T23:00
Kate and Simon fly solo, which means a whole lot of tangents, trivia, and goofiness ensue, including a particularly juicy bit of archival goodness that is 100% (to the best of our knowledge) exclus...
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Episode Twelve: In Zane, in the Membrane (ft. James Cathcart) from 2019-01-31T23:00
As we head into the final stretch of Season 2, things are finally starting to look up – or are they? Guest James Cathcart helps Kate and Simon crawl out from under the worst subplots and new elemen...
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Episode Five: Bite the Bullet, Baby (ft. Ricky D) from 2019-01-31T22:00
To cap off Twin Peaks‘ first season, Kate and Simon are joined by Goomba Stomp/Sordid Cinema editor and longtime partner in podcasting Ricky D. Does the climactic episode live up to the landmark te...
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Episode Four: Close Your Eyes, Burst Into Flame (ft. Connor Denney) from 2019-01-31T22:00
Kate and Simon are joined by Connor Denney (@reviewoffilm) to talk “Cooper’s Dreams” and “Realization Time,” Season One’s penultimate episodes. Of particular interest this week: roleplaying, doubli...
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Episode Three: There are a Lot of Birds (ft. Matt Croombs) from 2019-01-31T22:00
With the help of guest Matt Croombs, Kate and Simon dive deep into “Rest in Pain” and “The One-Armed Man” while also pondering, among other things, Twin Peaks‘ place in the late 80s / early 90s pol...
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Episode Six: A Three-Hankie Crime (ft. Jessica Bardsley) from 2019-01-31T22:00
In a slightly belated (sorry!), slightly extended outing, Kate and Simon are joined by Jessica Bardsley for possibly the most impactful one-two punch of the entire series, the Season Two openers “M...
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Episode One: "Pilot" from 2019-01-31T21:00
The Lodgers will see Kate Rennebohm, Simon Howell, and an assortment of guests tackle the entire series run, leading up to (and including!) the new season landing in May. On the inaugural episode, ...
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Episode Two: A Fish in the Percolator (ft. Justine Smith) from 2019-01-31T21:00
In our second episode, Kate and Simon are joined by longtime collaborator and partner in crime Justine Smith to discuss the pivotal second and third episodes of Twin Peaks. The wide-ranging discuss...
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