Podcasts by Twin Peaks Rewatch
Join us as we revisit David Lynch and Mark Frost's unsettling murder mystery serial, Twin Peaks. Each week we'll watch and discuss one episode—send questions and comments on the current episode to twinpeaks@idlethumbs.net to be part of the conversation!
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 54: Wrap-up Mailbag from 2017-09-16T21:20:31
Now that Twin Peaks The Return has concluded, we look to the true hero of the show—Deputy Chad—to provide a model of how we should close out the final episode of Twin Peaks Rewatch. So, like Chad, ...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 53: The Return, Part 18 from 2017-09-08T19:01:27
Twin Peaks has ended, it was confusing, upsetting, and we have a lot of questions, but we loved it. Wait, what year is this? Join us for a discussion of the series finale of Twin Peaks, as we walk ...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 52: The Return, Part 17 from 2017-09-08T17:52:12
It's time for the first half of the end. Twin Peaks' final curtain call aired as a two-part double-long event, and we ended up with so much to say about these final episodes, we followed suit and s...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 51: The Return, Part 16 from 2017-08-30T05:33:35
As Twin Peaks approaches what may be its final episode ever, it delivers an hour stuffed to bursting with amazing moments that are, in and of themselves, cathartic and revealing , but also illumina...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 50: The Return, Part 15 from 2017-08-23T16:18:33
This week on Twin Peaks, things are either moving into position as the finale looms, or they are poignantly coming to an end. One Cooper hears a name he hasn't heard in 25 years, and the other Coop...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 49: The Return, Part 14 from 2017-08-18T06:03:10
It was a jam-packed, breakneck episode of Twin Peaks this week, full of new connections and long-awaited revelations, standout performances all around, dreams that seamlessly blinked 25 years into ...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 48: The Return, Part 13 from 2017-08-09T21:06:51
Twin Peaks refuses to get stuck in a rut, but may be stuck in time. Or maybe time has lost all meaning? It's hard to tell right now. Sarah Palmer watches the same few seconds of television on loop,...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 47: The Return, Part 12 from 2017-08-03T08:11:08
Though the map is both figuratively and literally starting to center on Twin Peaks, this week we're all over the place. After some fantastic moments with the FBI, Ben Horne, Sheriff Truman, and Sar...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 46: The Return, Part 11 from 2017-07-25T21:26:38
Twin Peaks is firing on all cylinders this week, as the tonal hallmarks of The Return mesh with some absolute standout moments from longtime series regulars and newcomers alike. We had a great time...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 45: The Return, Part 10 from 2017-07-19T06:12:32
Twin Peaks dives deep into the uncomfortable and painful, at a very human level this week, and we do our best to talk through it all. Fortunately, in addition to a cavalcade of very dangerous, very...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 44: The Return, Part 9 from 2017-07-11T17:44:30
Twin Peaks returns to normal (its version of normal, at least) after last week's atomic blast, tons of plot threads get linked together by Gordon and the FBI, and Bobby Briggs has his day. Join us ...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 43: Mid-Season Intermission from 2017-07-07T20:54:25
With Twin Peaks on break last weekend, we turn to the Twin Peaks Rewatch mailbag, to discuss your thoughts on the new season so far, and where we might be going in the second half.
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 42: The Return, Part 8 from 2017-06-27T18:42:09
Wow. After watching what is definitely the strangest, most world-expanding episode of Twin Peaks, we do our best to drink full and descend, talking through the whole episode scene by scene before c...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 41: The Return, Part 7 from 2017-06-20T07:57:06
Hawk and Sheriff Truman add new evidence to Laura Palmer's case file for the first time in 25 years, Major Briggs is identified as the body in the Buckhorn morgue, Doc Hayward caught some trout, an...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 40: The Return, Part 6 from 2017-06-12T19:51:02
A long-awaited face makes a tantalizing appearance in the shape of Laura Dern, much to the internet's delight. Meanwhile, the swirling Dougie-related conspiracies seem to intertwine ever further, e...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 39: The Return, Part 5 from 2017-06-05T23:23:13
With the premiere event behind us, it's time for the first truly weekly installment of Twin Peaks season three. We're thrown headfirst into Dougie Jones' work life, we're given the identity of the ...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 38: The Return, Part 4 from 2017-06-01T04:37:22
After a wild and wide-reaching start to the season, Twin Peaks is finally starting to center itself. Or, at least we think it might be. Let's talk about the home life of Dougie Jones, the FBI's run...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 37: The Return, Part 3 from 2017-05-29T23:09:30
Twin Peaks: The Return is broadening out, getting funnier, sadder, and somehow even stranger than it was before. Agent Cooper completes his difficult journey out of the Black Lodge only to land in ...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 36: The Return, Part 2 from 2017-05-24T23:35
Is it future or is it past? Storylines converge, and events fold in on themselves in Twin Peaks' second new episode of 2017. What will happen to Cooper now that he's left the red room? What is his ...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 35: The Return, Part 1 from 2017-05-22T18:40:50
The first new Twin Peaks episode in 26 years just hit television. We'll unpack what's new - and what has stayed the same - two decades later, share our thoughts on the fate of Agent Cooper, dig int...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 34: Catching Up from 2017-05-17T20:00:47
Twin Peaks is coming back and so are we! Join us as we kick the rust off this podcast, in anticipation of following all of Twin Peaks season three in real time, starting next week. This week, we're...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 33: Odds and Ends from 2015-06-12T23:01:05
It's the last episode of Twin Peaks Rewatch... for now! As we await Season 3 of Twin Peaks, we're capping off our rewatch of the original run and film by digging through the listener mailbag for ob...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 32: The Missing Pieces from 2015-06-02T22:09:42
As a followup to our Fire Walk With Me discussion, this week we share our thoughts on the Missing Pieces deleted and extended scenes from the Twin Peaks: The Entire Mystery Blu-ray set. Plus, we de...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 31: Fire Walk With Me from 2015-05-28T19:53:40
This week, enjoy our discussion of the Twin Peaks film, Fire Walk With Me. It's a double-size episode about what is essentially two movies in one: the investigation of the Teresa Banks murder, and ...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 30: Beyond Life and Death from 2015-05-20T23:34:46
Our rewatch of the full run of Twin Peaks has finished with our enthusiastic discussion of its stunning finale. But stay tuned for continuing Twin Peaks talk, including our take on the film Fire Wa...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 29: Miss Twin Peaks from 2015-05-14T05:17:48
We've come this far and it's finally paid off -- the moment we've all been waiting for is here: the Miss Twin Peaks competition! Let's all join together to lay Twin Peaks' bizarre back nine to res...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 28: The Path to the Black Lodge from 2015-05-05T22:33:10
This week on Twin Peaks the darkness that permeates the town is felt with a potency we haven't seen in a long time, and Windom Earle is on occasion the actual vicious, driven, and brilliant villain...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 27: Variations on Relations from 2015-04-28T22:40:29
It's another enjoyable but aimless episode of Twin Peaks! As we close in on the series finale, the full suite of late-season-two plot threads chugs along. At least we're always glad to see Gordon C...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 26: On the Wings of Love from 2015-04-21T22:16:22
As we approach the series finale, Twin Peaks has returned to Twin Peaks, and we're pretty pleased about it. On the other hand, Lost has also come to Twin Peaks, and we're sort of confused about tha...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 25: Wounds and Scars from 2015-04-14T21:01:39
Major Briggs and the Log Lady have a secret. A deeply unsettling man threatens the Hayward family after paying Donna a visit alone. It sounds like Twin Peaks again, until you get to drunk Sheriff T...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 24: The Condemned Woman from 2015-04-07T17:06:05
Pine weasel or no, Ben Horn's wishes that Twin Peaks remain pure and unspoiled are too little, too late. We're way past that. So far past it that people's heads are transforming into furniture, tha...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 23: Slaves and Masters from 2015-04-02T21:27:48
It's been a rough journey back through Twin Peaks recently, but we think we may have hit the roughest patch, with clearer skies to come. For now, we remain confounded—join us as we stumble through ...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 22: Double Play from 2015-03-25T01:46:13
This is it. Twin Peaks is a different show now. In episode 22, amidst genius supervillains and melodrama aplenty, we have ventured further into the land of soap opera bombast than the series has pr...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 21: Checkmate from 2015-03-18T00:46:11
Our complete rewatch of Twin Peaks has taken us deep into late season two, a time when the show can't decide what its wants to be and seemingly re-invents itself each week. Fortunately there's more...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 20: The Black Widow from 2015-03-11T01:04:01
We all understand that Twin Peaks is a sometimes surreal, sometimes absurdist series about a small town full of eccentric people, that comments on the soap opera and serialized TV show formats, but...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 19: Masked Ball from 2015-02-25T18:17:14
We've now solidly put the murder of Laura Palmer behind us, but the rest of Twin Peaks keeps ticking along—with the scene-stealing introduction of David Duchovny as DEA agent Denise Bryson.
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 18: Dispute Between Brothers from 2015-02-18T05:23:51
In the wake of Laura's murder wrapping up, lore starts to build up and things get a little dumb, but there are still plenty of bright spots in our weekly rewatch of the complete run of Twin Peaks. ...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 17: Arbitrary Law from 2015-02-11T06:30:32
An episode of parlor rooms and connecting dots brings some huge stories to a close, but might wrap things up with too neat a bow. It's time for "Arbitrary Law," the 17th episode of Twin Peaks in ou...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 16: Drive With a Dead Girl from 2015-02-04T03:22:29
Following last week's revelations, Laura's killer becomes even more brazen as he continues to evade capture. It seemed like the show reached its climax, but it's still building as we continue our w...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 15: Lonely Souls from 2015-01-27T23:31:32
It's happening again. Join us as we discuss "Lonely Souls," one of the pivotal episodes of Twin Peaks' second season, as part of our weekly re-examination of the show's complete run.
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 14: Demons from 2015-01-21T06:55:27
Stories align, and plot threads clean themselves up, all while never quite crossing this week on Twin Peaks. David Lynch steps in front of the camera as FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole, the M...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 13: The Orchid's Curse from 2015-01-13T20:02:53
We're deep in the heart of Twin Peaks-as-ongoing-TV-series now, as a bunch of action-packed sneaking around happens, while Donna carries the emotional weight of the series herself, in her seemingly...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 12: Laura's Secret Diary from 2015-01-07T07:27:16
Everyone is so distracted by their own lives this week that the investigation into Laura's murder takes a bit of a back seat. Fortunately, this week, everyone's lives are pretty fun to watch. Join ...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 11: The Man Behind Glass from 2014-12-30T20:11:51
Twin Peaks quickly dives right into the heart of the Season Two portion of Laura Palmer's mystery, and we follow right behind. Cooper and the crew make some strange breaks in the case, and a love t...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 10: Coma from 2014-12-23T23:01:48
The investigation slows as season two's new storylines take center stage this week, in our re-examination of Twin Peaks. Things get weird. There is creamed corn. Do you see it?
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 9: May the Giant Be With You from 2014-12-17T04:10:05
I've heard about you... We are back for the start of Season Two of our weekly look at the complete run of Twin Peaks. This week the elaborate, mad race of plot threads that ended season one come to...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 8: The Last Evening from 2014-12-02T19:59:41
Twin Peaks' first season is over, somehow ramping up every single storyline it touched, while winding down absolutely nothing. Though the finale left more questions asked than answered, we're only ...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 7: Realization Time from 2014-11-25T22:16:28
This week on our examination of Twin Peaks, it seems half the cast is heading north of the border without telling each other, at least two people are wearing disguises, and everything has gone very...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 6: Cooper's Dreams from 2014-11-19T00:58:05
It is time for a few small-but-potent character scenes, a lot of questions answered with even more questions, and a surprising number of meticulously blocked hero shots of the Sheriff's department,...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 5: The One-Armed Man from 2014-11-11T20:48:29
The magical starts trending toward the mundane in week five of our complete rewatch of Twin Peaks. Hopefully you're hungry for a of a lot of plot, a lot of mystery, and a peppering of moments which...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 4: Rest in Pain from 2014-11-04T22:55:38
Laura Palmer is put in the ground, but the reach of her past (and the impressions she has left on people) seemingly only broadens. Join us for discussion of the fourth episode of Twin Peaks, in our...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 3: Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer from 2014-10-28T20:27:29
Things really take a turn for the weird as we hit episode three of our once-a-week rewatch of Twin Peaks. While this week dives headfirst into into dreams, mysticism and melodrama, Jake and Chris a...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 2: Traces to Nowhere from 2014-10-21T20:50:55
The pieces start moving into place, and Jake and Chris start settling in, as we roll into episode two of our weekly look at the complete run of Twin Peaks. In addition to the shows' continued exhau...
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Twin Peaks Rewatch 1: Pilot from 2014-10-14T19:40:55
It's the first episode of Twin Peaks Rewatch, a podcast revisiting each episode of Twin Peaks one week at a time! This week we kick off the show with our thoughts on Twin Peaks' pilot episode, dire...
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