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Ha so this is really interesting to me in light of series 3 for a few reasons. The old man scene is feels like it’s basically the writers going “so you’ve waited four months to find out about cooper? Here’s another five minutes!!” i like how Andy can’t get albert’s name right (although albert’s caricaturing of Andy as a dog is pretty accurate). Leland has a weight off his shoulders for some reason... it was really good for like a nano second Sarah gets into leland’s song and seems happy for that nano second. I feel like Donna just wants to be Audrey but she’s completely cheesy about the whole thing (kiss me! Cigarette flick, investigating!). Briggs to bobby is so good. It’s weird to think how important he is to Twin Peaks: the lore when even at this point we have only seen him really do three motivational speeches to bobby. I loved the hospital food thread. I liked that Shelly and Bobby seemed really happy (especially Shelly, the actor did a great job in this scene). I’m also glad that bobby didn’t do a fist in the air a la the end of the breakfast club. Plaid seemed to be in earlier than than I remembered. The whole ed, nadine and Norma thing is a complete mess. Basically I think Ed is an ass.

I feel like this episode needs a rewatch after season 2. I love how so many characters spin on a dime in this in terms of sympathy - in today’s it was Catherine who goes from arch schemer to victim. It feels like a real soap dynamic (almost like professional wrestling). I think it’s a credit to the show that the characters can become sympathetic (except Leo who seems to become more and more comically monstrous). More soapiness: Norma No!!!! Hank has a good point about the fraction of life he gave away but that scene was really laboured. The way Pete runs into the fire was kind of amusing to me, especially with his fire extinguisher at hand. I loved Catherines reaction to a bomb going off and seeing a girl tied up: “let me think”. Horne is a master of all baddiness In series 3. Cooper is really hardboiled in this episode.

The most striking thing to me in this episode was when cooper said something about his wants and needs in the context that (series 3 spoiler) Josie bounces from sympathetic (last week) to suspect (this week) and somewhat sympathetic (pull out to Hank). I thought it was amusing there was an invitation to love cardboard cut out for the perfume stall. The cherry scene is an absolute classic one (it was featured on a do you remember 1989/90 show back in the day when talking about twin peaks). Also more red curtains. In a way black rose/blackies office looks more like the red room than the cabin in the woods. Coopers suitcase of moustaches are great. I like also how he has them all and then doesn’t use them. What he does use is FBI money to bet and bring back cash (albeit if he used his card counting trick regularly I think he wouldn’t be able to bring back his ten percent top up that often on account of being booted out). It feels like he goes full James Bond in this episode except he doesn’t go to bed with a naked woman in his bed who’s waiting for him. Ben and Jerry are eating ice cream that needs more pecan. Hank says he paid his debt to society but he’s actually on parole. I like how the characters in invitation to love become surrogates for anyone. Chet is Shelly this week! Creepy Leland. It’s weird to think that Lucy might be having a baby here. And that baby is series 3s Cooper’s trip to Canada seems ridiculous for a policeman! good thing he has a handy vigelante group to hand.

Spoilers (if any) relate to series 3 of twin peaks (all the way till the end of that)! I had completely forgotten that it was a different nationality of people that invested in the ghostwood. We got the punchline for the Norwegian swede joke. It’s weird how Horne was dismissive but thought it would be a good gag for the Icelandic business men he was courting (in an odd way he was basically broadcasting a prejudice back so his idea of good or funny was irrelevant I guess). Ben Horne also says something like “I’ve been to your country, it’s very beautiful, beautiful” which sounded so 2017 Donald trump it was spooky. Cooper’s weirdness with Margaret thawed a little bit but I still find it odd how his instinctive open mindedness seems to have a blind spot for Margaret. I did like how hawk has a bond with Margaret though (the way he tells the others to take the tea and biscuits). It’s kind of interesting how much of cooper’s dream has a real world parallel. In this episode the red room of his dream is actually a symbol of the red curtained room in the real world. It’s weird how the dream morphs over time into a more literal space that exists in an alternate dimension. Good on Shelly taking on leo. Audrey has a fair bit of emotion in this episode and right next to each other. My feeling is that she wishes that the relationship with her dad was such that he’d go mad if she died. instead her relationship is so dead and distant she finds observing him all amorous comedic. Maybe this is in part what she is latching onto with cooper (a solid moral compassed (ish) older man). I was initially amazed that Jacoby had so much intuition about bobby but really he probably heard it on one of laura’s tapes and used it as a crowbar to get past bobbys defenders. Bobby becomes a lot more interesting. His infedility with Laura seems less being a jerk and more just trying to escape the black hole that is Laura.

Spoilers relate to series three! Poor Josie: everyone is after her. I wonder if we hear more about Norma’s husbands crime. It feels like it could be an accident which is quite different to how she painted it in the previous episode (to scare flirty men away) Cooper makes a comment about women. For a cheery man he has some real awfulness about him. Hawk veers drunkenly between trope McGope and undermining the trope at every turn. Audret and Donna continue to have an excellent chemistry. Shellys face when bobby plonks her down is priceless. The gun penis nonsense afterwards can go in a bin. Sarah has spookiness. Probalt 6 Following on from coopers amazing dream recall last episode, it’s hard to distrust when he makes a comment about the closeness of drawing of bobs eyes.

Spoilers relate to the return! It’s kind of interesting to see how much of an ass Albert is but also how much he retains the “i ain’t taking no nonsense” (see his interactions in the return even if it also mellows with time. I think i had a weird feeling when cooper mentioned the dream- did he actually see Lucy in his dream? It felt like he started describing something completely different. Also coop teasing audrey is still bad. I wonder if bobby announcing he was gonna do stuff at the funeral was a good idea or not (it increases tension - hitchcocks bomb- but spreads out his rage across a long time). Im glad Shelley got in on the gag about Lelands coffin adventure. I got a really weird feeling towards the end. Coop and hawk take Leland home, the assumption is that this is his safety space but it’s clearly not a great place Sarah and Leland create a toxic mix - it’s more about shuffling him off outside our vision. I like how the bookhouse boys still have to do their sign even if they are sitting near each other talking about the bookhouse boys. It’s odd that the law man buys into the vigilante crew so easily (probably because it has the veneer of a conspiracy theory) also I find the ed and nadine stuff awkward. It feels like ed is supposed to be seen as sympathetic. But the way ed treats nadine is pretty objectively gross. Coopers recall of his dream is ridiculous. The speed and the clarity are so precise that has its own really nice rhythm to it. It also makes it difficult fOr Lucy and Truman to deny it’s the truth.

So a special episode: some fun stuff I noticed. Cooper spits out coffee because it’s hot! ( Bobbie is really an interesting character his scarediness (in his eyes) to Leo is a huge contrast to how he chats about Leo when he’s talking to Shelly. 2017 Cooper has blacker hair and less wrinkles than his 25 year on old dream version. I think cooper hears the name mike and bob (mike at least). Cooper’s toot toot on his whistle apropos of nothing is great comedy timing, his little nose tweak on Truman and the way he grins when Albert (who’s a complete ass) gets dressed down by Cooper. And Also: Nadines entrepenurial spirit is met with skepticism by big ed (he’s also give the most on point descriptor by Nadine who calls him a big lug). James is so boring. It’s great to see Audrey in her own world mode And her cute moment with Donna. (I think I read stories that Boyle was not pleased with Macachlan and Fenn in scenes together - perhaps worse as she got scenes with boring James as compensation). A butter and brie sandwich is a really really tasty thing even though it’s ridiculously simple. (And will probably kill you with heart disease in five minutes if you ate four a day). Andy is ridiculously adorable when he tries to guts out his bonk on the head with coopers (let’s) rock.

Episode 2 thoughts: So the cops have bob and mike in jail (heheh). Cooper needs to go for a wee which is weird to see in light of series three. The scene where cooper and truman are horrified by the fish coffee is amazing. The amount of time lingering on them and their faces of polite disgustedness are perfect. Sarah Palmer is amazingly acted. Cooper shows more grossness When he talks about squeezing grapefruits re: Audrey. Major Briggs is a firm dad - the perfect dad for Bobby. Given what we know about Coopers alignment with mysticism I feel he’s a little too incredulous about Margaret’s Log. Cooper’s little computer is never to be seen again I think. Also Cooper’s conspiracy theory chat sounds a lot like the margin writer (and the whole tone) of the secret history of twin peaks book.

Hello everyone! my partner and I are watching this from the start after getting really into the return and finishing it. Some thoughts now that the fullest picture is available. (Although I haven’t watched the film yet- it was the gaps that motivated us to go back in with gusto). Firstly: Douglas Firs are the trees in twin peaks. The completion of a trinity of doug’s?! The parallels to series 3 are subtle and intriguing and sort of read onto this generational evil creep Chris refers to in the podcast. (Minor stuff from the return) Im always creeped out with jacobi’s tie fiddling in this episode. It is so gross. Now that we have more of an idea of Dale cooper in series 3 Finally we know leland Palmer is But I get zero sense that this is the intent at all At this point in time from his performance. Audrey’s song is played while Shelley and Bobby are in a car. :-O