{"id":11856,"date":"2017-02-23T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T02:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11856"},"modified":"2017-02-23T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T19:08:08","slug":"twin-peaks-1990-91-david-lynch-mark-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11856","title":{"rendered":"Twin Peaks (1990-91, David Lynch & Mark Frost)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rewatching this series for obvious reasons, after recently reviewing the prequel film<\/a>. I remember season two becoming tedious, so I’m only watching the late episodes directed by Lynch and\/or written by Frost, which will leave some major plot holes I can cover with synopses from wikipedia or wherever. So many characters to keep track of, and so many actors I haven’t seen since the show ended in 1991, and some I have.<\/p>\n

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Agent Dale Cooper – loves Tibet, doughnuts, clean air and good coffee. I’ve seen Kyle MacLachlan in Northfork<\/em>, Portlandia<\/a><\/em>, and that version of Kafka’s The Trial<\/em> which I don’t remember at all but IMDB says I gave it a 7\/10.<\/p>\n

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Lucy is the police receptionist who has feelings for Andy. Kimmy Robertson did voices in some Disney movies and The Tick<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Deputy Andy is dumb as hell. Harry Goaz worked with director David Lowery before his Ain’t Them Bodies Saints<\/em> breakout.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Harry Truman is a good lawman, secretly (everything in the show is “secretly”) dating Josie Packard. Michael Ontkean costarred in a Disney movie with four monkeys and Wilford Brimley, and was apparently in The Descendants<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Deputy Hawk is a good, quiet cop. Michael Horse was in Passenger 57<\/em> and a movie directed by John Travolta’s older brother.<\/p>\n

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Agent Albert Rosenfield works with Cooper, expresses contempt for the locals. Miguel Ferrer died the week I started season two, also starred in On The Air<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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James Hurley is sweet but so dumb, per an audiotape of Laura’s. He runs around with Donna playing detective. James Marshall was one of the murderous privates on trial in A Few Good Men<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Maddy is Laura’s identical twin cousin, who appears in the show immediately after the show-within-the-show (soap opera Invitation to Love<\/em>) introduces its own identical-twin plot. Sheryl Lee played twins again in the great Mother Night<\/em>, also costarred in the unfortunate John Carpenter’s Vampires<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Donna Hayward is Laura’s innocent friend who ends up with James after Laura’s death. Lara Flynn Boyle was Ally Sheedy’s predecessor in Happiness<\/em>, also starred in Threesome<\/em> and the show The Practice<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Leland Palmer, Laura’s dad and killer and the town lawyer… is complicated. Ray Wise is incredible and prolific but I’ve seen him in too few things (Good Night and Good Luck<\/em>, Bob Roberts<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Sarah Palmer is Laura’s traumatized mom with freaky hair. Grace Zabriskie got to look freaky again in Inland Empire<\/a><\/em> and My Son My Son What Have Ye Done<\/a><\/em>, was a regular on Big Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Will Hayward is the town doctor who ends up discussing dead and comatose bodies with Agent Cooper. He’s Donna’s dad of course, with a wife in a wheelchair and at least one other daughter. Warren Frost, Mark’s dad, did some Matlock<\/em>, died just last week.<\/p>\n

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Ben Horne runs the town’s hotel, department store, and a brothel called One Eyed Jack’s over the Canadian border, is always trying to do business deals with rowdy groups of foreigners who get frightened off by murderous town rumors. Richard Beymer was in Angelina Jolie movie Foxfire<\/em>, earlier Bachelor Flat<\/em> and West Side Story<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jerry Horne is Ben’s excitable little brother who loves exotic food, business deals and the local brothel. David Patrick Kelly was the military guy who Lysistrata ties up in Chi-Raq<\/a><\/em>, also in the John Wick<\/em> movies and played the president in Flags of Our Fathers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Jacoby was Laura’s wacky psychiatrist and had an unhealthy romantic interest in her. I don’t think we see any other locals going to his office except Bobby one time, so he’s got enough free time to chase ghosts. Russ Tamblyn, Ben Horne’s best friend in West Side Story<\/em>, had roles in Drive<\/a><\/em>, Django Unchained<\/a><\/em> and Cabin Boy<\/em>, and played a “Dr. Jacoby” on General Hospital<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Audrey Horne is Ben’s daughter who has to avoid a horrifying meeting with him at One Eyed Jack’s while she’s retracing Laura’s steps. Sherilyn Fenn starred in Boxing Helena<\/em>, which I have yet to find a decent copy of.<\/p>\n

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Major Briggs doesn’t know how to deal with his wayward son Bobby, leaks mysterious military intel to Cooper. “The owls are not what they seem.” Don Davis was a regular on the Stargate<\/em> TV series, which ran for more seasons that I realized.<\/p>\n

Bobby Briggs is excitable boyfriend of Laura Palmer and Shelly, sullen son of Major Briggs, rival of James Hurley, drug dealer friend of Mike (“Mike and Bobby” mirroring the evil Black Lodge “Mike and Bob”) and associate of Leo and Jacques. Dana Ashbrook was in the L.A. Crash<\/em> TV series and the latest Bill Plympton feature.<\/p>\n

Leo Johnson is a drug dealer, spouse abuser and murderer, is in a coma at the start of s2. Eric DaRe appeared with good company (Brad Dourif, Angela Bassett) in Critters 4<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Big Ed Hurley, James’s dad, married to Nadine but thinking about leaving her for Norma. Runs a gas station. Everett McGill was the villain(?) in The People Under The Stairs<\/em> and appeared in The Straight Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Nadine Hurley, James’s mom though we never see them interact, wears an eyepatch and is obsessed with creating silent drape runners. Later she gets amnesia and super strength and falls for Bobby’s friend Mike. Wendy Robie was in Corbin Bernsen horror The Dentist 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Shelly Johnson is Leo’s abused wife, working at the diner, dating Bobby and conspiring to frame her husband for Laura Palmer’s death. Lynch’s character, Cooper’s boss, is sweet on her in season two. M\u00e4dchen Amick has been on every TV show at least once, plus the terrible Stephen King movie Sleepwalkers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Josie Packard runs the sawmill, has a suspicious past, and I think was supposed to be a bigger deal but got left behind by the writers. Joan Chen was a movie star from The Last Emperor<\/em> but wouldn’t fare as well in Hollywood, appearing in garbage action flicks Wedlock<\/em>, On Deadly Ground<\/em> and Judge Dredd<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Peter Martell helps Josie run the mill, isn’t as dumb as he looks. Jack Nance’s final film was Lost Highway<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Catherine Martell is married to Pete, resents Josie for owning the mill, which used to belong to Catherine’s brother\/Josie’s late husband Andrew, who of course turns out not to be dead. Piper Laurie played Carrie<\/a>‘s crazy mom, later in The Crossing Guard<\/em> and The Dead Girl<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Norma Jennings is dating Big Ed, runs the diner, unhappily married to Hank. Peggy Lipton is Rashida Jones’s mom, appeared in modern classic The Postman<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Hank Jennings is a criminal in cahoots with Leo and Jacques. He thinks he killed Josie’s husband, gets out of prison halfway through s1. Chris Mulkey acts in a ton of movies, recently Whiplash<\/em> and Cloverfield<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Margaret has a log that sometimes sees things. Catherine Coulson starred in early Lynch short The Amputee<\/a><\/em>, died before the reboot filmed but not before appearing as “Wood Woman” in a Psych<\/em> episode.<\/p>\n

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Julee Cruise, house musician at the Roadhouse. I have her album The Voice of Love<\/em>, produced by Lynch and Badalamenti.<\/p>\n

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The Giant appears to Cooper in dreams and visions, dropping cryptic clues. Carel Struycken played Lurch in the Addams Family<\/em> movies and appeared in Men In Black<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The Waiter might be an alternate form of The Giant. Only Cooper can see the two of them. Hank Worden did nothing after Twin Peaks<\/em> but plenty beforehand as a Westerns regular (marshall in Forty Guns<\/a><\/em>, drunk in The Big Sky<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

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The Man From Another Place is maybe Bob’s boss or partner, speaks in reverse, is somehow connected to One-Armed Mike. Michael J. Anderson played a similarly mysterious fellow in a curtained room in Mulholland Dr.<\/a><\/em>, was a regular on Carviv\u00c3\u00a0le<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nSeason two, Cooper recovers from a gunshot wound. I think Josie ended up being the shooter, but skipped enough episodes that I’m not sure why.<\/p>\n

“You’d better bring Agent Cooper up to date.”
\n“Leo Johnson was shot. Jacques Renault was strangled. The mill burned. Shelley and Pete got smoke inhalation. Catherine and Josie are missing. Nadine is in a coma from taking sleeping pills.”<\/p>\n

A bunch of new characters show up… I missed most of their intros, but got to see a few of them die. Sadly I missed cross-dressing David Duchovny completely, and I saw Billy Zane but don’t remember what his deal is.<\/p>\n

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Annie is Norma’s younger sister, starts dating Cooper then gets kidnapped by Earle. Coop’s searching for Annie when he ends up in the Black Lodge. I haven’t seen Heather Graham lately but it seems she was everywhere in the late 1990’s: Swingers<\/em>, Austin Powers<\/em>, Scream<\/em>, etc., and most notably Boogie Nights<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Dick Tremayne was Lucy’s classy lover while on break from Andy. When she gets pregnant and isn’t sure which is the father, Dick and Andy get competitive. Ian Buchanan starred in On The Air<\/em> and did a million soap opera episodes.<\/p>\n

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Windom Earle is Agent Cooper’s rival, who gets tangled up in the crimes and horrors before having his soul sucked out by Bob in the final episode. Kenneth Welsh, seen here about to murder Ted Raimi, seems to be tenth-billed in bunches of horror\/action movies.<\/p>\n

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Andrew Packard returns from the “dead” in season two only to be blown up in the finale, along with poor Pete and probably Audrey who was chained to the vault door at the time. Dan O’Herlihy, Bunuel’s Robinson Crusoe, was also in The Dead<\/a><\/em>, Fail-Safe<\/em>, Imitation of Life<\/em> and Odd Man Out<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nI was surprised that nothing supernatural happens until the end of episode 3, four hours into the series. Really a top-notch melodrama with excellent casting, at least for a while. Here’s hoping the reboot is great.<\/p>\n

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