Since launching Twin Peaks Blog in February 2018, I’ve enjoyed exploring the origins of Twin Peaks lore by providing well-researched and fact-based articles. In May 2021, Dugpa and I dug into the history of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me at the Cannes Film Festival, helping clarify long-held misconceptions about the film’s initial reception. Channeling that same…
I recently paid tribute to Lori Eschler Fystak as an unsung hero of the Twin Peaks soundtrack. Thanks to an unexpected advertisement I found while researching early news reports about the show, I’m turning the spotlight on David Boushey. He was the “Fall Guy” of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s wonderful and strange world. As it turns…
On February 21, 1989 in the small town of North Bend, Washington, cameras rolled for the first day of shooting “Northwest Passage.” The brainchild of David Lynch and Mark Frost, this 90-minute pilot would later be retitled as Twin Peaks. Over a year later, the show would become a cultural phenomenon around the world, spawning a…
I missed the original broadcast of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks when it aired on the ABC Television Network from 1990-1991. My journey into this town that is both wonderful and strange was guided by VHS borrowed from my local library and reruns on Bravo, the film and arts cable channel in 1993. Let’s…
I love uncovering new details about the making of my favorite David Lynch film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Thanks to an article by Greg Olson in a “Film Comment” magazine, we go behind the scenes at the Fat Trout Trailer park in September 1991.
After responding to a post on the Facebook group Lynchland Gang about Special Agent Sam Stanley’s “Whiteman Machine,” I decided to take a closer look at Teresa Banks’ autopsy scene in tiny Deer Meadow Sheriff’s Department morgue. This scene from David Lynch’s 1992 masterpiece Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me seems to have a few Missing Pieces…
I keep returning to the Fat Trout Trailer Park as seen in David Lynch’s 1992 masterpiece Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. The film’s first 35 minutes has mesmerized me for decades now. While I have previously discussed the entire Fat Trout Trailer Park location, this time I’m diving deeper into individual shots from this location….
Agent Cooper’s affinity for handheld gadgets is established very quickly in the Twin Peaks pilot episode. His arsenal contains a trusty microcassette recorder, a lighted magnifying glass, and a pocket calculator. But the calculator is more than meets the eye.
While researching the Southern California film location for Laura Palmer’s funeral in episode 1003 of Twin Peaks, I discovered the broadcasted version contained many differences compared to the script. This article joins a running list of stories about more Missing Pieces or deleted scenes from my favorite television show.
From One-Eyed Jacks to Windom Earle’s doctored cards, playing cards have played an important role in Twin Peaks since the very beginning. It was no surprise to find them in the most recent season on Showtime. While researching the film location for the cheap motel in Buckhorn, I identified the card Mr. C shows Darya and soon…