In Twin Peaks Part 3 on Showtime, the American Girl (played by Phoebe Augustine, who also played Ronette Pulaski) is seen checking her wristwatch. I am fascinated by timepieces (I’m currently sporting a Hamilton watch that is a replica of one worn by Matthew McConaughey’s character Cooper in Christopher Nolan’s Insterstellar). So I was determined…
After an intimate night with Diane/Linda at a nondescript hotel in Twin Peaks Part 18 on Showtime, Richard/Cooper drives to Odessa, Texas in search of a waitress. He spots a coffee shop with an interesting name – Eat at Judy’s – and stops to investigate. In reality, this scene was shot at a restaurant in…
The exploration of the film locations used for the hotel in Buckhorn, South Dakota continues with a look at the FBI Room. Seen in Parts 14, 16, and 17, this location was shot in the same building in Los Angeles as the Blue Rose Task Force meeting scene in Part 12.
In Twin Peaks Part 12, Agents Gordon Cole, Albert Rosenfield, and Tammy Preston raise a glass of wine while at a hotel in Buckhorn, South Dakota. It’s during this scene that Agent Preston is invited to join the Blue Rose Task Force. In reality, this scene was shot inside a historic building in downtown Los Angeles,…
In several episodes of Twin Peaks Season 3 on Showtime, Janey-E Jones, wife of Dougie Jones, is seen carrying a red handbag. The first appearance of this handbag is in Part 6 when she visits a local park to pay back loan money to Tommy and Jimmy. I identified the handbag thanks to a gold…
“It’s your jet,” says Audrey Horne to John Justice Wheeler after she stops his departure from the Twin Peaks Airport in episode 2.020 (Episode 27) of Twin Peaks. While researching that film location, I discovered that Wheeler’s plane has some unique connections to both Disco legends and a talking car from the 1980s.
In episode 2.015, we catch a glimpse of two vinyl albums laying next to Evelyn Marsh before being confronted by James Hurley. I love when the real world collides with the Twin Peaks world. Considering I collect vinyl albums and I’m a fan of mid-century lounge/exotica, I knew I had to identify these records. As…
In Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole makes arrangements at a private Portland Airport for Special Agent Chet Desmond. Upon his arrival, he meets Special Agent Sam Stanley and receives a coded message from Cole via a dancer in a red dress named Lil. I became fascinated with the airplane Chet…
I’ve previously discussed how some props, such as green coffee mugs, from the original Twin Peaks series made a leap to The Return on Showtime. Here’s a look at another prop that appears both in the Pilot episode and Part 7 from the third season.
The brief exchange in the Pilot episode between Agent Cooper and Sheriff Truman about traffic lights in Twin Peaks was the perfect summation of what viewers could expect from the sleepy little town with a population of 51,201. To paraphrase Sheriff Truman in Episode 1.003, Twin Peaks is “different” and a “long way from the…