After finishing dinner last night, I retired to my bedroom to get caught up on happenings of the day via Twitter. While scrolling through my timeline, my heart sank upon seeing a tweet from the Los Angeles Times Movie News – “Actress Peggy Lipton, star of ‘The Mod Squad’ and ‘Twin Peaks,’ dies at 72.”…
In a previous article, I detailed how I picked up the Twin Peaks Season 2 Music and More for Record Store Day on April 13, 2019. Once I returned home, I took a closer look at the soundtrack, which was wrapped in plastic (of course).
One thing I remember from my original viewing of Twin Peaks in the early 1990s was the unexpected long shots of things like trees, traffic lights, and the ceiling fan at the Palmer house. Prior to Twin Peaks, I hadn’t seen these kinds of shots in a television show. These lingering images added a sense of…
It’s time for a journey through an empty Palmer family house in the latest Vacant Peaks article. The first two parts of this series included looks at the home from Season 1 and Season 2. For the third story in this series, I examine the home as seen in my favorite David Lynch film, Twin…
Grab a booth and order a Cherry Coke as we return to an empty Double R Diner in Twin Peaks. This Vacant Peaks article highlights scenes without people from Seasons 1-3 as well as a brief moment in The Missing Pieces from Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me.
“Blow the whistle, Josie. It’s quittin’ time.” What does the Packard Sawmill look like without people? As a follow up to a Setting the Stage article, I’ve compiled images from the Mill for a new Vacant Peaks story. The images are taken from the Pilot Episode, Episode 1007, Episode 2001, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and The…
According to the “Twin Peaks: Access Guide to the Town,” the Packard Sawmill is located on Sparkwood Road near Black Lake Falls. The mill played a critical role in most of the first season of Twin Peaks before being destroyed by a fire set by Leo Johnson. This article takes a look at the exterior locations of The…
For years, I longed to see the deleted scenes in my favorite David Lynch film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Before The Missing Pieces was released in 2014, the closest I got to “seeing” these scenes was a script-to-screen comparison on Dugpa.com. One of those scenes included Special Agent Phillip Jeffries checking into The…
In Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, there are two scenes that take place at the FBI field office located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Monochromatic flashbacks from this location also appear in Parts 14 and 15 of Twin Peaks: The Return on Showtime. In reality, these scenes were captured at a now demolished building in downtown Seattle,…
The spotlight shines on the Hayward House for this Vacant Peaks article. This continuing series captures glimpses of buildings, sets, props or details without people. Below are images from Seasons 1 and 2 of Twin Peaks, as well as Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces. The Hayward House was not used in Season 3 on…