Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Barry Pullman Directed by James Foley Airdate: 28 March, 1991 Well, golly damn. I thought we still had a while until the weasel episode. I guess I’m glad to have been wrong; it means I don’t have to sit around fretting and dreading that the weasel […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Tricia Brock Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter Airdate: 16 February, 1991 We made it! With Episode 23, we re-enter “bad by Twin Peaks standards”, instead of “just plain bad”, and Twin Peaks standards are high enough for that to still qualify as pretty damn good. And […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Harley Peyton & Robert Engels Directed by Diane Keaton Airdate: 9 February, 1991 We’ve made it: the last episode in Twin Peaks‘s five-part tour of pain, and by many accounts, the worst one of all. I don’t think I can quite take it that far: it […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Scott Frost Directed by Uli Edel Airdate: 2 February, 1991 For the first 15 minutes – more than one entire act! – I rewatched Episode 21 of Twin Peaks in a state of mild bewilderment. Had I forgotten? Did the show get better earlier than I […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Harley Peyton Directed by Todd Holland Airdate: 19 January, 1991 Episode 20 of Twin Peaks is merely boring, and that’s sufficient to make it a substantial improvement over the two episodes immediately preceding it. Oh, happy day. Hell, even that’s being pissier than the episode deserves. […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Harley Peyton & Robert Engels Directed by Caleb Deschanel Airdate: 12 January, 1991 At this point, I am going to throw myself on your mercy, dear reader. Writing 1200- and 1400-word pieces about every single episode of a television show is a blast and all, but […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Barry Pullman Directed by Duwayne Dunham Airdate: 15 December, 1990 Thank the good Lord up in heaven for DEA Agent Denise (née Dennis) Bryson, played with relaxed, good-natured comfort by David Duchovny, in the role that surely led more or less directly to his being cast […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Tricia Brock Directed by Tina Rathborne Airdate: 8 December, 1990 So here we are, and this is what a post-Laura Palmer Twin Peaks looks like. More damningly, what a post-Mark Frost/David Lynch Twin Peaks looks like, since both men largely gave up on the series after […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Mark Frost & Harley Peyton & Robert Engels Directed by Tim Hunter Airdate: 1 December, 1990 So we’ve arrived: this is the end of the uninterrupted 17-episode stretch of original recipe Twin Peaks as one of the greatest and very possibly the greatest television series in […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Scott Frost Directed by Caleb Deschanel Airdate: 17 November, 1990 Following the extravagant horrors of Episode 14, Twin Peaks had nowhere to go but down. But at least initially, it’s a pretty gentle slope. Episode 15 has its rough spots, and there’s not all that much […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Mark Frost Directed by David Lynch Airdate: 10 November, 1990 Episode 14 – by number of episodes, we’re now halfway through the original run of Twin Peaks (by number of hours, we arrived there at the end of Episode 13). And now we know who killed […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Harley Peyton & Robert Engels Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter Airdate: 3 November, 1990 I don’t remember at all when the “find out who killed Laura Palmer!” marketing push began, but it’s certainly the case that the episode prior to Episode 14 (where we do, in […]
