Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Barry Pullman Directed by Graeme Clifford Airdate: 27 October, 1990 As near as I can tell, Episode 12 is not an especially highly-regarded hour of Twin Peaks, by the standards of the first third of Season 2. And that’s pretty understandable, I suppose; it’s a bit […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Jerry Stahl and Mark Frost & Harley Peyton & Robert Engels Directed by Todd Holland Airdate: 20 October, 1990 So I wonder, have we reached the point of equilibrium with Twin Peaks? For a short while, anyway? Episode 11 – the fourth episode of the second […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Robert Engels Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter Airdate: 13 October, 1990 For the second time in Twin Peaks‘s run, we arrive at the impossible situation of the first episode following some David Lynch mind-fuckery. I’d say that Episode 10 handles that fractionally better than Episode 3 […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Harley Peyton Directed by David Lynch Airdate: 6 October, 1990 The scariest thing I’ve ever seen in any audio-visual medium (and I know I’m not alone in this) comes near the end of Episode 9 of Twin Peaks. If you know the show well enough to […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Teleplay by Mark Frost Story by Mark Frost & David Lynch Directed by David Lynch Airdate: 30 September, 1990 Despite its reputation as the buzzy show to end all buzzy shows, Twin Peaks was only a genuinely huge Zeitgeist hit for about half of its very short first […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written & directed by Mark Frost Airdate: 23 May, 1990 We arrive now at the eighth and final episode of one of the best seasons of American television in history. And what a season finale it is, going ridiculously overboard in the best possible way. The notion of […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Harley Peyton Directed by Caleb Deschanel Airdate: 17 May, 1990 Twin Peaks is a show that wouldn’t exist without film noir, of course. But it’s in Episode 6 that this really hits me, in part because it’s in episode 6 where the references come to a […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Mark Frost Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter Airdate: 10 May, 1990 It couldn’t be more easier or more common to talk about Twin Peaks as having sprung in its entirety from the mind of David Lynch. For Lynch is, after all, the only member of the […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Robert Engels Directed by Tim Hunter Airdate: 3 May, 1990 On 5 June, 2017, Vox television critic Todd VanDerWerff concluded that Twin Peaks demonstrated the limitations of recap-style television criticism. On 3 May, 1990, Twin Peaks had already come to the same conclusion: Thanks to Jade, […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Harley Peyton Directed by Tina Rathborne Airdate: 26 April, 1990 The third hour-long episode of Twin Peaks has two handicaps, right from the get-go: it’s the first episode without a screenplay credited to series creators Mark Frost & David Lynch, and it has the unfathomably bad […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Mark Frost & David Lynch Directed by David Lynch Airdate: 19 April, 1990 It is with its second regular episode that Twin Peaks truly becomes Twin Peaks. I have all the affection in the world for the series pilot, which I think is one of the […]
Return to the complete Twin Peaks index Written by Mark Frost & David Lynch Directed by Duwayne Dunham Airdate: 12 April, 1990 Weekly serial television shows have two basic episodes: the ones where shit happens, and the ones where pieces are set up for shit to happen next time (J. Michael Straczynski, creator of one […]
