He makes great faces, and his interactions with Donna in Season 1 were just so Dad-ish. Also, it is just me, or has Doc Hayward suddenly just started appearing at all meetings in the Sheriff's office now? I love him. That's up there with the owl at the end of Episode 17. His character is so good at combining the awesome cigar-chomping with just pure insanity. I remember my first time through just considering Ben's stuff as just yet another dumb jump-the-shark season 2 nonsense arc, but honestly it's actually pretty good. A funny moment I'm surprised didn't get mentioned in the podcast is when Ben gets arrested and screams "No! No! No!" in a cartoony almost Kermit-esque fashion. Basically, this means skipping all parts with Bobby, Nadine, MT Wentz, Hank and Ernie, Dick Trumayne, James,etc.įunnily enough, probably due to this podcast, Ben Horne has emerged as my favourite character this re-watch I love all his scenes. I've seen the show through 4 times, so I know what's going on, I just watch the first bits of each scene and if I remember it being anything good, I watch, and if not, I skip. I fell off for about 8 episodes, so I've been going through quite quickly this week trying to catch up, employing my own system of abridging episodes. This is already longer than I had hoped, so I'll check in later with more notes on this episode. How did Ernie Niles-a character who seems to have stepped out of an episode of "The Love Boat"-become a key Twin Peaks character? The mind boggles. Hey, James, didn't you also love a girl named Donna-who you unceremoniously ditched? Didn't you ALSO sorta-love a girl named Maddie? Who ALSO died? James, you're the worst. The James story really seems to be milking the memory of Laura for all it's worth:"I loved a girl who died-her name was Laura". James has $12 in savings? Seems like too much. Somehow "Businessman Bobby" manages to be even sleazier than "Drug-Dealer Bobby". When she slaps Bobby I find myself saying "finally!". The Bobby/Shelly relationship seems to have completely deteriorated at this point. I especially love the delighted look on Cooper's face when she comes into the room as "Dennis". I still love Denise, who proves to be a badass by the end of the episode. Notice that it's dripping onto a photo of Major Briggs' tattoo. It's such a specific image that I have to think it's intentional. The dripping sprinkler echoes the episode where Leland dies. I'll go through them as coherently as I can and hope it's not so long that it becomes tedious.įirst off, I found this episode to be much better than the last one. Rather than writing an off-the-cuff post based on my general thoughts I actually took some notes while watching this one. I have approached this one a little differently than previous episodes. Yay?Īlso, that's Kyle MacLachlan's brother playing the dead guy in the last shot. On a bright note, we are now more than halfway through the really rough mid-season stretch!. Some of these guest directors are more notorious than others (and one of them directs what, to my eyes, is the beginning of the comeback) but I'll leave that for new viewers to suss out for themselves. On the other hand, three of the next four episodes are directed by first- (and only-)timers - the only exception being Lesli Linka Glatter returning to wrap up some (semi-)important matters for her fourth and final outing. Overall, not a great episode by any means but Holland does bring some visual interest to the table, and some familiarity with the Twin Peaks universe. So he definitely seems to like dramatic openings. This episode was directed by Todd Holland, who also directed episode 12 - the one which begins with the zoom out of the ceiling tile. 2: "Harley, Bob, the Major thinks his soul could be trapped in a wooden conference table! Now if you'll excuse me, I really have to urinate." Before disappearing for a few more episodes. The whole wood mythology does seem to be one of Lynch's personal obsessions so maybe he dropped into the writer's room on his way to the bathroom or something to offer this suggestion (supposedly he was barely present at storytelling conferences, at least for this stretch of the second season but I suspect for most of the show). So this may just be a coincidence, or a reference to the Log Lady's husband or something. Certainly seems to foreshadow Josie's fate although I don't know when they came up with the whole "drawer pull" idea - supposedly it was Lynch's last-minute idea and that's not for a few episodes.
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