TS TV: A Twin Peaks Podcast
Sadie guides her friend Lily through the cult TV series Twin Peaks, episode by episode. The show explores the mysterious town, its quirky characters, and the surreal, dreamlike plot. Each installment blends shock, humor, and genuine analysis as Lily experiences the series for the first time. The podcast is a fun, fan-driven walkthrough of one of television's most iconic mysteries.
Episodes
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 9: This Is The Chair
Mr C, who did not die, meets up with Chantal and her husband, tells them to kill the warden and two people in Vegas, and texts a spooky phrase to…gasp! Diane!Speaking of, Diane and the feds go to Buckhorn, South Dakota, where they learn a bunch of crazy clues from the Garland Briggs body and from Bill Hastings, who it turns out was a pivotal stone on the path to floating head the whole ti
Fantasia 2026 Roundup! (ft. Molly Maliszewska)
It is time once again for our coverage of da best film festival in da world, Montreal's own Fantasia!!! With SPECIAL GUEST local filmmaker, festival organizer, and friend of the show Molly!!! (Lily will be here for our Camp Miasma episode, also part of our Fantasia coverage.)We saw a LOT of movies, and have them divvied up into loosely themed blocks. Look forward to:The transgender blockT
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8: "Gotta light?"
Mr C is out of jail no problem! He's cruising with Ray. He uses his phone to get tracking devices off his car somehow. He says he's going to take Ray to "the Farm", which isn't ominous at all. Ray says he has some numbers memorized that Mr C wants, but he might charge some money for them. Then he has to pee, which Mr C uses as an opportunity to shoot Ray. But he fell for the Fake Bullets
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 7: "There's a body all right"
It's finally time to pay off Laura's secret diary from Fire Walk With Me about how the good Dale is in the Lodge!!! It's what Hawk found in that bathroom stall door!!! There's also a really sad one about Laura realizing BOB is Leland. Hawk and Truman go “damn that's crazy I guess Leland hid it”, then Truman calls the original Harry Truman but doesn't press the point because he has cancer
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 6: "Don't Die"
Dougie gets brought home by the cops after loitering soulfully at the sheriff statue. He gives his son a Potato Chip then gets another message from MIKE: wake up! Don't die! This doesn't wake him up; instead, he gets Insurance Vision and scribbles all over his case files. The next day, his boss is at first upset about the scribbles, but then awed when he realizes the disturbing truth they
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 5: "Case Files"
Dougie Dale sheds a tear at the sight of his son in the car, then goes to work at LUCKY 7 INSURANCE. He convinces young intern Phil to give him a guy called Frank’s coffee, which works out because Frank finds out he likes green tea. A flashing green light makes Dougie say that a co-worker, Sinclair, is lying about an insurance payout on a fire. His boss, Bushnell “Battling Bud” Mullins, g
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 4: "Brings Back Some Memories"
Dougie Dale keeps winning jackpots!!!! He's mister jackpots!!! A guy called Bill Shaker who seems to know Dougie tells him where he lives, and Dougie seems about to leave, when he is threateningly given his winnings and a limo ride home by the casino staff. He meets his wife, Janey-E, played by the illustrious Naomi Watts, who is so mad at him for disappearing for 3 days and also understa
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 3: "Call for Help"
Folks, these recaps aren’t getting any easier. So Coop was falling in space, right? He lands on a brutalist structure where a lady with no eyes who moves like your graphics card is dying tells him to be really quiet because something really scary is banging on the door. They go upstairs where they’re now on the roof of a box floating in space. Then something crazy happens which I have no
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 2: "The Stars Turn and a Time Presents Itself"
Dale is back for real! It's weird. Anyway! Bill Hastings says he wasn't at Ruth Davenport's apartment but he did have a dream that he was, which is weird. His wife is really happy he's in jail, but then she gets killed by Mr C. Speaking of Mr C, he gets busy this episode: he tells us he doesn't Need, he Wants, and then he starts killing his underlings, who were trying to take him out
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 1: "My Log Has a Message for You"
Oh boy! It’s been 25 years! Twin Peaks is back! I can’t WAIT to find out what is going on with my favorite boy Dale Cooper! Oh boy he’s on screen talking to the giant! Oh, but – what’s that? He is “far away”? Oh! Okay! See you!Anyway! A guy called Sam is being paid to watch a mysterious glass box, and thinks it’s probably fine if him and his girlfriend Tracey have sex on the job – OH NO N
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Pt. 2)
And now…. the thrilling conclusion!Laura puts the ominous painting up, and it gives her a Black Lodge Dream. We learn the following:the little man is The Arm, and he sounds like thishe and the Tremonds/Chalfonts want her to take that green ring, but Dale says NOT to.dead Annie appears in her bed and tells her: “I've been with Dale and Laura. the good Dale is in the lodge and he can't leav
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Pt. 1)
Hi everyone! Time to cry watching the best movie ever made!So first things first, we spend the first half hour following FBI agent CHET DESMOND as he investigates the Teresa Banks in Deer Meadow murder a year before Laura Palmer dies. He gets intro’d to the case by Gordon Cole via Dancing Clue Girl, and then the case swiftly goes nowhere as he is rebuffed by every resident of Deer Meadow,
Twin Peaks S2E22: Beyond Life and Death
WE MADE IT GANG!! And our reward: one of the best episodes of television ever aired. Half its runtime is a nightmare sequence of Dale Cooper walking in and out of 2 identical rooms witnessing a carousel of visions ranging from unsettling to profoundly horrifying. And it's all held together by a profound return of sauce that the show has been missing and an insistence on bringing tragedy a
Twin Peaks S2E21: Miss Twin Peaks
Leo frees Garland Briggs from the clutches of Windom Earle so that he can “save Shelly”. As a punishment, Windom puts Leo in “the spider contraption”. Garland wanders his way to giving Dale some cryptic clues. Dale, who by the way had sex, finally goes oh my god I need to go to the Miss Twin Peaks pageant, having seemingly really just entirely ignored the more obvious clue the Giant gave
Twin Peaks S2E20: The Path to the Black Lodge
Windom Earle is playing OFF THE BOARD! Which mostly means he’s abandoned his whole chess-murder-revenge-on-Dale thing – which the show retcons as having been just a ruse the whole time – to focus on his true passion, Getting Into The Black Lodge. To that end, he dresses up as a horse with Leo to kidnap Garland Briggs and gets really good at Photoshop. Coop continues to just... have meetin
Twin Peaks S2E19: Variations On Relations
Hey listener, do you think Windom Earle’s plans had enough moving pieces yet? OF COURSE NOT! So he puts one of the background guys from Wayne’s World in a giant chess piece, shoots him with a crossbow, and leaves him as a gift at the gazebo where he saw Dale and Annie going on an obscenely romantic date. Meanwhile: Pete tells Catherine that Andrew Eckhard’s epic puzzle box will take YEARS
Twin Peaks S2E18: On the Wings of Love
The cliffhanger from last episode resolves into a bizarre sex assassination and then is never mentioned again. Weird LOL! Anyway! Dale and Harry have more pressing things on their plates, such as: Windom Earle schemes to kill the winner of the Miss Twin Peaks Contest, their Completely Innocent Bonsai Gift, and checking out a spooky cave. Gordon Cole is back in town, immediately reinstates
Twin Peaks S2E17: Wounds and Scars
Windom Earle has upped his costume budget HUGELY, busting out 2 frankly convincing disguises to phreak out Donna and spy on Shelly and Dale. Also he’s so mad that Dale is outsourcing his chess to Pete. But Dale has no time for chess! He has to listen to the Log Lady tell him about triangles. Harry is not taking Josie’s death well, and spends the whole episode in “Sicko Mode”. Then Eckhard
Twin Peaks S2E16: The Condemned Woman
Damn, this episode sucks!Pete cooks up a stalematey chess move for Dale, the girls put together the poem Earle wrote for them, and over at the catboy shack Windom tells Leo he loves poetry and making arrows...? Nadine dumps Ed, who for real this time proposes to Norma, who dumps Hank, who’s off to jail for real this time. A Hot Guy shows up with Audrey’s name on him...! Finally, Josie Pac
Twin Peaks S2E15: Slaves and Masters
FIRST THINGS FIRST: WE ARE NOT FREE FROM FUCK MANSION!!!! I REPEAT, THERE HAS BEEN NO ESCAPE FROM FUCK MANSION!!!!!!!! GET BACK IN THERE JAMES HURLEY YOU POUTING LITTLE SLUT!!!!!!!!!Anyway, Windom Earle decided just the one chess-based high-concept fucked up clue delivery system wasn’t enough, so he sent pieces of his dead wife’s wedding dress to a bunch of cities that make a big C on a m
Twin Peaks S2E14: Double Play
A pretty bad episode of Twin Peaks makes for a killer episode of TS TV. Coop spends a lot of time telling us about how Earle is so epic and twisted. Leo becomes a slasher villain for a scene and then runs off into the woods like Frankenstein's monster. Ben is still doing the civil war. The “old cranky mayor who is mad his brother died from f***ing this preternaturally hot woman” plotline
Twin Peaks S2E13: Checkmate
Coop gets the lowdown from Major Briggs on his space spirit journey, and learns of some pretty rad visions and not too much else. Then he and Denise initiate Operation Boymoder to snag the nefarious Canadians, with a TS Gambit in the back pocket for when Ernie's profuse sweat makes things go south. Meanwhile: Dick and Andy launch their own investigation into whether Little Nicky is t
Twin Peaks S2E12: The Black Widow
Dale decides to buy a house in Twin Peaks, and settles on the insanely cursed Dead Dog Farm. But oh mon dieu…. there was a cocaine deal done right there?? And they left their coke lying around and it could clear his name !!!! What a deus ex machina! The only thing crazier would be if Garland Briggs reappeared in the middle of the night wearing a pilot’s outfit! Now let me take a big sip o
Twin Peaks S2E11: Masked Ball
TS Denise Bryson, FBI top dog, sashays into Twin Peaks to harsh-but-fairly investigate Cooper's case, and get in a lil dancing on the side. Garland's disappearance might have something to do with the Black and White Lodges. Nadine has the hots for Mike The Snake which gets her recruited into the wrestling team. James rides his big dumb motorcycle directly into softcore 🌽 (sorry, don't wan
Twin Peaks S2E10: Dispute Between Brothers
The show opens with an offputtingly serene Leland funeral sequence, where we also learn that Dwayne and Dougie Milford, the mayor and the publisher of the local newspaper, are brothers and angry at each other?Coop is very sad to have to say goodbye to Twin Peaks, but duty calls and he’s off to do FBI stuff….. or is he??? Turns out he’s under investigation, sponsored by Jean Renault and th
Twin Peaks S2E9: Arbitrary Law
It’s another Big Episode! It starts with Dale announcing He Will Find The Killer Today, and the boys telling to do a vision quest about it, as they all turn to the camera and say what the episode will be. He investigates the mysterious Mrs. Tremond with Donna’s help, but it turns out she maybe never existed? But the new Mrs. Tremond gives him a page of Laura’s diary where she foresaw her
Twin Peaks S2E8: Drive With a Dead Girl
Around the town: Bobby has a new dumbass get rich quick scheme: blackmail! Norma's mom is in town, with her new husband, Ernie “The Professor” Niles, who it turns out Hank knows from prison. Jerry is doing a horrendous job as Ben’s lawyer, but at least the brothers can reminisce about Louise Dombrowski’s sexy flashlight dance. His day gets even worse when Pete, now in sicko mode, shows up
Twin Peaks S2E7: Lonely Souls (ft. Riley of Goddamn Gamecube)
Well, here we are: THE episode of Season 2. Shelly has to quit her job at the diner. Bobby looks for Leo’s stash of drug money, and instead finds a mysterious cassette tape. Mr Tojamura sheds his disguise. Harold has killed himself. Dale arrests Ben Horne for the murder of Laura Palmer. And finally... it happens again.⁂Support the show on Patreon for early access and exclusive movie discu
Twin Peaks S2E6: Demons
Dale brings the rescued Audrey to the Bookhouse, where she says some very almost-incriminating things about her father. He starts feeling bad about endangering Audrey with his cross-border raids, but Harry says ehh just don’t think about it. Then his boss and best friend, Gordon Cole, shows up! With CLUES! Yayy! And a spooky chess note from Windom Earle… oh no…. AND they find the one-arme
TS TV Does Fantasia 2025 (ft. I Live Here Now, The Wailing, The Serpent's Skin & more!!)
In a very special episode of TS TV DVD, we talk about every movie we watched at Fantasia, North America's premier genre film festival. We've got a Soviet musical about the devil, an assortment of animated gems, a surreal abortion flick featuring SHERYL LEE (aka Laura Palmer), and two horror movies about – gasp – being Australian 😱Which lucky movies will earn our inaugural PALME
Twin Peaks S2E5: The Orchid's Curse
Dale learns where Audrey by changing his perspective and finding her sexy letter. He gets a few clues about lesbians living next to the old Palmer house and Philip Gerard(?) living at a motel taking medicine. Then him and harry plan a daring heist into One Eyed Jack’s and rescue Audrey. While that happens, Jean kills Blackie and then captures Hank, er, “Daryl Lodwick”. In a mirror heist,
Twin Peaks S2E4: Laura's Secret Diary
Dale gets a confession from Leland for the murder of Jacques Renault, and puts him up for trial. Donna investigates Harold’s having Laura’s diary, is mostly just sad, but it’s weird that Harold is so insistent on NOT giving it to the cops.Meanwhile, the elusive travel writer M.T. Wentz is visiting the town, the show gears up to get really racist with Josie’s continuing plotline and the in
Twin Peaks S2E3: The Man Behind the Glass
Coop will not leave Ronnette Pulaski alone, but it’s worth it guys: he found a letter “B”. He fills Harry and Albert in about his giant visions, and then Harry and Albert go enemies to lovers. Leland tells Coop about his childhood memory of Bob, with new information for us: he wanted to “play with fire”. Blackie and (gasp!) Jean Renault concoct a frankly insane scheme to get Audrey addict
Twin Peaks S2E2: Coma
Garland Briggs has a special message for Dale – from space! And he gets a phone call from Audrey, who’s used her wiles to get info on Laura from Emory Battis, the perfume counter creep – but she just might be caught!Meanwhile: Donna’s meals on wheels quest introduces her to an old lady, a magician boy, and a recluse. Andy’s sterile, but he still has to take baths. Leo’s in a coma – for no
Twin Peaks S2E1: May the Giant Be with You
Twin Peaks S2E1: May The Giant Be With YouDale’s been shot! What a cliffhanger! It’s September 1990, and I’ve been itching for some narrative resolution all summer! But David Lynch says no no no – instead, you get the slowest glass of warm milk in the world, and some Giant Prophecies! After (kinda) recovering, Coop gets brought up to speed on the crazy events of the finale and learns the
Twin Peaks S1E7: The Last Evening
Season 1 goes out with a bang, with as much capital-p Plot as almost the rest of the season combined. Jacoby gets the shit beaten out of him! Coop catches weaselly Jacques Renault, with the help of Andy’s surprisingly straight shooting – but then Leland kills him! Andy’s gunplay gets him a conversation with Lucy, and she’s pregnant! Leo burns the mill down, with Shelly and Catherine in it
Twin Peaks S1E6: Realization Time
Dale Cooper becomes the world’s first cop to not try to sleep with a high schooler. Audrey pursues her investigation, following the trail from the Horne store perfume desk to One-Eyed Jack’s. Donna, James, and Maddy disguise Maddy as Laura to lure out Dr. Jacoby, but they’re being followed by Bobby, who’s being followed by... someone?Also: a history lesson on the sick freak who invented m
Twin Peaks S1E5: Cooper's Dreams
DISCO ELYSIUM SPOILERS TALK 2:33-11:51The Log Speaks! The Investigation makes headway both mundane and uncanny, finding out that Jacques Renault was managing advertisements for both Laura and Ronnette in Flesh World. In terms of the spirit world, however, the log is now ready to speak, and reveals potent clues about the night of Laura's murder. The boys then find TWO cabins, the second co
Twin Peaks S1E4: The One-Armed Man
The investigation continues apace as Sarah Palmer's vision, a bust on Jacques Renault’s apartment, and bevy of birds answer some questions and raise even more. Not to be left out of the investigative frenzy, Audrey and Donna both vow to uncover the truth behind Laura's death themselves. Meanwhile, Coop gets some Boys Time in with the Gun Boys, the plot to burn down the mill heats up, Bobb
Twin Peaks S1E3: Rest In Pain
After last week’s crazy cliffhanger, Cooper announces almost directly to the camera that his dream contains clues that will solve everything, but also that he forgot the most important part. As a sign that he has become a bona fide citizen of Twin Peaks, the Bookhouse Boys invite him into their secret club dedicated to fighting the evil in the woods. To that end, they’ve kidnapped a Frenc
Twin Peaks S1E2: Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
With the help of his colleague Albert and the power of throwing rocks, Dale makes some stunning advances in the case. Meanwhile, Ben Horne is a goofy dipshit, the bozo boys get a scare from Leo, Josie does some snooping, and Nadine scores huge.Also: two delicious waters, a surprising amount of Elden Ring talk, and a plea from a cat named Mushroom :)⁂Support the show on Patreon for early a
Twin Peaks S1E1: Traces to Nowhere
Dale and the viewer find a smattering of potential breadcrumb clues to Laura’s death, which raise more questions than answers, seemingly implicating Bobby, Leo, a mysterious one-armed man, Ben Horne, Doctor Jacoby, and/or a guy Sarah Palmer sees in a vision?Also: Hieronymus Bosch, Tom Green, and the ethics of crab ownership.⁂Support the show on Patreon for early access and exclusive movie
TS TV DVD: I Saw The TV Glow
This is the first episode of TS TV DVD, the bonus show that will be out once a month on our Patreon! This first episode is going out to everyone as a special treat :)We talk about hit transgender film I SAW THE TV GLOW! We both really liked it, but also both walked away with some criticisms. We dig into what works for us, what doesn't so much, and also we end up sidetracking into talking
Twin Peaks Pilot: Northwest Passage
The bucolic logging town of Twin Peaks is rocked by tragedy when the town sweetheart, Laura Palmer, is found dead, wrapped in plastic. As those who knew her (which seems to be everyone) reel from this crime, another victim is found alive, but in shock. Over the course of a busy 90-minute pilot, we spend... maybe surprisingly little time with FBI agent Dale Cooper as he begins to unravel t
Episode 0: Welcome to TS TV!
In this introductory episode, Lily and Sadie talk about growing up together in Montreal, their relationships to the works of David Lynch, and what to expect from this show.⁂Support the show on Patreon for early access and exclusive movie discussion episodes.Follow the show on BlueskyQuestions? Comments? Email us at hellotstv@gmail.com and we may respond in a future episode!⁂Things mention
