Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost is the crucial sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Secret History of Twin Peaks, bridging the two series and taking you deeper into the mysteries raised by the new series. The return of Twin Peaks is one of the most anticipated events in the history…
Part 17: “The past dictates the future.” The penultimate episode begins with Gordon Cole (David Lynch) revealing to Albert (Miguel Ferrer) and Tammy (Chrysta Bell) a secret he has harbored a quarter of a century—namely that “Jowday” (or “Jao Dei”), known in modern times as Judy, is “an extreme negative force” wandering the earth. So,…
Part 14: “We Are Like the Dreamer” Heaps of reveal in this surreal saturated episode, although certain junctions are far from satisfactory. What works: David Bowie, once again, as the time-tripping FBI Agent Phillip Jefferies asks Gordon Cole (David Lynch), “Who do you think this is there?” pointing to Agent Cooper (Kyle Maclachlan). That pivotal…
If there was one thing that stood out in this week’s episodes, it was those regurgitation scenes. Ay, dios mio! More than once as Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) is passing from the Black Lodge back to the land of the living. In what can only be described as a surreal trip for Coop, he…
Ahead of David Lynch’s revival, I went back and binged on the original series, interested to know if it would still capture me like it did 27 years ago. I was only a few years older than the fictional 17-year-old Laura Palmer when I sat with my mom and best friend Erik each week, religiously…
Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! This week, Christmas comes early with David Rosenfelt's latest Andy Carpenter novel and the world of Twin Peaks gets a little…
We've already discussed the upcoming return of Twin Peaks (for which we can't talke all the credit), and now you can (hopefully) add The X-Files to the list of sci-fi rebirths! After appearing with Chris Hardwick on a Nerdist podcast, Gillian Anderson urged fans to join her in urging Fox to bring back the show.…
Don’t look now, but Halloween is just around the corner, and with it comes the one time each year where our morbid obsession with all things scary is celebrated! If you’re looking to get that heart rate thumping, look no further; here are the links that will send even the biggest adrenaline junkie running for…
…but Jake Hinkson's Twin Peaks Rewatch recalls the show's greatness, and then, along comes this announcement of a series return. Via Deadline: One of the top cult series of all time is coming back with a new limited series on Showtime from its original creators, David Lynch and Mark Frost. The nine-episode series will go…
While Twin Peaks is a web of contradictions—combining as it does comedy and horror, “high” art and “low” art, pathos and irony—its central contradiction really boils down to this: while it has the structure of a whodunit, it rejects the entire notion of a solution. Here’s what I mean. The whodunit, as a literary and…
