Twin Peaks Series 1 Pilot – Northwest Passage

And so it begins, my journey into Twin Peaks! At this point in time I’m not sure exactly how I’m going to tackle this – I don’t intend to do a full play-by-play episode breakdown, more just talking about my thoughts as we go, and making any predictions based on what I’ve seen. These posts will not be spoiler free, but I’ll only be covering spoilers up to the episode I’m discussing, as I won’t have seen anything beyond it! As such, please refrain from any future spoilers in your comments, thanks!

So full disclosure, I have seen this episode once before, however I wasn’t really paying attention to it and literally all I remembered was that a girl was found dead. As for what I know about future episodes (based mainly on interactions with the French Toast Sunday crew who are mostly massive Twin Peaks fans, even having been to a special Twin Peaks-themed event when they visited London 10 years ago), I was aware of Kyle MacLachlan showing up as a detective of some kind and having an affinity for pie and coffee, and that there would be a lady carrying a log, for reasons that I assume will never be explained (I believe Lindsay from FTS dressed up as this so-called Log Lady for a party one year). I was thrilled to meet said Log Lady in the first episode, and I look forward to future bizarre interactions with her.

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Blue Velvet

Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) returns from university to his smalltown home of Lumberton to look after the family hardware store when his father is hospitalised from a heart attack. After visiting the hospital, Jeffrey discovers a severed human ear in the woods, and begins investigating into its origin, leading him to team up with policeman’s daughter Sandy (Laura Dern) and lounge singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) who seems connected in some way. Also connected is local gas-huffing psychopath crime lord Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) and his crew of cronies, but how deep is Jeffrey going to delve into the seedy world beneath the perfect veneer of suburbia?

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