S5E8: TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME

The final episode of season 5 is about either the worst film David Lynch has ever made, or possibly one of his greatest—the 1992 TV-to-film crossover TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, revealing the last seven days of Laura Palmer's troubled life, plus a lot of other strange things that don't really make sense unless, you know, they kind of do. In this episode, Renan and Bill discuss their separate paths to this film; Renan's experience of watching the complete series for the first time; Bill's long-term relationship with the Twin Peaks franchise; how it was reviled by critics and audiences (and Quentin Tarantino) upon release, then reconsidered in years afterward; Sheryl Lee's campily riveting performance; where all the rest of your favorite Twin Peaks characters went; oh here they are, in the long-rumored deleted scenes now available if you know how to find them; how FWWM presaged later Lynch films; and what Bill and Renan are hoping to find in the 2017 reboot coming to Showtime.

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