VISION ON SOUND EPISODE 89 - TX JUNE 19 2022 - TWIN PEAKS

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on June 19th 2022

This week we welcome back SANDY McGREGOR and TIM BOURNE for another in our occasional peeks at series that maybe fall under the banner of perhaps the more surreal end of the television drama spectrum.

After our previous examinations of both THE PRISONER and THE SINGING DETECTIVE, a couple of months ago, SANDY announced that he was planning to revisit both of the 1990s series of TWIN PEAKS and he just happened to mention that his old pal TIM was also a huge fan, so, of course, it went without saying that I had to schedule both of them in for another of our online chats.

TWIN PEAKS, the dark twisted brainchild of Mark Frost and renowned movie director David Lynch, was something of a cultural phenomenon in the early nineteen-nineties, as many television viewers were as eager as AGENT DALE COOPER to find out just who killed LAURA PALMER, the bright seemingly golden girl of the quiet-seeming rural logging town of TWIN PEAKS.

Both the town and Laura seemed to have been living, at the very least, a dual existence, and, once you scratched beneath the surface of this ordinary-seeming community, or looked into the background of the sad victim of a mysterious killer, nothing about either of them seemed to be exactly what you might have expected, and the impact this one brutal event has upon this whole town populated with eccentrics, monsters, and crammed full of secrets, led to two seasons, and around thirty episodes of one of the most compelling, challenging, memorable, and downright peculiar series ever made on American TV, a series which placed some indelible images inside the minds of viewers, and which remains a cult favourite even today.

Some people believe that the show tended to fall away a little once the initial mystery had been resolved, but others maintain that the further layers of mystery, taking place across at least two interlinked worlds and which presented some utterly bizarre and terrifying imagery, were where the fascinations of TWIN PEAKS truly begin.

Either way, there was enough interest for the feature film FIRE WALK WITH ME to be made a couple of years after the series itself was wrapped in plastic, and twenty-five years later, as promised by the original narrative, TWIN PEAKS did return for a short, but very welcome, limited event series, with both DAVID LYNCH and MARK FROST in charge to add even more confusion to all of the mysteries, if you had been hoping for some kind of closure.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.