Chris and Scott are back with the latest episode of the podcast, this time looking at Episode 10, aka Season 2, Episode 3, “The Man Behind Glass,” written by Robert Engels and directed by Lesli Linka Glatter. it aired October 13, 1990.
Enjoy the first several minutes, as Chris is confused by two plot points that Scott explains to him without making him look too stupid. Chris gets back on track, arguably, with some observations on how the dark and light sides of both Agents Cooper and Rosenfield may represent David Lynch and his work. Or anyone, really.
In this episode we meet Richard “Dick” Tremayne, played by Ian Buchanan, a veteran of many television shows, but perhaps remembered best as Duke Lavery on General Hospital in the ‘80s, reprising that role from 2012-2015. He also acted in the soap operas Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful and All My Children. He has also done voiceover work in three different Batman animated series, a different role each time, and worked again with Frost and Lynch on On the Air as the character Lester Guy.
We note the One Armed Man, Mike Gerard, is a reference to the most famous television character to have just one arm, Prince Stitch-Sleeve from Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. Just kidding. It’s a reference to Lt. Philip Gerard, the dogged detective chasing wrongly accused Richard Kimble for four seasons of The Fugitive (1963-1967).
Lenny Von Dohlen makes his first of a handful of appearances on the series as damnable Harold Smith, the agoraphobic orchid enthusiast with designs on Donna. He reprised that role in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and lest one thinks we’re being too hard on him by describing him as a creepy actor, note some of his other roles: Blattis. Foster Batterham. Burton Jernigan. DeYancey Clanahan. Clifford Roderick. And yes, Creepy Guy in Hotel.
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Who Killed Laura Podcast Ep. 9 - I Thought It Meant I Didn’t Have To Take A Bath
In this episode of the podcast, we discuss Season 2, Episode 2′s “Coma,” written by Harley Peyton and directed by David Lynch. Your mileage may vary, but in this episode we find the blend of drama, mystery and quirky comedy to be an uneasier fit than in the better episodes.
This isn’t to say there aren’t some great, interesting and unsettling elements in this one, like the magical creamed corn little David Lynch boy, a full minute or more of characters adjusting chairs, a smoked cheese piggy, lots and lots of Scotch tape, the unfortunate first look at Leo Johnson’s voluminous chest and back hair, and the first mention of Dale Cooper’s former partner, Windom Earle, who doesn’t take center stage for another nine episodes.
This is the second and last time Lynch directs back-to-back episodes. He will direct just two more in the series, in large part due to being busy filming Wild at Heart at this time. Peyton writes his third episode of what will be thirteen episodes he either writes or co-writes.
We wonder if the character of Mike Nelson, Bobby’s friend and drug-pushing accomplice, and former boyfriend of Donna Hayward, had been written off the show. He returns in Episode 15 (Season 2, Episode 7), an important episode for reasons having nothing to do with him, as usual. No offense meant to actor Gary Hershberger, of course. Inglewood native Hershberger would reprise the role of Mike in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, then go on to a solid career on television, appearing in such series as Murder, She Wrote, JAG, Chicago Hope, Grey’s Anatomy, Six Feet Under, and Big Love, among others.
The song James Hurley apparently composed for Laura, which he sings with Donna and Maddy in the living room, accompanied by an unseen rhythm section, is “Just You and I,” a Lynch/Badalamenti composition. The actors, Lee, Marshall and Boyle, provided their own vocals.