The Who Killed Laura Podcast Episode 15 How you must hate us white people!
Thanks for watching along with us! Last episode was pretty major and now that we know Who Killed Laura Palmer, Scott and Chris continue to discuss the entire mystery with the 8th episode of season 2 entitle Drive With a Dead Girl. The episode aired on November 17th, 1990 to an audience of 13.3 million, a drop of about 4 million. Maybe they lost interest after last week’s reveal. The episode is written by brother of co-creator Mark Frost Scott Frost and directed by Caleb Deschanel.
The aftermath of last week’s revelation of Who Killed Laura Palmer causes a lot of new topics to discuss this week. As always, the guys start with the Log Lady’s intro and work through the episode scene by scene.
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Welcome and thank you for joining us again for another episode of the Who Killed Laura Podcast. This time we’re covering a pretty important episode, the revelation of Who Killed Laura Palmer (not that we’re going to stop doing this podcast now that that particular mystery is solved).
The episode is written by Mark Frost and directed by David Lynch, and is the last time we’ll see this particular credit. Lynch will direct the series finale with Frost sharing a writing credit with the other two regulars, Harley Peyton and Robert Engels.
A blown intro by Chris leads into a pretty heady Log Lady Intro in this one, touching on both The Bible and Buddhism.
David Lynch appears again as Agent Gordon Cole, the guy with bad hearing and not much else. Harold Smith commits suicide, or was it murder? And was it with his own superfluous suspenders? Is the little magician kid who looks like a young Lynch involved? So many questions (posted by us, not the show per se).
Twin Peaks goes for the rare licensed music use with Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.”
Leo Johnson with food dribbling down his chin vs. dead naked teenager wrapped in plastic: which do you find more disturbing? Discuss.
Audrey Horne returns, dressed to kill interrogate, which leads to dad Ben brought in for questioning due to her revealing his deeper connection to Laura as mentioned in her diary.
Soup o’ the Day at the RR Diner is Split Pea & Lamb. Coffee is only two bits. Shelly will have to quit waitressing to take care of Leo full-time, while Big Ed has to deal with Nadine thinking she’s a teenager back in high school again.
We start to get into something, then put a pin in it for later, as we get into Tojamura screwing over Ben and Ben’s rather amusing attempts to evade capture. Tojamura reveals his/herself to Pete Martell in an unexpectedly sweet scene.
Julee Cruise, who sang the Twin Peaks theme song, “Falling,” which hit #11 on the U.S. Pop charts, #7 in the UK and #1 in Australia. She performed the song live, filling in at the last minute for Sinead O’Connor when she refused to appear on the episode of Saturday Night Live guest-hosted by then-controversial comedian Andrew Dice Clay. Cruise previously worked with Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti on the song, “Mysteries of Love,” for the film, Blue Velvet, composed when the This Mortal Coil cover of Tim Buckley’s “Song to the Siren” proved too expensive to license for the film. Lynch and Badalamenti would compose the entirety of Cruise’s first album, Floating into the Night, which hit #74 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Albums list. Aside from one track, her second album, The Voice of Love, was another Lynch/Badalamenti collaboration, drawing in part from their musical play, Industrial Symphony #1. Cruise continued a solo career separate from Lynch and Badalamenti on subsequent albums, as well as becoming a short-term member of the B-52s and making other theatrical and television appearances, such as Psych’s episode parodying Twin Peaks, entitled Dual Spires.
The remainder of the podcast is taken up with the astonishing, brutal revelation of who killed Laura Palmer (and who’s now killing Maddy Ferguson), a brilliantly filmed sequence shocking for its day and still disturbing today, as well as what the revelation and prior scenes suggest about the cycle of abuse visited upon Laura and perhaps Leland before her, and how she sublimated it.
We realized later Leland is not really saying, “Over my dead ass!” but we liked it and left it in.
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The Who Killed Laura Podcast Episode 13: The Gifted and the Damned
Welcome to another episode of our podcast! This one looks at Season 2, Episode 6′s “Demons,” written by Harley Peyton and Robert Engels, and directed by Lesli Linka Glatter.
In this one, shut-in creeper Harold Smith abruptly closes his living novel on Donna Hayward when he finds she and Maddie snooping and trying to find where he keeps Laura Palmer’s secret diary. It takes so little for girls to become unclean!
We have a little confusion over whether the Roadhouse and Bookhouse are the same building. They are not, but located just yards from each other. Part of the confusion is that an interior scene of the tiny cookhouse was filmed at The Old Place Restaurant in Cornell, CA, which is much larger, books and shelves added to the real-life decor.
We discuss a would-be romantic scene between Donna and James and how we feel it’s hampered somewhat by James Marshall’s acting. That’s just an opinion, and if James is your favorite actor or character on the show, good for you. Per IMDB, Marshall started as Jim Greenblatt, logging a few TV roles before changing his name and playing several characters on Growing Pains. Twin Peaks and its attendant prequel film were perhaps his career highlights, but he does a very credible job as the pained, confused Pfc. Downey in A Few Good Men for Rob Reiner.
The late Ian Abercrombie appears here as an insurance adjustor of sorts, making sure Leo Johnson is well-cared for. Abercrombie’s credits are too numerous to mention, but often involve playing a butler. Some highlights include, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Northern Exposure, Wild Wild West, NewsRadio, and seven episodes of Seinfeld as Elaine Benes’ boss, Mr. Pitt. In later years, he did a lot of animation voiceover work such as The Batman, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Rango and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He also did several episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place and worked with Lynch again on 2006′s Inland Empire.
Chris has fun reciting the Killer Bob rhyme.
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