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Welcome to the first installment of many in the Twin Peaks series. You might be wondering why a horror site is featuring Twin Peaks. Well, it is a great series full of memorable characters. Secondly, there are terrifying when Leland (Ray Wise) would have his “BOB” moments or when someone would have a creepy vision of BOB sneaking up just to name a few. We are going to cover each episode here and try and think about it and dissect what is going on, all the alternate meanings, and the constant reference to coffee and pie.

Let me tell those of you out there a little bit about Twin Peaks and its basic summary so you know what it is that I am talking about. Twin Peaks is an American Emmy Award nominated Peabody and Golden Globe-winning television serial drama. The series was created by David Lynch and Mark Frost and was first broadcast on April 8, 1990. The show aired on the ABC network until June 10, 1991 the end of it’s second season. The story is set in a rural Washington town of Twin Peaks (actually filmed in Snoqualmie and North Bend Washington) where a young girl named Laura Palmer is found dead by a local man named Pete Martell near the river bank. Pete calls the Sheriff and reports the crime coining one of the series popular phrases “She’s dead..Wrapped in plastic.” The story quickly begins to develop as characters like Sheriff Harry Truman, and his cohorts Deputy Hawk, and Andy make their appearances and begin to investigate the crime. Federal agents are assigned to the case and so appears special agent Dale Cooper. The story follows the sheriff and agent Cooper and the towns other residents through their daily lives of normal but also very strange activities and relationships.

Now lets meet the characters.

Kyle MacLachlan … Special Agent Dale Cooper
Michael Ontkean … Sheriff Harry S. Truman
Dana Ashbrook … Bobby Briggs
Richard Beymer … Benjamin Horne
Lara Flynn Boyle … Donna Hayward
Mädchen Amick … Shelly Johnson
Sherilyn Fenn … Audrey Horne
Warren Frost … Dr. Will Hayward
Jack Nance … Pete Martell
Michael Horse … Deputy Tommy ‘Hawk’ Hill
Peggy Lipton … Norma Jennings
Everett McGill … Big Ed Hurley
Harry Goaz … Deputy Andy Brennan
Kimmy Robertson … Lucy Moran
Piper Laurie … Catherine Martell
James Marshall … James Hurley
Eric DaRe … Leo Johnson
Wendy Robie … Nadine Hurley
Joan Chen … Jocelyn ‘Josie’ Packard
Ray Wise … Leland Palmer
Sheryl Lee … Madeleine Ferguson
Russ Tamblyn … Dr. Lawrence Jacoby
Don S. Davis … Major Garland Briggs
Chris Mulkey … Hank Jennings
Gary Hershberger … Mike Nelson
Grace Zabriskie … Sarah Palmer

 

In the next installment we will cover the first pilot episode and discuss some of the plots and twists!