So much coma! We wind up talking about how much of a trope the soap opera coma is... and how Twin Peaks weirdly (for Leo anyway) plays it closer to reality than most...

We get side-tracked onto The Fourth Kind for a while purely because of how it used owls and how that might be a kind of inference back to this series...

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Twin Peaks gets off to a slightly unusual second season start...

We discuss comas and how it feels so oddly distanced from season 1. Also get minorly fixated on the previously unmentioned Hayward daughter.

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Hard to ignore how good Piper Laurie is in this episode. And in general in this series!

We've reached the all too soon end of season 1 of Twin Peaks and it feels like everything's happening, so many cliffhangers and dangling plot-threads! And somehow while talking about the series we loop in things like Clueless and Psychonauts...

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Watch as Dale Cooper fends off Audrey's attempts at seduction in order not to bring the FBI into disrepute shortly before making use of the Bookhouse Boys because they need to do something across the Candian border! Not saying he shouldn't have resisted Audrey, but the latter also feels distinctly dodgy.

At this point in the series everyone seems to be converging at One Eyed Jack's or about to commit arson. Or making *checks notes* Laura Palmer's cousin dress up as her in order to lure her psychiatrist out of his office in order to steal an audio cassette made by Laura Palmer...

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Twin Peaks continues to tease that a solution to its central mystery can only be imminent! Birds singing and perpetual music get their explanations here!

But in the meantime, we continue to complain about James, continue to enjoy every time Bobby shows up on-screen, and remain hopelessly fixated on Maddy and who's playing her in this series. Also the mill-arson plot is just getting more tangled by the minute.

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Feels like everyone is turning out to be psychic in Twin Peaks... Laura Palmer, Sarah Palmer, Dale Cooper... Hank Jennings?! Or at least we don't have a good way for him to call right after the letter he sent (presumably days earlier) was opened.

But! For those who know the kind of things Twin Peaks is famed for may be interested that this is the first time an owl has an on-screen presence. Also Maddy looks very set to just make all the relationship tangle even more complicated...

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You may be shocked - SHOCKED - to learn Twin Peaks immediately swerves away from naming Laura Palmer's killer despite explicitly promising such an answer last episode. Such is the way of Twin Peaks, and these days its well known this was never quite what David Lynch and Mark Frost wanted to focus on, and yet... the answer is out there still.

In the meantime we talk a fair amount about the funeral at the centre of Rest in Pain and bring up Ringu once again.

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The Red Room makes its appearance in Twin Peaks! If you've been wondering how the series has the reputation it has, it all ramps up from here.

We talk backwards talking, our "clues" for the central mystery, compare the series to (variously) Insidious, Neon Genesis Evangelion and professional wrestling!

Also come to a startling realisation about the Horne brothers...

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