[Podcast] Week 14: 'Twin Peaks School on Substack

This Week’s Syllabus

1. Watch Twin Peaks: The Return “Part Six”

2. READ THE NEXT CHAPTER in your textbook: A Skeleton Key To Twin Peaks, 2nd Edition. by

   JB Minton 📺
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'Twin Peaks Analysis & Appreciation for Season 3 -'The Return: Part Six "Don't Die"

3. Consider and, if it feels right, discuss.

Part Six

This week, the game of Call For Help begins, and dark forces come to murder Cooper wherever he stands. But we also see a thawing in these frustrated people surrounding Dale Cooper as he occupies Douglas Jones's uneven suit. Cooper’s wife has gone from cold to chill. His boss has gone from frustration to revelation. And Cooper’s enemies are a step behind even when they are a step ahead.

Think about what the word home means to you. It’s a warm place. Even if it’s cold outside, it should be comfortably warm in the home. The danger of settling down was the last temptation of that carpenter who also died in his dream.

We meet an agent of chaos who could bring this whole illusion crashing down. We witness trauma unlike any other, and we see compassion bleed out into this dream, where it will pool and ignite in a fire of passion. Love comes in many forms here in Dale Cooper's demented dream.

We’ll get a lecture on Economics from Janey-E, who holds a PhD in the way things ought to be.

Poor Loraine will meet Ike the Spike, who plays a game of chance that, up until now, has always ended in death.

And if you remember, right back to the beginning of this dream in Fire Walk With Me, Annie told Laura to write in Laura’s diary that Cooper was trapped in the Black Lodge. That was another dream within this dream. Well, those pages come back up here, and Hawk finds them. They will reveal the secret mystery at the heart of this dream layer to a character so simple that he understands spoken and unspoken wisdom. Cooper will find this very useful.

And we learn that Deputy Chad is a fucking asshole.

YOUR READING ASSIGNMENT THIS WEEK 🔽

Limited access to this copyrighted material is by explicit permission of the author and only available for this free cost during the active running of this course in 2024. The final version will be available in book format shortly after the conclusion of this course.

Next class…Part Seven “Don’t Die”

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