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Episodes 12 & 13:    The Distinction Is Clear WARNING:  Do not read this article if you haven't been watching up through episode 13 of Twin Peaks: The Return.  We don't want to spoil your fun! “You see, but you do not observe.   The distinction is clear.”             --- A Scandal In Bohemia Brian: Things are speeding up as we enter the final third of Twin Peaks: The Return.   While some earlier episodes… have… seemed… mmm… padded (and that’s putting it kindly)… the last few episodes have roared to life, tantalizing us as plot threads intertwine and hint at possible resolutions.    Of all the recent surprises, none have been more welcome for me than the return of fan-favorite character Audrey Horne.   Her scene is split between the last two episodes, and reveals such a wealth of information that it demands special attention. First, to see; then to ...

Episode 10:   “Hey, Grandma” WARNING:   this post has a LOT of spoilers for both Twin Peaks and Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes canon.   If you haven’t read the original stories – what are you waiting for?   They’re wonderful!   Grab a copy and dive right in!!! This week’s episode of Twin Peaks confirmed that Richard Horne is in fact the grandson of Benjamin and Sylvia Horne.   Their evil, twisted, depraved monster of a grandson.   This opens up all kinds of questions --- is Audrey his mother, or is Johnny his father?   If it IS Audrey, is Evil Coop the father?   Is Audrey still alive?   Did Richard kill his mother?   Did Evil Coop kill Audrey, and/or rape her while comatose after the explosion at the end of season 2?   What’s up with all the red shoes popping up lately?    It also gave us a disturbing scene of family brutality that I found shocking --- and that’s saying something for a series as cr...

"It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles." --Sherlock Holmes  This is our take on the new season of Twin Peaks through a Sherlockian lens. Be forewarned that spoilers abound! Brian:  Man, was I disappointed by this week’s episode (5) of Twin Peaks: The Return.   It proved that Lynch and Frost simply don’t have a strong enough story to sustain the length of this new season.   We get it:   Coop is confused.   Coop the Insurance Agent was mixed up in some shady business.   Coop has apparently become Peter Sellers from Being There since, unbelievably, nobody seems to think he has a concussion or is taking heavy tranquilizers. PLEASE, can we resolve this storyline and bring back the Agent Cooper who we’ve been waiting twenty-five years to return?   In Sherlockian terms, at least when Doyle padded his stories like A Study In Scarlet or The Valley of Fear , the diversions were interesting – you actually...

T he Great Hiatus! Those three words conjure wonderful and powerful images in the minds of all Sherlockians. Holmes and Watson’s flight from England and the battle with Professor Moriarty atop Reichenbach Falls. Spending time in Lhasa with the Head Lama. Danger while passing through Persia and Mecca and Khartoum. A stop in Montpellier with those puzzling coal-tar derivatives, before finally returning home by way of an Empty House in Baker Street.  -- David Marcum, from   Holmes Away From Home: Adventures from the Great Hiatus Yes, the Great Hiatus is the time in Holmes's life when it was believed that the Great Detective was deceased having perished by going over the Reichenbach Falls in his final battle with Professor Moriarty.  But Holmes was not dead, just as Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks was not trapped forever in the Black Lodge in his final conflict with Wyndham Earl, his own arch-nemesis.   What clues could this time in Holmes' life have for ...