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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...

DERRICK:  Okay, in our last article I had said that this entry in our Sherlock Holmes/ Twin Peaks blog series would compare the errors of Twin Peaks to Doyle's errors in the original Sherlock Holmes canon. However, after Twin Peaks episode 8 that entry will have to wait. There's just too much to discuss in episode 8 to let this one go by without a blog response. Be forewarned that, as always, there are spoilers ahead. Whether anything we write could spoil episode 8 is its own topic for debate. Depending on who you ask, episode 8 was either a clear explanation to much of the mystery of Twin Peaks (perhaps too much of an explanation), pure unadulterated madness upon the screen, or some degree in the middle.  What is our opinion of the episode? We used the Sherlockian approach to observe, analyze and deduce. Observe This was easy enough to do as the episode was one of the most captivating hours in the history of television. We saw: *Doppelganger Cooper gets shot...