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Things Are Getting Strange
A Twin Peaks rewatch podcast. Get yourself a nice cup of the blackest coffee you can find, a slice of damn fine cherry pie and join us!
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Episodes
- Things Are Getting Strange
...and my Axe
James says he's leaving! Everybody cheer! Now Donna can do... literally anything. Unfortunately that seems to be getting caught up with Windom Earle's latest…
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Opera Night at Willie's Bar
Finally! An entertaining James subplot episode! Mostly because of some real, real weirdness in and around the bar Evelyn spends most of her time. Elsewhere we…
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Frankenstein's Leo
Leo's back! He's risen... From the slaaaaaaaaab. Not sure how coming back from brain-death turns you into Frankenstein's monster but here we are! Regrettably…
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This Could Be a Case for Bryson and Scully
As part of Checkmate, we get a little side-tracked into how The X-Files could almost be a spin-off from Twin Peaks - still staring Duchovny with Anderson, but…
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Special Agent Audrey Horne
Content Warning: the episode of Twin Peaks discussed contains depictions of transphobia and domestic abuse/violence against women. zzzzzzzzzz Wait! Ignoring…
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Denise Origins
Content Warning: the episode of Twin Peaks discussed contains depictions of transphobia. Seeing as its the episode somewhat confusingly titled Masked Ball, it…
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Reverse Nepotism
So... now what? Well, the series needs to keep Cooper in town, so there's a very abrupt owls coming home to roost moment for the wildly illegal stuff he's…
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Relationship Speedrun
Well. We're here. Now the cast catch up with the viewer and the whole who killed Laura Palmer part of the plot is resolved. But there's another 13 episodes to…
- Things Are Getting Strange
Tonal Whiplash
Something of a dramatic reversal into comedy after the darkness of the last episode... We discuss why some people aren't keen on this, but get into the likely…
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Horse in the Room
Content Warning: discussions of sexual abuse, violence against women, murder of women, abuse of minors and yellowface. So, we come, inevitably, to the horse in…
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Chiwowow
Cooper finally contends with his litany of illegal actions! For a few minutes. Then he starts withholding medication... Twin Peaks continues! We talk about…
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Whole Damn Town
Back to Twin Peaks! We briefly talk about upcoming X-Files news (both old and new!) and The Amazing Digital Circus finale (don't worry, we're not about to…
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Fool for a Lawyer
We get a bit hung up on how Maddy's hair has changed over the course of the series. And reach silly conclusions about the potential Laura Palmer-ifiction of…
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The Philosophy of Albert
If you're watching along with the series, what perpetual cynic Albert believes in might come as rather a surprise in The Man Behind the Glass. Especially…
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Cheese Pig
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…
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British Accent
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…
- Things Are Getting Strange
Shred of Humanity
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…
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The Sheriff's Secret Police
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…
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Very Good. Now Shoot Him Again
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…
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Llama Sneeze
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…
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Pie Heaven
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…
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Burns Suit
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…
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Cooper's Luggage
The soap opera continues, though we will note how Cooper seems to travel. Or at least which items seem essential. We're still a bit early, not quite to the…
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The Best Costumes
Join us as we take a trip into the Pacific North-West... To a town with a population way too high for how its depicted. And an eccentric population. We are, of…
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Embracing the Infinite
Alas we have reached the end of Darkplace with so much of the series still left unglimpsed... What sights and truths could it reveal? Maybe that Dean Learner…
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Theme of Batteries
Looking past the less than subtle "borrowing" of John Carpenter's back-catalogue, we end up zeroing in on the actual theme of Scotch Mist! Doesn't have much to…
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Subtext is for Cowards!
We reach the infamous episode! The one with Garth Marenghi's attitude to subtext... Also his questions no one else asks... Despite the very obvious Planet of…
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Skull Flushing Real Apparently
Content warning: mentions of sexual assault We're not wild about this episode of Darkplace, but as discussed it contains some of the more quotable lines. Also…
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Horror Doesn't Work in a Post Office
Episode 2 of Darkplace has perhaps one of the more obvious inspirations from a famed horror author's work and perhaps quailing from the maddening reality of…
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Bits of Sick
In a surprising move, we change our focus to something quite different: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace! A comedy, sort of horror series from the early 2000s. We…
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The End (for now)
A wrap up now we're done with The X-Files for now. A whole franchise overview, out top comedy, top serious, worst episodes and best villains! Next time…
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British Fetish
Or at least, there are a surprising number of British people and accents in this series continuation! We discuss the implications and... probable influences on…
- Things Are Getting Strange
Large Marge
Somehow, Nick forgot the gore-fest of Nothing Lasts Forever existed at all, but is now painfully aware of the strange choice of penultimate episode. Not least…
- Things Are Getting Strange
Zero to Madness
It's man vs machine in Rm9sbG93ZXJz, though the robot wait-staff are also determined to make Scully pay. One way or another. We discuss the motive of the…
- Things Are Getting Strange
Pusher 2.0
We get really hung up on the implications of Jackson Van De Kampf's life in Ghouli and how people just ignore the less than great series of events that would…
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The Last X-Files Episode*
*if you want to end the series in the best possible way... Plus One is a fun episode, possibly a little overshadowed by the sterling guest-star turn and the…
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Where Do All the Calculators Go?
We reach Season 11 and find that the chosen way to resolve the massive, massive cliffhanger season 10 left on is.... lacking. My Struggle III spends a lot of…
- Things Are Getting Strange
Chris Carter Lied to Us
Don't promise us the Lone Gunmen being back and then do... that. Babylon was quite notorious on first broadcast and the intervening years have done little to…
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Arcadia mk 2
We struggle to say much about Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster, broadly because the episode is an absolute delight and revisiting it has not diminished…
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Deja Vu The Sequel
Welcome to season 10! And plots we could swear we saw in Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'. And Gethesmane... Still! The X-Files is back. Skinner is back! Cancer…
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Catering by Alan Smithee
We reach the second The X-Files film and are beset by questions. Many of them "Why this?" and "Really?" While the acting is fine, we are not so taken with the…
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Ready Kafka?
So here we are. What once was the end of The X-Files is a bit too much like how Seinfeld ended for its own good... We end up talking about Franz Kafka for…
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Exit Here to Avoid The Truth
Release wraps Doggett's running backstory up perhaps a little too fast and a little too without warning (and that's not getting into Reyes' questionable…
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Slice of Bread with Legs
A strange description of Jimmy Bond, but accurate nonetheless. After our hiatus, Nick is trying to be more positive about The X-Files. Each episode must have…
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God Plays Checkers with the Universe
At least, we're pretty sure guest star Burt Reynolds is God in Improbable at any rate. A rather stunning surprise from Chris Carter, this episode is tremendous…
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The Episode We Forgot
One of them anyway... Audrey Pauley feels more like a Twilight Zone episode, but is an interesting contrast to Steven Maeda's previous season 9 episode of 4D…
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Kim Manners Was Right
...mostly about the current state of the conspiracy here in Season 9... Providence, wait, Provenance. No, Providence. Dammit, its Provenance! Provenance has…
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Flayed Corpse Specific Sheets
Vince Gilligan has failed us! And apparently only us as the critical reception to John Doe is strikingly positive. We speculate how much of this is due to…
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Insect Boy Biology
With Lord of the Flies, we wonder why The X-Files is now about a group of British school-children trapped on a desert island- Wait... We actually get curious…
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Rubber Mask Reality
Daemonicus is Kim's most hated episode of the entire run of The X-Files. Fun times! A good start leads into an increasingly dissatisfying experience and we…
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Saw Trap Mobiles
We're not entirely sure if Scully buys Jigsaw brand mobiles for her baby or the foley-artist made a strange choice for season 9's opener, but when baby William…
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Walk Without Rhythm...
...it won't attract the worm! Weapon of Choice used (for no particular reason) in All About Yves is one of the high points. We get into why even with the…
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Better
We were told these two episodes were an improvement... and that was not wrong! The Lying Game impressively avoids a gigantic pitfall that would have made the…
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Doldrums
It is hard to muster energy for The Lone Gunmen at this point... Diagnosis Jimmy feels stitched together from discarded parts of other episodes and continues…
- Things Are Getting Strange
Watching the Skis!
We've reached episode 100 and so... are taking a break from The Lone Gunmen for this week. Instead we have taken a trip to Springfield to witness the…
- Things Are Getting Strange
Weird Linux Joke
...which was probably more baffling on release, but now we have to ask why the LGM don't actively use Linux for like paranoid reasons... Back off hiatus! And…
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Pixellated Wife
Stuff happened between watching Three Men and a Smoking Diaper and when we recorded this episode and made it somehow even less fun than the first time around…
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Wilhelm (Doesn't) Scream
Somehow the third episode of the series is Eine Kleine Frohike, an episode of The Lone Gunmen which feels like it should come from a hypothetical season 4 when…
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Bertram's Blood
We swap from the bureaucratic FBI to a low-circulation newspaper office run by three familiar characters. Welcome to The Lone Gunmen. The one series spin-off…
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Could Have Ended Here...
The X-Files could genuinely have ended with Existence. There's room for a future version of the series, but a lot of plot is resolved and the current alien…