Who Killed Laura Podcast Ep 9 - I Thought It Meant I Didn't Have To Take A Bath

Who Killed Laura Podcast Ep. 9 - I Thought It Meant I Didn’t Have To Take A Bath

In this episode of the podcast, we discuss Season 2, Episode 2′s “Coma,” written by Harley Peyton and directed by David Lynch. Your mileage may vary, but in this episode we find the blend of drama, mystery and quirky comedy to be an uneasier fit than in the better episodes.

This isn’t to say there aren’t some great, interesting and unsettling elements in this one, like the magical creamed corn little David Lynch boy, a full minute or more of characters adjusting chairs, a smoked cheese piggy, lots and lots of Scotch tape, the unfortunate first look at Leo Johnson’s voluminous chest and back hair, and the first mention of Dale Cooper’s former partner, Windom Earle, who doesn’t take center stage for another nine episodes.

This is the second and last time Lynch directs back-to-back episodes. He will direct just two more in the series, in large part due to being busy filming Wild at Heart at this time. Peyton writes his third episode of what will be thirteen episodes he either writes or co-writes.

We wonder if the character of Mike Nelson, Bobby’s friend and drug-pushing accomplice, and former boyfriend of Donna Hayward, had been written off the show. He returns in Episode 15 (Season 2, Episode 7), an important episode for reasons having nothing to do with him, as usual. No offense meant to actor Gary Hershberger, of course. Inglewood native Hershberger would reprise the role of Mike in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, then go on to a solid career on television, appearing in such series as Murder, She Wrote, JAG, Chicago Hope, Grey’s Anatomy, Six Feet Under, and Big Love, among others.

The song James Hurley apparently composed for Laura, which he sings with Donna and Maddy in the living room, accompanied by an unseen rhythm section, is “Just You and I,” a Lynch/Badalamenti composition. The actors, Lee, Marshall and Boyle, provided their own vocals.