Who Killed Laura Podcast Ep 18 - It's a good color for him

The Who Killed Laura Podcast Ep 18 - It's a good color for him

Welcome back to another Who Killed Laura Podcast with Chris and Scott.

This episode of Twin Peaks, entitled "Masked Ball", was directed by Dwayne Dunham. Looking at his body of work, one has to wonder which of these acting greats was more fulfilling to direct: James Marshall or Kevin Sorbo?

After the Log Lady intro sets up what will be a sort of chess game between Agent Cooper and nemesis Windom Earle, we get some stylistic deviations/additions this episode, including some rockabilly music for James Hurley, as he embarks on a solo adventure away from Twin Peaks township that is very noir in nature, just with more wood and wool sweaters. Evelyn Marsh is a sophisticated femme fatale who nonetheless has to sip martinis at a roadside tavern named Wallie's Hideout, and it just so happens she needs a mechanic to fix her husband's expensive old car, and her desire to escape her life coincides nicely with James'.

Nadine Hurley's mental illness takes the form of her belief she is a teenager back in high school again, and in Twin Peaks, delusions are humored, so she's allowed to enroll again and try out for cheerleading. She also soon has her eye on Mike, who has seemed so lost (well, offscreen) since chum Bobby Briggs forgot about him.

Slick Dick Tremayne tries to show Lucy he's a fit father by bringing around an orphan named Nicky. Hank Jennings and father-in-law Ernie return from a hunting/whoring trip where Hank and Jean Renault have coerced Ernie into getting back into the criminal life, and it leads to, one has to assume, the only STD joke in the series.

Ben Horne, exonerated but having lost his big Ghostwood Estates deal, looks at old home movies of himself and his dad and starts to fall apart. David Duchovny as Dennis/Denise has some fun scenes, and we dig more into both the meaning of the White Lodge (courtesy of Hawk) and Andrew Packard and Thomas Eckhardt, as well as Rick Deckard, Jack Rickards, and Keith and Reed Richards. PRO TIP: don't give your characters too-similar names.

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