S2, E15: Slaves and Masters

Original art ©Jonathan Pérez

Well, thank you, Diane Keaton! The consensus is that despite some serious problems, we are nevertheless back in the one true Twin Peaks with Season 2, Episode 15, “Slaves and Masters.” This week, Colin frames the good, but not perfect, return to form with a bit called Nailed-It/Failed-It; Damon examines how Keaton’s directing brings us back to a “Lynchian” mode; Jennifer spotlights victim-villains, especially Evelyn and Josie; and Jonathan takes on Ben Horne, racist content, and minorities in the show. For the Twist, we go on an art walk in our favorite small town.

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S2, E15 NOTES:
Harley Peyton (episode writer)
Diane Keaton (episode director and American actor, b. 1946)
Vicuña wool (wool from a vicuña… go figure)
Sunset Boulevard (1950, film, dir. by Billy Wilder)
The Queen’s Gambit (2020, Netflix miniseries)
Anya Taylor-Joy (b. 1996, American actor with international cred)
Ed Asner (1929-2021, legendary American actor and activist)
Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaks (2014, book, by Brad Dukes)
Time After Time (1979, film dir. and written by Nicholas Meyer)
David Warner (b. 1941, English actor)
Death Mask (a memorial likeness made via a cast from a corpse)
Shakuhachi flute (traditional Japanese and Chinese instrument)
Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) (1960, French horror film dir. and written by Georges Franju)
Richard Beymer (b. 1938, Benjamin Horne)Red Rock West (1993, neo-noir film dir. by John Dahl)
JT Walsh (1943-1998, prolific American actor)
West Side Story (1961, film, dir. by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins)
Jonathan’s article on Catherine Coulson
Patton: Lust for Glory (1970, film dir. by Franklin J. Schaffner)
George C. Scott (1927-1999, American actor)
Apartheid in South Africa (1948-1990s, political policy of brutal racial segregation)
Articles on race  in “Twin Peaks” (flagged by Jonathan):
-“Twin Peaks” is So Overwhelmingly White, So Why Do People of Color Keep Watching It?
-Twin Peaks is Candy for White Liberals
-It Is Happening Again
Kenneth Welsh (b., 1942, Windom Earle)