The Lodgers | A Twin Peaks Podcast

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announcing The Akerman Year! Nov 05, 2021

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We have a new podcast! It's about Chantal Akerman. We talk about it for a couple of minutes before leaving you alone again. More info on Twitter: twitter.com/akermanpod

You can find the first, introductory ep of the pod here: https://akermanyear.fireside.fm/part-0

Thanks to everyone who listened to The Lodgers. We may return, one day...

Episode Thirty-One: The Eternal Return (ft. Dennis Lim and Tom McCarthy) Feb 05, 2019

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With The Return long concluded and the once-shiny Blu-Ray sets gathering dust, The Lodgers must come to an end. Opting to try and take things out with a bang, Kate and Simon are joined by not one but two special guests: Dennis Lim, author of David Lynch: The Man From Another Place, and Tom McCarthy, big-deal novelist (Remainder, Satin Island, C) and cultural critic. It’s a wide-ranging conversation we’re pretty sure longtime fans will savor.

Special sonic contributions and Lynchian drones courtesy of Matthew Chiang, Jonathan Kennedy, and Olivier Creurer!

Episode Thirty: Unwrapping The Return Feb 05, 2019

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Christmas has come early for Kate and Simon, whose gratis copies of Twin Peaks‘ third season on Blu-Ray prompted the first of two concluding episodes of The Lodgers. In this episode, Kate and Simon fly solo to go over the set’s bonus features and take a few minutes to acknowledge the state of the critical discourse surrounding the season.

Episode 29: Episode Twenty-Nine: Enjoy Yourself, it's Later Than You Think (ft. Adam Nayman and the cast of The Lodgers) Feb 05, 2019

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After a considerable, scheduling-necessitated delay, we've brought back Adam Nayman to help us consider just where the season’s final episodes take us, how they affect our view of the series as a whole, and just what the hell we’re all going to do with our lives now. Also, we invited former guests of the show to chip in with their finale and series thoughts!

Thanks to our listeners for their feedback and attention.

RIP Harry Dean Stanton.

Episode Twenty-Seven: Goodnight, Margaret (ft. Byron Davies) Feb 05, 2019

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An emotionally intense and cathartic episode of The Return sparks a wide-ranging discussion with returning guest Byron Davies. Touched upon: whether we can allow/permit ourselves to accept Ed and Norma’s happy ending, The Return‘s handling of the woods as a space of evil and mystery; the possible fates of Becky and Steven; the implications of Cooper’s possible liberation/awakening via Sunset Boulevard, and, of course, our final goodbye to Margaret Lanterman, the Log Lady, and Catherine Coulson.

Episode Twenty-Eight: [redacted on FBI orders] (ft. Miriam Bale) Feb 05, 2019

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Part 16 of The Return marks the eventful continuation of the series’ climax, including at least one massive event fans have been anticipating for many weeks: the return of Jerry Horne! And also maybe the thing that happened with Cooper. Writer Miriam Bale (of the NYT, W Magazine, The New Republic, and many other fine establishments) joins Kate and Simon to eulogize several supporting players, ponder our expectations for the series’ endgame, and [say very nice things about the FBI].

Episode Twenty-Six: Me, a Tulpa? (ft. Dr. Sara Ann Swain) Feb 02, 2019

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After a couple of weeks in which The Return taunted and tantalized viewers by holding back on incident, “Part 14” decided to blitz us with a ton of new, bizarre, and exciting developments. Dr. Sara Ann Swain rejoined Kate and Simon to help try to make sense of it all. Nuts are invoked – often.

Episode Twenty-Five: Sonny, Sonny, You're Gonna Die (ft. Seth Mnookin) Feb 02, 2019

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Seth Mnookin (of MIT’s Graduate Science Writing program, Vanity Fair, and a whole bunch of other very cool stuff) for some reason felt compelled to ask if he could come onto our little Twin Peaks podcast…and we (reluctantly) obliged. We’re glad we did, as we ended up having yet another wide-ranging look at just what The Return is up to, this time with a special focus on the Lynch/Frost equilibrium, the series’ warped sense of time, and a whole lot more.

Episode Twenty-Four: Horne Under a Bad Sign (ft. Glenn Kenny) Feb 01, 2019

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Just in time for the episode that frustrated the broadest set of Twin Peaks viewers, New York Times / [rogerebert.com](rogerebert.com) writer Glenn Kenny joins us to tackle the upside of frustration, as well as many, many other tangents, including the show’s possible riffing on Lynch’s real-life persona and the new series’ sneaky ties to soap-opera aesthetics.

Episode Twenty-Three: Candie Crush (ft. Joel Bocko) Feb 01, 2019

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Special guest and Lynch scholar Joel Bocko (@lostinthemovies), one of the internet’s most prolific Twin Peaks experts, joins us to dissect the intense, hilarious, and momentous “Part 11,” as well as ponder some of the wider questions of the series and its context in Lynch’s overall filmography. It gets real nerdy.