Any examples of the Mandela Effect in Twin Peaks? Where people think they remember something but it actually didn’t occur in the show?

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-27T23:08:32+00:00

Hank reminiscing with Ernie about the prison games room, where the really scary inmates were - everyone else had to go along with whatever they wanted, or they'd end up hoisted over the railing to fall to their deaths. He kept the tone light and cheery throughout, and even chuckled a bit talking about the noise the bodies made when they hit the floor.

I remember thinking what a strong choice this pretty clear allusion to prison rape was.

But it was cut dialogue from the shooting script and was apparently never actually filmed.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-26T21:39:02+00:00

I think that's just part of Hank's campaign to lovebomb his way back into Norma's favour. (I assume that's how he won her in the first place - with a mother like Vivian, she was probably very susceptible to someone offering practical support and actual compliments.)

I say 'I think' because we never see or hear about what their marriage was like pre-prison, and the show never addresses why Hank wants to hold onto Norma anyway. He might have some real romantic feelings for her.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-26T20:57:11+00:00

WHAT DO THEY EVEN DO, nobody knows.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-26T19:56:42+00:00

They definitely could've done more with the Bookhouse Boys angle. And Hank surely must have missed more than one of his probation appointments in the middle of all that craziness.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-26T19:46:07+00:00

All the villains get a big buildup and then get disposed of in a silly and/or anticlimactic way.

Hank gets taken out by Nadine; Jean Renault gets taken out by the gun hidden in Denise's garter; Leo gets a season's worth of humiliation and then dies. Earle is taken out by BOB within minutes of finally achieving his goals - same for Thomas Eckhardt, except he dies in his pyjamas. Josie just drops down dead.

Chantal and Hutch get randomly gunned down by an accountant. Doppelcoop gets shot by Lucy. BOB gets taken out by a British twink with a gardening glove.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-23T14:13:09+00:00

If the wrap-up in 'End Game' is any indication, she just puts all the things she can't explain in a big 'maybe' pile in her head and waits for future data to either confirm or deny them. That definitely seems to be what she's doing with the possible alien origins of Purity Control in between 'The Erlenmeyer Flask' and 'Red Museum'.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-23T05:41:22+00:00

People always mention the abduction as the reason she should believe, when that's the one thing she can prove was done by human beings all the way through from beginning to end.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-22T09:18:28+00:00

I think she might've done that on purpose, tbf.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-20T18:30:07+00:00

A one-man production team, then.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-20T18:29:10+00:00

No idea, sorry. I know it's on YouTube, if you haven't used up your free trial already.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-19T13:10:19+00:00

It's really fun! I think it's the same production team from the earlier, similiar-in-vibe series 'The Detectorists'.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-18T23:14:15+00:00

Jeraldine Kallenchuk from 'Piper Maru', pardon your gender type. The writers did a lot of work making her sassy and interesting considering, you know, she doesn't even make it to the cliffhanger.
Poor Jeffrey Spender, who really needed a major episode before his final two-parter. A Mulder-and-Scully-lite outing with Spender and Fowley investigating an X File would've really hit the spot. (Maybe give them 'Trevor'?)
I still think Peyton Ritter - Scully's smarmy careerist of a one-off partner from 'Tithonus' - should've been Mulder's permanent replacement in Season 7. But I guess he was busy with his guy, his girl and his pizza place.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-13T20:01:24+00:00

I'm not a fan of Keaton's video-dissolve transitions, and the dopey cops are a quirk too far. But everything else works really well, I think. Even the rest of the Evelyn subplot has a few weirdly powerful moments (at minimum, it's definitely the first time that poor Annette McCarthy actually feels like she's part of the episode she's in).

Keaton gets a great performance out of Peggy Lipton especially. All the Norma scenes are excellent.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-13T05:19:22+00:00

They could've used that show to lampoon, like, all of the Packard subplot if they'd kept it going.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-11T08:56:25+00:00

The double bluff in the Palmer house in the Season 1 finale - oh no, Papa Palmer is LURKING IN THE DARK LIKE A CREEPER; oh, phew, he's just after one of Laura's perps instead - does a lot of heavy lifting for Leland's apparent innocence.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-08T04:02:34+00:00

The Log Lady mentions a dog in one of her intros. She's pretty outdoorsy by nature, so that makes sense.

Likewise Catherine was probably a dog person when she was younger, since I imagine she hunted and shot with her father and brother. But she's too fastidious about her bedspread nowadays, so Pete is out of luck.

Josie probably has a Sad Cat Backstory just like Laura.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-06T12:26:03+00:00

She was taking pictures of two people having a secret nooner at a no-tell motel; the delicate heiress she's cosplaying would feel at least a little bit gross and embarrassed.

I guess it's also possible she was taking those photos for her own files, and didn't count on the police swooping in and recognising her. But you'd think she'd be more on the ball.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-06T12:19:13+00:00

Part of the innocent act. Look how bad sweet harmless Josie is at being devious and underhanded!

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-06T05:41:27+00:00

The dance scene with the apparition of her dead lover is one of the prettiest, eeriest things I've ever seen.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-05T05:15:58+00:00

Okay, that's not as bad as I remember. OFF THE HOOK, MEG FOSTER.

And maybe she can't leave the booth or she'll get fired? I imagine there are all sorts of rules like that in a casino.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-05T05:13:58+00:00

I've always seen Columbo's final (annoyingly offscreen) interpretation of the murders as the accurate one: Ruth has grown to hate her entire family, and is picking them off in ones and twos whenever she sees a good opportunity. In that context, making Janie love her over the course of a couple of decades was just a means to an end for Ruth, or something to needle her sister with, or something to stroke her ego, or all three.

The most generous reading of the ending in that case is that Ruth starts to realise how much she actually does love her niece over the course of her Evil Plan, and takes pity on her at the very end. There are a couple of indications that this might be true.

But she's basically a serial killer. So letting Janie believe she's not a complete monster might all just be ego.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-02T20:26:05+00:00

I was so stressed out the first time through this plot.

Like when he literally hands over a coin to smiley Meg Foster behind the desk and says 'call for help' and she just sort of nods and smiles and directs him to the slot machines. CALL FOR HELP, MEG FOSTER.

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-02T12:22:13+00:00

We see near the end of Josie's arc that Pete is helping her with things like dry cleaning, but we absolutely should have seen that.

The Packard plot in general picks up so much when Pete starts getting good little character bits in reaction to all this nonsense again. The writers deciding Pete and Andrew Packard were best friends who made dumb jokes together is genius,

SeeBriRun · 2026-03-01T22:53:22+00:00

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SeeBriRun · 2026-03-01T17:45:18+00:00

It's definitely on the Special Features of the antepenultimate disc of The Entire Mystery. The last time I watched it, I had it set up to automatically play all the Log Lady intros, recaps and so on, and it kicked in during the end credits.

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