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Daily Mail
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
The murder victim who inspired Twin Peaks haunted me for years... and helped me expose her TRUE killer
Thirty-five years after she first captivated a television audience, Laura Palmer - the tragic beauty at the center of the Twin Peaks mystery - continues to haunt us. After the death of filmmaker David Lynch in January, the cult TV show attracted a new generation of fans who began following the series' heroine, a girl-next-door who leads a 'double life' and is brutally murdered. While the Twin Peaks town and its eccentric inhabitants are pure fiction, co-creator Mark Frost was actually inspired by the real-life murder of Hazel Drew. In 1908, Hazel was found dead in the small town of Sand Lake, New York, and, after a hasty investigation, the case was abruptly closed. Though the death of the 19-year-old was suspected to be a murder, no one was ever charged - and her ghost is said to still haunt the woods just over 150 miles north of New York City. In Twin Peaks, FBI Agent Dale Cooper (played by Kyle MacLachlan), investigates the mysterious death of Laura Palmer. Now, an amateur sleuth sleuth believes he has uncovered the truth of Hazel's murder. And he claims that it was Hazel herself who pointed him towards the killer from beyond the grave. 'I don't believe in ghosts,' insists Jerry C Drake in his new book about the case, Hazel Was a Good Girl. 'But I've seen a ghost and her name is Hazel Drew.' Thirty-five years after she first captivated a television audience, Laura Palmer - the tragic beauty at the center of the Twin Peaks mystery - continues to haunt us Hazel was just 19 when she was found dead (left) and her case inspired the fictional story of Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks (right) Drake admits he became 'obsessed… maybe even a little crazy' by the case after Hazel 'visited' both himself and a friend in their dreams years ago. In 2019, his friend had just bought a home in Troy about 10 miles from Sand Lake, and recalled a dream in which a strange woman had appeared in the house and presented a book with a turquoise cover, titled The Absence of Memory. 'A few days later as I was sick in bed, shivering with fever in my DC condo, I fell into a heavy sleep and encountered this book myself,' Drake explained. 'In my dream I opened the book, a hardback, and saw that the first blank page contained a bookplate that read: Ex Libris Hazel I Drew. 'Ex Libris is Latin for "from the library of" and was a common moniker on bookplates a century ago.' After he awoke in a sweat, he googled Hazel's name and was immediately hooked by the story of her unsolved murder. Hazel had been working as a governess to a wealthy family when she left her job abruptly. Just days later, her body - wearing a lavish dress she had commissioned the same week - was found floating face down in a local stretch of water called Teal's Pond. An autopsy determined that she had died as a result of blunt force trauma to the back of her head, ruling out suicide. The case became a national news spectacle, with lurid claims of jilted jealous lovers, prostitution, pregnancy, and scandal. Then, everything went quiet. Hazel remained nothing more than the subject of town gossip and rumor until 80 years later, when Frost - whose grandmother lived near Troy - heard about her story, and immortalized Hazel in his hit television series. Mark Frost first came up with the idea of the beautiful girl next door who leads a 'desperate double life' and ends up brutally murdered (Pictured: actress Sheryl Lee as the deceased Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks) Grace Zabriskie as Sarah Palmer, Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer and Ray Wise as Leland Palmer in the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me movie The cult show features a wildly eccentric cast of inhabitants of a fictional town Speaking to the Daily Mail, Drake claims the spirit of Hazel 'led' him to the person supposedly responsible for her murder. In the winter of 2020, he was visiting his friend in her new house in Troy when the pair sought out Hazel's grave in the local cemetery. 'Really, it was the wrong time of year to go,' he said. 'It was very, very cold, a harsh winter, but we were obsessed. 'I didn't have the right kind of boots on… and they burst open on me while I was walking around out there because the leather was so dry.' After searching, fruitlessly, for more than an hour, he suddenly and inexplicably felt a wave of sickness come over him, and was convinced he was having a heart attack. 'That cemetery is far from hospital, and there's no cell phone connection out there, and my friend could never drive my car,' he recalled. 'And I thought "I'm dying. I'm an old man who got too excited, and I'm out here in this cemetery, and I'm straight up gonna die."' As he stumbled back towards the parking lot, he took a turn and leaned against a large, gnarly oak tree. 'My world started to spin, and I could feel the little bit of food and coffee I had in my guts churning. I was getting dizzy. 'Finally, pouring cold sweat in that frozen landscape, my stomach gave up and I puked up pure liquid on the snow. I could see my friend's silhouette just staring back at me, unmoving. 'I kept pushing myself towards the car, but I'd lost the path. I was facing the wrong way now and I realized I was simply not going to make it. The ground rose up to meet me and I fell down, landing on my knees. 'And when I looked up, I had literally put my hands on a tombstone with a single word carved in bone white marble: HAZEL.' Twin Peaks gained a new generation of dedicated fans following the death of filmmaker David Lynch (pictured left with his co-creator, Mark Frost, right) The case made national newspaper headlines, including in the New York Times (left) and the Ocala Evening Star (right) He adds: 'That is one of the strangest experiences I've ever had in my life. People talk about possession or obsession or whatever, and if that was psychosomatic, OK, I'll believe it, but it didn't feel like it. 'It felt like something had come into me that didn't belong there. And in the moments it had me, it took me to that place which I could not find.' Once his hands touched Hazel's grave, he claimed his symptoms curiously disappeared. But the chilling encounter was only beginning. Looking up at his friend, her eyes grew wide as she described feeling a tap at the back of her head, accompanied by a woman's voice shouting: 'Like this! Like this!' She told him she saw what she believed was a version of the murder through the eyes of Hazel Drew. Almost immediately they claimed they both had another vision, this time of a well-dressed man approaching them, a smile on his face. 'Did you just hear a man speak?' his friend whispered, terrified. 'Yes,' Drake replied. 'He said, "Hello, beautiful."' Spooked, the pair quickly left the graveyard, trying to make sense of what they had just experienced. Visiting his friend in the winter of 2020, they sought out Hazel's grave in the local cemetery He claims that once he put his hands on Hazel's grave, his symptoms disappeared In October 2024, the Sand Lake Historical Society put up a historical marker to commemorate Hazel's death and her continued presence in the area Though he took long stretches away from his investigation over the years, Drake claims Hazel refused to leave him alone. 'I got COVID, and I had a strange dream that I was in Hazel's uncle's house,' he said. 'And her sister-in-law comes in and says, "Who is this fella?" in this thick upstate accent. And then Hazel says, "Why? He's some kind of Pinkerton man. I think we need to take care of him."' A Pinkerton man was another name for a private detective in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 'When I woke up from that dream, I suddenly started to feel better… I told my friend about it, and she said, "Hazel wants you back on the case."' On another occasion, which he describes as 'the weirdest Twin Peaks moment,' he was staying at an Airbnb in Troy when he had a dream that Hazel took him to a restaurant called Manory's. When he woke up, there was a crow walking around in his room. 'I was like, "Man, I'm getting out of here,"' he recalled. 'And I went down to Manory's - it felt just like the real version of the diner from Twin Peaks. 'That was the day I found the first photograph of the man I think was her killer,' he continued. 'That guy in the picture was the guy we saw in the cemetery who said, "Hello, beautiful." I'm getting kind of weird chills talking about it now.' Though, he concedes that all of his dreams and visions could have been his subconscious working overtime. 'I'm a pretty skeptical person, so it's almost hard to articulate that stuff, especially without a few whiskies.' Either that, or Hazel desperately wanted her story told. In his investigation, he scoured local newspaper cuttings, examined contemporary photographs, and reviewed the various theories presented to the cops. He identified what he believed were key shortcomings in the original investigation, claiming that Hazel was the victim not just of misrepresentation by a scandal-hungry press, but also of a cover-up by powerful men at that time. Investigator Dale Cooper, played by Kyle MacLachlan in the show (pictured right), claims he has finally solved the case Drake's investigations created what he calls his 'crazy wall' of evidence and clues 'I went down to Manory's - it felt just like the real version of the diner from Twin Peaks... That was the day I found the first photograph of the man I think was her killer' 'That guy in the picture was the guy we saw in the cemetery who said, "Hello, beautiful"' While other books have investigated the case in the past, his is the first to go as far as to name the man he believes is guilty for the murder. 'When I've had three pints, I'm 100 percent convinced he's the killer,' he said. 'Early in the morning on a cup of coffee, I'm about 80 percent convinced. And the reason why I am so convinced is because I'm a data scientist by profession, and the data doesn't lie. We know who kills people. We know who the prime suspects are.' And the man in the diner photograph would have been suspect number one. 'The person who I suspect was never properly questioned. He was the first person on the stand, and he lied. He told us the story incorrectly at least twice,' Drake said. 'It's very strange to me that… he never gives a reward, he never makes a statement. He just hunkers down and lets it blow over.' He hopes that, in time, more photographs may emerge that shed new light on the case and prove beyond reasonable doubt that his theory is correct. 'There will always be new clues. Every year, more and more resources come online,' he continued. 'And I do think as the silent generation passes away, people are going to clean out houses in Troy, and they're going to find things.' In the meantime, any hopes that he may have laid Hazel's ghost to rest have proved impossible, claiming that he sees and feels her presence 'a lot' - and even 'dreams about her.' 'Carl Sagan said there are no haunted houses, only haunted people. And I guess I'm a haunted person now,' he said. 'I will never be done with Hazel Drew. Not 'til the day I am a ghost - and I may haunt Troy myself.' Hazel was a Good Girl: Solving the Murder that Inspired Twin Peaks by Jerry C. Drake is published by Clash Books
Metro
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
'Nightmare fuel' series with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score streaming now
Cancel all of your weekend plans – one of the most iconic television series of all time is available to binge-watch in full right now. Back in 1990, audiences across the world were asking themselves the question 'Who killed Laura Palmer?' when David Lynch's surreal murder-mystery Twin Peaks began. Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Sherilyn Fenn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sheryl Lee, and many more, Twin Peaks follows the investigation into the murder of local teen Laura Palmer (Lee) and the mystery that surrounds its unusual circumstances and other phenomena in the town. The investigation is led by FBI special agent Dale Cooper (MacLachlan) who is pulled deeper and deeper into the town's secrets, uncovering far more than he bargained for when he checked into The Great Northern Hotel. Like much of Lynch's work, Twin Peaks, created alongside Mark Frost, contains an eccentric cast of characters, supernatural themes, melodramatic storylines, and a surreal, uncanny atmosphere. Its uniqueness is what led Twin Peaks to be such a smash hit at the time of its release and revered by fans 35 years later, and now, both seasons of the show as well as Twin Peaks: The Return can be streamed now on Mubi. Seasons one and two, containing 30 episodes, ran from 1990 to 1991 and were followed by the prequel film Fire Walk with Me in 1992. Sixteen years after its original run, Lynch and many of the original cast hit our screens again in Twin Peaks: The Return set 25 years after season two's devastating finale. Twin Peaks quickly gained a devoted following and is often listed among the greatest television series of all time, as well as one of the most terrifying, thanks to the themes it tackles. Season one holds a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics' consensus reading: 'Twin Peaks plays with TV conventions to deliver a beguiling — and unsettling — blend of seemingly disparate genres, adding up to an offbeat drama with a distinctly unique appeal.' The second season sits at 65%, while The Return has a huge 94% score. Deputy TV editor Tom Percival says: There have been plenty of great television shows over the years: The Sopranos, The Simpsons, Breaking Bad, and Geordie Shore (okay, maybe not that last one). Still, when journalists are curating lists of the best TV shows of all time there's one peculiar horror series that may seem a little out of place: Twin Peaks. After all, the horror genre doesn't get a lot of love from more esteemed critical circles. Yet this strange series – which premiered 35 years ago in 1990 – is unquestionably one of the best TV shows of all time and a technical marvel that pushed the boundaries of what people thought the small screen was capable of. Nominally the show was a mystery drama of sorts but honestly, that description doesn't do Twin Peaks justice. By design, it defied categorisation, blending supernatural and surreal elements with the theatrical tropes and cliches that defined so many beloved soaps. Read the full review here In their review of the show, the Sydney Morning Herald said: 'Twin Peaks has many of the elements of a soap opera: it is slow (although not vapid), has a complex plot, melodrama and a plethora of disasters. It's the weirdness, the David Lynch trademark,k which is the lure.' Buffalo News added: 'Twin Peaks is refreshing, unsettling, funny and mystifying. If you are the very unusual TV viewer looking for something different, the first three hours should put you in the mood for more.' Of The Return, Vox said: 'It stopped feeling like a TV show to me, at some point, and started feeling like a gift.' Rolling Stone added: 'What we just witnessed was unmatched in the medium's history,' meanwhile, The Atlantic wrote: 'Twin Peaks remains the nightmare fuel it always has been.' The Guardian added to the glowing praise, saying: 'The Twin Peaks revival is perfect. I'm in deep with it. It's easily the best series of the year so far. And, although this might seem like heresy to long-time fans, I think it might actually be better than the original.' Twin Peaks' addition to Mubi comes at a poignant time following the death of its visionary creator, Lynch, earlier this year, aged 78. More Trending The celebrated filmmaker, who was behind the likes of Mulholland Drive, The Elephant Man, died on January 15. His cause of death was confirmed as cardiac arrest due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The filmmaker visionary died after becoming housebound with emphysema following years of chain-smoking, and a death certificate released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed COPD was an underlying condition suffered by the auteur. 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New York Post
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Inside the baffling murder that inspired 'Twin Peaks'
Her death inspired the cult 1990s TV show 'Twin Peaks.' Her ghost is said to haunt the woods where her body was found more than 100 years ago. And yet Hazel I. Drew remains a mystery. Drew was a pretty, vivacious 19-year-old blonde living in Troy, NY, when she disappeared near her uncle's farm on July 7, 1908. Locals spotted her body floating in a mill pond days later. 7 A scene from 'Twin Peaks,' with actor Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer, whose death anchored the show — and was inspired by the real life Hazel I. Drew, murdered in upstate New York in 1908. Everett Collection / Everett Collection Advertisement Her death gripped the nation — reporters from the Big Apple to the Old West breathlessly covered the case. Was it a suicide? A murder? An accident? Rumors swirled. A few days before she vanished, Drew had abruptly quit her job as a governess for a prominent local family. In fact, her acquaintances whispered, Hazel had been acting sort of strange lately. She consorted with lots of men. She had fallen ill and gone away for a month. She had arrived at the door of her dressmaker one evening begging her to make her a new shirtwaist that night for a weekend sojourn to Lake George. The papers printed every sensational claim: Hazel had been pregnant! Hazel was a sex worker! Hazel was living a double life! As if the only way a girl could have gotten herself killed was if she had asked for it. 7 Another shot of Lee in 'Twin Peaks.' Although Drake inspired the show's development, she was seldom discussed during its production or years-long television run. ©New Line Cinema/Courtesy Everett Collection Advertisement 'It was a common trope in crime writing,' said Jerry C. Drake — a civil servant, former history professor and author of the new book 'Hazel Was a Good Girl' (CLASH, out June 10), which claims to solve Hazel's murder. 'This sort of archetype of the fallen woman, but in Hazel's case, it was absolutely untrue,' he told The Post. 'I wanted to give her justice.' 'Hazel Was a Good Girl,' however, also aims to restore Hazel's good name, to show the young woman behind the myth, to portray her as distinct from Laura Palmer, her dead-blonde 'Twin Peaks' doppelganger. 'Going into this, I thought even if I can't solve her case, I can at least fix her reputation,' Drake said. 'I can decouple her from Laura Palmer and rechristen her as who she really was.' Advertisement Hazel I. Drew was born in 1888, to a large working-class Irish-Methodist family in Rensselaer County, NY. When she was 14, she moved to Troy, where her aunt — a domestic servant for the city's well-heeled — helped Hazel get jobs in the homes of prominent members of the local Republican party. 7 'Going into this, I thought even if I can't solve her case, I can at least fix her reputation,' said author Drake. 'I can decouple her from Laura Palmer and rechristen her as who she really was.' Albany Times Union Hazel did not come from wealth, but she was educated — she was described as always having her nose in a book — and she soon advanced to being a governess. She enjoyed the privileges that came with working for the upper classes: fine food, nice clothes, opulent surroundings, access to the best doctors and dentists, as well as a library of books. She was vivacious and curious and eager to experience life. 'She liked nice things,' Drake said. 'She would have had disposable income, and she spent it on good clothes. She had expensive eyeglasses. She liked to go out with her girlfriends and spent the weekends skating and going to the amusement park. She traveled to New York City and Boston with friends. But she also went to church religiously — she would bring her dates to church.' Advertisement Her family members said she had various suitors, and one of her friends mentioned that she was seeing a man who worked at a dentist's office. Yet, Hazel didn't seem serious about any of these potential paramours. Her letters weren't flirtatious but friendly. She mainly seemed concerned with having a good time with her girlfriends. Yet something strange did seem to happen to Hazel in the months leading up to her death. She had been traveling across the Eastern Seaboard. She fell ill and had to convalesce at her uncle's farm. Her friends, family members and employers had conflicting accounts of where she was at any given moment. 7 Author Drake says he was 'obsessed' with David Lynch's 'Twin Peaks,' which was based on Hazel's murder. Getty Images for ABA Her mother — who later hired a psychic to help solve Hazel's death — said that she believed someone 'who was well to do' had 'Hazel in his control.' The district attorney investigating the case tried to rule it as a suicide, but the autopsy proved otherwise. Hazel had not drowned, the doctors revealed, but had died from a blow to the back of the head. Someone had hit her, or caused her to fall and hit her head, and then dumped her in the river. Locals wrote letters claiming to have solved the killing in their dreams. Someone claimed hypnosis was involved. 'It was very 'Twin Peaks,'' Drake said. 'But unfortunately, Hazel didn't have an Agent Dale Cooper helping her.' A month into the rollercoaster investigation, however, the DA closed the case. The press — formerly in a frenzy over who killed Hazel Drew — moved on to the next dead blonde. Even after her story compelled Mark Frost, whose grandmother grew up in Troy, to write 'Twin Peaks' with David Lynch, Hazel was rarely brought up again. 7 A snow-covered gravestone is a modest testament to Hazel's brief life. Courtesy of Jerry C. Drake, PhD Advertisement Drake loved 'Twin Peaks' and became obsessed with unsolved mysteries when it was on the air. And yet, he had never heard the name Hazel Drew until it appeared to him in a dream in 2019. In the dream, his friend — who had just moved to Troy — handed him a book, and inside there was a bookplate that read 'Ex Libris Hazel I. Drew.' When he woke up, he wrote the name down and later Googled it. He found a podcast about the legend of Hazel Drew and a short post from the site Find a Grave that said that Hazel's story had inspired 'Twin Peaks.' 'I just was like, 'Well, I'm obsessed with this,'' he recalled. 'I love David Lynch, I love this show, I love ghosts and mysteries, and my friend is now living in this town, so I was like, I'm going to take the week off, my wife and I will go to Troy.' Then things got really weird. Hazel appeared to him in dreams — introducing him to a family member as a guy 'working on my case' or leading him to a cafe. He experienced several spooky presences by her grave, including a rock thrown at him from out of nowhere. He woke up in mi an AirbNb in Troy after one of his dreams about her to find a black crow in his room. Advertisement Yet Drake said that none of these instances deterred him from pursuing his investigation, but only spurred him on. 'My feeling was this is a person who had unfinished business,' he said. 'They say that ghosts want their wrongs righted, and they maybe cry out from the other side for people who they think they can do that.' 7 Author Jerry. C. Drake Advertisement He said that he is confident that he has named her murderer — read the book to find out who — even if he doesn't have the definitive smoking gun. 'I hope it will stimulate people to ask rational questions about her killer,' he said, and maybe even give Hazel's ghost some peace and justice. 'That's why I ended up calling the book 'Hazel Was a Good Girl,' because everybody kept saying that,' he said. 'Her mom says that the doctors say it, it's, it's, there's even a clip of it on the cover. … So, I thought, 'I'm just gonna give her, her, her good name back.''
New York Post
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘Twin Peaks' cast members announce tour, NYC show. Get tickets today
Vivid Seats is the New York Post's official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Laura Palmer may be dead but 'Twin Peaks' lives on. Starting in August, cast members Ray Wise (Leland Palmer), Harry Goaz (Deputy Andy Brennan) and Kimmy Robertson (Lucy Moran) as well as executive producer Sabrina S. Sutherland (she also played floor attendant Jackie in season three) from David Lynch's hit '90s TV series will hit the road to discuss their time on the show and share stories from the set. On select dates, they'll be joined by Sheryl Lee aka Laura Palmer herself. While out and about, the ensemble is slated to make a trio of stops in New Jersey and New York. First up, the alum hit Collingswood, NJ's Scottish Rite Auditorium on Thursday, Aug. 7. Soon after, they'll swing into Red Bank, NJ's Count Basie Center on Saturday, Aug. 9 and New York City's Sony Hall on Sunday, Aug. 10. Unfortunately, the fictional Laura Palmer won't be the only loss the cast will be mourning. On Jan. 16, Lynch passed away after being evacuated from his daughter's Los Angeles home during the Southern California wildfires. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the surrealist auteur gave the nationwide trek the thumbs up before they announced the tour. 'David was very happy that we were going to have this cast tour to celebrate Twin Peaks with the fans all around the U.S.,' Sutherland said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. 'It's sad that I won't be able to call him each night to let him know how the show went as I had promised. But I look forward to celebrating his work each night and having him in my heart instead.' As of now, inventory is available for most shows on the nationwide run. Based on our findings on Vivid Seats, some tickets are going for as low as $54 including fees at the time of publication. For more information, our team has everything you need to know and more about 'Twin Peaks: Conversation With The Stars' below. All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation. 'Twin Peaks: Conversation With The Stars' tour schedule 2025 A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to the cheapest tickets available can be found here: 'Twin Peaks' tour dates Ticket prices start at Aug. 4 at the Capital One Hall in Tysons, VA $81 (fees included) Aug. 5 at the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts in Virginia Beach, VA $80 (fees included) Aug. 7 at the Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood, NJ $100 (fees included) Aug. 9 at the Count Basie Center in Red Bank, NJ $54 (fees included) Aug. 10 at Sony Hall in New York, NY $100 (fees included) Aug. 19 at the Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, CT $117 (fees included) Aug. 20 at the Katharine Hepburn Museum in Old Saybrook, CT N/A Aug. 22 at the Nashua Center for the Arts in Nashua, NH $85 (fees included) Aug. 23 at the Historic Park Theatre and Event Center in Cranston, RI $68 (fees included) Aug. 24 at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, MA $66 (fees included) Oct. 12 at the Paramount Theatre in Denver, CO $56 (fees included) Oct. 13 at the Egyptian Theater in Boise, ID N/A Oct. 15 at the Rialto Theatre in Tucson, AZ $74 (fees included) Oct. 16 at the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, AZ N/A Oct. 17 at the Uptown Theatre in Napa, CA $78 (fees included) Oct. 18 Afternoon Tea with The Palmers in Everett, WA N/A Oct. 19 at the The Neptune Theatre in Seattle, WA $109 (fees included) Oct. 20 Sheryl Lee and Ray Wise Return to Kiana Lodge in Poulsbo, WA N/A *Sheryl Lee will take part in the Oct. 18 and 20 dates of the tour, which are currently not available for sale on Vivid Seats. (Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and, if it isn't noted, will include additional fees at checkout.) Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand. They offer a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and your tickets will be delivered prior to the event. Still curious about Vivid Seats? You can find an article from their team about why the company is legit here. How to watch 'Twin Peaks' All 18 season one episodes of the iconic program are available for free on Pluto TV. After that, Seasons two and three can be streamed on Paramount+. About the 'Twin Peaks' cast members on tour Here are short bios of the four cast members appearing on the tour, courtesy of the tour's website. RAY WISE played Laura Palmer's father, Leland, in all series of Twin Peaks, and the feature length film, Fire Walk With Me. Ray's other film and television credits include Bob Roberts, RoboCop, 24, X-Men First Class, and Fresh Off The Boat. KIMMY ROBERTSON is best known for her role as Lucy Moran in Twin Peaks. She has also been a voice in many animated movies including Beauty and the Beast and television series including The Simpsons, Gravedale High and Batman: The Animated Series. HARRY GOAZ played Deputy Andy Brennan in all series of Twin Peaks, and Fire Walk With Me. Harry has also appeared in Steven Soderbergh's The Underneath, and Eerie, Indiana. SABRINA S. SUTHERLAND appeared as floor attendant Jackie in Parts 3 and 4 of Twin Peaks: The Return, and served as Production Coordinator on Season 2 of Twin Peaks, and Executive Producer for both Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, and Twin Peaks: The Return. Sabrina was Associate Producer on David Lynch's Inland Empire, Production Supervisor on Lost Highway and Producer of David Lynch: The Art Life. Huge stars on the stage in 2025 Can't get enough of seeing your favorite actors live? If that's the case, many of the biggest TV and movie stars are performing on and off-Broadway these next few months. Here are just a few of our favorites you won't want to miss live these next few months. • Keanu Reeves in 'Waiting for Godot' • George Clooney in 'Good Night and Good Luck' • Bob Odenkirk, Bill Burr and Kieran Culkin in 'Glengarry Glen Ross' • Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in 'Othello' • John Krasinski in 'Angry Alan' Prefer a concert? If that's the case, take a look at all the biggest artists on tour in 2025 to find the show for you. This article was written by Matt Levy, New York Post live events reporter. 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Gizmodo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
35 Years Ago, Twin Peaks Ended Its First Season Without Revealing Its Biggest Mystery
In late May 1990, fans of the David Lynch series were still wondering who killed Laura Palmer—and had about a zillion other questions, too. The first season of Twin Peaks became a pop culture obsession with the airing of its eight-episode first installment, which unfolded on ABC across April and May 1990. It included a feature-length pilot—which ran as an even longer standalone TV movie in Europe—as well as a season finale that left fans on an absolutely dizzying array of cliffhangers. It's hard to reconstruct what that summer of 1990 was like for devoted viewers who were waiting for season two's September arrival. These days, the worst part about missing a new episode of the latest must-see show is having to avoid spoilers until you can carve out time to stream it. Once you've watched the episode, the experience doesn't end there; you can read recaps to rehash every last detail, learn more about the story and its creation thanks to interviews with cast and crew, and dive down rabbit holes on X and Reddit to explore wild and intriguing fan theories. But 35 years ago, if you weren't on your couch to watch Twin Peaks at the precise time it aired on ABC—or if you forgot to set your VCR to record it—you had to ask your friends who did watch it for a play-by-play. Sure, you could read more about the show in magazines or chuckle at its instant-classic Saturday Night Live parody, but otherwise you had to watch when it was on, and pay close attention. That ephemeral quality is perhaps partially why the show's mystery grabbed ahold of so many fans, especially in Twin Peaks' first season. David Lynch and Mark Frost created what was essentially a classic nighttime soap opera, but with dashes of cosmic weirdness flavoring its edges—that weirdness got more intense in season two—as well as a filming style and distinctive aesthetic that felt completely new and different in a TV format, even to people who were already fans of Lynch's big-screen work. The show's eighth episode, 'The Last Evening,' brings season one to an end that in no way delivers narrative closure on any of its many storylines—in fact it makes a seemingly deliberate effort to leave as many dangling threads as possible. The question on every Twin Peaks viewer's lips that spring was 'Who killed Laura Palmer?' The finale, written and directed by Frost, leaves it tantalizingly unanswered. On top of that, it brought forth many additional questions, some (but not all) circling around Laura's death, rooted in the idea that the town of Twin Peaks has a lot more going on beneath the surface than anyone—even the unusually intuitive FBI Agent Dale Cooper—ever realized. The list of suspects had narrowed somewhat by 'The Last Evening,' but Laura's murder—her body is discovered in the pilot—had barely inched any closer to being solved. Dr. Jacoby, her psychiatrist, was cleared; yes, he was eccentric, but he loved her too much to be the one to end her life. His own life is dangling in the balance, however, after suffering a heart attack in the wake of a brutal beating that was administered by an unseen assailant… after Jacoby was tricked into thinking he saw Laura alive. It wasn't her, of course—Twin Peaks is a soap opera, after all, and therefore it's not weird that Laura has a lookalike cousin—but the moment of confusion gave Laura's high school boyfriend Bobby the chance to stash a bag of cocaine in the motorcycle of Laura's secret high school boyfriend, James. When Bobby, pretending to be local scumbag Leo Johnson (more on him in a moment), calls in a tip to the police, James is busted by Sheriff Harry S. Truman and Cooper. Though you can't believe the cops will fall for the ruse, James' fate at the end of the season looks a lot like a jail cell. Speaking of the town's underground drug trade, Twin Peaks reveals that Laura—a homecoming queen with a not-so-wholesome hidden life—was mixed up in it, and heavily suggests that local dealer Leo and his associate Jacques Renault, who works across the Canadian border at brothel and gambling den One-Eyed Jack's, may have had a hand in her death. But the clues don't lead to a solid case against those two, just a lot of grimy connective tissue. It's a lot! And that's without even mentioning that Leo gets shot (his fate is unknown at the end of the episode) through his own window while he's attacking Bobby, who's been having an affair with Leo's wife, Shelly. Leo's assailant is yet another local scumbag, Hank Jennings. For his part, Hank is tying up loose ends ahead of an insurance-fraud scheme involving an entirely separate set of players, as well as some Leo-engineered arson at Twin Peaks' resident sawmill. Leo has already set up the incendiary device (and tied up a helpless Shelly next to it) before Hank takes aim. Meanwhile, Leo's partner Jacques gets arrested after a sting at One-Eyed Jack's. He's injured while being taken into custody, then left unattended in his hospital bed long enough to be suffocated by yet another character in this complex melodrama: Laura's grieving and apparently vengeful father, Leland. That last point becomes important, as Twin Peaks fans know now, but it wasn't until well into season two that viewers discovered who really killed Laura Palmer. In late May 1990, however, it was still a burning question, along with a zillion more piled on top of it. Who killed Laura? Well, how about, did Shelly and sawmill owner Catherine (and Pete, Catherine's husband, their would-be rescuer) escape the inferno? Did Leo survive his gunshot wound? Will Jacoby pull through after his heart attack? Will James get railroaded on that drug charge? And how about some characters we haven't even mentioned yet—like, will Nadine survive her suicide attempt? Will Andy and Lucy reconcile now that he knows she's pregnant? How is Audrey going to escape having to sleep with her own father her first night on the job at One-Eyed Jacks? And, for the love of David Lynch, who shot Agent Cooper? You can't blame viewers for feeling exactly the way Coop did in that final scene of 'The Last Evening,' which sees him open his door at the Great Northern Hotel, expecting room service bringing a nice glass of warm milk… only to be blasted with close-range shots from an unknown assailant. Thud to the floor, and think back on everything you just witnessed—then begin the agonizing wait for season two. It was a genius move in hindsight, because the frenzy over the show only increased in the intervening months. Lucky for all Twin Peaks' 21st century fans, you can skip that part. The entire series is now streaming on Paramount+.
