Prequel Pals – Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Movie Squad Podcast #117)

Welcome to a special episode of the Movie Squad podcast, which brings together the “Prequel Pals” aka Movie Squad’s Tristan Fidler, past RTRFM presenters Jackson Hawdon and Libby Noble, and musician Axel Carrington – to discuss the prequel as a genre within cinema history.

For this discussion, we turn our attention to Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), director David Lynch’s divisive, controversial and critically-reclaimed prequel to the Twin Peaks television series. The film follows the final days of high school beauty queen Laura Palmer (Sherilyn Fenn), and the demonic evil surrounding her and her father, Leland Palmer (Ray Wise), and how it connects to a previous case FBI Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle Maclachlan) was investigating.

The Pals discuss their relationship to the 1990s cult hit of Twin Peaks, their varied opinions on this prequel, which was a critical and commercial flop on release, and dance around how it all ties together to the Twin Peaks: The Return television follow-up.

For previous Prequel Pals episode, check out our discussion on Star Wars: The Phantom Menance and The Many Saints Of Newark episode 1 and episode 2.