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Episode 148: Mythos of the Moment: On 'Twin Peaks,' Season 3

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Twin Peaks and the X-Files

Both feature a special FBI task force whose mandate is to investigate strange phenomena. Both end up proposing that there are people in positions of power who know a lot more about what's going on in reality than we do. In Twin Peaks, you'll get a lot of the visual cues that might elicit thoughts about being preyed upon by vampires or aliens but the show avoids reifying the entities. It keeps them in a state of unknowable suspense and it becomes much more real in that way.

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