Twin Peaks x Cult Television

Material Girls

Rehak Hannah

Vanessa Zoltan, Arts, Harry Potter, Books, Aubrey Gordon, Hannah Mcgregor, Pop Culture, Cultural Cricism, Society & Culture, Feminism, Witch Please, Marcelle Kosman, Tv & Film, Fantasy, Not Sorry

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In honor of spooky season, we bring you an episode about the beloved cult classic, Twin Peaks! This show from Mark Frost and David Lynch, starring Kyle MacLachlan, is widely understood as one of the most influential television series ever! And yet it its original run began April 1990 and ended just fourteen months later in June 1991. In this episode, Marcelle explores why this show, that began as a hit, fell in ratings so quickly. Hannah and Marcelle then discuss the power of cult followings and how pieces of pop culture are kept alive for decades after their initial heyday.

If you're a fan of Twin Peaks, or if you're someone who doesn't understand why it has had a lasting impact on television, then you're going to love this episode that gets into the details of the show's rise and fall and, most importantly, its fandom.

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Material Girls is a show that aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.

*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment.

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0:00.0	Oh I made a new mind, a new brain.
0:15.0	I want to take a ride on a mini train.
0:19.0	I want to take a ride on a mini train.
0:22.0	You can have it all. on a mini train mini train
0:25.0	at the Chabé.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to Material Girls girls a pop culture podcast that uses critical theory to understand the zeitgeist.
0:38.0	I'm Hannah McGregor and I'm Marcel Kossman and Hannah I have a question for you.
0:44.8	What is that question I want to know?
0:46.3	Okay, what do you remember about the embodied experience of watching television back in the 90s like I mean early 90s so before
0:56.2	streaming before torrenting before you could even buy a series or a season of a
1:02.0	television show on DVD.
1:04.0	I personally remember finding the attempt to follow a particular series very stressful.
1:12.0	Because if you were going to watch it, it was like you had to be there at that day, at that time,
1:19.0	and like, I was a kid, I didn't have a agenda.
1:22.0	I wasn't good at time management and so if there was a thing
1:26.6	that I like really wanted to follow like when the English dub of Sailor Moon made its way to Canada and I really it was like narrative like it was
1:37.2	unlike a lot of other shows I'd watched as a kid it was like you you know ideally wanted to watch the episodes in order in order to follow the
1:46.0	arc yeah yeah and I remember being really stressed by the idea of like oh
1:51.9	shit I got it, oh no, it's five o'clock, I have a place to be.
1:57.0	Grade three, Hannah's going, oh shit, on her way home.
2:01.0	Oh shit, then hurry! Yeah, yeah. Oh, what about you? I mean that experience that you're describing is exactly what I remember right and sometimes you would go to watch a
2:14.9	thing and it wouldn't be on and like why was no way to find out why why wasn't it on there's
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