The Who Killed Laura Podcast Ep 13 The Gifted and the Damned

The Who Killed Laura Podcast

The Who Killed Laura Podcast Episode 13: The Gifted and the Damned

Welcome to another episode of our podcast! This one looks at Season 2, Episode 6?s “Demons,” written by Harley Peyton and Robert Engels, and directed by Lesli Linka Glatter.

In this one, shut-in creeper Harold Smith abruptly closes his living novel on Donna Hayward when he finds she and Maddie snooping and trying to find where he keeps Laura Palmer’s secret diary. It takes so little for girls to become unclean!

We have a little confusion over whether the Roadhouse and Bookhouse are the same building. They are not, but located just yards from each other. Part of the confusion is that an interior scene of the tiny cookhouse was filmed at The Old Place Restaurant in Cornell, CA, which is much larger, books and shelves added to the real-life decor.

We discuss a would-be romantic scene between Donna and James and how we feel it’s hampered somewhat by James Marshall’s acting. That’s just an opinion, and if James is your favorite actor or character on the show, good for you. Per IMDB, Marshall started as Jim Greenblatt, logging a few TV roles before changing his name and playing several characters on Growing Pains. Twin Peaks and its attendant prequel film were perhaps his career highlights, but he does a very credible job as the pained, confused Pfc. Downey in A Few Good Men for Rob Reiner.

The late Ian Abercrombie appears here as an insurance adjustor of sorts, making sure Leo Johnson is well-cared for. Abercrombie’s credits are too numerous to mention, but often involve playing a butler. Some highlights include, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Northern Exposure, Wild Wild West, NewsRadio, and seven episodes of Seinfeld as Elaine Benes’ boss, Mr. Pitt. In later years, he did a lot of animation voiceover work such as The Batman, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Rango and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. He also did several episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place and worked with Lynch again on 2006?s Inland Empire.

Chris has fun reciting the Killer Bob rhyme.

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