Murder in the Links Vol. 10

A weekly roundup of links, books I’m reading and other murderous miscellanea

This week I’ve been…

Watching The Snoop Sisters, a short-lived (4 episodes plus a pilot) series from the 1970s. Starring screen legends Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as writer sisters (mysteries and poetry, respectively) who also solve crimes, the show is a kind of proto-Murder, She Wrote. Fun in a way that 1970s tv series are, with a stacked list of guest stars from the studio era (Joan Blondell, Vincent Price, Paulette Goddard) and gorgeous seventies style — I’m absolutely obsessed with the peach sofa in their living room — it’s a fun escape into the past.

Listening to the Twin Peaks soundtrack. Twin Peaks was a huge deal in my family when it premiered. We taped every episode on VHS (!) and my older brother and I used to make our friends watch it whenever we had sleepovers. I loved everything about it (the Bookhouse Boys, Audrey Horne’s saddle shoes and plaid pencil skirts, every single thing about Special Agent Dale Cooper), including its score by Angelo Badalamenti. I hadn’t listened to it in years, but David Lynch’s death last week sent me down a hauntingly beautiful, nostalgic rabbit hole.

Reading about Sydney Sweeney’s potential Poe adaptation. Sweeney is a fascinating star to me — she’s refreshingly candid about the hypocrisy of Hollywood feminism while being a canny businesswoman who understands how media works today. This could be interesting, although the phrase “wildly revisionist and darkly comedic” does strike fear in my heart…