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Twin Peaks is back, and so is Swery. Taking a holiday to tour the town where they filmed David Lynch's series - North Bend, Washington - it should come as no surprise that I happened upon the real life inspiration for one of Deadly Premonition's locales, the Milk Barn. A few hours later, outside Twin Peaks' iconic set for The Great Northern, I would run into Swery as well. Right on time!Swery doesn't hide his love of Lynch. Deadly Premonition was chock full of references to Twin Peaks with its well dressed FBI agent, rural Pacific Northwest setting, and a healthy dose of woodsy supernatural mythos. I am later to learn that Swery has been to this legendary set, Snoqualmie Falls, no less that 10 times.
Yet just as Lynch resurrected Twin Peaks for a third season that shocked many with its jarring deviations from its predecessor, Swery is likewise returning to the genre that made him a star, the open-world investigative mystery, in a completely different context. While not technically a sequel to Deadly Premonition, its director claims that this recently announced crowdfunded follow-up, The Good Life, is set in what he calls the "Swery-verse". Here we have another rural town, another murder mystery, and another tantalising supernatural legend.
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