THE LEFTOVERS: HBO's nondenominational post-rapture series

yr call obvs but it does get a lot better.

Yeah the first ep is certainly punishing, but i tend to find even the first season remarkably cathartic if you can hang in there. not to everyone's taste of course.

only show i've seen that hit me somewhere i don't really know how to talk about... completely in love with justin theroux and carrie coon

Moodles you should at least give ep 3, "Two Boats and a Helicopter," a try before you give up on it. I was kinda meh on the initial episodes but that one and "Guest" are something else.

The Nice Guys' plot hinges on Margaret Qualley/Jill Garvey's character. She's not particularly good; even with a two-part Nixon joke, neither is the film. I don't generally turn into Tipper Gore when I go to the movies, but some of the stuff involving Ryan Gosling's 13-year-old daughter struck me as tasteless. Russell Crowe plays John Goodman.

8-episode final season premieres 04/16

Yeah, I saw it flash by in an HBO promo the other day. Looking forward to it, no clue as to where they go from here.

Actually (almost a certainty with the upcoming House of Cards season), I wouldn't be surprised if Trump is somehow lurking in the background. Mood, a new character, something.

:D

Here you go--Trump's flying the plane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=37&v=qj1tpBYiHnU

I though Justin Theroux did reasonably well will a silly character in The Girl on the Train.

No Beach Boys, louder and more hysterical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HzCWqPhi0o

(Not sure why, but my link above takes you to the very end of the clip.)

that one is some sort of fan edit or something

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L9w0sz5y83k

So excited for this.

I would say that with trump related end-of-world anxiety this show may find itself in the zeitgeist but it'll always probably have limited appeal. I have tried and failed many times to get people to watch it.

v excited

I didn't see Patti anywhere--I want ghost Patti to show up.

http://i.imgur.com/RnUkPGw.png

rewatching, for some reason my life has become detached from relating to the show

this scene in season one where kevin speaks to his dad because he feels like he's losing his shit, then goes back to the police station to disassemble the toaster because he thought he might have hallucinated losing his bagel

and then the euphoric music swells as he removes the back of the machine and discovers his bagel

excellent

I didn't love this show. Continually going back and forth over whether supernatural things are happening didn't interest me. guilty remnant was a great idea though.

http://variety.com/2017/scene/vpage/justin-theroux-carrie-coon-the-leftovers-season-3-premiere-hbo-1202023241/

This is it; we left no dangling threads, no to be continued, no spinoff possibilities. We made pretty sure that this was going to be the last season of the show,” Lindelof assured Variety on the carpet before the screening. “The audience deserves as satisfying an ending as we can give them. I don’t think anyone wants to see a question mark at the end of this.

Can't see any reason to doubt Lindelof on this.

And then it ends with a dude on a beach and a dog running past him anyway.

Kinda hope it's not as conclusive as all that. If any show can satisfyingly end with a question mark it's this one.

I don't think they're ever going to directly explain the departure, at least I hope they don't. But I could see them explaining a lot of the ancillary mysteries, like about Mary and about what caused Scott Glenn's character to go insane

or maybe it is the world that has gone insane

two things can go insane

I almost gave up on the show. I found the first season frustrating and wanted to know the mystery. My wife, who had read the book, kept saying "that's not the point, you're never going to find out" and I was like "I know and I can't handle that!"

Anyway glad I kept with it because the second season was so totally fucking awesome and I can't wait for this one.

i lost steam almost exactly like you did, watched s1, watched a couple of s2 and stopped but the fact that this is the final season and they are ending it makes me want to start over again

C'mon Lindelof, leaving no question unanswered was what made Lost so bad

Won’t read this, but promising.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/reviews/leftovers-season-3-review-final-episodes-1202029489/

people I trust are all saying very nice things

i have very high expectations. Sepinwall says that there's nothing quite as wild as the opening scenes of last season or the "International Assasin" episode...but i think last season discovered a kind of tone or style that I've never quite seen on tv before...and just exploring that for 8 more episodes is an exciting prospect for me.

It's only 8? That's probably good.

Well, that was great.

Yeah, several jaw dropping moments. And one laugh out loud moment ("...canine DNA" *score stops dead*)

I'm slightly apprehensive about flash-forwards given Lindelof's previous work but I'm willing to believe it'll work out

Yeah i arched my eyebrow at the very end (loved the rest obv) but they have my trust.

Those those two panning shots which seamlessly traveled forward in time were really lovely I thought.

the drone bombing was very o_O and at the same time, not implausible

so good. I guess Liv Tyler is off the show now. Or maybe she'll be ghosting back?

The 3 year jump was alarming as well. Took me some time to even recognize Kevin's stepson.

so, how about those Millerites at the beginning? seems like another historical framing device like the ancient cave-in and baby in season two. that season had a child adopted who is now gone (explanation pending) to echo the frame

this frame has the lone pious believer, which seems to line up with the flash-forward, but I am thinking that's a red herring

"the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and cults"

alcohol, tobacco, firearms, explosives, and cults, IIRC. I've been rewatching s1 and there's a scene where they offer to "take care" of the GR in Mapleton

yeah, I think whoever was stating it in this episode (a protestor at the spring demanding the truth about the drone strike) left that bit off

it's disturbingly fitting which agency got authority on cults

You guys I don't think Kev is ok lol

That whole '59th St Bridge Song' as she's riding off the on the bike and I'm like yeah Kev's going to do something dumb/crazy/life-threatening and HOLY FUCK, SHOW DELIVERS

All I could think about was the mechanics of convincingly acting that whole thing. Like you basically have to almost suffocate to do it realistically and uuuugh just thinking about scared the crap out of me (also as a child who spent the first 5 years of her life being told by her parents not to put those plastic record bags over my head and constantly wondering what would happen if I did, this was a very weird scene to watch)

Insane

yah did he REALLY do that? fucking terrifying.

I have to force myself not to look at this--now I know "Feelin' Groovy"'s on the way (which I absolutely love) and it won't be a surprise. (Not blaming anyone, my own fault.) I'm going to rewatch 1 and 2 as soon as 1 gets here in the mail, so I won't be starting for at least a month. No more peeking!

xpost Yeah idk I was trying to figure it out. Like maybe they had an air tube coming in from behind somehow on a quick/slow release trigger to help between takes or something but he still sucked it all the way into his nose & mouth like fuuuuuuuuuuck nope

sorry clemenza

yeah i wondered the same thing too. I suppose eomeone was just ready to rip it open once they got the shot

there were similar shots in the OA, with people's heads completey drowned inside helmets...how the fuck did they do that? so claustrophobic, I'd freak the fuck out if I were acting that.

I mean, you still try to breathe shallowly once you pass out, it's not like you pass out and immediately need cpr

just don't do the asphyxiation thing with no one else around

the water one, that is not as good