THE LEFTOVERS: HBO's nondenominational post-rapture series

too much s3 hate in the last round of posts

I dunno, I liked the show well enough but I don't think there was a single episode from the beginning of s2> that I wouldn't have criticised several aspects of.

relax & enjoy the ride, J <3

The finale, the orgy boat, the episode focused on the dad, and the one where Kevin and Nora have that fight in the hotel are all as good as Season two, but I just think that Season 2 had a kind of whimsy to it that was so unexpected it was intoxicating--it really felt like *anything* could happen (such possibilities!) but what did actually happen always felt like it was exactly what needed to happen, if that makes sense.

Season 2 also had what I view as the highlight of the entire run: Dead Patty having the time of her life mind-fucking Kevin.

^^^

also karaoke

Not-Evie showing up in the background on TV maybe the most unsettling image in the whole series

The s2 e1 was so fucking weird that I kept checking I was watching the right show bc there was literally NO FUCKING CONNECTION to the prior season until Garvey et al showed up

I want to commit to this show but I cannot deal with another Lost type of situation. Does the series finale have a satisfying close or am I gonna be pissed off?

The second-season theme song holds the answers.

prolly shouldn't dwell too much on the series finale, but it was among the best, imo.

As someone who didn't like the ending--or much of the third season--I can tell you I'm very much in the minority. The general response online and among people I know was that the ending was deeply moving.

honestly my biggest problem with the s3 is that I could have used a couple more episodes to spend more time with John and Erika, hell even the kids too

IT'S REALLY GOOD YOU SHOULD WATCH IT

if your problem with lost was that not every little mystery was explained, you may be disappointed.

if your problem with lost was that it continued to spin out inane "mysteries" well into the final act and then just gave up with a shrug, "hey guys nothing more to see here, move along" then The Leftovers is not that and if anything feels like an attempt to settle the karmic debt

Ok I’m gonna commit to it

But extremely expect me to shit up this thread with posts bc I only watch it at bedtime when I’m getting stoned to help me sleep

that’s what it’s for! we all have shitted it up in our own ways, now iits yr turn

jesus christ s2 e2

this thing with kevin wanting free of his family obligations, then regretting it, then getting the second chance he wanted it, only to start regretting it almost immediately... this isn't gonna be the central thing of the whole show, right? like, that's gonna turn out to be a really superficial reading of it, right?

wtf how has meg suddenly become the cult leader

why did she rape tommy

the GR had a total non-violence policy under patti, and now...??

does tommy have a mystical power or not?? laurie says it's a bullshit story they made up??

also: the researcher calling nora and telling her she's possessed by a demon?!?

i appreciated patti's snarky comments about how this 'magical negro' stuff was borderline racist

"Tell your mom Meg says 'Hello.'"

Liv Tyler did some great work on this show.

One the greatest, scariest moments of the whole series.

http://www.serialfreaks.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/71407-meg-2-1024x576.jpg

(I didn't totally understand why either--because she can?--which was part of why it was so scary.)

I really thought she was gonna light him on fire

that was the implication

she’s just so malicious in a way writers try to plot out but it seldom succeeds on screen

she's really good in it. the guy who plays tommy is good too and lovely looking.

I like all the young actors and characters a lot, which is v rare for a TV drama

she’s just so malicious in a way writers try to plot out but it seldom succeeds on screen

the casting is a big part of this I think. because it's her and we have certain associations, we instinctively want to believe she's headed for a redemption arc, something tidier. but nope.

I had no preconceptions!

idk what I’d seen Liv Tyler in other than misty forgotten memories of Armageddon. She could be the best person in the world, no clue

I think for most people she's still the saintly elf whatsername in the Lord of the Rings movies.

I'm probably in the slim minority but there's some partition in my brain between actors doing roles in standard movie fare and actors playing some character with a storied past in a series genre film

the difference between an actor in a role and playing a part, I guess

i want to rewatch in time with justine

I watched several episodes while sober and the show was not any less confusing. I just started s3!

What was the point of the fake bomb threat?

Why has meh turned straight up evil?

How did those 3 girls get roped into this?

Why does meg talk but no one else does?

Virgil was Erika’s dad but did something to john - did I miss Virgil telling Kevin or is it still unknown what he did?

I’m really confused about the family angle - there is no family / family is everything

Meg not meh

there is no family / family is everything

no attachments vs attachments to things that might hurt you (ie, die or leave).

the family angle is one of the central themes in the whole series. there's a conflict that the main characters (and really everyone who survived the departure) grapple with: in this world, anyone could disappear off the face of the earth in any second, so why risk the pain that would come with the attachment?

of course, our world is like that too, but it's not quite as explicit as it is in a world where millions of people disappeared at once for no reason.

s2e6 nora x erika maybe the pinnacle of television

I get that, I suppose I just find it really hard to relate to

Xp

omg mark linen-baker I’m dying

There are some really amazing scenes in this show

Erika and Nora on the trampoline

ha, that was one of my least favorite sequences in the series. the wrong side of cutesy

I’m a third of the way into s3 e7 and SHIT IS FINALLY GETTING REAL

Now it makes sense why he was always trying to kill himself in his sleep!!!!!!

Omg the penis biometrics!!!!!!

erica& norah on the trampoline was all-time gr8

That’s why they didn’t care about the dude going overboard!!!!

Oh god the baby cancer question makes sense!!!!!