The Leftovers (HBO) TV Show • Page 28

Well that depends on that "flash forward" scene with Nora at the end of episode one this season. It seems like she is very much alive.

 

Forgot about that. Probably because I still thought it was the woman from the season cold open flash back even though I know it's Carrie Coon as "Sarah" now.

 

I really hope that Kevin sees Laurie again when he enters the afterlife

 

but she won't know who he is if she drinks the water, no?

 

Best episode of the season IMO. Cried when Matt said he was going to stay with Nora.

 

The last 10-15 minutes killed me

 

Some incredible work.

 

This is my all-time favorite show.

 

Holy shit that was good. And so depressing.

 

Another great episode. Good to see they are going out strong.

 

Yep, this sent me over the edge. Then the phone call at the end. Fuck.

 

Ughhggghg

 

That was one of the series best episodes IMO. That phone call at the end killed me.

 

Couldn't watch last night so thought I would watch before work. Didn't plan to start the day off ugly crying but here we are.

Fuck

 

They reconfirmed the idea that the people who departed did so at least in part because someone around them didn't want them around/thought they were a burden/etc. Thinking about what we know about the people who departed, the woman from the opening scene of the series and her baby Sam, she def was thinking "life would be easier without him" at the moment, and they implied that her husband wasn't happy about finally getting pregnant at the beginning of last night's episode. Nora was in the middle of hating her family when they disappeared. The old couple with the down syndrome son/grandson, he was a 'burden' on them in their old age. The woman Kevin slept with, we know enough about him now to know deep down he was regretting that even as it happened. And now we know both Laurie and Kevin didn't want the baby that departed.

 

Just saw that the last episode is titled "The Book of Nora". I am very excited.

 

Oh and also, Liv Tyler posted this last night:

 

Triple post!

In case anyone was wondering if there was wiggle room in that ending:

‘The Leftovers’: Amy Brenneman on The Shocking Ending to Episode 6 and Laurie’s Powerful Change of Plans

 

HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT HAS ME SO HYPED

 

I can't stop thinking about this episode. As soon as Michael mentioned that Judah's killed himself, I knew it was over.

 

That last scene with Nora, Laurie, and Matt crushed my soul.

 

It was a really great episode, but I guess I'm not as connected to these characters as much as I thought I was. Probably because I binged the first two seasons.

 

In regards to the theory about potentially seeing Laurie again in another realm, this interview seems pretty suggestive of that:

What is Laurie thinking at the end of the episode before plunging into the water? She looks up at the sky and seems rather at peace.

It’s funny. I had to sort of back into it myself, because it’s obviously not like most quote unquote “suicidal moments” that you see, or like she has at the beginning of the episode, which is full of distress and pain. I think at the very end, rather than it being a binary life/death suicidal life-ending, this is a post-Departure world where people are talking about other realms all the time. Even though she’s been quite literal and combative about those ideas, I think they’ve worked on her. So she may also be going towards something.

I’m sure you can’t tell me what happens in the finale, but I’m curious how you felt when you saw it or read the script. What was your experience with it?

Here’s my spoiler alert: I have not seen it. I have read it. I am in it. Can I say that? What I can tell you about is the words on the page, which are extraordinary. And I also will say that while episode seven is its own animal, I feel like the feeling that I have, that you had, the people will have at the end of episode six, my episode, are some of the feelings that are very prominent in the finale. So the famous “will people be satisfied?” and bringing up the LOST finale (laughs), I think they’ll be satisfied on that kind of psycho-emotional level.
‘The Leftovers’: Amy Brenneman on Her Shocking Episode and the Series Finale

 

Loved that episode. Anytime "Dona Nobis Pacem" plays, I get wrecked.

 

same

and the departure themes haha