The Leftovers (HBO) TV Show • Page 29

Yeah idk if I'm as "sad" as you guys are about Lori. To me I'm more shocked. It really came out of nowhere

 

I don't think it came out of nowhere. The opening to the episode showed that she had been suicidal for a while . Nora gave her an idea for the out to her grief and she ran with it. Throughout the episode she got to make peace with everyone in her family and that still wasn't enough to keep her going, but it gave her the peace she needed to move on. Absolutely beautiful and devastating ending.

 

Yep...these and November for me. November is my favorite from the show.

 

Lots of great interviews with Amy Brenneman out today

 

out of nowhere aka... before this episode.

 

It's really not that much of a stretch to imagine she was in that kind of place for years. Watched her baby depart, joined a cult that further tore her family apart, her kids hated her for a long time, she was sort of responsible for Jill almost dying...i think this show has done a good job of showing that in this show's world any peace you find is just a lie you keep telling yourself so you can push through another day. Everyone has already at least somewhat checked out.

 

I cried through almost that whole episode. Still don't know how I feel about it honestly, I think it might have been too real for me.

 

Laurie's always been one of my least favourite characters on this show but I think this episode did a fantastic job at building her character and providing some insight into why she's done the things she's done throughout. The ending was very well done.

 

I've never been huge on Laurie either but she's been the MVP of the past two episodes for me.

 

Never really cared for Laurie, but that's probably been because up until now I didn't understand her motivations. Her need to simultaneously be the rational explainer as well as the one helping all these broken people find peace were conflicting impulses. There's no rationality here for people to accept, which was going to create a gulf between her and, say, John Murphy just like it did between Nora and Kevin. I think her suicide is her way of letting go of the fact that folks don't want their grief explained, they don't want closure nor could she give it to them. If she had stayed and watched this group of desperate people kill Kevin on some sort of faith that he'd come back, she would have eventually tried to thwart those efforts - she'd have become Judas, like she was talking about. So instead, she chose to kill herself. That she got to say gooodbye to her kids was a reward to her, as far as I'm concerned.

Complaints that this is out of character for her, or comes out of nowhere, ignore how many of the GR members from S1 have either knowingly / willingly gone to their deaths (Meg, Gladys) or killed themselves (Patti, now Laurie). She joined a cult and picked up chain smoking, ya know. The shelf life for folks involved in those activities isn't great.

 

Lest we forget Susan, who, just last season, Laurie pulled out of the GR believing she could "rehabilitate" her:

 

haha, Today's Special... I loved that show as a kid

 

Okay never posted in here but I found myself in a Twin Peaks hole and didn't get around to this until last night. It seems like I generally liked Laurie more than a lot of you in here but she was really incredible these last two episodes. This episode was so heartbreaking, finally compounding all the underlying moments of pain and suffering as Laurie often tries to put on a strong face until she finally realizes that it was time to let go. I was an emotional mess starting with her conversation with Kevin but when she got the call from her kids...damn. As with so much of this show's cast, Amy Brenneman has done a phenomenal job throughout the show and these past two episodes were some of her finest work.

 

Was gone for a while and just caught up with the last 3 episodes in a row and WOW is all I can say, completely on the edge of my seat the entire time

 

This show does not keep me on the edge of my seat haha, more like makes me want to sink into the abyss

 

mentally on the edge, physically wrapped in a blanket

 

yeah i laid in bed and cried after the last episode. the emotional beats in it were brutal for me.

 

I think that episode was the best depiction of suicide ever. Really made you emotionally connect with the character's struggles and emotional state, and (I think) the best episode this show has produced. It's tonally different than the rest of the season, and does not hand hold the viewer whatsoever. Absolutely beautiful episode.

 

Definitely the most at-peace depiction of suicide.

 

100% agree with all of this

 

I don't know about you, but I love it when I'm so into a show that I can cry about what happens to the characters.

 

oh totally, the reason i love this show so much is because it pulls so many different emotions out of me every time i watch it.

 

I just keep tuning in to see if the apocalypse happens

 

Ohhh boy. HBO sends out bits of the new episode's script to fans with a social media following for promotion every week, and this is the one for this week. Just posting the link in case it's slightly spoiler-y.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAwvXF0UwAAOYrJ.jpg:large

 

oh shit