I know a lot of people who gave up after season 1, but oh, the pay off of season 2 was so worth it. It stands as one of the best seasons of television, ever. Really. It’s beautiful and thought-provoking and mysterious and a little kooky.
Season 3 premiered last night…did anyone catch it? I loved it; I had that bittersweet “last season” feeling while watching, though.
Fantastic season opener and seeing where all the characters now were after 3 years was quite fun as well (esp John). And, you know, to be honest, a Gospel of Kevin isn’t actually a terrible idea. I mean he did rise from the dead TWICE.
I only know of this because of Iris DeMent. I thought about checking it out. What would you compare it to?
That’s tough simply because there isn’t much that it can be compared to, but the closest is “Lost” (Lindelof does this show as well), but one that doesn’t really care about giving answers to the big mystery (and has been up front about that since the beginning).
We had a 9.7 pound bone-in, spiral cut ham. There are only two of us, so there’s a wh…
Oh. You’re talking about a show. Never mind! 
Yeah, I think the LOST connection scares people off too. I’m one of the angry LOST viewers who’s still a little bitter about the finale, and I love this show. It’s an important distinction to note that this show isn’t about solving clever little mysteries, and like **ISiddiqui **said, they’ve been clear that it’s not. It’s about grief and loss and mystery…and works best if you can just ride the wave, rather than getting hung up on where everyone went when they were raptured.
I can’t help feeling like we’re going to end up in not-Purgatory again.
Didn’t know this was on again! Will definitely watch, caught up with season’s 1 and 2 on the HBO go app over the winter.
I think the big issue with LOST wasn’t the main mystery. Just like in the leftovers I can absolutely deal with this thing that just happened and might never be fully explained. Watching the repercussions, and how people come (or don’t come) to terms with it is what’s interesting.
No, the problem with lost were all the little mysteries that kept popping up, almost on an episode by episode basis that were never resolved. Sometimes you’d go a few episodes or an entire season where figuring out X appeared to be of importance, then the next episode or season it’s never mentioned. Worse, the characters act as if these things/mystery threads never even happened!
I think the leftovers is a lot better at this, so far.
Will watch tonight!
That would be a hilarious joke for Lindelof to play on those who’ve given him another chance (by watching The Leftovers).
But I doubt that he’s ready to end his show-biz career just yet.
Right. They’ve said that they’re never going to explain why two percent of the world’s population disappeared. You just have to accept that it happened and the show is about the consequences. And the weird thing is that over the course of a normal few days, two percent of the population will die but here the two percent disappeared instantly and all at once. Basically, it’s about grief.
In the show, a result of the Sudden Departure is a breakdown in civil society. I’m not sure that’s what would really happen, but again, we can’t possibly know.
But we’ve already been there in The Leftovers. Twice.
Concerning that woman at the very end of The Book of Kevin, that was
Nora, right?
Crap–I didn’t know this premiered already! I ditched cable a few months ago, but planned on signing up for HBO NOW on my Roku once this show started up again (and will keep the subscription for GoT, too).
Yep.
Not sure we need spoiler boxes, but
it was a character named Sarah, played by the same actress who plays Nora (Carrie Coon) and looking older than Nora does now. So was this Nora in the future? The previews have hinted that the end of the world is expected soon, so is this suggesting that the world doesn’t end? Or is this just someone else? It’s really very much like Lost in some ways.
I see the sign, Hey!
I see the sign, Hey!
I see the sign!
Hey O the times draw nigh!
High in the fig tree, Hey!
High in the fig tree, Hey!
Sign in the fig tree!
Hey O times draw nigh!
The sign of the judgement, Hey!
The sign of the judgement, Hey!
Sign of the judgement!
Hey O times draw nigh!
Man, the music of this show is fantastic. Most HBO shows do feature great soundtracks, but this is soooo sooo good.
I loved this first episode. Nice mix of what the fuck and yeah, that makes sense. Best writing and some of the best TV right now, IMHO.
What was the deal with Kevin suffocating himself? That scene seemed so out of place with no immediate explanation.
Something to do with the fact that he can’t die, or can’t die while within the town borders.
I didn’t buy it as something someone would do if they knew they couldn’t die–I mean, why? If you’re wrong and suddenly you can die, then now you’re dead, and you died in a way that will cause great pain to your loved ones–so why do it? Kevin hasn’t been established as being depressed, or certainly not as being depressed enough to be fine with dying and traumatizing his family.
And if you really can’t die then what’s the point of spending part of your day demonstrating it? What do you get out of that, emotionally or otherwise?
I know I tend to go on about how much I dislike Damon Lindelof’s writing (he penned this episode with Patrick Somerville). But this bag-over-head scene perfectly embodies my reasons for deploring DL’s shtick: it’s showy, startling,–and completely sense-free. It’s something humans just don’t do in the circumstances depicted. It’s cheap and gimmicky.
My initial thought was that he was trying to get to the Other Place. But that didn’t make sense because the Other Place was depressing.
So this last episode (Don’t Be Ridiculous) was one of the best episodes of television period. Superb acting, direction, writing, music, production, etc. I get that Lindeloff isn’t for everybody, but when he’s good, he’s really good.
I got a huge smile as soon as I heard the opening notes of Perfect Strangers over the titles. I knew we’d be in for a good one, and was delighted to see ‘Cousin Larry’ give such a powerful performance opposite Carrie Coon.
Plenty of stuff to touch on, but it’s now my pet theory that it’ll be Kevin to get zorched by the radiation rays, since it seems clear Nora sticks around into old age.