I love this show! So. Much.
Who would have thought I would have heard the theme song for “Perfect Strangers” in the title scene for the Leftovers?! And what fantastic acting by Carrie Coon and Mark Linn Baker! Bravo!
Based largely on this thread, I’ve been giving the how a shot. I watched (in this order):
S3E1, S2 last ep, S2 penultimate ep, S1 last ep, S2E1-4, S3E2. I’m not getting it. It seems to have all the bad things about Lost (including that weird sound effect when changing scenes), but few interesting characters. Lost, for all its flaws, had interesting characters like few other shows.
I’ll keep watching (not much else good on right now), in hopes I eventually see the light.
It sounds like you jumped around quite a bit. I think you would better understand the show if you started at the beginning. For one thing, you might understand what the Guilty Remnant is, although that’s a bigger deal in the first season rather than the second or this one.
Wait… why would you watch it in such a haphazard way? Of course the characters aren’t going to be all that interesting if you go through it like that.
Yeh, you can’t just jump around the series like that and expect any continuity, intrigue or to know what the hell is going on with the characters or plot. Why the hell would you expect otherwise?
Bizarre.
I was following the advice given in the thread, more or less. I’m catching up on S2 (but not on S1, only the last episode), but still watching the current shows. If you go back in this thread, it was noted that you don’t need to watch all of S1. I wanted to see the last episode of S2 as it relates significantly to S3E1.
I’m not confused at all. I can follow what is going on just fine. If anything, I find there is TOO MUCH repetition of past events.
So I re-watched the ending of Book Of Kevin in light of the ending of this episode, where the nun asks her “Sarah… does the name ‘Kevin’… mean anything to you?” and she replies, “No.” While, to me, it seemed like Nora was denying knowing Kevin out of total renunciation or some awful falling out, I now wonder if she’s protecting him in some way. Is this new sect of Christianity (Kevinanity?) still trying to locate Kevin to force a new resurrection by killing him?
Eh… I think Season 1 is essential, IMO. It’s what really makes the characters of Kevin, Nora, and Matt so utterly compelling. Also makes “International Assassin” (S2, Ep8) so absolutely amazing (one of my Top 5 episodes of TV ever).
Yeah, I thought that as well after the end of this episode. I wonder how the ladies knew of Kevin (and was the nun at the end there the leader of the posse of women at the end in this episode?). Maybe his father is telling folks and it gets passed along like a game of telephone?
Or perhaps it’s slightly in the future and maybe Kevin and Nora bring the Book of Kevin with them in Australia, where it gets copied and disseminated?
I didn’t see anyone say that season 1 wasn’t required viewing. It’s hard viewing, sure, but it’s important to the story. It shows the absolute despair and depression and confusion that followed ‘the event’. It was about people processing the lunacy of 3% of the population vanishing, often in front of their eyes.
I wondered that as well, about how the ladies in Australia would’ve known about the Book. And it must be the present day, since the weather man in the sheriff’s office was making jokes about the 7th anniversary of the Departure coming up any day now.
My guess is that Michael has been secretly transcribing Matt’s pages online, and Kevin’s father found them, and ostensibly is starting a new cult based on them. Remember him quickly shutting his laptop when Kevin walked into the office, and Kevin made a joke about surfing porn?
Oh snap! That’s right. Though Matt did ask if Kevin saw anything… so maybe the claim that was the “only copy” was a lie and they were putting it online.
Yeh, agreed. No matter how astute you are in piecing together story threads, skipping S1 and hopping around like that, all willy nilly, you’d lose all the emotional weight as the series works through all these wild issues, step-by-step.
Ah shit, you’re right! I totally forgot Matt said that. Maybe they’re just uploading select transcripts?
FWIW I’m listening to the season one soundtrack right now… god that theme is such a powerful, emotional score. So fucking good.
Remembering that this is all based on a novel by Tom Perrotta, the first season follows closely the novel storyline. Note that I haven’t read it.
Nitpick, but it was two percent of the population, or about 140 million people.
Love the show but I hope it doesn’t start zipping all round the timeline like Lost and Westworld.
With only 6 episodes left, ever, I doubt it.
It’s weird, with LOST I craved answers to the questions and mythology they set up, only for the ending to totally undermine the journey of that show. For this, while I’m just as intrigued by the weirdness and questions they raise, I’m not expecting many answers, and don’t really desire any (though some would be nice). And not in a cynical way just because LOST left a bad taste in my mouth.
From what I’ve read, the producers have said they’re not going to get into why the two percent disappeared, and that makes sense, given that the show is about the reaction of the rest of humanity.
The disappearance isn’t the story, it’s the setting.