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The Leftovers |OT| Left Behind With Damon Lindelof - Sundays 10/9c
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Funky Papa
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I actually liked Nora's sex scene. Felt adult, relatable and not gratuitous, unlike 99% of the sex scenes in any random HBO show.
Edit: I also find the actress really pretty, even she's hardly a beauty by Hollywood standards.
Edit: I also find the actress really pretty, even she's hardly a beauty by Hollywood standards.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Their relationship is strangely endearing and relatable for a show this bleak and filled with awful people.
Watch it crumble in a couple of episodes. Tops.
What do you think will bring it down?
His daughter not approving, him fucking Aimee, Nora's brother, GR... So many car crashes approaching.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Aimee is TROUBLE, but that may be a bit too obvious. Every single character is a ticking bomb, so who knows. Hell, Kevin himself is already tripping balls.
Vert boil
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uncleslappy
nethack is my favorite dark souls clone
Theory:
All characters on the show are dead, and the one's who "vanished" are actually alive and having the same anxiety and sadness about missing the show's characters.
Back to the same weirdness and lameness. The show lacks footing. Yes, who'd join the GR if they are breaking into people houses? How does the group exist? Why would a woman leave her husband after he cheats on her and of all choices, she joins some cult that that she has zero reason to as far as we know so far.
Wish they would stop stringing us along over is or isn't Kevin going mentally insane. And i would hate it if they are going with the worn out angle that the madman (Kevin's father) is the one that's right and not insane at all. Don't tell me the voices he's supposedly or really hearing are those of the Departed.
Wish they would stop stringing us along over is or isn't Kevin going mentally insane. And i would hate it if they are going with the worn out angle that the madman (Kevin's father) is the one that's right and not insane at all. Don't tell me the voices he's supposedly or really hearing are those of the Departed.
That wouldn't really work quite as stated as
2% of the population vanished in this reality. If we are following characters that are dead (or whatever), that means in the other place 98% of the population disappeared and 2% remain. If that were the case, they wouldn't just similarly be going through some angsty recovery, the whole of society would have collapsed.
Steelyuhas
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Michelle MacLaren directed!
talisayNon
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jump the shark. fuck this show im out
CharminUltra
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I'm guessing I was supposed to feel something about that scene with the girls breaking up and stuff, but all I could think of was "fuck, these characters are annoying as hell."
bodyofanamerican
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I'm just past the plastic bag scene. Have they definitely said WHO that guy is? I'm guessing it's a Tyler Durden type situation?
talisayNon
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no we dont understand, fuck you lindolf.
this show does not make fucking sense
this show does not make fucking sense
CharminUltra
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Great idea, Kevin.
<+)O Robido O(+>
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Um.... I might hate this damn show. I won't cancel HBO yet
but damn if I keep watching this shit live.
(BEYONCE!!!!!!!!!)
BertramCooper
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So the Guilty Remnant thinks everyone in the world is desperately trying to forget what happened?
Even though people hold dumb remembrance festivals and spend thousands of dollars on fake corpses of their loved ones?
How stupid are these people?
Even though people hold dumb remembrance festivals and spend thousands of dollars on fake corpses of their loved ones?
How stupid are these people?
THANK YOU.
The motivations behind these characters and factions just don't align with what we're actually seeing.
CharminUltra
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"UNDERSTAND WHAT?!?!?"
This show in a nutshell.
This show in a nutshell.
The One and Done
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The motives of the GR are the dumbest shit I've ever heard. They are trying to make people remember in a town where they just made the vanishing a holiday and erected a statue in remembrance just a few weeks ago? And they taunt a woman who, until the last few eps, WORKS for an agency pretty much about remembering the vanished? Really. The GR are just dicks. And why the smoking? Isn't that a "distraction"? They are dumbasses.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
Wait, so is the first season the whole book, and the rest is just going to be original continuations?
I thought the first season was just taking the premises, and not everything from the actual book.
The One and Done
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Yeah...if that's the case I'm out. It will only get worst with original scripts. The thing is, I can deal with the fact that they will never explain the vanishing but only if the characters and story are intriguing. But neither are that at all.
TheLostBigBoss
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I'm kinda in the same boat. I don't hate it, I look forward to it every week, but I can't really explain why I like it so much.
LilWayneSuckz
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The realistic depiction of the rapture is very intriguing.
...but then they add annoying angsty teens, an idiotic cult, and a manic depressive dude who somehow is allowed to remain as the chief of police (or whatever he is)
I didnt run into this on Hbo go.
TheLostBigBoss
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Question. Are cults ever not idiotic and retarded?
Also I don't mind teenagers having angst, its what they do, especially in a fucked up house like the one the daughter is/was living in. And Kevin being insane is a major plot point, but it's not like most of the people know what he does during the night. He's not going crazy on a public stage.
But I wonder, when Kevin went loopy on that dry cleaning place, was that sleepy Kevin all along?
I think it looks fantastic. Beautiful shots like this one for example are very common
and there are parts of it I do like, but then something like the GR snapping their fingers to point at something happens and I just think, this is so stupid
also Liv, shut the hell up
LilWayneSuckz
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Cults have always been idiotic, but at the very least, the disappearance of 2% of the world's population could give them better reasoning for existing than what the GR are saying.
And teens can be angsty for however long they want but I don't think the audience wants to see anymore screen time dedicated to Jill and her friends. (at least if they're just going to continue acting like morons)
I'm sticking with the show because
it sounds like there is going to be a good and evil dynamic happening and their city might be ground zero. And I'm almost fairly certain that the dog shooting guy who has no ID is probably Satan (or the antichrist)
bodyofanamerican
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Oh, Christ. I just put together why the GR has been watching people. Seeing that guy give Patti the notebook, then seeing that they're logging the times people leave and come home.
They're gonna put those fucking dolls in people's houses aren't they? I'm so weirdly protective of Nora for some reason, and I'm gonna be so upset if whatever the GR does manages to break her.
They're gonna put those fucking dolls in people's houses aren't they? I'm so weirdly protective of Nora for some reason, and I'm gonna be so upset if whatever the GR does manages to break her.
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