Its kind of refreshing...
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The Leftovers |OT| Left Behind With Damon Lindelof - Sundays 10/9c
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A nice palette cleanser before the depression fest that will be the finale.
bodyofanamerican
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Oh man. It's gonna happen soon.
bodyofanamerican
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"No, you get drunk. I'll drive."
Man this show is brutal.
Man this show is brutal.
Cornballer
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It should have been the first episode.
At first I thought the same thing, but the reason why this episode is so effective is because we already know what will happen and who these characters are.
BertramCooper
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Proof that God is okay with abortion.
It's a cheap Lindelof parlor trick. Care about a set of individuals who you have no fucking clue what is happening to them by introducing a set of questions. Answer some questions but introduce even more questions. Claim it's okay because "it's all about the characters".
ThLunarian
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Really enjoyed that one.
Bummed that the finale is 2 weeks away.
Bummed that the finale is 2 weeks away.
I haven't actually watched much of Lindelof's work. I only saw a couple episodes of Lost, and Prometheus. I've been pretty indifferent for the most part of this season, some good, a lot bad, but even I can say that tonight's episode was easily the best of the season.
WaffleTaco
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Fucking great episode! Almost teared up a bit.
I doth my cap to you, sir.
Another great episode.
Apart from the girl he was shagging, it's as if they collectively got their wish (at that moment in time): his wife choosing an abortion, the career women wishing she didn't have a family etc. If it is something like this, this might explain the overwhelming guilt some of them have exhibited.
Apart from the girl he was shagging, it's as if they collectively got their wish (at that moment in time): his wife choosing an abortion, the career women wishing she didn't have a family etc. If it is something like this, this might explain the overwhelming guilt some of them have exhibited.
bodyofanamerican
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Preview spoilers:
The GR are fucking scumbags.
That dawning look of horror on Nora's face in her kitchen.
BertramCooper
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It was a solid ep (though not as good as the Matt and Nora eps), but the way this show withholds background information for the sake of being withholding is pretty irritating.
reggieandTFE
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Could his jogging pants show the outline of his package any more clearly? The ladies asking him if he was ready while wearing white and smoking was too much.
It most certainly can.
Cornballer
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illmatic24
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I liked the episode a lot. And even though they'll never tell us exactly about the cause of the disappearances, I think it points heavily towards the idea of someone wishing the people were gone leading it to coming true.
Now if they could explain the supernatural/omgI'mGoingCrazy stuff, we might be all set.
Now if they could explain the supernatural/omgI'mGoingCrazy stuff, we might be all set.
Sectorseven
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It was ok, but still typical formulaic Lindelof. Did the same thing on Lost with having a backstory episode right before the finale.
This was post just before the end of the episode, which revealed her child was taken from the womb.
Steelyuhas
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Really liked the episode, makes me wonder if flashbacks integrated into the show on a regular would've been good...
petethepanda
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It's a small touch but the show always nails moments like the final shot, most shows (even on HBO) wouldn't assume their audience is intelligent enough to get what's going on and would cut back instead of staying on Laurie.
Glad they held this back for the penultimate episode.
Glad they held this back for the penultimate episode.
Hardly explains why she'd join that cult.
Black Stabbath
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Show is a slow burn but definitely the best episode of the season IMO
bodyofanamerican
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That was Cyril O'Reilly from Oz as Tom's biological father, wasn't it?
biosnake20
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I love the little details like his iPhone being on iOS6 in this episode instead of iOS7 as it is in present time.
I think it does. Most people in GR have lost someone, and they turn to the cult to "remember" and serve as reminder for anyone who doesn't. Losing a kid, which was in the womb, must've been incredibly devastating for her. GR offered her something that her family life could not.
I think it's good motivation, and it especially lines up with what Patty was talking about last week.
illmatic24
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As has been pointed out many times already, clearly, nobody's forgotten. And of course, random losses happen all the damn time in the real world.
An opportunity to act like those scientology trolls on a daily basis?
(but instead of always talking over you, they don't talk at all (man, where do the writers get all those ideas?!)... which is a great deal less effective, as we've recently seen when the main character's wife was helplessly snapping her fingers at Liv Tyler...)
I don't remember her making any kind of sense.
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