The One and Done
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Um....so was that actually Kevin?
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The Leftovers S3 |OT| The End Is Near - Premieres Sunday 4/16, 9pm on HBO
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Gordon Shumway
Banned
I can't not watch this show, but it's so fucking hard..what a great episode.
bodyofanamerican
Member
Nora's gonna go in the machine and it's going to refuse to work for her like it has for everyone else, just like all the machines refused to work for her tonight.
i highly doubt she is gonna agree to be fucking incinerated. She thinks they are frying people. She probably thinks she can bust them.
DarknessTear
Banned
Is Kevin actually repeatedly killing himself and going back to the hotel repeatedly or is he just asphyxiating himself a bunch for some reason?
Gordon Shumway
Banned
I might disagree, but nah..it had me feeling a certain type of way. Now, the music combo and Brett Butler showing up became a weird ABC in the 80s thing that absolutely took me out of it..at least for a moment.
She's a
We know she's doesn't get incinerated because of the end of episode 1
I mean. I obviously laughed them dancing on the trampoline to Wu Tang Clan.
It comes off as irreverent and light which is a change of pace from what I recall from the previous seasons
andythinkpad
Member
That machine is clearly a red herring (on the count that HBO don't have the money to shoot the alternate world), so why even waste time on red herring in the last season?
Gordon Shumway
Banned
I dunno..shit felt powerful to me. Why do I keep quoting you? 😃
Buttonbasher
Member
This season seems full of moments like this so far, which makes it just feel like one of the most human shows I've seen in a long time.
Im pretty sure there was an episode in s1 or maybe s2 talking about how they found a guy in Mexico or something that was acting like he was departed. I think it was this guy.
Sirpopopop
Member
The Perfect Strangers cameo was so bizarre and wonderful. Easily the highlight of the episode for me.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Was laughing and slapping my forehead for the first 20 minutes of this episode..not in a bad way, mind you. Was just in disbelief lol..
bodyofanamerican
Member
Well that was the whole point around this episode, right? Her trying to cram her beliefs down with cynicism to the point that she was almost like Patti, putting the picture of the pillar guy's corpse up for everyone to see. She was kind of a huge asshole. And now we're supposed to wonder whether or not she buys the idea, or is going to let herself be incinerated as some kind of release from her life.
Yes, exactly. I'm like, scrambling to buy songs from iTunes after every episode. Thank goodness Sepinwall recapped the songs that were used tonight.
Also, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, Mark Linn Baker is a fucking GOOD actor. That scene was awesome.
Buttonbasher
Member
It's been in every season so far.
Season 1 was that the whole Perfect Strangers cast departed
Season 2 was that he faked his departure, and was found in mexico refusing to speak english,
Season 3 takes it to the logical conclusion.
God, the piano version of the Perfect Strangers theme song when she's driving is so fucking choice.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
1) The apocalypse is real and the Book of Kevin spread like gospel after the 2nd event happened, with Noah being left behind again with Kevin departing (or dying)
Like her children, she copes with trying to pretend she doesn't know Kevin and live her life moving on.
2) We're shown that "the other side", can possibly have the same locations as Earth. Noah decides to try and reunite with her kids, and takes the chance. She's successfully transported to the other side. However, such a small percent of the population exists on this "other side", it's basically the apocalypse in itself. Modern society can't function with such a spread population across the planet, which explains the message pigeons and Noah roaming around on a bike.
She's basically stuck in Australia for the rest of her life.
How the departed know about Kevin, well that's the big plot hole in this stupid idea.
Like her children, she copes with trying to pretend she doesn't know Kevin and live her life moving on.
2) We're shown that "the other side", can possibly have the same locations as Earth. Noah decides to try and reunite with her kids, and takes the chance. She's successfully transported to the other side. However, such a small percent of the population exists on this "other side", it's basically the apocalypse in itself. Modern society can't function with such a spread population across the planet, which explains the message pigeons and Noah roaming around on a bike.
She's basically stuck in Australia for the rest of her life.
How the departed know about Kevin, well that's the big plot hole in this stupid idea.
bodyofanamerican
Member
While we're in Mark Linn Baker nostalgia mode, My Favorite Year was such a great movie when I was a kid.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
The characters have grown over the last three years and after last season. Their bonds have grown.
And so must their facial hair
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
The piano perfect strangers theme song was excellent.
Carrie Coon is so awesome as Nora a really love episodes that focus on her. As much as an asshole Nora can be Tommy had the biggest asshole lines in the episode tonight. What he said to Nora in the car was brutal.
Carrie Coon is so awesome as Nora a really love episodes that focus on her. As much as an asshole Nora can be Tommy had the biggest asshole lines in the episode tonight. What he said to Nora in the car was brutal.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Perfect Strangers... what the hell. lol
TheNatureBoy
Member
Yeah, definitely a poor choice of words for Tommy. C/S on Carrie Coon being a force of nature, so glad the show introduced me to her.
Trampoline time with Regina King was great. The show continues to do an excellent job of sprinkling in comedy, amid all the intense emotion.
Aussie Kevin seemed like a dick.
Man, you're not going to like the episode where Kevin knocks his head in his oven while looking for disappearing bagels and forgets how to speak English.
aronnov reborn
Banned
I liked how they made "Kevin" a douchebag so you wouldn't care as much when he died.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
It's dumb that they kept the season 2 opening but just changed the song. I assume they'll change it again next week and the week after that, etc. It feels gimmicky.
neurosisxeno
Member
I still miss the season 1 intro. I loved it. I was kind of hoping they would do a brand new intro for season 3 though. I grew pretty fond of the season 2 intro when I binge watched the second half of season 2 the other week.
They make all the characters douchebags, really.
"We con those people, but it's okay: we shred the money afterwards! It's the Right Thing to Do!"
Merchandise
Member
My mom has watched a few episodes of this show, all random ones from every season, probably five in total. She watched the one tonight and came up to me and said "this show doesn't make any sense" and I'm like ?????????
Tell her there's one episode that puts all the pieces together and play the International Assassin episode.
It'd be worse if it was just the same opening each episode..
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Same. This feels like they didn't have the budget for a new intro but still wanted to do something new, so they compromised and just changed the song.
...you mean like with every single other TV show ever, including the last two seasons of this show
No she's not. She's a mother dealing not only with the loss of two children, but losing them in a way that alienates her from everyone else.
Nora can't abide by scam artist scumbags pulling this shit, and she realized on the laptop that this is clearly the largest scale scam operation she's ever seen. She wants to bring them down.
Yeah! Lazy to have the same opening but different music for the final season.
I don't think either is mutually exclusive.
And I think you're wrong.
If that's the level of depth you understood that scene at I don't know why you even watch the show.