Still trying to process my thoughts, but the series can end like that and it would be a great ending, but disappointed we didn't get more. That said, such a perfect season that I am almost scared for them to roll the dice for more.
The fact that Lindelof wants a S3 and has broken his rule about discussing the show during the season in an effort to generate more interest makes me want more. At the end of S1 he wasn't sure he wanted to do another season. I wonder if S3 would focus on Australia and Garvey Sr.
Third part of interview with Lindeloff... http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wa...eftovers-im-fighting-for-the-life-of-the-show
i thought it was a good season finale i needed desperately for some sort of happy resolution for kevin because he is my favorite character by a mile
That ending made me so happy. I was sure that Kevin was dead after John shot him. Really hope we get a third season, I have faith that Lindelof will do great.
I thought it was solid, not great. I think they did a good job of allowing that to be the ending point if they aren't renewed but leaving enough if they do get some more seasons. The critical acclaim is going to help this show. HBO gave The Wire five seasons and the ratings were really bad despite being an incredible show. I'm optimistic about a third season.
Man, Matt episodes as weird as hell. He tries to see the good people to a fault, everyone in the world knew that Swedish tweaker was going to dick him over. Also, lol at the whackjob scientists saying Nora is a vessel of a demon or whatever.
Goddamnit, Kevin and Nora's conversation on the phone after she left. I can't tell if I'm just a big bitch or I've just been watching some emotionally charged shit recently but between this and You're The Worst I've been damn near crying.
There were so many times in that episode that I thought someone was going to die, and no one did. Kevin got shot in the gut and was unattended for hours. Definitely thought his story was over and he would bleed out off screen. It seemed like such a Leftovers moment to have a character go defeat his demons in the afterlife and come back only to have him get killed a day later. Evie and friends pretend to have a bomb on the bridge and Erika is committed to letting herself get blown up along with them. I kind of doubted that there was an actual bomb, but I thought they were maybe trying to provoke the park rangers to shoot the girls. The rangers would then find out the trailer was empty and that shooting the girls wasn't really necessary. Matt, Mary, Nora, and Lily getting caught up in the stampede of people running across the bridge. Thought one of them would die somehow, especially after seeing Lily lying in the middle of the road. Kevin waking up the bath tub in the hotel. When the dude at the bar told him he had to do karaoke to get back, I thought he was dead. I thought the guy was fucking with him because singing a simple karaoke song seemed too easy. And then he started singing, the content of the song and his memories flashing before his eyes made me think he was taking his last breaths at that exact moment. I thought he was going to take a big drink of water when he was done singing. Then he wakes up and his dog is there (LOST and True Detective S2 spoilers following). Spoiler Which is almost exactly how LOST ends. Jack bleeds out with a dog by his side. Then, the whole time on his walk to the urgent care and then his walk home I was expecting him to keel over like Vince Vaughn at the end of True Detective. Finally he gets to the house and the earthquake hits, and we see stuff collapsing around him. I thought the house had collapsed with his family inside of it the same way that the cave collapsed in the first episode. I was so relieved when he walked in the house and everyone was there and happy to see him. The show delivers gut punch after gut punch (especially season 1), I was kind of surprised that we got such a happy ending.
Its really the best thing out there for me. I mean its more than just The Departures. Its how we struggle everyday when a event happens. People reactions are very much similar in the way we live.
Great season. It's impressive that they changed the location and developed a lot of new story lines seamlessly. I don't love the purgatory stuff but they did it about as well as you can
The Guilty Remnant, the haunting cult at the center of HBO’s “The Leftovers,” made a pre-apocalyptic appearance in New York City on Monday, when a group of devoted fans assembled in costume outside the network’s headquarters to petition for a third season of the premium cable drama. Remaining true-to-character in their demonstration, the peaceful protesters donned all-white garments, silently smoked cigarettes and presented small, makeshift picket signs that simply read “renew” in scribbled sharpie.
I just walked the entire series in the last week. Read this thread over the course of the day, good posting by many. I enjoyed both seasons very much, preferring 2 over 1. If this doesn't get renewed I'll still be really happy I decided to spend time watching this show, but I would love another.
It was a great season, really enjoyed the the last show...put everything together nicely. Seems like I was on the edge of my couch just waiting for someone to die...I still wanna know what the mother said. I hope it get renewed for a 3rd season, but where can they go from here?
finally got caught up, busy at work the first few days this week.. been dying to watch the finale. This was one of the more enjoyable viewing experiences of any show/movie. Big fan of this season and the emotional peaks and valleys of the show.
The ratings increased for the second week in a row. I feel pretty good about this getting renewed now. HBO is always preaching that ratings don't matter to them as much as the content. This show is going to be in a lot of Top 10 lists and the creators are saying they have more stories to tell. Can't imagine HBO would end it with all the critical acclaim.
what stories are left? where do they go with season 3? Guess I shouldn't question that considering how well they did creating the storyline for this season
these seem (to me) like ridiculous questions (and jkun did say as much) considering that they just created a story like this past season with no source material. i'm sure they'll do just fine
saw this on reddit and explains a lot about the hotel if true. Works for me... I'm fluent in spanish. I made it my mission to figure out exactly what's going on with the woman that's speaking spanish in the garage and later trying to get a human heart into the hotel. I have deciphered what's going on. I'll get to it: SCENE 1 A woman who appears to be a CONCIERGE! speaks "...don't tell me you've [done]..." "No me digas que has he-[cho]..." Woman in rags responds incredulously " ...But I'm not a Doctor!! " "...pero yo no soy doctora!" Kevin enters, they fall silent. Scene 2 has already been translated by others. In short, she's trying to get into the hotel to (presumably) perform a heart transplant on someone. The first scene is the REAL clue. The woman dressed as hotel staff is her Virgil, her guide. She's most likely asking whether she drank any of the water. The woman on rags picked the outfit of a doctor, so she was given a doctor's mission. Perform an organ transplant to get out of the hotel. That explains why she denies being a doctor, and why she seems so desperate to complete her mission. If you watch the scenes thinking of this woman as someone with the same "quest" as kevin, it makes sense. That would also explain the priest in the elevator and the cop with the bag over his head. These aren't different versions of kevin, they're actual people trying to get back to the real world, much like kevin.
It's A Miracle: HBO Renews 'The Leftovers' For Third And Final Season Against all odds, the best show on television won't depart just yet BY ALAN SEPINWALL @SEPINWALL | THURSDAY, DEC 10, 2015 3:30 PM There may be no miracles in Miracle, according to certain characters on HBO's "The Leftovers," but there's now been a miracle about "The Leftovers," which HBO just renewed for a third season despite a precipitous ratings drop between seasons 1 and 2. There's a catch, albeit one that "Leftovers" co-creator Damon Lindelof specifically asked for: the third season will be the final one. Lindelof has been candid about how tough the show is to make, saying that he "was really depressed" making the first season. The reason renewal took so long last time was because Lindelof wasn't sure he wanted to do more episodes after that experience. But Lindelof, Tom Perrotta, and everyone else involved took "The Leftovers" to the next level this season (here are my reviews of all the episodes), and before the season finale aired earlier this week, he told me that he not only wanted to continue, but that, given the ratings drop, "I'm fighting for the life of the show." Both the first and second seasons concluded in ways that could have easily been series-enders, particularly the second one, and if Lindelof feels the series shouldn't be pushed past three seasons, he's earned that trust by now with this show. He and the writing staff already had some nascent ideas for a third season, and the buzz this year (including a top 10 finish in the HitFix TV Critics' Poll) was much stronger than for the first, even with the loss of viewers. (Heck, some fans even dressed up as the Guilty Remnant and smoked outside of HBO headquarters on Monday.) HBO cares about its brand, in this case enough to give a creative team a chance to end a little-watched but highly-praised series on their own terms. So, "Leftovers" fans, crank up the Bellamy Brothers, pick that pie up off your front stoop, and try to keep this from being your default expression for the next hour: "The Leftovers" continues because it's too great not to. We are spared. Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wa...or-third-and-final-season#KdfagM0sCkACXrXv.99
Update to the article: UPDATE: I was able to get ahold of Lindelof to ask him a couple of questions about the renewal, first about how difficult it was to persuade HBO to keep the show going. "I'm in Jersey helping my mom move," he said. "I was afraid I'd have to sing for my supper when I got back to L.A next week... I didn't. Mike Lombardo called with the good news and it was a done deal." And why is Lindelof — who previously had to push ABC to end "Lost" much earlier than the executives there wanted him and Carlton Cuse to — ready for the third season to be the last? (In the press release announcing renewal, he wrote that the end would be definitive, "And by ‘definitive,’ we mean ‘wildly ambiguous but hopefully mega-emotional,’ as all things related to this show are destined to be.") "It's a gut instinct," he said. "I feel like there's more story, but not MUCH more. And I don't want to drag it out unnecessarily. Lots of fans and critics understandably had a sense that we could have ended after season two... That was a strong indication we were closer to the end than the beginning." Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-wa...or-third-and-final-season#VWMVUzIsCwPlvwoy.99
The timeline of the girls faking their disappearance and Kevin trying to kill himself happening at the same time don't make sense to me. It's a fact that Kevin visited Virgil in his blackout state which lead to him trying to kill himself, right? The girls leave while Kevin is still at his house. So how does he have time to meet with Virgil and then still be there at the exact same time the girls are faking their disappearance? Probably overthinking things, but for some reason it sorta bothered me.
This bothered me while watching as well. I guess we can assume that the girls didn't go directly to the reservoir
I'm hoping we learn more about what's going on in other parts of the world. The news clips they show for a few seconds in some episodes always seemed really interesting.
We also didn't watch anyone go to the bathroom and very few people go to work as well. I think it is fair to say that whatever took place during that time was not pertinent to advancing the story.