So I started binge watching, on episode 4. I don't want to get spoiled by reading the thread, but god damn they're getting ham-fisted with the magical negro trope. Anyone else notice this?
There was enough time for Kevin to go by Virgils house. The girls didn't drive out to the water till later that night. We know this cause as soon as they leave Kevin the earthquake happens. Everyone else was at home sleep. So its easy to assume that Kevin left home at some point sleepwalking and met Virgil after talking to him, Kevin left there went to Water.
Really bittersweet. I feel like 2 more seasons would be perfect to get some kind of overall story arch going with a semi cliffhanger to lead into the final season but I will take what I can get out of this show I guess.
Yeah. But if they think they have 1.5 seasons of story left to tell, I'd rather them do 1 than stretch it out to two.
For sure and we definitely don't want a Nikki/Paulo ep in there but 1 season to wrap up this world just doesn't seem like enough to me.
So glad that I decided to watch this season, you guys were spot on. Between Leftovers, Fargo, and The Affair we've been spoiled for the past few months. Some idiot at work asked me if I watched The Walking Dead today, I just shook my head and kept on trucking.
S3 will take place in Australia. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/leftovers-is-moving-australia-season-888077
http://www.barstoolsports.com/newyork/the-best-leftovers-theories-on-the-internet/ Read the first theory. Possible spoilers, by the way.
I'd rather have them take the time and do it right. Also, it took 15 or so months from the end of season 1 to the start of season 2 so this isn't unprecedented.
Finally got around to watching both seasons and holy shit, what a ride. Possibly my favorite score ever although I wish the s1 intro was permanent. Had serious deja vu during the hotel scene in the finale (didn't realize it during the international assassin) because I stayed there in Austin recently - pretty god damned creepy show to get deja vu from. So glad a show like this is getting another season. I know this thread got started for season 2 but I missed the old one, is it ever explained what Wayne's plan was for all the Asians he knocked up?
One of them (or maybe all of them?) was suppose to give birth to the son of God, which is why Christine is so upset when she realized it was a girl. Don't remember why they were all Asian though
Might have missed somebody else mentioning it but this post made me remember the cops asking Kevin if Wayne said anything about Russia before he died. Australia is clearly going to be important but I'm curious to see if anything happens with Russia.
I would count on quite a few loose ends when the show concludes. The second season felt as if they decided what direction they were going to take this and like Lost, leave certain points unanswered.
Season 3 allegedly starts airing in April during what has been for the past several years the Game of Thrones spot.
can't wait for this to be back on, glad they aren't stretching it out and going to get it wrapped up effectively
Literally was just thinking "I need to do a rewatch sometime before the next season, I wonder when it premiers?" Good to know. Will save that for sometime early next year.
One last season is perfect for this show. I look forward to it blowing away everything else on television.
Info on S3: Why Australia? HBO’s uniquely apocalyptic drama The Leftovers spent its debut season in upstate New York, then moved the beleaguered Garvey family to a Texas town for season 2, and now in its third-and-final outing, Kevin (Justin Theroux) makes another sudden departure by trekking all the way down to Oz. “Australia is the end of the world geographically and our show is about the end-of-the-world emotionally,” showrunner Damon Lindelof explains. “And there’s also something about Australian cinema — it’s primal, ancient and spiritual — that felt like it fit The Leftovers, whether it’s Mad Max movies or Walkabout, or Waking Fright or Peter Weir movies.” Lindelof is closely guarding the secrets of the final episodes, but the showrunner tells us that Kevin initially plans a rather brief visit down under along with certain other characters — as you’d expect from a show about a rapture-like event, not everybody gets to take the trip (“This is not like The Bradys going to Hawaii,” Lindelof says). But once he arrives, Kevin’s troubled father (Scott Glenn), who may or may not be hearing messages from God, pulls him into a rather unexpected situation. “It’s like The Godfather,” Lindelof says. “Marlon Brando keeps telling his son Michael, ‘I don’t want this business for you,’ but every time the sh– hits the fan, Michael is in the room. So Senior is mixed up in something and pulls Kevin into it.” Even though there are only eight episodes in the final run, you can still expect installments that drill down on telling a story focusing on a single character. The season’s pacing, Lindelof adds, will also feel like the show is building toward a final act. “Though there are some big crazy ideas in the third-and-final season, we wanted to feel like we were building toward something conclusive,” he says. “I wanted to take full advantage of the fact that when the audience watches the first episode of season 3 that they know it’s the beginning of the end. You don’t want to feel like an epilogue, but a climax.” Having said that, The Leftovers fans know by now to not expect a list of answers to the drama’s many mysteries. Lindelof’s last series was ABC’s Lost, and before The Leftovers even premiered he was cautioning potential viewers not to watch this existential drama (whose first season was based on Tom Perrotta’s novel) if they wanted traditional cause-and-effect storytelling. Still, the writer-producer also doesn’t want his show’s loyal viewers to be left feeling perturbed. “It’s a very careful storytelling process because you don’t want to frustrate the audience,” Lindelof says. “It’s one thing to say, ‘I’m giving you this box with a present inside and you’re never going to open it’ — who’s going to accept that gift? We’re constantly trying to modulate and fulfill the promises we’ve made. And it’s not enough to say that all we care about is the characters and not the mythology. But I do think with The Leftovers the word ‘mythology’ doesn’t necessarily apply the way it does to Lost or Westworld or Stranger Things or True Detective. Those shows have clearly defined mythologies. We don’t want to frustrate the audience but The Leftovers plays by its own set of rules and will continue to do so.”
I honestly haven't looked forward to a final season this much since Breaking Bad. I love it when incredible shows like this one: 1. Have showrunners who have a concrete story they want to tell, and 2. Have a network that allows them to end that story on their own terms.
I'm drunk and I assume this has been posted earlier ITT, but I just came across Natalie Merchant and David Byrne:
I'm ready for this and sad to see this ending. Definitely going to start my rewatch of season 1 and 2 soon.
I'm sad it's the last season, but I prefer this situation to the network essentially forcing showrunners to continue a series beyond their original vision. Especially a show as genius as this one. Let them tell the story they want and walk away.
i wonder if this is true or if they weren't sure they'd get more seasons so they are ending it pre-maturely it's hard to write true arcs when you live season to season
Knocked it out over a week. This show put me in a weird mental state. I would lose my sense of reality while watching it. I was almost happy to put it behind me lol. Quick question....Was there an actual episode where Liz Tyler banged Tommy or just a flashback? Legit missed that scene.