krista4
Footballguy
Yep. There were actually three times during the show that I burst into tears. Like, really "burst" into them. It's not something I've ever done watching another TV show.
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
krista4
Footballguy
krista4
Footballguy
"Then you should go be with them." Killed me.
The first time I burst into tears watching the show was at the end of the first season when Nora found the baby on the porch. After all the wrenching sorrow of the whole season, that bit of hope: "Look what I found."
Capella
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Completely different type of shows, and if you dont like Mr. Gervais' snark, you wont like the the 2nd one. I just found both funny, filled with pockets of sweetness, and both provided a couple emotional kicks to the junk.
ETA: Six Feet Under is another show that comes to find for this topic. That last episode was masterful and
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fatness
Footballguy
I've waited years to watch this again, enough time to forget much of it. Started rewatching a little while ago.
It's the best, most powerful series I've ever seen, same as it was the first time. It more than holds up on second viewing. There are so many scenes that just leave you shocked, or incredulous, or just blown away. First season is fairly interesting as the weird events continue happening, and then it hits the "holy ####" level in season 1 episodes 8 and 9 (I think) with the extended scene in the cabin in the woods, with Kevin and Patty and Dogkiller. HFS.
After that each episode has several blow-me-away or shocking events. It's well-acted, incredibly well-written and produced, and a powerful picture of people in an impossible-to-recover-from situation as things keep deterioating. Impossible for me to look away.
So yeah, I kinda like it.
It's the best, most powerful series I've ever seen, same as it was the first time. It more than holds up on second viewing. There are so many scenes that just leave you shocked, or incredulous, or just blown away. First season is fairly interesting as the weird events continue happening, and then it hits the "holy ####" level in season 1 episodes 8 and 9 (I think) with the extended scene in the cabin in the woods, with Kevin and Patty and Dogkiller. HFS.
After that each episode has several blow-me-away or shocking events. It's well-acted, incredibly well-written and produced, and a powerful picture of people in an impossible-to-recover-from situation as things keep deterioating. Impossible for me to look away.
So yeah, I kinda like it.
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Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
It's funny, because after I watched the first few episodes, I stopped watching. Then one of my friends (who has since passed) really encouraged me to watch it, and it ended up being fantastic.
fatness
Footballguy
It's a slow start, yeah. The smoking non-talking cult is weird, but not really "grab you" type weird until you find out one of them was voluntarily tied to a tree and stoned. The season didn't really hit me hard until that cabin scene.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Agreed, it took some time to get going. But the second half of S1 and all of S2 and S3 are some of the greatest TV I've ever seen.
fatness
Footballguy
I forgot another stunning scene from season 1: Nora hiring people to shoot her.Pip's Invitation said:
I'm partway through season 2 now, and last night the conversation between Nora and Erica while asking the checklist questions was riveting. "To the best of your knowledge what is the last thing you said to the departed?"
Tonight Kevin let John's dad kill him before killing himself. That's all.
PinkydaPimp
Footballguy
Same only i tried like 3 times watching it. Gave up then pushed through season 1. Totally worth it and a top 3 show for me.
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
The people that I trust the most about movies/TV, all have this as one of their top shows of all time. That was the only reason why I gave it a chance, after I gave up on it a few episodes into Season 1. I am not sure where I rank it, because it is so different, but The Leftovers was an amazing series.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
It's just as wild and thought-provoking as Lost, but it stuck the landing much better. To be fair, it benefited from being on HBO instead of ABC.
fatness
Footballguy
After a long weekend away we resumed watching season 2.
After Kevin decided not to kill Patty, Patty killed Patty. Then Patty came back to bother Kevin for not killing her, after Kevin had voluntarily been killed and revivied somewhere else where he killed Patty again and met a little girl name Patty, whose husband Kevin killed, before taking little Patty to a well and killing her and then killing adult Patty.
If you followed that you know this show isn't formulaic.
Pretty sure my favorite scene is coming up soon: Kevin singing at karaoke night. That one rips me up.
After Kevin decided not to kill Patty, Patty killed Patty. Then Patty came back to bother Kevin for not killing her, after Kevin had voluntarily been killed and revivied somewhere else where he killed Patty again and met a little girl name Patty, whose husband Kevin killed, before taking little Patty to a well and killing her and then killing adult Patty.
If you followed that you know this show isn't formulaic.
Pretty sure my favorite scene is coming up soon: Kevin singing at karaoke night. That one rips me up.
Zow
Footballguy
So weird. Would assume this would be on a must see list for avid tv watchers.
I consider myself weird for my minority take that season one was clearly the best. But hey, at least I’ve seen it and consider it a great show.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
knowledge dropper
Footballguy
I did the same thing and then binged it this past summer. I’m glad I did. It’s a series that sticks in your mind well after watching it.
GordonGekko
Footballguy
I wasn't sold the show in general but I was sold on Carrie Coon/Nora.
I still think Season 1, Episode 6, "The Book Of Nora" was the show's best episode. A lot of people give Ann Dowd accolades for her performance, but Paterson Joseph as Wayne was pretty phenomenal. Because his sections of the script are close to impossible to sell without the right tone and body language and the mix of grifter/savior/bored/irritated/sympathetic.
Nora is the answer to the question on what happens to a person when they've been beaten down so raw that all they have left is the ugly truth. She's both hyper realistic ( she says what people think but don't say) and hyper unrealistic ( women without motive weaponized against men simply don't exist )
While it seems counter intuitive, I don't think Nora would have been interested in Kevin if he had not cheated on his first wife.
Nora is clearly a female character written by a man who wrote about the kind of woman that every man doesn't know yet that he absolutely really wants. Men deep down want a woman with a slight masculine edge in the same way that women want a man with a very tiny sliver of a feminine edge.
The hard theme of The Leftovers is about the price of unspoken motives.
fatness
Footballguy
prosopis
Arizona Chupacabra
I have been meaning to re watch this series. I loved it and I have probably forgotten enough now that it will be awesome again. I am finishing up my re watch of the Sopranos. I followed the podcast Talking Sopranos which was usually one episode a week, and that has been great. I suspect I would get that same feeling re watching The Leftovers.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
dickey moe
Fingerpicker
Did the exact same thing. Glad I didn't give up on it, because the series was brilliant.
fatness
Footballguy
Last night we watched the scene at the hotel where Kevin sets the book on fire and tears into Nora. Made me even angrier at him than the first time I watched the series. They'd each been through a day of utter hell, but turning on her like that was ####### horrible.
The episode we watched tonight was more relaxed. A lion ate God.
The episode we watched tonight was more relaxed. A lion ate God.
krista4
Footballguy
I consider it my crowning achievement that I recently got my mom (78) and her husband (76) to watch this and to stick with it. They started watching, after a couple of years of haranguing by me, and it was clear they'd given up (though they didn't admit it until later) because it was "too weird." It occurred to me that my mom watches a lot of the murder channels and that they were trying to "figure it out," so I told them to give it another try but to set aside any expectations, any attempt to "solve" the mystery, etc. And they made it all the way through, maybe not totally loving it but at least appreciating it!
It reminded me, though, that I need to watch again. Can't imagine how much more I might glean when I too am not trying to figure it out but instead letting it wash over me. There's a good chance I'll deem it the best show I've ever seen upon second watching...it's close right now.
It reminded me, though, that I need to watch again. Can't imagine how much more I might glean when I too am not trying to figure it out but instead letting it wash over me. There's a good chance I'll deem it the best show I've ever seen upon second watching...it's close right now.
fatness
Footballguy
It's not a show that can be figured out. I watched the episode tonight where Matt had lost his wife and kid, offered a bunch of cash for an illegal flight to Australia to kidnap Kevin (for religious reasons), ended up on an orgy ship, met God, watched God throw someone overboard, tied God to a wheelchair and hit him with an axe, then was told what he wanted to hear by God and released him, and watched when the ship docked as God got eaten by a lion. That hourlong episode, couple with a 45 minutes of earlier scenes of Matt, would have been a stunning movie.
Yet watching it tonight, I didn't even remember it from the first time around because so many other episodes were more impactful.
krista4
Footballguy
Yeah, that sums it up! Also, Matt might be the best character ever on TV. The actor's performance certainly is one of the best, too.
El Floppo
Footballguy
FYI- New show on HBO that I think has one or some of the Leftovers writers involved and getting interesting reviews- Station 11.
we watched Ep1 last night...as with the Leftovers, a lot that both pulls you in and keeps you at distance. We probably got too hyperfocused on and distracted by the impossible/unrealistic machinations of a kid actor and strange adult. But as with The Leftovers, came away caring, feeling and impressed with the story telling, acting and visuals. Be forewarned- based on a book about a viral apocalypse...sim to covid, but obviously worse.
we watched Ep1 last night...as with the Leftovers, a lot that both pulls you in and keeps you at distance. We probably got too hyperfocused on and distracted by the impossible/unrealistic machinations of a kid actor and strange adult. But as with The Leftovers, came away caring, feeling and impressed with the story telling, acting and visuals. Be forewarned- based on a book about a viral apocalypse...sim to covid, but obviously worse.
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
FINE I WILL RE-WATCH IT
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Just finished Season 1. It does plod along a bit through the first seven episodes - they're good, just not great.
Then, after the last three episodes turn it all up to 11, you realize the creators are just playing the Long Game with you. You've been put into the shoes of Leftovers and been lulled to sleep a bit. But then you're reminded...
If it gets even better from here, I'm excited.
(The final three episodes gave me the same "holy cow, that was good" feeling that the episode "The Constant" from Lost did. Not surprising considering Lindelof's involvement.)
Then, after the last three episodes turn it all up to 11, you realize the creators are just playing the Long Game with you. You've been put into the shoes of Leftovers and been lulled to sleep a bit. But then you're reminded...
If it gets even better from here, I'm excited.
(The final three episodes gave me the same "holy cow, that was good" feeling that the episode "The Constant" from Lost did. Not surprising considering Lindelof's involvement.)
fatness
Footballguy
It does. Repeatedly.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Seasons 2 and 3 are among the best seasons of any show I’ve ever seen. Enjoy the ride.
Zow
Footballguy
I took it in the FFA tv draft!
Zow
Footballguy
I see I’m still in the minority that thinks season one was the best season (to be clear, all were great).
Zow
Footballguy
Best ever? That’s high praise.
The Wire is still and likely forever will be #1 for me but The Leftovers is top 5.
Desert_Power
Footballguy
Thought it was really good. Do not have it my top tier like a lot of you though. One benefit of the pandemic was being able to binge shows like this.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I guess I found session 2 to be...underwhelming. 
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Just finished. They stick the landing as well as any show I can think of. Season 3 was great.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
And another thing...
To state the obvious...Carrie Coon is a fantastic actress.
Justin Theroux isn't too bad either.
To state the obvious...Carrie Coon is a fantastic actress.
Justin Theroux isn't too bad either.
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Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Cousin Larry as well.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Nora essentially became a second lead character in seasons 2 and 3, and I suspect a lot of that had to do with Carrie Coon being so good in season 1.
fatness
Footballguy
I thought both Coon and Theroux were great in this series. To me the most memorable scenes in the series were
- Kevin Garvey singing Homeward Bound at the karaoke bar
- the scene at the bottom of the well
- the final scene where they've found each other
Those were some tortured scenes and he was in all of them.
