When Felix was organising things, I really hoped he was going to surprise Sarah with Cal…. There would be a danger that they were suggesting the relationship could "fix" Sarah, but nevertheless, it just leaves him as a real deadbeat Dad. Seriously, where was he?

Sounds like sepinwall, as I read the same, and I think his is the only review I've read before. Might be wrong, but feels like him.

It's not his father I mean (his abusive, murdersome father); it's his sweet brother he cared about.

Will Sam find out about Dickon? And will he be upset with Dany? And can he make Jon stop making smoochy eyes, please?

I like how they gave Dickon a personality (he is Sam, the warrior version) - and I hope it was him, not Bronn, who saved Jaime at the end. Or I hope he isn't burned by a vengeful Dany next episode. That would suck.

At some point this will happen though - https://pixel.nymag.com/img…

This episode reminded me how much I can love the music in this show. Can we have more Lannister music, all the time? Can the Lannisters just win?

Sometimes I get really reminded of Lost with this show. Sometimes amazing character work, sometimes much more wonky work (esp. with villains). But Season 3 really reminded me of season 3 of Lost (imprisoned by boring ambiguously motivated enemies who almost all die pointlessly, and a boring love triangle), and this…

But Sarek's relatiionship to humanity is striking, and Burnham seems a new way to explore that.

Why would Lito speak Spanish in Brazil?

I can tell we are both medieval art/architectural historians, so while I agree with the chronolology, thats not what is presented on screen. What is suggested is that the tudor-esque building in front of Will and Milton is medieval, a form of architecture that responded to the Black Death. This is wrong, and to try to…

Loved this episode, and given what this show involves, removed most of the anxiety I had that I was consuming the spectacle of pride, rather than engaging with it seriously.

I think it's the motifs throughout Richter's work - but that might be over generous. But have you listened to his sleep piece yet? Gorgeous!

No no, that's not what I mean. I mean is this 'alternate' world where we see events in Australia, which is apparently the same year as the events in the main story but which has older Nora and others, the world of the departed or the people who have gone through the machine?

Sorry I didn't mean to sound snobbish - and I agree, it was too recurrent. I could guess why it was used so much…and it connects very much to his ouevre, indeed it uses similar themes to work from 2004 for example. I must admit I love Richter a lot, so it was lovely to hear his music - but tonight also had more…

Talk about Max Richter as a composer, not just anonymous 'beautiful sad piano music' :p Richter is one of Britain's best current composers, and his music in The Leftovers is more complex than it seems - its recurrent motif evoking the loss one keeps returning to, as in his previous soundscape works, for example 'The…

I was wondering this when rewatrching the scene where she watches the videos of previous people.

Is other-world Australia where the people who have gone through the machine and/or the Departed are?

I loved the blue tone to the shooting of Oleg's burning scene, to the Peter Gabriel music. It felt very 1980s in its setting (heavy industrial architecture and then skytop), and the song. Wonderful!

It has been too long since I read Caliban's Wake - time to dig back in!