I literally could not skip it fast enough. I don’t know how people watching the show on actual TVs coped.

As long as they don’t bring back the original theme song, I’m good with it.

You can really sense the Leftovers DNA—in this whole series, but in the finale especially. The emphasis on losing and finding people, the messiness of human relationships, and forgiveness—even when it’s unearned (can it ever be?)—are central themes in both. (Also cults/dogma as things that get in the way of those…

I forgot how much that kitchen looks like mine...

Hopefully this will be great: the novel deserves no less.

Whereas I won’t listen to any band with a wider vocal range than Pavement because it impedes my ability to sing along.

Hmm. High school eating disorders: you have less fat to survive on in the wilderness, but you also have less fat for others to consume.

Wait, you mean the oil tycoon never actually comes back?!?!

To paraphrase the episode, Misty’s going to be so mad!

I’m glad it wasn’t just me!

I keep wanting to love this show thanks to Hunter Schafer’s and Zendaya’s incredibly charismatic performances. (Sydney Sweeney is great, too, but she’s been a standout in plenty of HBO dramas over the last few years.)

Extra points for playing a known historical figure—especially one in Hollywood—and differences from one’s normal persona/dramatic changes to appearance have been known to increase one’s Best Actor/Actress odds for a while.

He’d be a good surprise character to show up at the reunion.

Same. Between Shauna, Taissa, and Lottie, there’s a real precedent for trauma-/stress-altered perception at this point.

There was a second during the shrooms orgy scene where I thought they were all going to get pregnant by Travis and eat the babies. That’s way too dark for Showtime, though.

He came across as so sweet and guileless in that scene, for a second I thought he was going to confess that his big secret was he had been going to strip clubs occasionally and we wouldn’t learn the real blackmailer’s identity until the season finale.

That equation fails to convey the massive overlap in the Mormon/MLM Venn diagram.

Because even reading things as short as an Internet article is too much work for some people.

It’s a metaphor for an innocent young woman being seduced by those damn commies.

I have a 16-year-old Australian Cattle Dog mix who looks a lot like the one that gets hit by a car in the opening scene of the pilot, so I abandoned it almost immediately. It wasn’t until the pandemic (when I had caught up on like, literally everything else) that I gave it another chance.