Is there a good answer for why a husband might cheat on his wife?

I think part of the "replacing the cereal" was just that she refused to break out of the patterns of her pre-departure life. She bought cereal for the kids every week…so she kept buying cereal for the kids every week, regardless of whether or not it was eaten…

She had the gun…she could have taken EVERYTHING and not shot her…

What about the fake commercial opening?

I think there's part of us that wants this show to be about the Sudden Departure…how it happened, why it happened…but "The Leftovers" is not going to be that show. We're never going to learn those things—they've told us that and I believe them.

Huang Chung?

There was an album (ep?) called Talk Talk when the video first appeared on MTV…and that's what the chyron was.

That stopped being a song by The Professionals once The Stains did it.

Smoosh!

When they lived in Seattle (before they moved to New York), the record store I was a co-manager at used to sell their stuff on consignment…so, they'd come in all the time. I think they also did at least one in-store performance.

Or Bad News by Bad News

…a cardboard box (at that!)

Especially with a Nerf arrow that had been burning for quite some time. Probably would have gone "poof" with Nerf ash…

This is one of those "a lot of what passes for conflict in this story could be resolved if people just actually said the things that they're thinking" shows.

Well, now there'll be a Huffington Post article on whether or not "The Leftovers" is anti-Semitic…

I didn't read Nora (the woman who lost her entire family and is now an insurance compliance agent) dropping her cup as "releasing aggression"…in my mind, it was like testing the limits of what she can get away with… As the city's "prime sufferer", she can purposefully break a cup and it's the coffee shop worker who…

And let's not forget Elise.

WORD SCRAMBLE:

He's only making it worse for himself.

Well, of course not. Don't be ridiculous.