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Go out in a blaze of glory.

Imagine if the last dialog with Kevin was Nora telling him all about her being on Fargo?

You're going way beyond my point. I'm not discussing science. I'm talking about the premise of the TV show itself and how it is set up. Don't get hung on word choices as it relates to technology or science. What I like to repeat about The Leftovers is that the only truly extraordinary event is the premise of the show…

I agree. Before the episode finally settles into a narrative where we know what the hell is happening, it's all a mystery. One angle was that Kevin, Laurie, and Nora had all died a death by water and were in a different reality together. But I've come to appreciate The Leftovers as a story that begins with one…

The arrangement/instrumentation was a little different.

You're on a pointless mission to discredit the show. Your remark about Nora's retelling of seeing her kids indicates that you can only interpret it through your own experience as a mother, instead of a fictional TV show based on an impossible event (a rapture). Open up your mind a bit.

When she's feeding the goat, the sounds do have a human quality to it. Maybe they couldn't get the right noise from the goat and created it in the studio. Maybe they hired Jim Brewer.

Every day I look in the mirror I think someone slipped old man makeup on me while I was asleep.

She did start to stay something and it sounded like "st…"

If the show is good, it shouldn't matter so much what your religious profile is about. I'm an atheist/agnostic but that only enhances my interest in social behavior in a skewed context. But it just might not be your thing.

I think you are not getting the full flow and narrative of the show. Foundational beliefs are what I would describe as humans in reality. Us. Most humans have a core belief system that usually is rooted in some type of religion or ism. The Leftovers is set up by an extraordinary event. And it's not the rapture of the…

Have you watched every episode sequentially up to the current one? If not, I could see how you might never catch on. The Leftovers are in a world of confusion. The rapture left them bereft of any of the foundational beliefs most of us use as our core of existence. It follows that many leftover folks would find life…

This discussion with you has come to its natural death. Happy viewing.

Patty and Meg are the payoff? I don't quite see that. More like familiar faces to make an audience reconnect to characters they might have missed. But they are non-essential to the progression of the narrative at this point in Leftovers time. Even if for some reason, Kevin can't get Patty out of his head, why does it…

That's cool. I liked the episode. It was entertaining. More from a critical perspective of narrative, it relied on dipping into the same pot as before but without the immense payoff as the other times Kevin goes into an alternate reality. Did we really need to see Patty and Meg again? I see this as playing it safe by…

I was disappointed with this episode because it did not do much to advance the story line and with it being the penultimate episode, that's where the focus needs to be. If you want effects, mood, mystery, and a revisit to an already-done motif, then this episode will work for you. It's too late in the game to go back…

It is. A cover by Apocalyptica.

Of course she knows. I think it was to her benefit to not let on if she did indeed kill herself.

I'm thinking the same. Varga is becoming tedious. Would have liked a different angle or character as the wrench apart from the brothers.