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by insertnamehere
Mon Jun 05, 2017 1:22 am
Forum: Tinsel Town
Topic: The Leftovers
Replies: 19
Views: 981

Re: The Leftovers

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2017 1:18 am Sidenote, International Assassin was better than The Most Dangerous Man in the World (And His Identical Twin Brother)
Agreed. But, I feel like they had to return to that place in Season 3, and Most Powerful Man was about as good as an IA sequel could hope to be.

Most of the power of IA comes from its sheer randomness and abrupt introduction of bizarre supernatural absurdity. The initial magic does kinda rub off the more they go back.
by insertnamehere
Mon Jun 05, 2017 1:16 am
Forum: Tinsel Town
Topic: The Leftovers
Replies: 19
Views: 981

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I really, really want to host Leftovers Mafia. As you can imagine, I have more than a few ideas regarding the mechanics.

I've even put together a tentative list of roles, because I have no life.
by insertnamehere
Mon Jun 05, 2017 12:32 am
Forum: Tinsel Town
Topic: The Leftovers
Replies: 19
Views: 981

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DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2017 11:33 pm Well that was a very familiar feeling
Spoiler: show
I mean, seeing how most of the episode, from the beginning with Nora being told not to lie, to the nun saying something along the lines of "it may not be real but it makes for a better story," and Kevin's whole fake act, was concerned with the difference between truth and lies, and how we choose certain lies to believe and build our lives around, I don't think we're meant to take Nora's story at face value.

The first episode of this season was The Book of Kevin, in which a belief is presented that's centered around Kevin which explains and soothes people with a positive version of the afterlife, where Kevin "frees the dead from their pain."

I saw this episode as a sort of distaff counterpoint, right down to the title. Nora presents another belief that we can either buy into or not buy into which explains and soothes people with a positive version of what happened to the Departed, where they're living their lives happily as "the lucky ones."

Something which this show has done since the pilot is a sort of aggressive cross-cutting between someone telling a story, and the actual events. E.g. "cleaning out a gutter," and the shot of Kevin Senior running around naked.

If the writers wanted us to fully believe Nora's story, it would have been insanely easy for them to cut to Nora waking up in the parking lot, and show her wondering around Australia and Mapleton. It was a conscious choice not to prove, or necessarily disprove Nora's recounting.

Something something Let the Mystery Be.

But yeah, there were some shades of the LOST finale, and I was worried for a moment or two that the small Australian town was the Afterlife, and Lindelof was going to the exact same well. Still, it was nice to see Laurie, although I may have preferred for her to have just suddenly showed up as the Vice President in Kevin's Presidential excursion, just to see the drama that would ensue.

I think the only fault of this season, in my estimation, is due to HBO giving them 8 episodes instead of 10. I would have loved to see a Murphy-centric episode, and perhaps instead of being instantly droned out of existence, an Evie/Meg manhunt episode which has the same end result. I feel like all of those characters got short shrift this season. Such is the reality of being a low-rated drama with a massive ensemble cast. Some people are gonna be under served.

I'm interested to hear what our resident Leftovers grumpy gus buzzkill non-International-Assassin-liker thought of this episode.
by insertnamehere
Sat May 20, 2017 3:09 pm
Forum: Tinsel Town
Topic: The Leftovers
Replies: 19
Views: 981

Re: The Leftovers

The worst thing about this board being down, other than it meaning my game being delayed indefinitely, is that I haven't had the opportunity to talk about how utterly stupendous this last season has been.

Only The Leftovers can make an episode centering on a furry-orgy-sex boat, and make it be an emotional exploration of Christianity, and mankind's relationship to what we call "God."

ALL HAIL KEV-O
by insertnamehere
Sat Apr 15, 2017 6:39 pm
Forum: Tinsel Town
Topic: The Leftovers
Replies: 19
Views: 981

Re: The Leftovers

Just been rewatching Season 2 in anticipation of tomorrow.

Still really, really good.

And International Assassin is still fantastic. I call poppycock on Rico's negative insinuations.
Ricochet wrote:Ughh it seems The Leftovers finally couldn't resist the idea of veering into old Lost bad habits. The execution of this week's episode wasn't bad by any means, but it undeniably dipped my enthusiasm for what the show values more: walking a thin line between grounded intense drama and mystery-shrouded belief testing or simply toying with mysteries and the supernatural.
I see no way in which IA doesn't faithfully continue the shows' exploration of the former. The episode would be completely ridiculous if it weren't for the actual pathos and quite frankly, tear-inducing unraveling of Patti's psyche. Nevertheless, it goes off like gangbusters, managing to combine real, genuine emotional revelations with gonzo, winking existential craziness that cryptically tests Kevin's belief in, well, everything.

I'll also go to bat for the finale too.

Season 2 of The Leftovers is damn near untouchable in terms of quality in my eyes. It's in a pantheon along with Season 4 of The Wire, Season 1 of True Detective, and Season 1 of Utopia.
by insertnamehere
Sat Mar 18, 2017 12:34 pm
Forum: Tinsel Town
Topic: The Leftovers
Replies: 19
Views: 981

The Leftovers



SEASON THREE!

DAMON LINDELOF REDEEMING HIMSELF FOR LOST BY MAKING A BETTER TELEVISION SHOW!

THE SPRING OF CARRIE COON IS NIGH!

BARRY JENKINS DIRECTED 2016'S BEST PICTURE AFTER WRITING FOR SEASON TWO, WILL A WRITER FOR SEASON THREE DIRECT 2018'S BEST PICTURE?

JESUS IMAGERY!

BEARDS!

THE MAYBE-APOCALYPSE!

THAT THING DAMON LINDELOF SAID WOULD NEVER BE REVEALED, MIGHT BE REVEALED!

ANOTHER WEIRD SUBMARINE IN THE FINAL SEASON OF A DAMON LINDELOF SHOW! HOPEFULLY, IT DOESN'T KILL ALL THE INTERESTING POC CHARACTERS THIS TIME!

ABBA!

AUSTRALIA!

KANGAROOS!

HYPE!

But seriously folks, there's gonna be a fucking giant inflatable Gary Busey in this next season. How anyone can't be excited for this show is beyond me.

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