This episode is when I really started to love The Leftovers. Carrie Coon is so so good in it. I must have watched the scene with the hug over 20 times. Story, acting is top notch as usual! This episode is mainly a spotlight on Nora.
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bonera16 September 2019
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slak96u3 April 2022To the fantastic Carrie Coon.
The Leftovers was a groundbreaking series, with wonderful production and writing. All of the actors were great, but Carrie Coon was the absolute standout. It's always wonderful to see an actors breakout performance, especially in a series as superb as this one. She is so subtle and casual in her delivery, with not an ounce of over acting, and yet she is still utterly intense. Carrie made a good season 1 great, and she continued to elevate later seasons.
Guest is essentially a bottle episode. Many bottle episodes, in most series, are unnecessary, not this one. The show has been so unbelievable tragic, so oppressive in its mood, this episode brings some levity and hope. Guest was absolutely needed in the narrative. Near flawless episode. -
matiasbockerman24 August 2019First of all, sorry for my bad english.
Year or so I noticed this series and I didn't watch it because low rating(8 stars give or take), but when I now read reviews I become to undersrand that it requires few episodes before you beging to undersrand how good this series is.
I still don't understand this but I want to assume it's getting better.
Quality,though, are very good: music,directing,acting is top noch. And I am a person who understand an idea of mystery. You don't get straight answer or answer at all, what it the point if otherwise.
This episode was touching and ridicilously great acted: main character really epmathizes her unhappy live.
I looking forward and hopefully this is - in my opinion - as good as the reviews suggest.
One finnish review was that The Leftovers are the best HBO series GOT, Sopranos, The Wire, Westworld included.
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TheDonaldofDoom22 January 2018I was typing out a nice long review, but then my browser crashed. It's so annoying. To summarise, this is a great episode, full of people making money from the Departure (exploiting the grieving?) like Nora, the guy selling rubber corpses, the writer and Wayne. But arguably they do benefit people spiritually, even if people like Wayne and the writer are charlatans. Nora completely changed after the mysterious hug. A satisfied reader asks the writer to sign a copy of his book. As the guy selling simulated corpses says, if people feel their lives have improved because of them is it really a bad thing?
The episode works also a study of Nora, who previously didn't get much focus. She almost wallows in her grief, acting as if her children are still around. Asking the escort to shoot her is a not so subtle way to showing that she feels the need to continue punishing herself, purposefully not moving on. She also wants other people to know she's suffering. Sometimes she will use it as an excuse for her meanness (like she does to the lady in the toilet). That's why she so hates being just a guest, why she kicks up a fuss- because she wants people to see her name, to see her grief. She uses it to her advantage not just for sympathy but, for example, to get the security guard to check if someone really is impersonating her. Then, Wayne changes her. It's hard to believe those few minutes could do that, but then again, perhaps she changes because he is the first person to understand her. -
b-9273717 February 2021I like it,help me get out of mine pain,she make me fall in love with her,i think that is the magic of act
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available_goat11 August 2014Wow, this was an amazing episode. This, and the Two Boats and a Helicopter are absolutely brilliant. The rest of the episodes were entertaining, but unremarkable. This reminds me of Lost, another Lindelof show because some episodes have almost no plot progression while other episodes like this blow you away. My favorite scene is when the black man hugs the woman because the scene was so beautiful and Carrie Coon and Paterson Joseph are both beautiful too they should get together in a hotel room. Justin Theroux is very difficult to watch because you know that his eyebrows are shaped and I'm saying this as a straight black man but it is very unnerving. Somebody should tell him that he should ease up on the plucking.