Seriously, nobody watched and/or liked episode 3? If every episode from now on is as good or close as that one this could end up being an epic show.

It's heading toward being one of HBO's rare flops. Even with the true blood lead in its floundering.

I enjoyed the episode, but the name Lindelof constrains me from getting too excited about one episode of a show.

I cant seem to find any ratings info other than the premiere. Unless it absolutely tanks, I cannot see HBO not renewing it. There are too many big names producing it.

He has burned the viewer too many times. You don't **** with your audience just to be different. How about you try some originality to throw then off first. And being weird is not original. See True Detective on how its done.

True Detective was good, but it went flatter than a pancake in the second half of the season after an epic start. See Fargo on how it's done.

Yes, I did watch week-to-week. I've been on record a number of times in the TWD thread on liking the slower episodes. I think it's important to build character so when they off someone, we actually care. I think Season 2 was totally about character building. We needed to get to know these characters so that we're invested in their futures.

Agree 100%. Dont get me wrong, I still watch it and will continue to do so for the time being but this show could and should be SOOOO much better.

Went downhill IMO when Frank Durabont left.

10 most depressing moments so far:

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prosp...oments-so-far/

Very interesting......:hmmm:

I guess I'll be obtuse and just admit that I don't "get" this show. What's the appeal?

Andy Dufresne got thrown in the Shawshank hole for being obtuse...

What else has he done, Red. I mean besides banging Jen.:)

Mulholland Drive - I'm all over this one o:-)

Loved him in that oddity.

here's a good clip - LMAO

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Mystery upon mystery that may never be explained. Depressing story lines that only get worse. Whats not to love?:)

I agree. Walking Dead is weird in that sense. Sometimes they botch a character development episode so badly, like this season with Beth. Other times they nail it like Michonne. They really need a showrunner that has a vision from start to finish, otherwise it will always be this inconsistent mess. Hell, look at the governor, they spent 2 episodes humanizing him (which I loved) only to have him revert back to being the psychopath we have always known him to be.

Holy shit

This show ROCKS

Good episode

IMHO, this show just keeps getting better and better. Well written and the acting is really sensational - especially the last episode. Not sure where is going - but for pure acting and writing - worth watching - don't give up early.

This.

It's 10x better than the first season of Lost (the only season I watched)

They have been going back to more character focused episodes, and it's not coincidence that this episode and the one with the priest are the best so far. Still shy of calling this great television, but it's no longer a ****ing mess like the first 2 episodes.

AVClub had a perfect sentence to encapsulate the experience

"it’s not about whether or not Kevin is or is not crazy, or whether Kevin Sr. is or is not talking to something more than the voices in his head; it’s about how all of this, big and small, tests the ability for anyone to keep living in this world."

I liked him in 6 Feet Under.

He seemed to be about the only "normal" character in that show towards the end...

Nailed it. Renewed for season 2.

I am racking my brain, but can't come up with another song so simple yet so moving at the same time.

That scene to open 'The Guest' with Nora refreshing the groceries in hopes that her family would return, . . . I tried to describe it to moms as the good things the show was capable and just choked up over the telephone.

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I've liked the show so far. It is depressing as hell at points, but all of the things they have cooking have me interested. I want to know what is in the national geographic, what the voices are, what the GR are going to do, etc. What will lose me faster than they can write with a sharpie is if things like these just never develop further and they go on with brand new carrots on a stick that end up never being anything.

Like Lost. Im worried about that too, but Im trying not to think about it because this show is amazing so far.

Yes.

Yipes, seeing all of those departed on screen was harder than seeing what it was like after they are gone.

Martha Focker!!! Has there been more beautiful tragedy in an episode of TV? A fetus removed from a uterus in a gathering. Words cannot describe.

I had such low hopes for the show I didn't bother recording. Early previews were positive but with a sort of back-handed complimenting like, "You've never seen a more unique show that will depress you more than this.."

I've continued throughout the weeks to HBO Go the show at some point. The first few were losing me but the Matt centered episode really started to bring it around.

This week wasn't what you'd expect from a penultimate HBO season episode but it was great. It helped drive a lot of things home emotionally that couldn't be done early in the series. Perhaps, most important for myself, was that it finally made the GR make sense. The show has certainly established it's mysteries here and there (Wayne, etc.) but the GR simply made no sense. It was impossible to think of a reason a person would want to join the GR. The Patti/Laurie interactions gave us that common sense thread finally. Patti knew the departure was coming and with that information it's easier to understand how others would think that the GR had the answers, or knew what to do next, etc.

This has been a far better show than expected. Also, yes, the music fits and does a good job combining a haunting and lingering sound.

Think I lasted three episodes. It really seemed to improve via the ads I saw.

So guys - would it be worth purchasing, such as True Detective?

It isn't for everyone because it doesn't explain it just shows, drops you in the shit and you have to gain your bearings.

Also people are on tenterhooks with Lindelof and the legacy of Lost.

But there are several several moving and beautiful or wistful moments that moved me more that a lot of other TV, outside possibly on The Good Wife.

So yeah, worth viewing whatever your preferred legal conveyance.

More like the first 3 are an adjustment. I don't want to spoil anything but this most recent episode made most everything that preceded it vital and important. I think I remember the broad strokes, but this is shaping up to be a high rewatchability factor.

Like I said, it's not exposition heavy. It doesn't tell you's important and what's fluff. But as the season moves along things are knitting nicely.

Carrie Coon rocks this show, the death benefits interviewer and the chaplain's sister.

Easy on the eyes too, weirdly so. It's like no one feature is stunning, but she's quite stunning as whole. She's like an AI crafted attractive person.

This show has sucked me in. It started slow but became fantastic. And I agree about Carrie Coon, her ass was phenomenal.

Just caught up. That last episode (the one before the event occurred) was just outstanding.

Just noticed this thread. I agree. If that was the season finale, it was a nice ending. Looking forward to next season.

Side note: That Carrie Coon has fantastic tits.

Tonight is the season finale. I'm hoping Alex Smith gets raptured...

Holy Schnikes!! Not sure what I just saw, but it was ****ing moving. I know I've never seen anything quite like it. The callousness of TGR, the brutality of the backlash, the gut punch of Laurie's first dialog in the series [I had to stop the show at this point], the O'Henry nature of Kevin's story with Wayne, I was sure that Nora was going to pull a Shane Vendrell and that had me nearly apoplectic.
A lot to unwind, but man that was a powerful close to the season.

I like it, I'm not sure I understand it, but I like it!

Juh, . . Juh . . . JILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I kind of like it but.... The "you Know" and the "you understand but just don't see it" Bullshit is really pissing me off.
Makes me want to turn the channel when the Dad and the lady in white says that to the Chief..

I thought the finale was very strong. Matt shows he's all in, if we didn't know already, he's one of my favorite characters.

The Jill/Lori scene with Meg interrupting was great. The strings version of Nothing Else Matters was powerful and great in that moment.

Poor Nora, we'll see what hell she raises next season.

Great episode. Great.

Just watched this on HBOGo. It was pretty solid. Different, but solid. Are they going to make another season?

Yes its been renewed for at least more.

Anybody watching this season? I've got the first two eps on the DVR, but haven't watched yet.

It is tonally quite different, while being completely of a kind.

I don't want to spoil anything, but I would be KEENLY interested to hear your take on the first episode. I, I, I, I can't say anything without ruining either your expectations, or the experience.

Won't even say if my thoughts are good, bad, happy or sad. Watch it tabula rasa if possible and ring back.

Great show. Love Carrie Coon.

I just saw liv tyler's beaver

This show is really good this season. Better than I'd ever expected it would be after last season (which did have some great episodes, but not anywhere near the consistent level of excellence of this season).

I really wish there was an active discussion of this show, even if it had to be in DC. It raises cogent questions about real world spirituality, and it would be interesting to see real world reactions to the stories.

There really isn't anything on television like it. There are some scenes that can make one misty just recalling them.

And that opening credit sequence. Wow!! Encapsulates the show without revealing a thing, and puts you right into the mood to watch every time.

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yeah, the credits and theme are great.

Just started the second season. Didn't realize it had come back on.

I can't tell yet if this is genius or diabolical

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Damn

If you're talking about the clip above. :thumb:

If you're talking about the episode tonight . . . sssshhhh!! I'm watching football right now.

He's talking about tonight's episode.

I've been dreading this one, figuring knowledge of Patty's 'existence' would come down like a ton of bricks. Don't tell me if I'm wrong or right yet.


/I'll leave now.

You just need to watch.
Stay away from reddit, and of you have FB friends into it, stay away from there.

I have no clue where this is going.

What’s it gonna take to get you to watch The Leftovers?

http://www.vox.com/culture/2015/11/1...source=twitter

Nothing.

I will never patronize anything in which Damon Lindleof is a principle, ever again.

Sucks for you. You're missing a brilliantly written and acted show.

I honestly have never teared up for a movie or show in my life before this one.

Just got caught up and your synopsis is spot on. Pretty heavy shit. Once you stop trying to figure out what's going on and watch how people respond to what's going on it is incredibly profound.

I can't shake it, I still get emotional over the scene of;



Heavy. That might not even be the heaviest scene, but its the one that sticks with me.

I'm as anti-Lindleof as anyone in the wake of Lost, but this show started and follows faithfully a novel Damon had nothing to do with until this show. And, you have to take a leap of faith here, the subject matter is MUCH better suited to some of the things Lindleof tried to do in Lost while shedding all of the wasted mysticism of Lost.

This show is firmly rooted in reality, and all the things that would make you shake your head as implausible or a narrative dead end in Lost, maintains the mystery we live with.

I'm honestly curious how an atheist or agnostic views the narrative. It does a sublime job of presenting scenarios that would play with one's faith, while remaining plausible chance and serendipity firmly rooted in the real world.

Case in point, I'm sure those with even the most passing acquaintance with the show is aware that, at some point in the narrative, 2% of the world's population simply disappeared. But while the characters in the show are deeply affected by it, that show makes no effort to explain it, outside various crackpot hypotheses being investigated by various entities.

It's just SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED. It's a fact of life, the same as 9/11 or the sinking of the Titanic. The story is 'OK, this happened and it hurts like hell. So what do we do now?' It's not X-files, or Fringe, or Dr. Who. It's certainly not Lost. It's putting regular people in extraordinary circumstances, and letting them stew in the uncertainty and the striving for meaning in the face of a meaningless universe. Are you blame? Could you have done anything different? Does it matter? Will it happen again? How are people reacting to your plight. Again, what do we now?

If enough people chime in and tell me it's worth the watch, I *might* give in.

But he burned me on LOST and again on Star Trek Darkness whatever.

At that point I vowed to myself, "never again".

I heard from people that watched season one that it was a disaster. Is that your take? I've also heard that season two is significantly better.

Maybe one of these days I'll catch up. But I still haven't seen the final season of Justified, which I think will premiere on Amazon in January, along with too many other shows to count.

FYI, I had the final season recorded by the Direct TV DVR crapped out and had to be replaced. .

It can be disorienting early on, because you're dropped into the narrative and aren't spoon fed anything. But by the back end of the season, the things you know from earlier start paying off in spades. Episode 3 has a great standalone episode in the vein of Lost's Walkabout. Episode 6 is about where things start to gel. And Episodes 7-10 land haymaker after haymaker. If you find yourself in the later parts of season 1, you will find yourself explaining to friends and family why you're crying out of nowhere remembering bits and scenes.

It does require a bit of patience, but like I said. Even as early as episode 3 you start to see the amazing potential of the narrative.

Perhaps the best way I can explain it, it doesn't so much feel like watching a TV show, so much as watching the news covering tragedy in a part of the world you're almost but not quite familiar with. It's a very empathetic show that sticks in your brain.

Also, the credit sequence for the first season does it no real favors. It's not bad, but the credits for the second season, by the time you get there is perhaps the best credits [in terms of being perfectly suited for the show] in the history of television [but no fair peeking ahead of time].

I didn't even watch season one when it aired. I heard a lot of comments on the show and decided to give it a try - blind bought and watched the whole season in three settings. Now I'm totally hooked. It's not something you causally watch; you've got to really give it all your attention, but it's now probably one of my 2 or 3 favorite shows. I record Walking Dead and Homeland for latter viewing so I can watch The Leftovers live.