I really enjoyed this episode. At first I was skeptical because I thought it would turn into a boring episode, but it was surprisingly interesting to see how they all lived before every 50th person disappeared. It really adds more layers/depth to the characters.
The beauty of this episode can't exist without the context of the 8 hours before it. That's how you know this episode was meant for TV.
After wading in the emotions of these characters with just bits of information that helps you piece together what they must've went through to feel--so--bad, this episode finally gives you (some of) the answers you were looking for in a way that makes you want to cry and give all the people you were shaking your head at a hug.
Excellent piece of television! The buildup is a bit sluggish but it takes off spectacularly.
Now we know the depth of Kevin, Nora and Laurie's guilt amidst their feelings of loss.
So, a 150 questions to find the common denominator between the departed and none of them was did you ever secretly wish them gone?
I was waiting for this episode since ever.. I was so curious about their lives before what it happened.
fantastic. finally showed the story and gave some answers. incredible. superb. oh my god.
Absolutely beautiful episode and absolutely devastating. The deer and dog symbolism aaaah, so good.
Strange episode in the way that it feels unnecessary to see these things. But I have to agree with others that it can't exist and work without the previous 8 hours, even if it doesn't work the other way around. It's like you know at some point in the past there was a car crash, and now you see it happen, but don't know precisely how and when. You just see people living their life. Some things get an extra meaning like the deer, Laurie, the mayor and Kevin Sr., but you also get an extra context for things you didn't need to question in the previous 8 episodes. The main thing here is for you to see that the Departure didn't change everything, but it did change everything. It's a collective trauma, yes, but it is also a massive new side effect on people's life they were living, and we get to see they were not living it happily. It's full of cracks and leaks, resentment and neglect. The Departure didn't ruin things, the world did not end, but it did take away the people's ability to resolve their problems by themselves. There is also a recurring game with the timing where you don't know where the rapture is going to happen, but similar sounding things start happening outside of frame that could be that, and it's horrifying and masterful at the same time, especially when it does happen. But the point is that things did happen in people's lives, good and bad. Older Kevin was and is right: there is nothing else, just this. And even with us seeing the departure day and how it gives an extra context and depth, we know that things mostly would have kept happening the same way after it as before. The Departue didn't change anything. And it did change everything. What an amazing hour of television.
I don’t know why it never occurred to me that I needed to watch an episode of their lives pre snap, to be honest I felt it was too straightforward and obvious, yes I say pre snap cause in my mind this is the Infinity War sequel even tho this aired 5 years before, but it wasn’t as simple as I thought.
I’ve been judging Laurie for abandoning Jill and joining the GR especially cause she was one of the lucky ones but oh wow, her loss was something really out of the ordinary, like how do you deal with that? So now I’m more understanding, but still I don’t care about her leaving Kevin, cause he was a shitty man and a shitty husband, I care about her leaving Jill!
And wow their previous house?? But how did they afford it? In a lieutenant’s salary?? Maybe with a psychiatrist’s one but I doubt it.
And for all I care, Nora’s ex husband can rot in hell! Like one thing is being a shitty husband but being a shitty father?!! Not moving a finger and being on the phone and not caring for their kids while Nora had to do everything?
And let me take a second to say what the hell with the mayor?? She is so young and pretty, she’s like in her 30s and she is hooking up with a man in her 80s???? Is she okay in the head??
a série é intrigante, tem drama bom
Whole none of these recent episodes follow the book I feel like this episode was a magnificent detour from the relatively narrow focus the book told. Doing a “flashback” like this adds to the devastation of the present day events.
¿Esta serie merece la pena?
Shout by RomanVIP 8BlockedParent2017-05-26T23:14:40Z
The ending was incredibly heavy!