This week , The Leftovers flashed back to the prison term just before the Sudden Departure , and show us what was going on with our characters just before two percent of the universe disappeared . It turns out that there was still already of desperation going around .
Up until the very end , this was the least supernatural episode of The Leftovers , but it bear witness that for most of our character — particularly the Garvey family — the troubles did n’t start with the Departure . For Kevin , peculiarly , pre - Departure sprightliness just feels like a less intense version of post - Departure life sentence . He ca n’t twine his straits around the uncomplicated surreality of Nyan Cat and when a deer breaks into the schoolhouse ( much as a cervid will bring out into his business firm post - Departure ) , it feels very familiar . Strangers say odd , kabbalistic things to him out of the blue . And while he and Laurie are living in the same house , there ’s a distance between them .
Nora , whom we ’ve seen pining over her family all time of year , was once a woman trying to unyoke herself — and her individuality — from her phratry . I opine that we ’re supposed to get a sense of “ Be heedful what you wish for ” here ; Nora want to hazard that she does n’t have a family so as to puzzle out on Lucy Warburton ’s mayoral campaign and then feel herself without one entirely . But I ’m hit by how much more vivacious Nora is now than she was back then , how dark and funny she is . What she has die hard is a disaster , but that disaster has normalize the blade of her personality .
Some eccentric are strikingly unchanged by the Departure , however . Tommy has always been unwilling to take on how fierce and enjoy a sire he has in Kevin in the favor of ruminating on his abandonment by his biological male parent . Tommy never needed Holy Wayne ’s unburdening ; he just needed to let Kevin be his father .
But it becomes clear how the Departure transformed many of the other characters ’ life sentence . Ironically , it was once Laurie ’s job to heed to Patti speak , and after the Departure , Patti ’s internalized sensation of doomsday makes her seem like a prophet . Gladys was once an upscale detent stock breeder ( and none of the dogs were softheaded ) . Perhaps the most hilarious import , a nod to the show ’s sexual love of punishing Matt , is that , just before the Departure , Matt learned that he did n’t have genus Cancer . He and Mary were in the motorcar heading off to celebrate when Matt ’s life went completely off the rail .
It ’s Laurie who has the heavy disclosure of the episode , however . If this episode is about how picayune Kevin actually change , it ’s also about the big moment in Laurie ’s life that changed everything . All season , it has seemed that the Garvey fellowship did n’t lose anyone directly to the Departure , but Laurie lose a hypothesis . When she could see the foetus inside her , it felt like she had at last made a decision about keeping the pregnancy . Then , in an trice , the pregnancy is over . Patti ’s sense of doom , Megan ’s mother ’s death , Laurie ’s vanished pregnancy — it ’s light why these woman were attracted to a purposeful meditation on the Departure instead of trying to pretend it never happened .
I do n’t unremarkably give much thought to what do the Departure , but it is interesting to see what hap in the moments before these picky people disappear . Laurie was dealing with her ambivalence toward her gestation . Kevin had a regrettable second with a presently - to - be Departed woman . Nora was frustrated with her family . There is almost a signified that these people ( and in one case a foetus ) might have been somehow willed away .
After the high-pitched emotional drama of the last few episodes , this hebdomad ’s episode feel like a tenseness dip , but that was plausibly the item . Now , the sense of desperation and unease is pulsing , feel like it is pushing out against the paries . But really it has always been there , lurking not so far beneath the surface .
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