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Fiiiiiine I’ll rewatch The Leftovers when I’m done with Twin Peaks.

Simple Torture wrote:Fiiiiiine I’ll rewatch The Leftovers when I’m done with Twin Peaks.

The dogs are not what they seem

Andy Greenwald’s “Stick the Landing” podcast covered The Leftovers beautifully last week. I was worried it would be “spoiler-y” for me before doing a rewatch, but it just got me excited to watch it again.

I'm excited to listen to that ep. Not I have to do the Girls one first.

epilogue wrote:I'm excited to listen to that ep. Not I have to do the Girls one first.

I rewatched Girls the last couple weeks and got a good laugh from Marnie singing “Fast Car” to Hannah and her baby considering the song is back in the zeitgeist


Also, I’ve noticed a girl on the dating app Hinge who says that the Leftovers is her favorite show and it’s so underrated. I asked her if she thought Nora was telling the truth and she never messaged me back…

epilogue wrote:I'm excited to listen to that ep. Not I have to do the Girls one first.

So far, in the run of the podcast, The Leftovers is the first show they've covered that I've actually watched. Hopefully there will be more soon.

Simple Torture wrote:

epilogue wrote:I'm excited to listen to that ep. Not I have to do the Girls one first.

So far, in the run of the podcast, The Leftovers is the first show they've covered that I've actually watched. Hopefully there will be more soon.

Nvm, I guess there was an episode on The Office, I'll have to listen to that.

Simple Torture wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

epilogue wrote:I'm excited to listen to that ep. Not I have to do the Girls one first.

So far, in the run of the podcast, The Leftovers is the first show they've covered that I've actually watched. Hopefully there will be more soon.

Nvm, I guess there was an episode on The Office, I'll have to listen to that.

Freaks and Geeks is the only one so far that I haven't seen

Isn’t it weird that Matt is one of Kevin Sr’s best friends, but Kevin has never met Nora before, and doesn’t seem to know anything about her?

Anyway, I’m really enjoying my rewatch. It really, really picks up around Se01Ep06.

epilogue wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

epilogue wrote:I'm excited to listen to that ep. Not I have to do the Girls one first.

So far, in the run of the podcast, The Leftovers is the first show they've covered that I've actually watched. Hopefully there will be more soon.

Nvm, I guess there was an episode on The Office, I'll have to listen to that.

Freaks and Geeks is the only one so far that I haven't seen

Um... new Stick The Landing pod about Twin Peaks, fyi

epilogue wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

epilogue wrote:I'm excited to listen to that ep. Not I have to do the Girls one first.

So far, in the run of the podcast, The Leftovers is the first show they've covered that I've actually watched. Hopefully there will be more soon.

Nvm, I guess there was an episode on The Office, I'll have to listen to that.

Freaks and Geeks is the only one so far that I haven't seen

Um... new Stick The Landing pod about Twin Peaks, fyi

Nice! I listened to the Larry Sanders ep from last week, too.

Simple Torture wrote:Isn’t it weird that Matt is one of Kevin Sr’s best friends, but Kevin has never met Nora before, and doesn’t seem to know anything about her?

Anyway, I’m really enjoying my rewatch. It really, really picks up around Se01Ep06.

I think her and Matt were slightly estranged

Mecca wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:Isn’t it weird that Matt is one of Kevin Sr’s best friends, but Kevin has never met Nora before, and doesn’t seem to know anything about her?

Anyway, I’m really enjoying my rewatch. It really, really picks up around Se01Ep06.

I think her and Matt were slightly estranged

Definitely, when he asks her for money in Episode 3, it seems like they hadn’t talked in a while. But then again, Jill and Aimee see the two of them hug in I think Episode 2? Honestly, it’s not a big deal, they were obviously still feeling out the characters and their relationships early on, it just struck me in Episode 9 when Matt gives the toast at the b-day party.

Simple Torture wrote:

Mecca wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:Isn’t it weird that Matt is one of Kevin Sr’s best friends, but Kevin has never met Nora before, and doesn’t seem to know anything about her?

Anyway, I’m really enjoying my rewatch. It really, really picks up around Se01Ep06.

I think her and Matt were slightly estranged

Definitely, when he asks her for money in Episode 3, it seems like they hadn’t talked in a while. But then again, Jill and Aimee see the two of them hug in I think Episode 2? Honestly, it’s not a big deal, they were obviously still feeling out the characters and their relationships early on, it just struck me in Episode 9 when Matt gives the toast at the b-day party.

I mean, I don’t really fraternize with my dad’s friends. Do you?

There’s this TikTok trend going around right now that asks people to identify the hardest line in all fiction. I watched SE02EP06 today, and I hereby nominate the moment when Erica asks Nora if she recalls the last words her children said to her. Damn.

The needle drops in this show hit every time.

I just wanna shit on Max’s UI for a minute. I last watched this show 5 years ago, but Max still remembers my “progress” in each episode, which is the moment in the credits when the “Play Next Episode” button pops up. So when I try to play an episode from the main menu, it jumps right to the end. This also happens whenever my kid asks to watch an episode of Sesame Street that we’ve seen before. Infuriating. I actually accidentally skipped SE03EP03 because of this shit, but realized what I did after watching episode 4. Luckily, it actually kind of works as a weird flashback after Kevin Sr shows up at the end of EP04, so it hasn’t really harshed my vibe.

So I just finished my rewatch of the series. If I remember correctly, I think my conclusion the first time around was that I didn’t care whether or not Nora had actually traveled to an alternate dimension—not that it didn’t matter if she did or not, but that the resonance of that scene was what mattered, not the facts.

Watching it again, five years later, I’m pretty sure that if you don’t say “I believe you” in tandem with Kevin then you are some kind of fucking monster.

Grief, man.

I feel like I underrated season 1 because 2 and 3 are transcendent television

I recently revisited International Assassin and It’s a Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt World because of the Prestige Podcast inducting the episodes into their hall of fame. Kevin pushing young patty down the well still gets me all up in my feelings