6/28/2023 0 Comments The leftovers book review![]() ![]() It was just Carrie Coon describing Nora's experience of searching for her children in a mirror image version of her and Kevin’s reality world, where 98 percent of the world’s population had disappeared instead of the 2 percent The Leftovers has been mourning. Her recounting of "the other side" wasn’t embellished by any cutaways or flashbacks. ![]() So when Nora and Kevin finally sat down together, decades after they left each other broken and miserable in the hotel room they literally burned down with their frustrated rage, the last thing I expected was for Nora to explain in painstaking detail what she had actually went through. And then it ends." So when the episode cut from Nora submerging herself in that tank to "go through" and find her Departed children, to an older Nora gathering those carrier pigeons we saw in the season three premiere, I spent approximately 30 seconds trying to figure out exactly what had happened before I gave up and let "The Book of Nora" wash over me.Īnd frankly, knowing The Leftovers' commitment to ambiguity, I didn't think the show would reveal anything about what had happened in the time between. The summary for this final Leftovers' episode promised that "Nothing is answered. Todd VanDerWerff: So, Caroline, do you believe Nora?Ĭaroline Framke: I do. ” Below, Vox critic at large Todd VanDerWerff and staff writer Caroline Framke discuss the episode in full. On Sunday, June 4, HBO’s The Leftovers aired its series finale, “The Book of Nora. ![]()
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