Nora then went-in another small but shocking turn-to call Laurie. The faith that no one is ever truly departed led Kevin to search, led Nora to leave, and has led religions to form. If this was an alternate world, he might have been able to travel there to find Nora-but why would his memory be gone? If this was our realm, the same question remained-had he gone insane again? Kevin, aged, played his stranger routine completely straight, inviting her to a dance that night amid Nora angrily interrogating him about how he found her. It was that he seemed to have forgotten their life together. It wasn’t Kevin’s mere arrival that was so freaky. But that became complicated when Kevin Garvey knocked on her door and Nora seemed flabbergasted. The most obvious interpretation, initially, was that Nora was in an another dimension thanks to the machine. It’s that what we were shown contradicted the world as we understood it-as it must have been for the people of Earth after October 14, 2011. It wasn’t that we were shown anything impossible. From this point forward the episode became an exercise in profound disorientation: I screamed at my TV repeatedly. Suddenly we were staring at doves in the sky, and déjà vu set in from the season premiere when we saw Nora-as-Sarah, pigeon-deliverer, aged somewhat, hanging out with a nun. Call it the best short film Ridley Scott never made. And this was a creepy-beautiful work of set design and direction: the “fossil” that was wheeled by, the doll in the fishbowl, the door of the truck pulled shut, Nora naked and alone walking down a sci-fi hallway, the egg-like pod, the fetal position, the whirring noises, the gunk filling up, and Nora’s final, truncated scream. It also, with the “bravest girl on Earth” anecdote, explained why Nora was going through with this. The mad-libs conversation between Nora and Matt touchingly honored the fact that this was their last moment together.
“I’m ready to go now.” Were you crying already? Her steeliness dissolved, though, when asked to say her children’s names. “I don’t lie,” Nora said through gritted teeth, a statement worth revisiting later in the episode. The Finnish physicists gave her one last test: skepticism about her sincerity. To start, Nora held a newspaper and looked into a video camera, stating her desire to leave this world. Below, I’ll try to recap and parse an episode that seems to want to resist recapping and parsing. If it had a message, it was that grief creates madness but also can inspire love, that inner peace lies somewhere between faith and reason, and that Justin Theroux will remain dreamy a decade or more on. It opened terrifying and closed heart-wrenchingly it was, at no point, predictable. Chasing the ‘Holy Grail’ of Baseball Performance Ben RowenĪ one-of-a-kind, utterly committed work of art and philosophy, the finale was a microcosm of The Leftovers itself.
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