He had to die to know he wanted to live. She had to leave to know she wanted to stay. Finally, a good show with a good ending. Man, those two had been through a lot.
I could not help but adore the irony there. The way it starts, the way it goes, and then this ending. My jaw hit the floor when Nora breaks into a smile and it hit home that THIS WAS GOING TO BE A HAPPY ENDING. And it is completely and totally earned. An absolute masterpiece.
I love how the episode starts with the scientists saying they don't believe her and the episode ends with Kevin saying that he does believe her. Poetic.
1st season last words Nora to kevin - look what i found... 2nd season Nora to kevin - you are home. 3rd season Nora to kevin - i am here. I love this show.... Specially the music scores...❤️
It took me 3 seasons to realise that there is a chance that 2% of people who were gone, may be somewhere else and they suddenly lost the 98% of their own peoole
@@Casanova-Frankenstein_93 Truly is an odd qualifier. She found her kids. She decided to leave them with their new family in their new world and return alone.
Touching, human, meaningful television. I couldn't be any happier with its ending and overall development. I am only grateful to have been able to watch this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I just uploaded a "Ben-Jacob vs. Matt-God" video to my channel! I found some similarities between them and decided to make it! Check it out if you like both shows!
@@Ken-zn1kf It isn't important whether she did or not. What's important is their acceptance of each other finally. That being said, it's open to interpretation and I like to believe she did. Both scenarios raise questions that would beed to be answered, but the idea of them both having a sort of "out of body experience" and truly being the only two to understand each other in that way is very beautiful to me. Side note: after all that time with the show, it never even occurred to me that the other 98% were going through the same thing, which makes perfect sense if you choose to believe what she said was true. To each their own.
leonthesleepy well it is depressing if you think about it. It's two very mentally ill people who can't live a normal life in one place getting back together after more than 10 years. Do tou think they will stay together forever now? Or that Nora's story is true? We see her yell something when that chamber is filling up with water and that doctor said in a couple of episodes before that she expects Nora to change her mind in the last second. We saw that Nora and Kevin bring chaos wherever they go and I think that this ending is sad because it implies that they are going to continue destroying each other
@@xiDaban78 I don't agree at all with this interpretation. The way the scene was done does not imply this at all. And in any case Damon Lindelof said he intended this as a happy ending. Whether Nora's story is true or not isn't important. I do think the writer's intent is for us to believe Nora and Kevin will live out their days together.
“Why wouldn’t I believe you? You’re here.” This line is incredible. No one knew her will to get to her family like he did. He knew she would stop at nothing...so she must have made it...then she didn’t belong there...which is incredibly sad.
I'm rewatching the series with my roommates who have never seen it. Just got to Season 2 episode 8 and never picked up on this, but in this episode is where Nora leaves Kevin because he told her he's been seeing Patti. She finally calls him back and he tells her there's a way for him to be cured and that if he goes along with it, he just needs to know that if he looks her in the eyes and tells her he is cured, that she would believe him. I feel that he remembers that he asked her for that then and now is doing the same for her and I absolutely love that!
This scene amazingly conveys what it means to find someone who you can trust. Did Nora really go to another dimension? Are they actually departed or dead? What was the Departure and why did it happen? It doesn't matter. What matters is that's the world they live in, Kevin accepted the death of his fantasy world because he wanted to be with Nora, Nora accepted that she couldn't be part of her old family, but the most important thing is Kevin believes her. To me it's symbolic acceptance of taking someone's word at face value. The fact that the show creators did not show what really happened to Nora leaves us and Kevin to have to believe her or not. Just as I could not expect someone to be able to fully accept or know all my life experiences and influences, Nora can't expect Kevin to believe her. But he does. Unconditionally. And that's more important than what actually happened.
There are no answers, only questions. This is what makes this show. I watched it when it was released 8 years ago, but often think about it to this day, rewatching clips such as this. I think if the questions had been answered, I may not, and that would be a great shame, because it’s something I don’t want to forget. What a masterpiece.
I have tried to convince so many to watch this series and its difficult to find the words to express how powerful a piece of drama it is. It struck me like no other drama has and really made me think. Emotional, poignant, Humanistic, Brilliant
I can't really put into words how much this show means to me. How big its impact is on me. I try and explain it to friends, but the words never seem to be the right ones. I wish more people would watch it, and I wish they would watch it alone. Calling it a masterpiece or beautiful sounds inaccurate - implying distance, something unobtainable or just out of reach, admired from afar. The Leftovers, however, feels as close as anything can ever be. Personal. Intimate. I don't really fully understand it myself. I think it has something to do with being human. How all the characters are the most human ones I have seen or heard of in any kind of storytelling. How their journeys are the most human ones I know - their struggles, their doubts, their convictions, their realisations and confrontations. It is grief, love, psyche, identity, a story that does not focus on what or how or why, but who.
We’re never supposed to know what happened or what’s real. It was never the point. It’s about finding happiness. Dealing with grief. Carrying the fire through the vast uncertainty and the seemingly unstoppable darkness. We’re here. All we’ve got is each other. That’s the best we can hope for.
I have only cried one time watching something and I was drunk at the time. But this made me ball my eyes out and yes, I was sober. What a beautiful fucking show
I think the Pigeons coming back represents Nora and Kevin coming back together also. I think Nora watching her Husband and Kids made her realise that they had not gone through the pain she had when they departed. The Leftovers is the most beautiful TV Show I have ever seen, these 3 years have been a pleasure watching this masterful piece of art. For me The Leftovers and The Wire both stand hand in hand as the two greatest shows of all time. Powerful.
Its interesting the possibilities of the other world when almost everyone vanished. Is like, ok, the humanity has another chance to star again, is another blessing from God. Meanwhile, the 98% think that they're not blessed.
iaan hdz it also goes with the belief that the resurrection happened , the 2% get to live a new world we're the can rebuild from the ground up, with more resources then they will ever need , without overpopulation or pollution , without any wars or countries or threats
Breaking bad #1 obviously, this in the the top 10, first 3 seasons of the wire, Great, whole show though got ruined, maybe slides in at 10 but dont think so
@@NAjKONn I recently..like two months back finished watching "LOST" & what an incredible show it is...as polarizing the ending is, I absolutely loved it...
This show has one of the best series finale ever...the moment I started watching this show i knew it was something special and by the time it ended it had already become my favourite tv series of all time
This literally ripped my soul out, filled it with the most extreme emotions and shoved it back in. This wasn't a TV show it was an emotional rollercoaster.
The most unexpected, still the most satisfying ending, ever. The whole show was a masterpiece. Kinda sucks it lasted only 3 seasons but at the end of the day nothing to complain about. 10/10. P.S. watched this part about 100 times. So glad I found it on youtube
Its not a love story man. Through the seasons the characters were being eliminated. First Aimee, then Jill and Tom and then Laurie. This process was made and finally the central characters, Kevin and Nora, found their closure.
It's not exactly a love story. The story's plot revolves around this major disaster and the chaos that ensues, but the real story was always about the humans, the people, and how they eventually learned to move on despite all that they lost.
When season 3 started i was sure kevin and lori would get back together but when kevin read the book n it was about nora i was like aww .. Im a sucker for tru love
@@bboynava1812 dude yes it is a love story go to when kevin read the book in season 3 episode 6 or 7 when he was in the other place he realized he needs and loves nora that even though she lost so much her and kevin are meant to be
Sometimes people are together for a long time just to find out they were always so distant from each other. It really comes down to know what you want and wanting what you have in front of you.
I’m so torn. On one hand I like the fact that we never see where the others went. But on the other hand I think it would have made for great tv if we actually got to see how Nora’s family moved on and see her heartbreak
After the Sopranos and Dexter finales I was all geared up for this great series to leave us hanging too. It did not! Well done and THANK YOU Damon Lindelof for putting a nice bow around an entirely too short-lived, excellent show. I miss it.
Tony was either going to be whacked, or indicted, there wasn't anymore to his story. Either it ended there, or he went home and got arrested sometime in the future. Just look at Johnny Sack for the rest of that story.
281 M. Wasiq Wasim just imagining Larry David watching the leftovers now 😂Hey I bet he would like it - why not! At the very least he would think it’s pretty good
Kevin talks about returning home every time he is in limbo. In final episode after the wedding Nora worries if the birds will never return home and she said that their only ability is returning home when she goes to the nun's house. When Kevin come back to Nora and finally finds where he belongs to, the birds return too.
The people at emmys should be ashamed of not even nominating them...i mean what more do you want...???...this is the best piece of acting I've ever seen...i miss this show so much😢
How a series can have gone so batshit crazy plot wise, and still somehow have worked so incredibly well, is testament to the incredible writing on this programme. How this is not mentioned in the circles of Breaking Bad, Sopranos, The Wire etcetera I will never know
It is, my friend, if you read any list of the most acclaimed TV series of the century, the Leftovers is shoulder to shoulder with those. What it lacks is cultural relevance because it's a difficult show to get into, the three you mentioned are very entertaining while The Leftovers is somber, depressing and cuts way too deep. It's my all time favorite show, so i will be forever thankful to the creators of the show for never watering it down or make more seasons for the sake of it. It's perfection as it is.
At the climax of the second season, Kevin asks Nora if she will be able to believe him once he manages to solve everything in his subconscious (or what he believed to be "the other side"), and she answers yes, that she would believe him. In this scene, Kevin gives exactly what Nora had given him, that confidence of, without knowing if it was real or not that he had solved everything, or if in this case she had or not managed to go to the other side to see her Children, he listens to her completely, and when she falters in her story, he tells her with full confidence that he believes in her, that she is there and that is proof enough.
I've seen many shows including Lost and other really good ones, but this one, oh boys, the Leftovers is for me the best one ever; a concentration of emotions, of all kinds, an Oscar-winning soundtrack and the non-answer to all the questions we ask ourselves, especially about mysteries that we cannot explain. As it happens in real life. Lindelof's most mature masterpiece.❤
They call this the golden age of television yet the one show that stood above all the rest didn’t get a single nomination. meanwhile a fucking hulu original and Netflix original are expected to sweep the emmys this year.
Just what Nora and everyone for that matter wants to hear, ''you're here''. An affirmation that we exist against all the odds in the sheer impossibility of our sentient carbon-based selves.
Best ending to a finale of all time in my book. The whole episode is incredible, end to end. Really, the whole series is perfect in ways we don’t often see.
Nora went through. Lying about something this big would be against her character and it would also contradict everything she did as Sarah. This scene was out of the world.
That's exactly why I believe she lied. Taking those beads off (sins) and throwing them on the papertowels (nice callback to season 1) showed she unburdened herself, she let go, she lied to reach her peace to be with Kevin. Beautiful.
Of course not. Meant to say symbolized her unburdening herself period. She decided to let go when telling the story to Kevin to reach peace for both of them.
The whole season was about liars. Matt's book, the lady who lost her children, Kevin's mind, the nun, the marriage. It was all lies! And Nora was the only one who couldn't move on after the Departure Day. So she lied because she couldn't live hiding her pain and she not felt accept by the ones who moved on, so she get into this made up story to feel loved. Besides, I don't think the writer would create an explanation about the departed ones for all the crazy things that religion bring up to the character's life of the show.
The pigeon finally coming home at the end I think represent/symbolized that finally Kevin is coming HOME when he meets Nora finally again... because Nora is Home for Kevin, as they are meant to be.. as a family.. Home is a concept for the person/family.. not places What a beautiful message from a TV Show 10/10
the creator of the show said in an interview that we should take note of the fact that we never actually see flashbacks from what nora tells kevin and kinda hinted at this meaning it didnt happen
Fringe was even better. Only episodes in time travel have two of the best stories ever made with this theme. The episodes in another dimension and the ending are epic.
Someone else commented how the makeup artists did a good job making the characters convincingly aged. That made me think about other shows and why this same technique can't be done instead of bringing in new actors to portray the same characters. I could be wrong but it seems to me doing that would save a lot more money and time. Also, it would keep fans happy who don't want to see certain actors exit the show.
We cannot mourn those who have never finished giving up the ghost, We cannot be at peace with those part who still continue to take our hearts out. It's not the absence she left with me that makes me miss her, It is the presence that she still has in me as she is gone with a part of me.
When they hold hands, the cigarettes and lighter disappear from the scene. Love and hope replace the cigarettes which is a metaphor of before and being forced to suffer the consequences of the departure. ❤️. Carrie Coon and Justin Theroux are on another level of acting. Period
I finished "The Leftovers" 3 years ago and I'm here remembering this scene. I still think it is one of the most overwhelming, thoughtful, intimate and moving series I have ever seen. Greetings from Bogotá, Colombia.
Nora was always poised between two worlds, the One her family's gone and the one she lives in. In the departed world,everyone lost somebody and they helped each other out to relieve the burden,so she was just a ghost of an ancient,dead world So she decided to let them go and come back were the ones she loves are. Finally understanding where her place is.
Breaking Bad, The Wire and Game of Thrones were stellar, but this show is on the same level. It's fleshed-out characters and atmosphere are masterful. A triumph of storytelling. Sure, we all wish more people saw it, but that it's one of those hidden gems just makes it feel more special. And what an ending!
I was really hoping to see the scene where Nora was explaining how she saw her family, but hearing only the story gives me the perspective of Kevin where it leaves you to believe her or not that she did actually go. I choose to believe her. Glad to see Lori didn't kill herself!
We don't know if Nora's story is real what matters is that Nora found a belief system after years of not wanting to believe. In the time she spent apart from Kevin she was basically a one person Guilty Remnant her getting out of the tub and forcing her way out of the mushroom door which was a mirroring for the event chamber leads me to believe that she did not go through... that's ok that was her second event chamber her leaving the guilty remnant of her life and finding a reason/ story/belief
If she lied, then she improvised to deceive Kevin. Nothing indicates that she believes in anything else, she just lives isolated from everyone like a Kenobi.
He had to die to know he wanted to live. She had to leave to know she wanted to stay.
Finally, a good show with a good ending. Man, those two had been through a lot.
this is a great comment that broke me - spot on
Very well said. Perfectly fits Nora and Kevin! Oh those two!
Beautifully said. It recaps what the show is about perfectly
That’s it. Thank you. You nailed what I came to this video to put together.
Because “The Most Powerful Man in the World” and “The Bravest Girl on Earth” find each other eventually.
"The Most Powerful Man in the World" you mean?
Superman and Lois Lane.
One of the saddest, even sort of existentially bleak shows with one of the most gloriously happy endings ever
I could not help but adore the irony there. The way it starts, the way it goes, and then this ending. My jaw hit the floor when Nora breaks into a smile and it hit home that THIS WAS GOING TO BE A HAPPY ENDING. And it is completely and totally earned. An absolute masterpiece.
I love how the episode starts with the scientists saying they don't believe her and the episode ends with Kevin saying that he does believe her. Poetic.
Since they first met, the scientists KNEW that Nora wasnt ready to "depart"......and in the end, they were right.
1st season last words
Nora to kevin - look what i found...
2nd season
Nora to kevin - you are home.
3rd season
Nora to kevin - i am here.
I love this show.... Specially the music scores...❤️
Wow, didn’t recognize that subtle nod to her arc until this moment.
Nora S1: They’re here.
Nora S2: You’re here.
Nora S3: I’m here.
It took me 3 seasons to realise that there is a chance that 2% of people who were gone, may be somewhere else and they suddenly lost the 98% of their own peoole
I think that's actually the best attempt at an explanation for what actually happned to them other than "they just died".
They went to paradise. We got left behind. In hell.
@@Fircasice If you watched the show you know what happened to them.
@@alexwastakenwastaken what? We never find out was truly happened to them, that was kinda the point.
@@Casanova-Frankenstein_93 Truly is an odd qualifier. She found her kids. She decided to leave them with their new family in their new world and return alone.
Touching, human, meaningful television. I couldn't be any happier with its ending and overall development. I am only grateful to have been able to watch this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Jack Austen love that serie and also love that you have watched Lost!!!! 2 of the best series in the history of television!!
I just uploaded a "Ben-Jacob vs. Matt-God" video to my channel! I found some similarities between them and decided to make it! Check it out if you like both shows!
Kate Durst really nice video.. I loved mat talking, the backround music, and ben being so confused
@@soynicolascarro I always felt that Matt had shades of Locke in his character. And Kevin was very much like a Jack protagonist.
@@snuke37 I thought the same! Definite parallels.
My daughter gone to Academy of film just because this series. Thanks.
That's so great to hear! All the best to her and you!
Thats beautiful man
Thanks Max Richter for the music. The show would have been worse without it. Awesome last episode from an awesome show !
Show would be borderline okay without this soundtrack.
@@TSouth10 He and the showrunners knew exactly how to deploy the soundtrack. It would have been cloying and treacly on a lesser show.
Two of the best characters in the history of television.
"I'm here." She's finally accepting where she is, after all that time.
Did she pass through and see her kids?
@@Ken-zn1kf No. It never happened. They both know that.
Phil 😭
@@Ken-zn1kf It isn't important whether she did or not. What's important is their acceptance of each other finally. That being said, it's open to interpretation and I like to believe she did. Both scenarios raise questions that would beed to be answered, but the idea of them both having a sort of "out of body experience" and truly being the only two to understand each other in that way is very beautiful to me. Side note: after all that time with the show, it never even occurred to me that the other 98% were going through the same thing, which makes perfect sense if you choose to believe what she said was true. To each their own.
@Mehdi Soufiane i believe she did as well. And realized that everyone moved on. And that now, she needed too as well.
With the playing of the original theme at the end the show came full circle. GREAT SHOW!
How the hell did she not get the Emmy nomination for this??!!
Chris E because emmy are fucking fake,do by massons
cuz she’s white not black
@@vilvethope ur an idoit
She is a great actor. I didn't know she was only in her 30s. She looked much older in this series.
How the hell did she not win as well?! One of the finest performances in a long time
Of all the series in television history, i never expected such a beautiful, happy ending from such a depressing show like The Leftovers haha
I felt each season ending was filled with hope and that glimmer of joy.
Season 2's ending really was optimistic too :)
leonthesleepy well it is depressing if you think about it. It's two very mentally ill people who can't live a normal life in one place getting back together after more than 10 years. Do tou think they will stay together forever now? Or that Nora's story is true? We see her yell something when that chamber is filling up with water and that doctor said in a couple of episodes before that she expects Nora to change her mind in the last second. We saw that Nora and Kevin bring chaos wherever they go and I think that this ending is sad because it implies that they are going to continue destroying each other
it's not a happy ending
@@xiDaban78 I don't agree at all with this interpretation. The way the scene was done does not imply this at all. And in any case Damon Lindelof said he intended this as a happy ending. Whether Nora's story is true or not isn't important. I do think the writer's intent is for us to believe Nora and Kevin will live out their days together.
"You re here". The most significant quote ever.
Wont lie i broke in tears when he said that n the music hits
@@infernofireboy6861 Her "You do...!?" while the score fades in will never not break me.
Justin Theorux should've won every acting award that year.
To think that GoT was sweeping the table while The Leftovers was ignored...there's no justice in that.
“Why wouldn’t I believe you? You’re here.” This line is incredible. No one knew her will to get to her family like he did. He knew she would stop at nothing...so she must have made it...then she didn’t belong there...which is incredibly sad.
Nora is asking us, the audience to believe her as well. Im with Kevin.
It doesn't matter.
And it's just beautiful.
Same here. I had no doubts.
Same. Whenever I'm talking about the show and someone asks me if I believed Nora I just say the same thing Kevin said, why wouldn't I?
@@itsjinxnow4814 Right.
@@deliriumcb5959 that’s the point. “It doesn’t matter”
I'm rewatching the series with my roommates who have never seen it. Just got to Season 2 episode 8 and never picked up on this, but in this episode is where Nora leaves Kevin because he told her he's been seeing Patti. She finally calls him back and he tells her there's a way for him to be cured and that if he goes along with it, he just needs to know that if he looks her in the eyes and tells her he is cured, that she would believe him. I feel that he remembers that he asked her for that then and now is doing the same for her and I absolutely love that!
Great observation!
This scene amazingly conveys what it means to find someone who you can trust. Did Nora really go to another dimension? Are they actually departed or dead? What was the Departure and why did it happen? It doesn't matter. What matters is that's the world they live in, Kevin accepted the death of his fantasy world because he wanted to be with Nora, Nora accepted that she couldn't be part of her old family, but the most important thing is Kevin believes her. To me it's symbolic acceptance of taking someone's word at face value. The fact that the show creators did not show what really happened to Nora leaves us and Kevin to have to believe her or not. Just as I could not expect someone to be able to fully accept or know all my life experiences and influences, Nora can't expect Kevin to believe her. But he does. Unconditionally. And that's more important than what actually happened.
There are no answers, only questions. This is what makes this show. I watched it when it was released 8 years ago, but often think about it to this day, rewatching clips such as this. I think if the questions had been answered, I may not, and that would be a great shame, because it’s something I don’t want to forget. What a masterpiece.
oh wow
Damon Lindelof, folks. Lost, The Leftovers, Watchmen. The dude's just on another level when it comes to tv.
You can say that again… 4 years later
After rewatching this show for the second time I'm doing my tesis on it. Thank you, this show made decide to study screenwriting.
I have tried to convince so many to watch this series and its difficult to find the words to express how powerful a piece of drama it is. It struck me like no other drama has and really made me think. Emotional, poignant, Humanistic, Brilliant
I can't really put into words how much this show means to me. How big its impact is on me. I try and explain it to friends, but the words never seem to be the right ones.
I wish more people would watch it, and I wish they would watch it alone. Calling it a masterpiece or beautiful sounds inaccurate - implying distance, something unobtainable or just out of reach, admired from afar.
The Leftovers, however, feels as close as anything can ever be. Personal. Intimate.
I don't really fully understand it myself. I think it has something to do with being human. How all the characters are the most human ones I have seen or heard of in any kind of storytelling. How their journeys are the most human ones I know - their struggles, their doubts, their convictions, their realisations and confrontations.
It is grief, love, psyche, identity, a story that does not focus on what or how or why, but who.
I feel this. I wanna be your friend now.
@@d.sc.9787 me too
Beautifully said.
I understand completely.
I feel you, this show has changed my life, and I want as many people as possible to watch it.
all I want to do is tell people to watch the leftovers, it's fricking epic
such a stupid premise though
@@LelouchVi2741 And yet
@@LelouchVi2741 just like the rest of life and existence
We’re never supposed to know what happened or what’s real. It was never the point.
It’s about finding happiness. Dealing with grief. Carrying the fire through the vast uncertainty and the seemingly unstoppable darkness.
We’re here. All we’ve got is each other. That’s the best we can hope for.
I have only cried one time watching something and I was drunk at the time. But this made me ball my eyes out and yes, I was sober.
What a beautiful fucking show
I watched this last night and couldn't believe I actually had to wipe my face with a towel.
The best show and actors ever
I think the Pigeons coming back represents Nora and Kevin coming back together also. I think Nora watching her Husband and Kids made her realise that they had not gone through the pain she had when they departed.
The Leftovers is the most beautiful TV Show I have ever seen, these 3 years have been a pleasure watching this masterful piece of art. For me The Leftovers and The Wire both stand hand in hand as the two greatest shows of all time. Powerful.
Its interesting the possibilities of the other world when almost everyone vanished. Is like, ok, the humanity has another chance to star again, is another blessing from God. Meanwhile, the 98% think that they're not blessed.
iaan hdz it also goes with the belief that the resurrection happened , the 2% get to live a new world we're the can rebuild from the ground up, with more resources then they will ever need , without overpopulation or pollution , without any wars or countries or threats
Breaking bad #1 obviously, this in the the top 10, first 3 seasons of the wire, Great, whole show though got ruined, maybe slides in at 10 but dont think so
It's a reversal of the scene in the very first episode when the white balloons are released...
Lol BB is not #1 - Sopranos, Leftovers, The Wire are superior in every sense.
This was the best tv series ever produced. I’ve been empty ever since trying to find another show to fill the gap left by this one.
I'm currently watching Six Feet Under and loving it...it's isn't as good as The Leftovers but it's on a similar theme
@@vighneshpillai7996 Try ''LOST'' if you didn't, main masterpiece of Damon Lindelof
@@NAjKONn I recently..like two months back finished watching "LOST" & what an incredible show it is...as polarizing the ending is, I absolutely loved it...
This show has one of the best series finale ever...the moment I started watching this show i knew it was something special and by the time it ended it had already become my favourite tv series of all time
Every season ends with Kevin coming home. This time was no different
Leftovers is one of the most profound series....left me always so thoughtful. Incredible show.....
The ending was a gift to all the viewers who suffered along with these characters for three years. Thank you!
Nora's smile at the end adds so much to this scene.
True meaning of love
It's more than a serie, it's an experience
This literally ripped my soul out, filled it with the most extreme emotions and shoved it back in. This wasn't a TV show it was an emotional rollercoaster.
The most unexpected, still the most satisfying ending, ever. The whole show was a masterpiece. Kinda sucks it lasted only 3 seasons but at the end of the day nothing to complain about. 10/10.
P.S. watched this part about 100 times. So glad I found it on youtube
The ending resembles an episode of Young Justice. Captain Marvel (Shazam) could move between the two worlds.
It was the perfect length - would have been ruined if it ran any longer
@@paulojoao4863 Wrong comment section, buddy.
Perfect final❤
Yes. 3 seasons is perfect. All shows should be 3. It’s a beginning. Middle and an end.
I just finished rewatching this show few weeks ago and I'm already craving another rewatch.
Everything was so perfect in this series... The most beautiful thing I've seen in a very long time. I wish this series never ended
Now, after watching this clip, I understand.
It's a love story.
Its not a love story man. Through the seasons the characters were being eliminated. First Aimee, then Jill and Tom and then Laurie. This process was made and finally the central characters, Kevin and Nora, found their closure.
Ummmm... yes it is, iaan and Myron. Even the co-creator admitted that it is & I'm sure he would know more than you two dingbats would.
It's not exactly a love story.
The story's plot revolves around this major disaster and the chaos that ensues, but the real story was always about the humans, the people, and how they eventually learned to move on despite all that they lost.
When season 3 started i was sure kevin and lori would get back together but when kevin read the book n it was about nora i was like aww .. Im a sucker for tru love
@@bboynava1812 dude yes it is a love story go to when kevin read the book in season 3 episode 6 or 7 when he was in the other place he realized he needs and loves nora that even though she lost so much her and kevin are meant to be
The end of a masterpiece
This scene always makes me cry like a little girl lmao
I'm glad they're together. So so happy. But all that wasted time they could have spent with each other.
Sometimes people are together for a long time just to find out they were always so distant from each other. It really comes down to know what you want and wanting what you have in front of you.
Absolute masterpiece. Still the best TV show ever.
The piano instrumentals at the end of this sence make this more powerful. Amazing work and the perfect end to this show
I’m so torn. On one hand I like the fact that we never see where the others went. But on the other hand I think it would have made for great tv if we actually got to see how Nora’s family moved on and see her heartbreak
After the Sopranos and Dexter finales I was all geared up for this great series to leave us hanging too. It did not! Well done and THANK YOU Damon Lindelof for putting a nice bow around an entirely too short-lived, excellent show. I miss it.
Tony was either going to be whacked, or indicted, there wasn't anymore to his story. Either it ended there, or he went home and got arrested sometime in the future. Just look at Johnny Sack for the rest of that story.
I can't describe how much i love this show
You’re here.
I’m here.
Perfect 4 words to wrap up the series.
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good. - Larry David
The weirdest crossover in history of tv😂😂😂
281 M. Wasiq Wasim just imagining Larry David watching the leftovers now 😂Hey I bet he would like it - why not! At the very least he would think it’s pretty good
"I'm here" was the best way possible to end this masterpiece
Yes that music keeps playing in my ears, so much pain, soooo searching,
I finally understand the only thing that staying alive in the end is LOVE
Kevin talks about returning home every time he is in limbo. In final episode after the wedding Nora worries if the birds will never return home and she said that their only ability is returning home when she goes to the nun's house. When Kevin come back to Nora and finally finds where he belongs to, the birds return too.
The people at emmys should be ashamed of not even nominating them...i mean what more do you want...???...this is the best piece of acting I've ever seen...i miss this show so much😢
“I’m here.” And there it is. Masterpiece
How a series can have gone so batshit crazy plot wise, and still somehow have worked so incredibly well, is testament to the incredible writing on this programme. How this is not mentioned in the circles of Breaking Bad, Sopranos, The Wire etcetera I will never know
It is, my friend, if you read any list of the most acclaimed TV series of the century, the Leftovers is shoulder to shoulder with those. What it lacks is cultural relevance because it's a difficult show to get into, the three you mentioned are very entertaining while The Leftovers is somber, depressing and cuts way too deep. It's my all time favorite show, so i will be forever thankful to the creators of the show for never watering it down or make more seasons for the sake of it. It's perfection as it is.
@@kargetina well said.
At the climax of the second season, Kevin asks Nora if she will be able to believe him once he manages to solve everything in his subconscious (or what he believed to be "the other side"), and she answers yes, that she would believe him. In this scene, Kevin gives exactly what Nora had given him, that confidence of, without knowing if it was real or not that he had solved everything, or if in this case she had or not managed to go to the other side to see her Children, he listens to her completely, and when she falters in her story, he tells her with full confidence that he believes in her, that she is there and that is proof enough.
I've seen many shows including Lost and other really good ones, but this one, oh boys, the Leftovers is for me the best one ever; a concentration of emotions, of all kinds, an Oscar-winning soundtrack and the non-answer to all the questions we ask ourselves, especially about mysteries that we cannot explain. As it happens in real life. Lindelof's most mature masterpiece.❤
The acting in this show was sooooo good!
They call this the golden age of television yet the one show that stood above all the rest didn’t get a single nomination. meanwhile a fucking hulu original and Netflix original are expected to sweep the emmys this year.
A Random koala This deserved to win the Emmy this year. Season 2 should have won an Emmy too.
Just what Nora and everyone for that matter wants to hear, ''you're here''. An affirmation that we exist against all the odds in the sheer impossibility of our sentient carbon-based selves.
Best ending to a finale of all time in my book. The whole episode is incredible, end to end.
Really, the whole series is perfect in ways we don’t often see.
The show’s music score is so overwhelming and majestic it makes you feel things
D&D take note
THIS is how you end a show
Dungeons & Dragons?
Down & Dirty?
Dineas and Derb?
Dex and the Dity ?
The creators of Game of Thrones: David Benioff & D. B. Weiss.
I had to cry. Amazing series.
A beautiful ending to an emotionally charged series. The Leftovers is sooo damn good🤗
There was not 1 single fucking episode of the Leftovers where i was able to guess where it was headed. From first to last. Bravo.
Nora went through. Lying about something this big would be against her character and it would also contradict everything she did as Sarah.
This scene was out of the world.
That's exactly why I believe she lied. Taking those beads off (sins) and throwing them on the papertowels (nice callback to season 1) showed she unburdened herself, she let go, she lied to reach her peace to be with Kevin.
Beautiful.
unburdened herself beforehand? lol
Of course not. Meant to say symbolized her unburdening herself period. She decided to let go when telling the story to Kevin to reach peace for both of them.
if you understood this episode you know that she was lying, and when she decided to go along with the lies.
The whole season was about liars. Matt's book, the lady who lost her children, Kevin's mind, the nun, the marriage. It was all lies! And Nora was the only one who couldn't move on after the Departure Day. So she lied because she couldn't live hiding her pain and she not felt accept by the ones who moved on, so she get into this made up story to feel loved. Besides, I don't think the writer would create an explanation about the departed ones for all the crazy things that religion bring up to the character's life of the show.
The pigeon finally coming home at the end I think represent/symbolized that finally Kevin is coming HOME when he meets Nora finally again... because Nora is Home for Kevin, as they are meant to be.. as a family..
Home is a concept for the person/family.. not places
What a beautiful message from a TV Show 10/10
BBBBBEEEEEAAAAAUUUUUTTTTTIIIIIFFFFFUUUUULLLLL.
the creator of the show said in an interview that we should take note of the fact that we never actually see flashbacks from what nora tells kevin and kinda hinted at this meaning it didnt happen
You could also argue that we never knowingly see anyone who departed in the underworld. It adds some degree of potential that Nora wasn’t lying
What underworld? His schizo moments? Those weren't real.@@gerbilninjakill1436
A perfect ending for a perfect series. The Leftovers, Battlestar Galactica 2004 and Breaking Bad will forever be my Holy Trinity of good TV.
Fringe was even better. Only episodes in time travel have two of the best stories ever made with this theme. The episodes in another dimension and the ending are epic.
Watch The Americans, it belongs up there too.
uhhh BSGs ending was kind of crap tbh
Someone else commented how the makeup artists did a good job making the characters convincingly aged. That made me think about other shows and why this same technique can't be done instead of bringing in new actors to portray the same characters. I could be wrong but it seems to me doing that would save a lot more money and time. Also, it would keep fans happy who don't want to see certain actors exit the show.
That piano always gave me chills.
One of the best shows in television history.
I was never so wrung out emotionally by a series as this one. Just watching this one scene brings it all back.
I'm here in 2019
We cannot mourn those who have never finished giving up the ghost,
We cannot be at peace with those part who still continue to take our hearts out.
It's not the absence she left with me that makes me miss her,
It is the presence that she still has in me as she is gone with a part of me.
When they hold hands, the cigarettes and lighter disappear from the scene. Love and hope replace the cigarettes which is a metaphor of before and being forced to suffer the consequences of the departure. ❤️. Carrie Coon and Justin Theroux are on another level of acting. Period
It's rather annoying that I hold up nearly every other television experience to these three seasons of near perfection. So few things come close.
The fact that this touched so many people was a rebirth for me. Shows there are still deep beautiful people out there ❤
I finished "The Leftovers" 3 years ago and I'm here remembering this scene. I still think it is one of the most overwhelming, thoughtful, intimate and moving series I have ever seen. Greetings from Bogotá, Colombia.
Best love story ever.
My mom died on pancreas cancer 16 years ago and still my father can't handle with her loss. This entire series is about the people who we lost 😐
Omg this sence is so powerful especially when kevin tells nora he believed her. I get teary eyed everytime i see this
The longer they sit on that final shot the more it looks like a painting.
Nora save the goat is gold.
Nora was always poised between two worlds, the One her family's gone and the one she lives in.
In the departed world,everyone lost somebody and they helped each other out to relieve the burden,so she was just a ghost of an ancient,dead world
So she decided to let them go and come back were the ones she loves are.
Finally understanding where her place is.
this show is amazing
Max Richters score on this show was just utterly astounding.
"You're here"
"I'm here"
We are still here.
This music man every time it plays gives chilla
dat.fucking.piano.
It just play with your heart - it leaves me with tons of emotions, both pessimistic and optimistic altogether!
“You’re here” 😢
The music still gets me😭
Breaking Bad, The Wire and Game of Thrones were stellar, but this show is on the same level. It's fleshed-out characters and atmosphere are masterful. A triumph of storytelling. Sure, we all wish more people saw it, but that it's one of those hidden gems just makes it feel more special. And what an ending!
GoT had a very bad ending.
the feeling to be accepted in the end
Music is unbelievable
I was really hoping to see the scene where Nora was explaining how she saw her family, but hearing only the story gives me the perspective of Kevin where it leaves you to believe her or not that she did actually go. I choose to believe her. Glad to see Lori didn't kill herself!
if you watched the episode with wariness and be astute you are lead to believe that she lied about going through.
@@Baratheon. She was never a liar. It's no use writers trying to change a character at the end of the series (Daenerys ...).
We don't know if Nora's story is real what matters is that Nora found a belief system after years of not wanting to believe. In the time she spent apart from Kevin she was basically a one person Guilty Remnant her getting out of the tub and forcing her way out of the mushroom door which was a mirroring for the event chamber leads me to believe that she did not go through...
that's ok that was her second event chamber her leaving the guilty remnant of her life and finding a reason/ story/belief
If she lied, then she improvised to deceive Kevin. Nothing indicates that she believes in anything else, she just lives isolated from everyone like a Kenobi.