How The Leftovers Subverts (or Perfects) "The Mystery Box"
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2024
- [SPOILERS: The Leftovers]
If you are a fan of the channel, you’ve probably at one point or another heard me express my love for The Leftovers. For those unfamiliar, The Leftovers tells the story of those left to grapple with the inexplicable disappearance of 2% of the world’s population, an event dubbed The Sudden Departure. There are so many things I could praise The Leftovers for, but today I want to discuss how the series subverts (or perhaps perfects) what is known as “The Mystery Box”.
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[00:00] - Intro/Shoutouts
[00:57] - What Is "The Mystery Box?"
[01:45] - The Flaws Of The Mystery Box
[04:07] - Let's Talk About LOST
[05:33] - How The Leftovers Subverts It...
[11:35] - ...Or Perfects It
[13:18] - Outro/Patrons
VIDEO
J.J. Abram's "Mystery Box" TED Talk: www.ted.com/talks/j_j_abrams_...
MUSIC
"Danse Macabre" by Kevin MacLeod
"The Departure Suite" by Max Richter
"Cold" by Jorge Méndez 
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Do it! I need a video on how/why you think the explanation Nora gives on where the departed went was a lie?
I need this video 😄
Agreed, would love to see that too
yeah i'd honestly love more videos where he talks about the leftovers, its such an amazing show
Interestingly a compromise between the writers. They didn’t explicitly show it because one writer (I believe the author of the novel) didn’t want an explicit depiction of the departed and their world. So it is written so that it is likely a lie.
Yes please!
Finally! Someone gets it!
It's perplexing why there is so little discussion online about this series, but given that I waited for it to premiere, conclude, and then wait until a few months ago to watch it myself, I think I understand why.
As I watched it for the first time, I read through the episode discussion threads on Reddit that were written as the show was airing because so many people essentially dropped the series midway through the first season, and the first character-centric episode with Matt was the episode that gripped those who stayed.
I think about this show all the time, which is difficult given the vast amount of ephemeral media produced.
The only time I've cried because of a piece of media was The Leftovers SO3. For some reason (probably depression) I just recognized Nora's situation so much. The Leftovers is probably the best tv-show I've ever seen. Also: explain to us why Nora's story is untrue pliz.
So cool to see someone talking about this show. It’s amazing and I feel it’s criminally underrated. Keep up the good content bro!
Maybe someday people will recognise this masterpiece but I'm glad I found this show.👼🏻
One of the best shows ever made.
It’s one of the most acclaimed shows ever far from underrated
Criminally underrated lol?? The show won several awards, appeared 50+ critic's top ten lists, and received literally *universal acclaim* on Metacritic.
the leftovers is one of my favorite shows. love seasons 2 and 3 but i feel like i’m the only person who actually prefers the first season to the rest, tone-wise. i also think it was an absolute travesty that they changed the opening credits theme/intro for the last two seasons it was so good season 1.
i don't think it would have been as good if they continued to use it. the theme wouldnt have fit the other seasons, and the other seasons wouldnt have fit the show if they were the same "tone-wise" to the first season
While I loved season 1's opening theme and felt the same as you originally when it was changed at the beginning of season 2, I quickly realized the error in my thinking and came to like the second opening even more. I think it was just the fact it was a more upbeat song, while still having a ton of emotion to it, and the more surreal nature of it as a whole just served the show better, as it provided a brief counterpoint to to it's otherwise bleak & serious tone
I was clinically depressed when S01 of The Leftovers came out. Some critics complained that the show was overly dark, but I found it validating to see other people suffering, and that recognized as natural and okay. It actually made me feel better about being in such a dark place.
The second season almost lost me. It felt all over the place. But then the third season ties it all together in a profound way. It made the journey with all these characters worthwhile. I've rewatched the series several times and it's still one of my all time favourites.
Season 3 is a perfect combination of the first two, a perfect "trilogy" of emotions if you will.
I also like the darkness and the philosophical nature of True Detective season 1. It relaxes me knowing my life isn't as depressing as so many. I don't mean that in a bad way. I just mean it reminds me to be thankful for where I'm at because life could suck so much more.
The Leftovers helped me understand the true understanding of how people go through such deep depression even if their lives look great on the outside. I mean, Liv Tyler's character had it made in so many ways, but her depression and suicidal thoughts were understandable.
So many of us want more in life and are jealous of those with more, but so many born into wealthy families and communities have a lot of pressure on them leading to suicidal thoughts. I've not been there in that context, but I know of some. The Leftovers just shows we are all human and that all classes of people and even people with less trauma than others can feel the darkness of wanting to give up and die. This feeling isn't just a problem for certain people. We can argue how some can toughen up, but this show is about that wounded child inside all of us. Where our faith in life and joy and love has been torn apart.
When I tell people to watch this show, I tell them you are going to feel the deepness of crying like you did when you saw Simba see Mufasa die.
No way, season 2 was great! Though I think it works best when you believe in the realism theory. I don’t quite know if that’s a widely known theory but it’s one I’ve sort of pieced together myself and states that nothing supernatural ever happened.
Umm season 2 is the perfect TV season.
Damon Lindelof literally "let the mystery be"
The Leftovers is a very great show and unfortunately overlooked. I saw it when it came out. And what hooked me was Lindelof promise during the time the mystery will never be explained. Because the mystery was never the point which made the show so great the mystery was the MacGuffin which kept the show running. It is like the open ending of the Sopranos.
Thanks for your ideas and analysis and your love for the Leftovers!
I have a self tradition of rewatching The Leftovers every year (1 ep daily when October begins) love this show so much 😍😍
Thanks to this video The Leftovers score will now be stuck in my head for the next week. Again!
Even just hearing that music all this time later still makes me feel emotional. Such a good show.
That TED talk from JJ has aged so hilariously. He talks about copying Star Wars and how to properly copy Star Wars.
oh damn...
Fringe was great tho
@@nathanlevesque7812 First 3 seasons. They really, REALLY bombed on the Observers
With The Leftovers' perfect execution of "The Mystery Box", I find my self reminicing of the feeling that it gave to me while watching the series. It is this unique feeling and connection to the world and the characters that made this show unexplainibly beautiful, you have to experience watching it to be able to get that feeling.
I loved this show and loved the finale. Cried and laughed out loud at least once every episode. It was so emotionally satisfying
“I killed you.”
“…nope.”
So glad to see the leftovers on this channel after I requested it a few months ago! This show is so underappreciated and lacking in content analysis. Looking forward to the Nora ending video!
❤💪
I slightly disagree with you about the point of Nora's story. To me it's not about Nora finding peace to forgive herself but about Kevin believing her despite the lack of evidence. I always found that scene to be about how belief is built on love and its necessity in the face of immense and unexplainable suffering. It's her reaction to Kevin's belief that is the high point in the scene for me, and it really beautifully concludes this whole show about the nature of belief.
I heard somewhere that the writers once said that when they wrote they imagined that monologue one way (as a truth or lie) but then when they saw Coon perform it they thought she read it the opposite way of how they wrote it. Which I think is brilliant because it means in a way there actually isn't a right answer at all because of the layers of artistic interpretation.
Twin Peaks is probably the perfect example of a Mystery Box (that was never intended to open) and how terrible it is when the box is opened, I opined...
That’s so dumb😂😂and it only works for a dumb show like twin peaks. “ThE myStery boX waS nevEr suppOsed tO bE opEn” yes it was the point originally was that twin peaks was a whodunnit about the murder of Laura Palmer. That’s completely different than the leftovers which wasn’t a whodunnit. Now granted twin peaks become far more silly, retarded, and ridiculous later on but originally it was a pretty good whodunnit, and I was happy with that reveal.
Probably in my top 3 television shows of all time. Would not have thought that a pastor would be my favorite character but Matt is so fascinating as a character.
There's a scene with Nora and Jill in season 2 that sets up the final "lie" in my opinion.
What’s the other two in your top three
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There's an anime slot that rotates between Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Baccano!, and Cowboy Bebop.
Debatable if we want to call it TV but Chernobyl was so well done. I actually (mostly) enjoyed the Newsroom. Would've probably been more successful if it aired a bit later.
The first 3 seasons for The Expanse and the first 4 seasons of Game of Thrones deserve mention, despite quality declining in later seasons.
I love this show. International Assassin is one of my favorite hours of TV ever. Having watched this video,I realized it's time for a rewatch, so thanks for that!
One of the greatest episodes in tv history
Oh My Goodness. Thank you for making a video on this. I love this show so much (more than The Sopranos) and Kevin Garvey means so much to me. Thank you for shedding some light on this beauty that barely anybody knows about.
No words can describe how important this show is to me. In some ways, this show set me on a path to deconstruct my Christian faith. It wasn't the cause of it, but it got me thinking about what it means to have faith and belief and what it means to question it all. And what's most important in life at the end of it all.
Amén 🙏🏻 definitely get it . I too questioned my Christian faith.
This show understood God better than any Christian wannabe filmmaker could ever dream to
@@DiaLaeT yeah I would agree. If there is a "God" in the leftovers he is just unknowable and unfathomable as the departure event. There's no way we could understand such a being or organize some kind of religion around it even if we tried, like Matt the pastor was trying to do with Kevin
@@EPICNE55 Matt's episode in season 2 is the greatest representation of faith I've ever seen. The ending gives me chills every time
I was writing a comment but you summed it up from 12:30. great video, I'm happy to see people appreciate this amazing show.
Yes! Do more videos on The Leftovers, please. Personally, I don't see enough discussion on this amazing show.
It’s nice to see this show finally getting the attention it deserves. For a long time there wasn’t a lot of videos on RUclips analyzing it. Glad to see that changing finally!
Just subbed. Thank you for such a well written analysis of the story and characters here. This series, the themes and philosophies it explores have been very influential to my life. Keep up the good work!
Leftovers is one of my top 5 series, I'm excited to watch all your videos about it. Thanks my contente creator
What’s your top five in order?
Mine would be…
The wire
Got
Mr robot
Dark
The boys
Haven’t watched the show, but I feel like a world that lost 98% of its population would be way more fucked. I don’t think her family would be ok
I feel like if you have a supernatural mystery, but don’t focus on explaining the mystery, it becomes magical realism.
I would love to see a video about why Nora is lying. The first time I watched the show it didn't even cross my mind that she could be lying, but on reflection I haven't seen proof to convince me either way, which makes sense because it doesn't matter, but I would still like to know what convinced you.
The end of the Leftovers is simultaneously the most satisfying and frustrating ending to a show I’ve ever watched. Frustrating because we don’t get the answers to the show’s mysteries but satisfying because I knew from day one we weren’t getting those answers and that it ultimately never mattered anyway.
This might be what finally kicks off my re-watch of this show. Really loved it.
The leftover is the equivalent of a blank canvas that is called a masterpiece.
I would say Twin Peaks (Which JJ Abrams has said inspired Lost) also does the "Mystery Box" type of story right. In the first season, it's not about who killed Laura, it's about how her death affects the people of Twin Peaks, hence the show's name.
But wasn't the killer eventually revealed? Yes. But David Lynch always intended to never reveal the killer, he only did so due to executive pressure and disagreements with his co-writer, Mark Frost. The killer being revealed made season 2 pretty weak after episodes 9, until the last two episodes, but thankfully The Return made sure to tie it up in an odd bow.
Lynch in general does Mystery Box to perfection. Arguably the central questions of Mulholland Drive (What is Rita's true identity?) Lost Highway (Who is Dick Laurent? Who is The Mystery Man? Who killed Renee?) and even his most straightforward crime movie Blue Velvet (Whose ear was that and how did it wind up in that vacant lot?) and their answers are the least important elements of those films. They're almost non-physical McGuffins: the material of them doesn't matter, what matters is the spaces Lynch uses the journey to answer those questions to explore. Unless you're writing an Agatha Christie-style whodunnit the answer to the mystery is the least important part of any story built around a mystery.
@@tjenadonn6158 Yeah true, I just think Lynch has done it particularly well
Ehhhh....Twin Peaks had its moments in the original run but it also leaned on being quirky so the randomness wasn't just tedious. And the follow up was too indulgent to be worth it without nostalgic investment.
Great video! Would love more leftovers content. Especially a "Truth vs Story" reading of Nora's tale about the other place. I've always chosen to believe Nora's explanation, it just felt so authentic to me. But im totally willing to be swayed. I'll eagerly await that next vid
I've been aware of the show since it came out, but I always kept it in my queue, until now.
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I chose 2024 for starting my journey into the world of The Leftovers, because of how close the set-up of the story reflects on today.
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Set 3 years after 2% of the global population has disappeared, 2024 is also 3 years after the global death toll from Covid hit about 2% of the population.
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Cultism, Tribalism, Apathy etc are all present in our current society. So as a first time watcher, I think that i get to view it with a different perspective than most who watched it when it first aired.
Ya, I'm fascinated to see a video on why Nora made that all up, as it got my gears going and I think I agree. Makes me sense that her story, the way she told it, like a parent or a teacher reading a fictional story to a student, the metaphors she uses, the absurdity of finding her family and then searching out the Creator to send her back. Its a metaphor. Fin.
This is a beautiful video. Such a good explanation of how to use oblivion in storytelling, especially when comparing the leftovers to lost. It's great to see the artistic growth Lindelof has gone through.
The whole theme of faith or Insanity to me hits so close, as a guy who has been through a really fucked up manic phase, reality and fantasy lose the difference, and what I love about this show is the contrast between what one thinks vs. what it really is, though the life can flow magically sometimes, once the magic fades you're stuck with the cold hard reality.
And this show, well this show to me is just a good analogy of how an ignored grief can take over the planet like a pandemic, shift the reality, alter the mind of people, honestly my favorite tv series, everything about this show has been executed perfectly.
Nora is my favourite character in tv and arguably has the most interesting arc too
i will eat up any and all leftovers (hehe pun) content you put out
Love this video, never watched The Leftovers but I'm a huge JJ Abrams hater.
Also I like hearing you talk about story tropes and tnd thematic concepts. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I don't watch TV so I can't follow specific plots from shows you talk about but it's the breakdowns that are truly amazing.
JJ gave us Alias 😎😎
That music score for the show right? It's just outstanding
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Sopranos
Mad men
The Leftovers
Some of the best tv shows ever produced. The character building in this show in only 3 seasons was incredible. It did more in 3 seasons than many series do in 6 or 7. The attatchment to so many different peoples stories, letting us come up with our own truths, finding the right actors for those parts. Perfect.
The wire
Got
Mr robot
Would be my top three in order. I still need to watch mad men though.
Please make a leftovers analysis the second season finale has to be the best episode I saw in tv history
Great video! I agree with everything you said re:Nora. My only disagreement is your discussion around LOST. I don’t think LOST really was the inverse, I think it was exactly the same, but the leftovers was able to nail it much better because of a level of creative control that wasn’t possible for LOST. I think from the writer’s perspective the idea was the same. I also think that you’ll find that audience has a lot to do with it. I have recommended the leftovers to many people who didn’t like lost. I said, “it’s different, it’s better” and they almost always tell me it’s doing the same mystery box thing lost did and they don’t enjoy it. Show the leftovers to as many millions as LOST, and I think you get a similar response.
Honestly my favourite show. I think it’s practically flawless despite a few strange things in season 1 (the black-sheep season). So glad to see some new videos on the show because I’ve been desperately craving more!
You know it’s not “flawless” 😂but I’m with you it’s one of my favorites as well
Liked the video, but Lost was great! I get it! My first impression was I didn't like the ending, but after a lot of time and thinking about the intentions of the writers, it's great writing. Season six could have been written better, but the writer's intentions of what they wanted the show to be about is there and is great.
You will appreciate this, I think! "The Most Powerful Man in the World" episode on the The Leftovers is their "Across the Sea" episode and I mean that in a good way.
Incredible misreading of the TV show Lost and what made it great. I recently rewatched it after having only seen it during it's original run and there's farm more substance than people give it credit for. I found this to be especially true from watching it through the lens of having seen the Leftovers. A lot of very similar themes, regarding destiny, fate, choices and consequences.
No idea what the hell The Leftovers is but I enjoy your content and analyses. I’ll gladly play your vids and leave a like/comment while trying to wretch some semblance of meaning from the womb of existence ✌️
I don’t know if it actually works, but I like the theory that the procedure killed Nora and she’s in the afterlife. Kevin “finds” her because his heart condition he references killed him.
I came across a few people who didn’t like the ending coz apparently “they didn’t answer the mysteries/questions” but then, the show was NEVER about mystery. Like u mentioned, it came to a point in s03 where the explanation of the departures is not even a topic. It is because the show is LITERALLY called “The Leftovers”. It’s about THEM. How they deal with that loss. The ending was quiet ambiguous which pissed off a few people but i guess that is what makes it GREAT. The Leftovers is about THE LEFTOVERS. Not “the departed”.
I finally figured out what this is from 0:01
Ahh The Leftovers!! One of the best shows EVER made
Where do you rank it as far as the best shows that you’ve seen?
Completely unrelated to the video topic itself, but shout outs to the name "Majin Weeaboo". That is an amazing tag
Great work!
no Lost slander, rewatched it recently and while the last 2 seasons may not be the best I still think it had a really good ending. it lends itself more to being binged than stretched out over weeks and years. but great video!
Great video, Mac! The Mystery Box and its bad utilization is unfortunately becoming more common and made me burned out on mysteries for a while. Still, it's interesting to see what it is and how this show I should probably watch does it well.
It's also a bit ironic that the man that coined the term "Mystery Box" is the one responsible for popularizing its bad utilization.
Literally lol I don’t mind a story that is openly about that. Like I like Agatha Christie novels even though they aren’t ones I can really re read but they know what they are. With JJ it’s all just popcorn fare which is fine I guess but when it becomes oversaturated like you said it burns me out.
I feel like before watching this show, its good for people to read the episode description of the very final episode: "nothing is explained". Then you can decide whether you think it's worth watchin or not. I accidentally did this halfway through season 1, but i liked the characters enough that the mystery wasn't too important for me.
This is a great analysis
Leftovers is one of my favorite shows! Also, I totally agree the story Nora told was a lie, a "story we tell ourselves" because it sounds better than the truth and was easier to believe than the shame of wussing out and going into hiding for 20 years There were so many thematic examples of this idea earlier in the episode, such as with the nun and with the goat. Also I think it was kinda of a test for Kevin, it didn't matter if he really believed it, she was testing him to see if he would just accept it to help her move on from her past and start a new future with him. Not to mention all the logical inconsistencies you could really nitpick with the actual details of her story if you really think about it. Anyway, would look forward to a video on this from you. Thanks for all your great content!
Great vid! Please do a video expanding on why you think Nora lied at the end!
Gosh, thank you for spoiling me the end of The Leftovers
I mean this wholeheartedly btw, the concept of 2% of population going poof wasn't enough for me to go watch it, but this video may do the trick
Great! I finally found others people who that also like this show.
Never heard of this show but my word you put on a hellva sales pitch
What did you think about it when you watched?
When I watched "The Leftovers" I was convinced that Lindelof was a good choice for the HBO Watchmen show. It's a shame he kinda dropped the ball on that project.
I wouldn't say he dropped the ball over all because I think that every episode up until the finale is great. I was about ready to call that season of Watchmen A+ quality television and then the finale kind of brought it down to a B+ :(
@@highwind1991 It had it's moments for sure, but I think Lindelof got ahead of himself and introduced too many characters and subplots without actually delivering a satisfying pay-off to most of them. I could see the ambition, but that's just not enough for me to call it a worthy successor to such a well-rounded work as the original Watchmen graphic novel. But yes, if at least the finale would've been really good, I probably wouldn't view the show as such a massive disappointment.
Great show I'm working on something about the leftovers as well, very underrated series
He's right..the mystery got me. But I wouldn't have stuck around if the Nora and Kevin's characters weren't so interesting.
Twin Peaks was the OG mystery box imo; Lynch only intended for the murder of Laura Palmer to introduce the audience to the world of Twin Peaks and never wanted to reveal the murderer.
Great video, the leftovers is awesome, shout out to the magnificent soundtrack by Max Richter
I know I'm preaching to the choir but it is so funny how JJ, the guy who coined the whole Mystery Box thing, has constantly failed to deliver on it. They admitted that Lost just used the mysteries to keep the audience going, they didn't decide it was gonna be Khan until late in development, and I don't even need to talk about his work on Star Wars.
Great show
My favorite show ever...like ever.
shit, now i want a whole video giving your thoughts about the 3 seasons!
Ah I hadn't thought about this show in a while and now you made me miss it!
Let me just take a moment to defend my absolute favorite series tho:
To me LOST was never about solving mysteries. If you want that watch CSI instead.
I love LOST because of the characters and how the flashbacks develop the characters into who they are today. No character is flawless and even the ones that seem bad have some reason why they are the way they are.
I also love the mystery itself, not because it needs a resolution, but because it's so exciting that there's this place that you don't understand, that's unexplored and that holds things you can't expect. I like the sense of mystery and wonder.
And that takes me to the Island. It's both scary and holy. The whole time you don't know how to feel about the place. Part of me wants to be there and explore it, part of me would be terrified of being there. It just makes the place so interesting. It's wild, mystical and technological all at the same time.
I love LOST for the ambience. I just like the feeling of the Island, the sense of mystic and mystery. To be focused on logical resolutions is to miss the point, in my opinion.
I understand the leftovers made a better job at not setting up the expectation for a resolution, but personally I never watched LOST with the intent of getting answers. It really is the mystical ambience, the aura of the Island.
I implore you to rewatch Watchmen '19. There's so much more to that show than you think.
NAh
@@MacabreStorytelling Well, that's your opinion, man.
@@YggdrasilAudio don’t mess with the jeezus
This is my top 5 favorite shows !
Well done.
this is the greatest show ever made
Not even close but it is very good though
the answers to the questions proposed in the leftovers are conclusively given before the questions are asked, it just takes the second or third watch as well as an exploration into the viewer's individual pain and confusion before this is understood. i don't think anyone has a healthy relationship with their pain, and only because of that are rewatches necessary to understand the intention behind the story. it takes understanding what people will convince themselves of in an attempt to run away from pain and how confusion and chaos motivates the escape from inescapable pain, as well as how it effects everything around them. i think the point is to only make one question inconclusive (as well as the leading questions, although they don't much matter)- 2% of the population just up and vanished? (where did they go, who is responsible, what force of nature exists that would cause it, etc). the result of that question brings up questions that are grounded in the real human experience; the predominant one being that of understanding pain as it relates to the human experience. everyone was in pain and confused before the departure, but the relationship with pain and confusion was only brought closer to the light because every single person on the planet experienced the same pain at the same time where still they were motivated by, and often forced into feeling (eg having to answer dehumanizing question for their departure benefits check) their individual pain because of the confusion that the departure wrought and not by understanding the event, themselves, or each other throughout the entirety of the series. that pain existed outside the main question and not as a result of it. the entire story wouldn't have been significant if there were more magical/science fiction truths that contradict reality aside from the departure itself and as a result, the answer to every question is observable but the original by means of bringing up the viewer's own questions about the human disposition. after all, isn't the only painfully unanswerable question we all have the "deal with" where do people go when we're not here- when we die, essentially? and hasn't the pain of that looming question hindered our ability to live and answer all the questions relating to the nature of reality in some respect or another without making untrue/unfounded claims like god? perhaps it's the questions we can't think to ask about our own lives that leave us questioning something like the leftovers.
Amazing, underrated, show.
I think a good example of "the mystery box" would be The New Batman Adventures a.k.a. the fourth season Batman The Animated Series where it sets up the mystery as to why Bruce Wayne/Batman had a falling out with his former apprentice: Dick Grayson/OG Robin, now going by Nightwing. Every time Dick shows up, he's always throwing shade at Batman and it makes you wonder how bad the fight between the two was and it's paid off in a satisfying way in the episode Old Wounds where Dick tells Tim Drake/The New Robin about the last night he was Robin.
The best show no-one talks about. I'm still shocked Lindelof wrote this after the mess Lost was.
2:28 - these kinds of reveals piss me off so much; where the reveal only makes sense of you have a pre-existing investment in the IP. This version of Kirk and Spock have never heard of Khan, so that fact that Baconjoin Cabbagepatch reveals himself as such means nothing to them. It’s only there for the audience.
Same deal with the Blofeld reveal in Spectre; it may make viewers go gasp, but to the characters within the film, that reveal shouldn’t mean anything.
Exactly. Especially if you are a viewer who is not familiar with the previous films. If you don't know the significance of Khan, when he says it, which is followed by that silly little space for audience gasping, you will literally have no idea wtf is going on.
And the vast majority of people familiar with the IP knew he was Khan before the film debuted, making the reveal impactful to only a very tiny percentage of your audience.
There is one mystery box answered: Dean in the first season seemed almost imaginary, only appearing in Kevin’s fugue states. He said he was Kevin’s guardian Angel. In the final season, he returns as an unstable psycho; showing he was real and just crazy.
Please make a whole video about Nora's lie, I really want to see that.
The Kelly part 🤣😂🤣🤣🤣☠️☠️☠️
Ive never seen this show but damn it I want to know how Nora was lying.
I think when you watch the show, different viewings for me at least made me think she was telling the truth, and another time it felt like she was lying. Just great stuff overall
Arte puro, saludos desde Colombia
1. Fantastic video. Leftovers is a freaking gem. And I eventually came to the same understanding as you. Just not as concisely as you were able to do it.
2. I get what you're saying about the difference to LOST, and can concede some of your points about the mystery taking on heightened import. However, for me, LOST was always about the character arcs. It's absolutely my favorite show and I've watched multiple times. I never needed all the answers.
3.MORE LEFTOVERS VIDEOS YOU SONUVABITCH! you just blew my mind that she lied. And you're absolutely right that it didn't matter. Holy hell!
I prefer The Leftovers to Lost but I love them both
Hey macabre you should watch Attack on Titan if you haven’t already. Great mystery show
4:55 - 5:02
Well technically the point of the briefcase was meant to be sort of the “MacGuffin” of the story in Pulp Fiction. It was meant to be something that serves no purpose at all other than to move things along.
I would actually like to see a video on helping people understand, what that term means because it it gets on my nerves that people even today keep confusing what Macguffins are. Interesting though how you mentioned JJ Abrams, who also did Mission Impossible 3, and even he got the MacGuffin (The rabbits foot) down correctly (For once surprisingly….).
Noted!
Can someone explain to me why this show is so gripping? I want to watch it because of what the audience says but it also doesn't have a premise that hooks me and the fact that what's going on isn't actually explained leaves me confounded. It's the same reason I never got into 'Lost'. Please tell me what makes it so good/why you connect with it because I want to get it, but I don't want this to be a show that I have to slog through one season to get a payoff the next. Thanks guys!!
Edit:Just finished the video and it still sounds unappealing as it just seems like a giant exercise for JJ Abrams to practice his mystery box theory.
JJ Abrams isn’t involved in The Leftovers
Did you ever decide to check it out?
Please do make a video about why you think Nora was lying! FWIW, I myself think that it was deliberately, perfectly ambiguous: you can read it either way, and we'll never know: and we need to come to accept that, just as Kevin ultimately accepts her absence since she is, in the end, there; as everyone in the story has to accept that the departures are ultimately unexplained (true even if Nora's telling the truth, as we don't know *why* this happened). I think the ambiguity is the point, and the glory, of the ending. But I'd love to hear your argument. I hope you do it.
Ok fine, ill watch the leftovers.
I kinda always just thought Nora was telling the truth since she was a character l came to really care about but l would still love to see a video of why you thought she was lying.
We are the 2%
i cant stand the creators of this show....but I LOVE this show. i was hooked by the priest/casino ep
This show is so underrated. Quiet possibly television at its best. Do make a video on why you (and even I) believe that Nora lied.
The show isn't about the mystery it's about how people cope with a loss they can't define through beliefs. And whether they should be allowed to. That's the question the ending asks in my opinion.
"so underrated" lol? The show won several awards, appeared 50+ critic's top ten lists, and got universal acclaim on Metacritic. It's far from "so underrated." It's *outstanding.*
@@Brainbuster Ask someone random on the internet what their top 5 shows are. 9/10 won't mention the leftovers.
@@SABNISTANMAY If they haven't seen it they haven't rated it. Underrated doesn't mean more people should see it. It means those who did rated it lower than it deserves.
tnx for the info.. they tryed to do the mistery box in video games to .. Returnal on ps5 is a pretentious game that tryes to look intresting..! didn't know what was the hook they were going for to keep you playing the game!