<i>The Leftovers</i>: See You on the Other Side
Each week following episodes of the third and final season of The Leftovers, Sophie Gilbert and Spencer Kornhaber will discuss HBO’s drama about the aftermath of 2 percent of the world’s population suddenly vanishing.
Sophie Gilbert: Do the two men in this show named Kevin Garvey know that there are, in this world, such things called telephones? And that one can use them to communicate in sounds, over phone calls, or in words, over email? And that they don’t, in fact, have to always send messages to each other, whether consciously or unconsciously, through televisions?
That said, the randomness of the ways in which Kevin Jr. and Kevin Sr. keep encountering each other—one tripping on God’s Tongue and one in the purgatorial realm, one in a Melbourne hotel room and one in a missing person’s photo, one in the background of a pancake demonstration and one watching at the home of a woman named Grace—has me tempted to conclude that this is all part of some grand design, and not just a string of is concerned, but can this all just be happenstance? Or are the Kevins destined to be together at the end of the world?
