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The Leftovers often asks the audience to sacrifice superficial check-ins with every character in favor of spending quality time with one or two. It's a terrific approach when the focus is on Kevin, Nora, Laurie, Matt, or even Meg.
- Season 3, Episode 3
- Plot
- Analysis
- Trivia
- Book to Show
- Music
- Goofs
With the clock ticking towards the anniversary of the Departure and emboldened by a vision that is either divine prophecy or utter insanity, Kevin Garvey, Sr.(Scott Glenn) wanders the Australian Outback in an effort to save the world from apocalypse.
Recurring Themes
1. Animals:Kevin Sr. claims the bush snake is his totem. He later in desperation tries to kill a bush snake for food, and it bites him. It is revealed that animals besides humans vanished in the Departure, and Kevin Sr. says his destiny was partly dictated by Tony the chicken, the sole Departure survivor of a very small village in the outback. Grace Playford rides a horse. Kevin Sr. awakens in Grace’s house to Grace’s dog Caleb watching him. 2. Memories:The episode opens with Kevin Sr.’s expe...
Cultural References
1. Damon Lindelof has called the 1977 Peter Weir film The Last Wave “a big inspiration for and potentially an actual prequel of season three of The Leftovers,” noting that David Gulpilil plays characters named Chris in both works (implying that his Sydney-dwelling Aboriginal character in The Last Wave, Chris Lee, might have matured into Christopher Sunday).Notably, Weir’s film is in part about increasingly aberrant weather in Australia, and a man named David Burton who has apocalyptic visions...
Literary techniques
1. During credits, Richard Cheese's Personal Jesusplays, instituting the theme of this episode and of the whole Season 3. 2. Sr. is mad at Matt because "it's my son that is part of my story" and not the opposite. Actually, it's the opposite. 3. As Sr. says "Fuck you, Matt", it starts raining and thundering. 4. Rain delete Sr.'s corrections on the book. 5. The man who would prevent the apocalypse is named "Christopher Sunday". 5.1. The name "Christopher" is not simply referring to Christ: the...
This episode is the final appearance of Mary (although chronologically, her scenes in "The Book of Kevin" take place later than this episode).Scott Glenn has called the script for this episode possibly the best script he has ever been given, and “one of the greatest gifts of [his] life.” He has also said it was one of three times in his...The opening flashback scene, doubling for Mapleton, was shot at Fitzroy Town Hall in Melbourne.Before shooting the scene where Kevin Sr. performs the indigenous dance, the entire set, including the crew, had to go through a cleansing ceremony with chanting and smoke. Scott Glenn says that wh...In the book, Kevin (Kevin Jr. on the show)’s mother is deceased, but her fate is never directly elaborated upon. The book merely says that both of Kevin’s parents are “gone,” and that he inherited...Matt is the only character from the book to appear in this episode (besides the audio recordings of young Kevin). This is the episode with the smallest number of characters from the book."Personal Jesus" by Richard Cheese (main title)Unknown indigenous tribal dance chant (sung by indigenous group; also sung by Scott Glenn as Kevin Sr.; the group version repeats over the end credits)"King Bundawaal" by Slim Dusty (plays in the police station when Kevin Sr. is in custody)Sanctus, D. 872, composed by Franz Schubert, performed by the Choir of Trinity College & Cambridge (Kevin Sr. reads Matt's book; Kevin Sr. tells Christopher Sunday he needs his song) (this piece wa...The contents of the page Kevin Sr. rips out of Matt’s book are seen in closeup both when he rips the page out to wrap his money, and when Grace later places it on her table. There is a goof in that...Grace says she was in town at the Big W when the Departure occurred on 10/15. This seems inconsistent with the 2:23pm NY time seen in “The Garveys at Their Best,” which would place the time in Silv...This week’s third episode was titled “Crazy Whitefella Thinking,” but it could’ve also been called “The Book of Kevin Sr.,” because it went deep Down Under to show us how Kevin’s half-crazy...
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