Everytime he stops to help someone he gets ****ed.

Preacher went to the stockade to repent for his loss of Faith. He got so obsessed with trying to make his wife come back to life that he forgot his faith. He became obsessed that he had done something to trigger the awakening, instead of preaching God's miracle.
See also, the Book of Job.

^^^
Why did he say to his wife 'good thing i didnt say Lutheran' after the lady asked what denomination he was

So no theories on the whole breaking the oar over that guy's back and saying "Bryan"?

First think I thought of was Life of Brian

i thought of peter griffin yelling out brian

I will be super tilted if this show gets canceled. I figured the thread here would at least be bigger, as we tend to have a savvy audience. Just goes to show, no one is watching.

I really feel like The Leftovers deserves some serious Emmy love. Maybe that can save it?

I thought tonight's episode was great too. Maybe the most beautifully shot and well directed episode of the season.

It does seem likely that Nora's presence has something to do with the departure in miracle. If so, then why did the scientist lady on the phone have a bull**** scientologist-like explanation for what happened? I guess the scientists/DSD are learning to ask better questions, but getting no closer to being able to explain what happened?

I'm watching. Still an interesting show if you just go with it rather than viewing it as a mystery. The acting, writing and cinematography all is top notch. And I'd like to sex the Garvey daughter.

I don't get why they were throwing bricks through each others windows

Could be drawing some type of connection, whatever caused the departure, we are currently at caveman intelligence when it comes to understanding it

What was the deal with the end of the show between Nora and the deaf woman?
I felt a little lost there. I thought The deaf girl knew that Nora's kids had departed?

Having like a non-crazy demon theory scientist character would be pretty interesting imo.

put me down for liking this show even though im a little lost at times.

Best show atm.

Same here. Absolutely love it and lost quite often.

Yep!!

That ending scene was freaking amazing! Great acting, i was totally engrossed with both characters. Im appreciating this show more and more. They way that theyre unraveling a mystery by focusing on the nuance in character storytelling is top notch.

We need a Leftovers Czar that can fill in any questions. The discussion is kinda limtied because this show is so layered that two people sitting next to each other could have two totally different interpretations and experiences, let alone the struggle in how would you describe this show to someone who hasnt even seen it.

This season has been awesome, really hope it's not the last.

And if it gets Emmy snubbed again (particularly from an acting standpoint), I'll be at a loss.

damn I love this show.

I was confused at the end though. I didnt really get why either of them threw the brick through each others window, and I didnt understand fully what exactly was going on at the end with the two women asking each other questions. What reason would they have for being mad at each other? I get the black lady thinks she had something to do with Evie departing and Nora telling her shes pathetic for thinking it, but other than that I was lost.

I loved the explanation for the goat killing and the women in the bridal dress though. If this show gets cancelled while TWD chugs along into its 8th season with record breaking numbers every week im gonna be so pissed .

Why does everyone think that Nora threw the brick thru the neighbor house? Did I miss this scene?

I think when Nora chucks the first rock, you could look at it a couple of ways. John might be her target, because he refused to help her brother get back into town. But maybe she's mad at Erika at that point a little bit too, not for any good reason of course, but because Nora moved all this way to try and get rid of her baggage and now her next door neighbor has a child who might have departed. Talk about hitting the nail on the head in terms of reopening old wounds.

When Erika throws the rock back, I take it as basically a direct F U. Erika knows at that point that Nora's children departed and also that Nora is trying to suppress her own guilt about their disappearance. But this shared grief wasn't met with sympathy from Nora, it was met with scorn - which Erika throws back in Nora's face with the "What was the last thing your children said....to the best of your recollection?", sort of a 'see? how do you like it?' type moment.

Nora has tried to put her guilt completely behind her, but between the crackpot scientists and the DSD guy, she's constantly being told during the episode that 'ya, maybe you did have something to do with it!' She tried to leave all her guilt and fear back in Mapleton, but it's all coming back. More than anything, she wants to know FOR SURE that her family disappearing wasn't her fault. The fact that the scientists turn out to be crackpots comes as a huge relief to her. She laughs and hangs up the phone. But then the DSD guy gets her wheels spinning again at the fundraiser with his "really? cause the DSD is taking some of that stuff seriously" comment. You can see how Nora reacts. Now she's feeling fearful and guilty again and she sorta takes it out on Erika, determined to show that Evie didn't actually depart. And lo and behold, it turns out that Erika is convinced not only that Evie departed, but that she's responsible for it.

In short, Nora is basically trying to deny the very same emotions (guilt, and probably irrational guilt, over the disappearance of a child) that Erika is feeling. Instead of these emotions bringing them closer together, Nora scolds Erika as if she's scolding herself (I read one review that astutely points out how the tighter and tighter shots in that scene eventually become Nora just looking directly at the camera, as if looking into a mirror). The scene is absolutely worth watching again.

And so, they now resent each other by episode's end.

Ya, it's a brief scene showing Nora hurling the rock throw their window right before she goes back inside to tend to Mary.

i didnt think it was nora. i pressed rewind and that girl who threw it wore shorts and in nora's next screen shes wearing pants

Could be a continuity error, or maybe there is a small passage of time between scenes (she goes inside, gets changed and then tends to Mary).

I was pretty sure it was Nora.

it was definitely Nora

i was wrong