+1

also, the entire season has been about all of them being wrong about their crazy ass beliefs / "it" not being real, etc

would assume it'll all be filed under "truth is stranger than fiction", and these kind of totally improbable things happen all the time. of course all of them happening to one person is a 1 in ∞ type shot, but hey, that's just what happened here. deal with it.


now watch the ~75min finale be about how he is Jesus or whatever lol

Up until that point, it was reasonable to argue that the events of the show had a supernatural explanation or a scientific explanation. The show did a good job of leaving enough doubt so that you could go either way.

Coming back from the burial pushed the show irrevocably into a supernatural lean. I thought the show needed to run with that in the final season.

Haha, I thought for a second we were getting a callback to the S5 finale of LOST - nuclear explosion into a white screen.

Then there were still 3-4 minutes left in the episode, oh well.

anyone ITT ever seen the late 80s cult film called "Miracle Mile"? Where the shows headed kinda reminds me of it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Mile_(film)

I'm not as excited as I thought I would be for this finale. Also +1 to opening credits song being "Let the Mystery Be".

I'm very excited for it, especially after seeing all the tweets in recent days from critics who have already seen the finale. I think for people who have loved this season and loved the series in general, it's going to deliver.

Also, they released the s3 soundtrack, Max Richter GOAT

(from Nora's flashforward scene):

Really excited for the final. Was pretty mind****ed when last weeks episode the code was same as in my phone 6969.

I'll be disappointed if they are all in purgatory.

....and they are the ones who disappeared.

Here we go. Put $5 on errybody cray for me

Wow.... delivered

+1

Loved it - pretty much a perfect ending to the series, I think. Whether or not we believe Nora's story is definitely something to chew on.

Also, really weird, but when Laurie first popped up in the phone call, I was like "oh, it's Laurie". For some reason the suicide thing never even registered with me in that scene and then when Kevin mentions her at the wedding I was like "oh **** Laurie didn't kill herself!" Dunno why I had that delayed kind of reaction, I guess I was just engrossed with where the Nora/Kevin thing was going at the time.

Perfectly satisfied with the ending. Although I thought for sure they were all in Hotel Purgatory when Laurie showed up.

Glad we found out what was on the pigeon notes, that was really bugging the **** out of me.

Yeah sounded potentially like a story a schizophrenic person would come up with to finally deal with the loss.

Great finale. My interpretation is that Nora actually yelled stop at the last second when in the machine. She created the whole alternate universe story as a defense mechanism to allow her some closure regarding her kids and to move on.

Makes sense... the whole show was really about the stories people tell themselves to find a way to keep on living in a world that makes no sense.

The goat scene killed me, there is something about an animal in distress that is always incredibly heartbreaking to watch.

Great show, prob. in my top 5 all-time, just wish we could have gotten more. So many of the supporting characters were basically forgotten this season due to time constraints.

Still digesting, but the music on this show is top notch

meh - i kinda get what they were going for but overall was unsatisfying for me on an emotional level. Which is the main thing I enjoyed about the show, how much it gave me the feels...felt nothing watching the finale.

The ending we got was great to allow people to believe whatever they want.

I think the series would have been better if they didn't go so far with the Kevin resurrection stuff.

Whatever heart problem he had is no explanation for him dying, being buried, and coming back eight (?) hours later.

Pretty much had the exact same reaction, didn't dig it at all. I like the last 20minutes but the rest just was mostly boring to me.

It's a good way of establishing that a character can intend to commit suicide on-screen and then bail out at the last moment off-screen.

That gives us reason to believe Nora bailed at the last second.

So i did have the thought halfway thru that the whole machine thing was a scam to fake people's death and then give them a new identity. If this is true, or if she hit the STOP button (which they didn't disclose existed at all) then how does she walk out of the trailer past her brother?

Not sure I agree with that. I really hope we are meant to believe that Kevin's (only near death?) experiences and Nora's story were delusions by flawed people dealing with crazy circumstances and internally with their own flaws. That is the only thing close to a sensible explanation for this series. Way more sensible than the Lost finale in fact.

Any amount of taking things literally is going to lead to conflicts. While she was talking all I could think was Nora's duplicate reality story was no less ludicrous than what Kevin experienced.

The more I digest the finale, the more I feel marveled at its simple brilliance