Jill and her friend Aimee getting meaner and meaner to each other in a game of emotional chicken that Aimee eventually loses. Meg needling Laurie while breaking her vow of silence. Jill Garvey grilling Nora Durst about her gun over dinner. And certainly, the brawl between Kevin and Dean as Patti slowly suffocates in the background felt very much like something Walter White might have been a part of.īut it’s not just the actual life-or-death stakes of Patti’s plight that MacLaren wrings for every ounce of tension and pathos. As the helmer behind the parking-lot shootout in the Breaking episode “One Minute,” she’s directly responsible for the greatest gunfight in TV history, full stop. Michelle MacLaren is a veteran of Game of Thrones (two words: bear pit) and, more to the point, Breaking Bad, the roller-coaster ride in television form for which she was also an executive producer. So too is the stamp of the director, arguably the foremost in the medium. The cat-and-mouse game with Kevin’s mental illness are over, and he’s now gone full Fight Club Patti had a chance to tell her side at long last, and used it to bet the house on the notion that there’s some special, terrible thing about Kevin worth killing - and dying for. But the show did it in a way that takes a story past the point of no return. Any knucklehead can kill a main character, which The Leftovers did tonight. It’s a safe bet a sizable percentage of the audience shared Kevin’s horrified reaction to all this: What the fuck?īut beneath the horror, there’s a thrill, the kind that post- Sopranos dramas at their best deliver. So unless they end Patti’s life, Kevin’s life will be destroyed. His old pal Dean the dogkiller fills him in: Last night, the Chief jumped her, beat her unconscious, abducted her, and brought her here. Let’s try this again: Garvey, who finds himself outside an abandoned cabin with no memory of how he got there and discovers Patti, the local leader of the Guilty Remnant, inside the abandoned cabin. It happens directly beneath the schizophrenic feet of Chief Kevin Garvey, who wakes … actually, scratch that, he doesn’t even remember falling asleep. Like a trap door or a rotten patch of ice, tonight’s episode of The Leftovers - “Cairo” - is where the bottom drops out.
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