6/21/2023 0 Comments Never have i ever season 1 ep 9Jill was in denial about her parents’ marriage. Laurie was a therapist lying to her patients about how she felt. Kevin was a lost soul ready to risk his family for a one-night fling. While there were plenty of heartbreaking moments in “The Garveys at Their Best,” perhaps the most devastating aspect was how upset everyone was before October 14. Now we’ll just have to wait and see if he’s learned how to close. Lindelof has raised his game considerably since “Lost,” a series that feels bloated upon reflection (even considering the number of episodes he had to produce each year). While I have my own quibbles with “Two Boats and a Helicopter” arriving a bit on the heels of Peter Berg’s magnificent entry episodes, that now seems like more of a directorial bungle than one of planning. The “Lost” showrunner’s episode placement and general structuring has been impeccable in “ The Leftovers” debut season - the work of a brilliant, evocative and self-aware dramatist. It was and will be a jarring transition, and a reminder of the exquisite work Damon Lindelof has been doing this season. We can’t forget the braces.Ĭut to next week, when she’ll likely draped in white, chain smoking with her mom and placing fake corpses in people’s homes to remind them of the worst day of their lives. Up to that point, she was a bouncy, kinda bratty teenager who laughed hysterically at rainbow farts and didn’t understand her Grandpa’s favorite music. She knew something was wrong with her parents, but managed to suppress her concerns until they were specifically called out by Tom. Just as the youngest Garvey reached her lowest point (her best friend abandoned her - but she didn’t sleep with her dad, so yay! - her mother is gone her father is with a new woman she can’t trust her grandpa Nora is a liar without hope for redemption), we saw her at her highest, most jovial time. We’ve seen it happen, and yet it resonated so strongly this week because of when the flashback episode was released. It’s impossible to imagine the pre-October 14 Jill becoming the post-October 14 Jill. Laurie may end up being the dogs that kill the deer, but Kevin isn’t trying to save his wife anymore - he’s trying to save himself.ģ) Jill, at one point in her life not so long ago, was a very happy kid. It was at that moment, when Laurie told her husband to go save the trapped deer, that things clicked (for me, at least). So unhappy, in fact, he said “fuck you” to his wife, the person he’s been killing himself for and was at one point ready to sacrifice his town to save. That is, until we found out Kevin was unhappy. It seemed as though Lindelof and co-writer Kath Lingenfelter were foreshadowing the situation we all wanted to see end this week. He first said so at the police station, and that was even more on the nose - the Then-Chief gave the order to take it out on sight because it’s “dangerous and unstable,” while the Soon-To-Be Chief said they should just knock it out and take it to the woods (like he did with Patti). During this week’s episode, there were a few moments where I thought the symbolism was getting too heavy-handed (again).Īt his dad’s birthday party, Kevin said to Laurie that he wanted to save the deer because it was “confused,” an easy assumption to make about Laurie and the GR. He stubbornly protested their obvious threat to the society at large because of personal feelings he associates with them. I’ve been saying all along the deer and then dogs represented Laurie. Just one week after patting myself on the back for accurately predicting the identity of Gladys’ killer, I was put back in my place by - of all things - a symbolic identity twist. 2) The deer and dogs don’t represent Laurie - they’re Kevin.
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