You know, I dedicated a lot during the pilot asking, like, What the fuck happened? Like we all do. A fever dream? Who knows? It’s one guy’s really horrible dream, yeah. It might have something to do with it … Are we talking about the Departure itself? Does it have anything to do with Aliens? Is it, like, a stealth tie-in with the Alien movies? I don’t know! I’m just trying to figure out where the show’s going. Wait - you didn’t really weigh in on the space clowns thing. I can tell you what’s going on with my family but I think that’s about it. I mean, it’s the old, do you want to know what’s going on? I don’t even know if I can tell you what’s going on. Space clowns? That’s just throwing a dart at something. So, the big reveal at the end of this season is space clowns, right? It’s interesting that you say “departure.” Yeah, it’s a cool little departure to zoom in on one person and their troubles. The two episodes that stand out for me so far are the third, which focused on preacher Matt, Christopher Eccleston’s character, and the sixth, which followed his sister, Nora, played by Carrie Coon. We’ve kind of done the opposite, which is that we’ve begun with this shattered world, and as the season progresses, we’re reaching backward into their history to try and put together the pieces, which I find fascinating to watch. If it was just a family drama, you’d meet a family and the people that live in that neighborhood, and then you’d think, Oh, maybe their marriage is falling apart, and maybe you find a joint in the kid’s bookbag. What makes it different is that it’s kind of reverse storytelling, in that you’re given this cast of characters who for all intents and purposes you shouldn’t care about that much, other than that this miraculous event has happened to them, and then as the season progresses, you learn more and more about them, and hopefully, by proxy, start to care about them more. I was just actually talking to Damon about where it has gone and where it is going, or where we know it’s going. The series began with a glimpse at the Departure but has mostly avoided flashing back to that day. The Leftovers Raptured Balki and Cousin Larry And I think smartly, I said, “No, I’d probably rather find out in real time, in my own way.” That paid dividends in that, as we filmed it, I was able to watch the show in sort of the same way everyone else is now watching it. I was getting scripts one at a time and at the beginning of the season Damon asked me, “Do you want to know the super-arc of your character?” You know, there’s the arc of each episode and then there’s the super-arc of the season. It’s exactly the same question that I had when I would get scripts. It’s usually something about the Guilty Remnant. And then a lot of “What the fuck’s going on?”ĭo you understand where those kinds of questions are coming from? Many of the story lines on the show are still cloudy heading into episode seven. Really? It’s not, “What do you have in your refrigerator that could be construed as leftovers?”Įxactly! No, it’s not - although I have been asked that question cheekily by someone before. What question do you get asked the most about your show?
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