It’s time for another episode of “fucking hell I’m not
drunk enough for this.”
I don’t think I could ever be drunk enough for this.
I don’t think anyone is ever drunk enough for this.
Except maybe the writers. They, I think, are drunk enough for pretty much
anything.
We open with a naked French man on a submarine launching
a nuke against an island. I think Leftovers
may be resorting to throw hot naked people at us to distract us from the
nonsense. I approve of this plan and naked French submariners.
Anyway this is causing problems with flights to Australia
Which is a problem for Matt. Matt wants to go to Melbourne to get Kevin to come home before the anniversary of the Departure because Matt has decide that Kevin must must must be in Miracle for that day for Reasons.
Which means exploiting a man’s faith to make him abandon
his sick mother to pilot a plane to Melbourne using the lie that they’re an aid
relief mission. Such a nice man is Matt
With him he’s bringing Michael and John as fellow believers in Kevin the Hot Tattooed Messiah (hey it’s a better selling point than the people who knock on my door on a Sunday morning) to convince him. Laurie, married to John, is also coming to try and help Kevin. She’s furious with Matt who she blames for feeding Kevin’s delusions and driving him to run off to Australia by taking his mental illness and turning it into a religion. It has to be said, no psychotherapist advises to help those having a psychotic break by worshipping them.
Time for things to get weirder. The plane, due to the
nuke thing, is diverted to Tasmania which means Matt & co need to get a
ferry to Melbourne and the only ferry available has already been chartered by a
lion-sex-world-tour-orgy. At some point during the proceedings they try to
forcibly extract Matt’s sperm. And they have a lion
Just run with it. It’s the Leftovers it’s not meant to make sense. Generally it’s an excuse to
throw more naked people at the screen in the world’s tamest orgy. Australia, I am
disappointed with your orgy mojo, up your game.
Matt and Laurie continue to argue including whether John
managed to get over his seething violent rage because of Matt’s faith or
because he married Laurie, a psychotherapist. Matt pulls an additional dick
move he decides to tell John that Kevin saw Evie even though Laurie pretty much
proved this to be a delusion. Thankfully Laurie and John seem to have a stable
happy relationship and this doesn’t cause the rift between them Matt as clearly
hoping for. Matt is an arsehole
He’s also even concerned Michael and John with his rigid
belief they have to be back in Miracle for the anniversary, despite it being
obviously impossible. The way he’s talking also suggests he’s willing to kidnap
Kevin
There’s also a bloke on deck who calls himself God. Being
a religious fanatic, Matt takes exception to this and the cards he’s handing
out, which are kind of cool (of course he lacks all self-awareness to see him
setting up is own religion based on random post-departure events but is
outraged by another man’s based on his near death experience).
Then he witnesses God throw a man overboard. Matt has
trouble getting anyone to believe him despite running around and shouting a lot
so ends up hitting god with an axe handle so her can force him to confess. This
ends up into an angry rant – but not at the man for impersonating god, but at
god. Matt is furious with god because of all he has sacrificed, Mary left him,
he’s suffered and he’s done it all for god; while the man, David, doing an
excellent impression of god keeps asking him why. Easily he exposes that Matt
has been doing everything for himself, his own idea of what he needs to do on
the impression that god was watching.
Matt is also dying – a childhood disease he had, which he
thinks was cured due to prayer – has come back. He begs the man/god to heal him
and seems to genuinely believe. Despite the dubious finger-snap.
So Davdgod is released and Matt returns to the gang
seeming to be just a bit more mellow in his raging self. Belief he has been
cured? Fatalism? Finally snapped?
As they get close to dock the captain reveals they’ve
found a body – proof that Davidgod did throw someone overboard. But Matt is
disturbingly mellow, even saying he has no pressing business in Melbourne any
more despite his previous obsessive urgency.
And the lion eats Davidgod. Because why not?
