‘The Leftovers’ season 2, episode 4 reaction: What Nora Durst is looking for

It is hard sometimes to find the right words to describe “The Leftovers,” being that it is a show steeped in many different emotions. There are moments to be hopeful, moments to be despondent, and then moments to even be fearful that no matter where you go, there is no escape from the hardships of this world.

Still, Nora Durst is an example of a character who does still have hope. She moved from New York to Miracle National Park hoping for a fresh start, and there are promising things about this town. Unfortunately, at the same time you have Kevin Garvey blacking out at night and having visions, and you’ve also got earthquakes and what could be another Departure.

While Carrie Coon (who was excellent in this episode) was unable to really give too much away about what awaits her character to The Hollywood Reporter after Sunday’s episode, she did do a great job of laying out her character’s belief system:

“Nora wants to believe in the possibility of rebirth, of safety, of possibility that she has some ground to stand on to start over because once that identity has been taken from her — and Wayne took a little of that grieving woman away — and then leaving Mapleton, nobody knows who she is, so she gets to really start over in that truest sense that no one is immediately ascribing this event to her. She wants to believe that that’s real and possible and that you can change, that you don’t have to carry all your things with you — that you can put them down. I don’t think it’s maybe as easy as picking up and moving. It’ll take a little more work — maybe some therapy.”

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