During last week’s episode of The Leftovers, “International Assassin,” we were taken all the way to purgatory and back, after Justin Theroux’s character Kevin kinda sorta killed himself to get rid of ghost Patti. Now the show’s boss, Tom Perrotta, is talking about weather what Kevin experienced in the hotel purgatory was real or not. And we thought American Horror Story’s hotel was weird.
Leftovers novel author and series co-showrunner, Tom Perrotta, recently spoke to Indiewire about last week’s episode and if it means that what Kevin experienced was real or not:
“There is the experience that Kevin has and that we witness, and then there is the question of the framework. And what you're saying is there's a framework I can place over this experience to look one way, but there's another framework I can place over this experience to look another way. So you and I might say, ‘Well, I don't believe there are people who can visit the land of the dead and return.’ But throughout human history many, many people have believed that there are people in their community who can communicate with the world of the dead and come back. And yeah, they're obviously operating from a different framework, and they have experiences that feel real to them within that framework.
“So, I think what the show is trying to do is show characters in desperate need of a framework to make sense of their experience. The framework that works is the one that works.”
What you think about last week’s episode? Do you believe what Kevin saw was real? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section at the bottom of the page.
Be sure to tune into the all new episode of The Leftovers, tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on HBO.
