The Leftovers · Season 3 · Episode 8 · 4 June 2017
S3E8 The Book of Nora
THE MOMENT Nora's account of where she went - offered quietly, without spectacle - and Kevin's choice of whether to believe her.
The series finale centers on Nora Durst and the question of whether the truth she claims to carry matters more than the life she could still have. Lindelof and Perrotta decline to answer every question they posed, and critics were near-unanimous that this refusal was the correct artistic choice. Carrie Coon's final scene is the one people mean when they...
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The Leftovers Season 3 Episode 8 'The Book of Nora' aired June 4, 2017 on HBO as the series finale. Rotten Tomatoes holds Season 3 at 99 percent from 189 critics; Metacritic scored it 98. IndieWire called it 'an obituary of one of the greatest shows in the history of TV.' The finale centers on Nora Durst and the question of whether the truth she claims to carry matters more than the life she could still have. Lindelof and Perrotta decline to answer every question they posed, and critics were near-unanimous that this refusal was the correct artistic choice. Carrie Coon's final scene is the one people mean when they say television can be literature. Kevin's choice of whether to believe Nora's account is the show's last and most precisely placed moral question.