The Season 1 finale of The Leftovers aired this past Sunday, and to some it could seem like that the Garveys were all back together. Well that is only half correct. Justin Theroux’s Kevin Garvey and his daughter may have gotten a new start, but it looks like Amy Brenneman’s Laurie and Chris Zylka’s Tom won't be joining the group anytime soon.
The director of The Leftovers Season 1 finale, Mimi Leder, recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about what is in store for Laurie (Amy Brenneman) :
“In the aftermath, when Laurie is looking at her family again--I was reading some reviews about it, and people thought it was Kevin wanting her back. But it wasn't. It was a moment about, ‘don't come near us.’ It was a moment about, ‘you've hurt us so much.’ She's disillusioned and feels the shame of having put her daughter in jeopardy. One of the scenes that was most interesting and most difficult in many ways was the sequence in the house where her daughter (Margaret Qualley) is there and her daughter says, ‘talk,’ and she says not, ‘go away, go home, it's dangerous.’ She wants to protect her daughter, but she wants to carry out what she has been planning with her group for all these months. The conflict of being the mother and that instinct coming out was a great challenge to her.”
Leder went on to talk about Laurie’s reunion with her estranged son Tom (Chris Zylka):
“Laurie and Tom have a very special connection. Kevin married her, fell in love with her and raised Tom as his son, but Laurie and Tom have a special connection. Where she goes at the end is where it all began in the pilot: the memorial park. It was another coincidence--how does he show up and find his mother? I said to him and to her, this is the place where you guys would meet. This is the place where your mom would take you. This was their place. So just when she thinks all is lost, she looks into the water, into the abyss, she turns and sees her son.”
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