What Happened in The Leftovers Series Finale? Director Mimi Leder Gives Her Answer

What Happened in The Leftovers Series Finale? Director Mimi Leder Gives Her Answer

One of the much-need good things happening in our year of the lord 2019 is the fact that The Leftovers team is thriving. Carrie Coon is one of the headliners in the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot. Damon Lindelof (along with fellow Leftovers creatives Nicole Kassell, Nick Cuse, Lila Byock, and Carly Wray) and Regina King are about to unleash the spectacular HBO Watchmen adaptation. Justin Theroux has a voice role in the upcoming live-action Lady and the Tramp. And Mimi Leder, who was an EP and directed 10 episodes, is about to launch the star-studded Apple TV+ series The Morning Show.

Leder directed episodes in all three seasons, including standouts like 'The Prodigal Son Returns', 'A Matter of Geography', and the absolutely stunning series finale 'The Book of Nora'. Written by Lindelof and book author Tom Perrotta, the episode will undoubtedly go down as one of the best finale's in TV history -- as much for the questions it refuses to answer as the more existential and philosophical ones that it does.

What exactly happened? Did Nora travel to her departed family and somehow find a way to come back to our reality? Was she making the whole damn thing up? We will likely never know for sure. Coon has vowed never to reveal how she played the scene, and Lindelof has likewise said he intends to keep mum. After all, the beauty of it is in the interpretation. However, with The Morning Show arriving on Apple TV+ at launch on November 1, we had the chance to sit down with Leder and the filmmaker finally revealed her take on what happened.

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