This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
It contains spoilers for the Legion, The Deuce, The Affair and Preacherfinales.
A showrunner, though, bears the weight of years upon their shoulders.
Sometimes they experiment with form, truth and the very idea of telling stories, likeThe LeftoversorRoseanne.
The Deuce
You should watchThe Deuce, I told my box-set devouring friend.
Its from David Simon, one of the guys who didThe Wire.
Is that the porn one?
he asked, his face scrunched up.
Nah, I can live without that one.
Thats one of the reasons whyThe Deuceis such an important piece of storytelling.
People dont stroll anymore: they swarm.
They move too fast to stop.
Hes a ghost, too.
The world has moved on without him.
Preacher
Preacherisnt a show much troubled by accusations of sentimentality.
They loved each other.
They hated each other.
They couldnt live without each other.
Literally, in Cassidys case.
Many long decades pass after the defeat of God and his Grail.
He ditches his sun-brolly and joins them in the eternal dust.
Somehow, in a pointless world,this final seems to be very much the point.
LikePreacher,Legions narrative ducks and weaves through a hall of smoke and mirrors.
David wants to love and be loved: by his parents, by his friends, by himself.
Like the ending ofChuck, but with the sadness turned up to eleven.
Be a good boy, Syd tells him, as they both slowly fade from the world.
Was one of the two lovers mistaken in their recollections?
Was one of them actively lying?
Are we defined by our memories?
Are we trapped by them?
Do the tragedies of our past condemn our future?
Are loss and sadness contagions powerful enough to cross the generations and infect our children?
They reconnect, reconcile and rejoin in Montauk, the very place in which their lives first blew apart.
At their daughters wedding.
Its a new beginning.
The Affairends with the message thatwe cant be defined by our trauma or mistakes.
The only perspective that matters.
just go easy on my eyes.
