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Fridge Brilliance

  • In one episode, a woman is seen attacking a member of The Guilty Remnant, while crying and shouting "Leave us alone! You're fucking everywhere! Leave us alone!" When one member of The Guilty Rembrant starts to attack Matt for harassing them about how the event was not the Rapture, she shouts almost the exact same thing at him.
  • Kevin repeatedly comes back from the dead, to the point that Matt and others suspect that he's a divine agent. In the series finale, he mentions that he had a "really bad" heart attack that revealed a congenital heart defect, which he had repaired. That's one more instance of Kevin almost dying and yet coming back.

Fridge Horror

  • The implications of the ending of "The Garveys At Their Best" are truly horrifying. It is implied that Laurie, who was in the early stages of pregnancy, saw her baby become part of the departure while it was still in utero. Its scary to realize that she was almost certainly not the only woman who had that happen, and it also raises other questions. Such as what if somehow, a mother-to-be was taken, but not the baby? Or if the one or the other disappears during childbirth? If the placenta and umbilical cord did not disappear along with the baby, the woman would need medical intervention if her body cannot expel them.

    • In "The Book Of Nora," Nora's story, if true, would suggest that for every event like Laurie's fetus disappearing, an identical parallel world was left with a fetus and no mother. Her story also means that the girl who departed from the fridge in season 1 probably died in the fridge in the parallel world.

  • The end series leaves some ambiguity, but it seems likely Nora lied about travelling to the otherworld. If she had been there, she of all people would know how important it would have been to let people know the truth, to bring them peace. She could have gone to the scientists, who would know for certain she did not lie as they witnessed her transfer, and they could have sent another person directly where the device one the other side is, for further confirmation, as they could once more return and bring news. Assuming the device works, proving it would have been easy.This is potentially double horror, since if it has not been confirmed what there is on the other side. The scientists may have been sending people to die in cold vacuum of space, or similar dead end, for all this time, where they drift amidst 140 million other corpses.That would mean they have effectively been running an overtly complicated euthanasia service for people who can't let go of their loss.

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