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Originally Posted by GGG

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You believe Nora?

To me the beauty of the ending is that it’s just as likely that the entire machine is made up and Nora’s story of what happened is made up. Nora has rationalized accepting her loss. Kevin accepts that her faith is okay and he doesn’t need to question it.

You can also logically infer that if Nora came back from the 2% it would become common that 2%era would also comeback as well and in the absense of this happening that Nora’s story is entirely made up.

That doesn’t matter though because the story is about accepting a loss of control in a world and accepting the nicer story (the nuns and the bird scene nails this)

There was no supernatural activity beyond the rapture at the start.

I hear all that, but...

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Kevin was resurrected multiple times, Kevin Sr. communicating Kevin Jr. in the "afterlife", Mary waking up and conceiving, the animals went crazy, etc.

And sure, some of it can be chalked up to coincidence and unreliable charlatans and narrators, but Michael was a reliable witness, so it's hard to explain away...

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Kevin being dead and buried for 8 hours.

There were definitely supernatural elements sprinkled throughout the course of the series. It was the hook. They could have told the same story and landed the same ending excluding all the red herrings.

I'm glad I watched it, but I didn't appreciate the feeling I was taken for a ride for a story or lesson that was viable without all the superfluous nonsense.