Liseys Story
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It felt more like Scott Landons story or even Jim Dooleys.
It really is this storys fatal flaw.
Liseys Story opens with a quote from Oscar Wilde: A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Who is the flower?
Jim and Lisey see the monstrous Long Boy on the horizon, and Jim looks particularly terrified.
Lisey hits him in the head with her trusty shovel, and the two fight.
A broken hand that Jim bites.
Lisey screams and the Long Boy draws closer.
As Jim head butts a shovel, the Long Boy is above them.
Lisey stabs her husbands No.
1 fan in the neck with a syringe and the Long Boy grabs Jim.
Jim Dooley is gone, but the episode has 45 minutes left.
But first Lisey Landon has to dispose of a body.
It turns out that Jims destruction in Booya Moon leaves a decapitated corpse in Liseys pool.
Lisey Landon is alone again, hearing Scott talk about Bool Hunts in her head.
Is hers not done?
Theres a sound bite of Amanda saying that this is Liseys story.
How does she end it?
She says, Im sorry for your loss.
Jim had none of that, always considering the loss his own instead of Scotts widows.
Amanda tells her theyre dead, holding on for a while before the next phase of existence.
And so Lisey marches into her pool again to end Scotts story and really start her own.
She finds a rope that leads her to a box and a note that says Bool!
Theres a notebook with pages for a book called, you guessed it, Liseys Story.
Its the final Landon family flashback.
There wasnt much to life after Pauls death, leaving Scott alone with his abusive father Andrew.
Scott made dad a sandwich with moldy bread and was forced to eat it.
Dad tells him to be brave, and that hes not going back to work.
When someone comes looking for him, he nearly gets a shotgun to the head.
He chugs a bottle of booze and passes out, leaving a note for Scott to kill him.
The poor boy does exactly that, but he cant take him to be buried with Paul.
Maybe he just didnt belong there.
Scott left Lisey a hunt to save Amanda and in case someone like Cole came after her.
Now that she knows ALL of his story, she can go on and write her own.
There are no more secrets, no more dark past, nothing more to say.
A nice montage of her love with Scott follows before Lisey picks up her shovel one last time.
She gives it to the Long Boy, and the creature lets her pass.
Stories were all I had, but now I have you, he says.
Lisey, I love you, he says.
Lisey sits and suddenly sees the Hollyhocks.
Is she now trapped there like Amanda?
Is she accessing a part of her memory and imagination that she couldnt before?
Lisey closes her eyes.
Cut to a running sink.
Lisey turns it off.
Shes ready to write her own story.
She says aloud that she will be okay.
The lighthouse spins and turns off.
Lisey goes out to eat with her sisters.
They probably have a lot to talk about.
The University of Maine employee says that Scotts papers will have a good home at the Fogler.
Hes referring to the Raymond H. Fogler Library in Orono, Maine.
Theres probably a whole lot of Stephen King in that library.
Who was your MVP?
Honestly, the show had few standouts, but Michael Pitt made the most unexpected decisions.
Thanks so much for reading!
