The Third Day

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As much as pagan rituals, acid trips, grief-stricken hallucinations, and all-too-real murders.

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As much as closeups on Jude Laws face (and thats saying something).

No, no, and no.

Day has broken and found them alive and together, for the moment anyway.

And in that moment, thats enough.

We, too, live in a world that seems sick.

Its only fitting that the series should end with clasped hands and a mother and childrens embrace.

Not that it was a foregone conclusion that the series would end that way.

Though this, too, came with a substantial emotional weight to bear.

The emotional violence is extreme, too.

But as Helen leaves, Nathan, the boy, says something strange.

If the boy isnt Nathan, then who is he?

What if itisthe heart of the world?