Breaking Down the Ending of Enternity

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Eternity

Death comes suddenly in Eternity , but the story that follows moves with a slower rhythm. After bickering with his wife in the car on the way to a family gender-reveal party, Larry (Barry Primus) dies choking on a pretzel: one moment surrounded by children and grandchildren, the next jolted awake on a train, decades younger (now played by Miles Teller ). He still thinks like an octogenarian, grumbling and sentimental, but the world around him has shifted into something unfamiliar—a mid-century hotel-like waystation crowded with equally bewildered souls.

This is the Junction, the film’s gently absurd, bureaucratic bridge to the afterlife . Everyone who arrives is assigned an Afterlife Coordinator and given seven days to choose one o