SummaryThe drama series based on Tom Perrotta's novel of the same name finds the town of Mapleton three years after "The Sudden Departure," where two percent of the world's population disappeared in a thin air.
SummaryThe drama series based on Tom Perrotta's novel of the same name finds the town of Mapleton three years after "The Sudden Departure," where two percent of the world's population disappeared in a thin air.
All the hype leading up to the final approach of The Leftovers has merit. The seven episodes HBO provided are consistently brilliant, sure and mindful about tying up loose ends.
Season 3 is no less than a coup, wrapping up a wild narrative with ambitious new threads and honing in on each character’s fundamental spiritual and psychological beliefs.
I can't get over this series and will undoubtedly return to watch it a third time. So poignant. So well-crafted and acted (Kevin, Nora, Matt!!!). And the ending! I could watch that final episode on constant repeat, and never tire of it.
The slow start is WORTH IT!!!! HOOOOOOOO this show is a freaking FORCE. I’m a Christian and I’m not looking for “answers” or insight, I just want a well written show I can binge and it is giving me that. Don’t listen to the naysayers. This IS one of the best shows ever
What continues to impress is the show’s consistently striking attention to detail. The various storylines are elegantly structured, layered over one another to create the sensation of an image slowly coming into focus.
Once the show gets going, and it takes more than one episode to do so, The Leftovers bores into the characters and the fissures that crack their community so astutely that the cause is almost secondary.
It still gets a bit muddy sometimes--you can’t use a violin version of “Hallelujah” in this show--and episode three hints at that lack of focus from season one, but I’m more willing to go along for the complete journey than last year. The Leftovers has matured, becoming more about how good can come from awful, how we cannot linger in pain, and not just wallowing in grief and regret but identifying it and moving forward.
An uneven yet at times emotionally engrossing series that hasn't quite figured out an appropriate or clear tone to dramatize this mystifying meditation on loss, sustained grief and tested, twisted faith.
Almost every moment here is staged to scream, “Look at me! I’m arty!” Lindelof, burned mightily by the backlash over “Lost’s” ridiculous finale, has all but told reporters that the mystery central to The Leftovers will never be explained. That leaves you with a show wallowing in smug self-importance, melancholy and drear week after week.
There’s never been a television show that has shown how differently people deal with loss, grief and regret in such a profoundly beautiful way. This show deserves your attention.
i think its one of the best series ever made but unfortunately its not known as breaking bad or some other movies that is truly shame. there is so much feeling so much passion in series that breaks you. please just watch it
I am on my third viewing of this totally captivating series. The first two times I watched it in the series' intended order, this third time is simply though random episode selection: each viewing has revealed something new to me in the plot, characters and/or theme. So far the big answer has not been revealed to me; what has been revealed is that the big answer may not be so big or so important after all, and that it may not, in fact, be reveal-able at all. Far more important are the perspectives and interactions between the characters and their response to the chaos of existence, and to the artificial order we as human beings try to impose on it. Written, directed, visually and acoustically composed and interpreted in the series with flashes of empathy, horror, humour, drama and almost always brilliance, it is a mesmerizing series to watch unfold, and to twist and turn its way to a truly surprising but satisfying conclusion. A conclusion that gave me an unexpected jolt by re-aligning my own perspectives to the series' storyline.
I find so many positive reviews a bit baffling. A show like this lives and dies, for me, on how well it resolves all of the intrigue it drums up in the many plot lines, by the time the final credits role.
The Leftovers failed to do that, in all but one plot thread. The rest are left unresolved or, perhaps worse, we are given vague to the point of pointless, allusions. Some people might find that enjoyable, I just feel like I wasted my time with another Damon Lindelof show that went nowhere because he can't finish what he started, again.