So far through three episodes, “The Leftovers” season 2 has felt very much like a scattered show. The first episode revolved around the Murphy family, while the second installment officially showed us how the Garvey family made it to the “miraculous” town of Jarden, Texas. Then, for episode 3 we abandoned Miracle altogether for the […]
For those of you who were expecting to see “The Leftovers” adopt more of a “lighter” tone in the second season as compared to the first one, that didn’t last going into Sunday’s episode. This episode was in many ways criminally depressing, from Laurie being told that her interpretation of the Guilty Remnant story was […]
Tonight, “The Leftovers” on HBO continued a recent trend for it, and that is moving across a variety of different storytelling planes. We saw more of the story of Laurie, and this time around, we actually got to hear her words on a consistent basis. This was fascinating, thought-provoking stuff, and it gave us more […]
So far, you could claim that the first two episodes of “The Leftovers” have almost been two separate stories. The first served as a worthy introduction to the Murphy family, a group of people who served as the perfect introduction to Jarden and Miracle National Park, a place that looks on the surface to be […]
Through two episodes, “The Leftovers” has felt like an entirely different show on HBO. While it may still be somewhat depressing, the storytelling has ratcheted itself up yet another notch, giving us what has to be one of the most thoroughly complex and interesting offerings that we have on all TV. Justin Theroux is killing […]
Is it fair to say that this is “The Leftovers” that we were expecting back when we first heard this series announced on HBO? We’d say so. Being free from the original source material (but still tied to it thanks to Tom Perrotta’s involvement), Damon Lindelof has been given so much more freedom to explore […]
There was a big surprise for many of us earlier this year when we learned that Ann Dowd was going to be returning to “The Leftovers” as a series regular. After all, the general sentiment for just about everyone out there was that the character was dead. How in the world was this happening? As it turns […]
How many viewers were leftover to watch “The Leftovers” on HBO Sunday night? Let’s just say that the second go-around for the Damon Lindelof series did not meet our personal expectations. Per a new report from Deadline, 713,000 viewers chose to watch the series live on the network Sunday. We personally don’t focus as much […]
We appreciated how the season 2 premiere of “The Leftovers” did in some ways address the criticism that is out there for the show, but at the same time, it also focused quite a bit on executive producer Damon Lindelof doubling down on being one of the biggest risk-takers out there on TV. He started […]
We have to be honest: We thought that season 1 of “The Leftovers” was somewhat of a disappointment. We had huge hopes going in as longtime fans of Damon Lindelof, but the show spent the majority of its time wallowing in misery. We never questioned the strength of the writing or the acting, but there […]
