![]() ![]() It is confounding, and heartbreaking, and magical. ![]() The first season is bleaker than it needs to be and can occasionally be a slog, but the second and third seasons are as close to perfect as television gets - excellently written, emotionally powerful, masterfully crafted spiritual journeys with layers of mystery, literary and pop-culture allusions, humor, and heart. Set in a universe where two percent of the entire world’s population mysteriously vanishes, The Leftovers plays with questions of faith, death, the supernatural, rebirth and the afterlife, all the while featuring some of the decade’s best performances from Carrie Coon, Regina King, Christopher Eccleston, and Justin Theroux. Damon Lindelof’s series - based on the Tom Perrotta novel of the same name - is a dark drama, a mystery, a meditation on grief, and often a religious experience in and of itself. ![]()
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