Jun 4 2017
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The Leftovers has earned the right to whatever kind of finale it damn well pleases. That feels like an odd thing to…
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May 28 2017
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The final season of The Leftovers wouldn’t have been complete without another visit to the other side, the…
May 21 2017
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Episodic loglines are one of the more underappreciated art forms in the era of Peak TV. At their best, they have a…
May 14 2017
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In 1995, Neale Donald Walsch published the first book in his best-selling Conversations With God series, which…
May 7 2017
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In an interview with Vulture, Damon Lindelof described The Leftovers as a love story, with the relationship between…
Apr 30 2017
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Michael Schur, who created NBC’s fantastic afterlife sitcom The Good Place, has talked about the influence Damon…
Apr 23 2017
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The Leftovers might be television’s most beautifully realized show. Whether or not you like what the show is doing,…
Apr 16 2017
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“The Book Of Kevin” makes a compelling case in favor of artfully misleading trailers. All of the promos for the…
Apr 14 2017
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“I want fucking closure,” Carrie Coon’s Nora Durst declares during one of the final eight episodes of The Leftovers,…
Dec 6 2015
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Nobody is watching The Leftovers. Like, seriously nobody is watching it. “International Assassin” was beaten in its…
Nov 29 2015
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The Leftovers is magical. Not only in the sense that it flirts with magical realism and whimsical ideas, but also in…
Nov 22 2015
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The official tagline for the first season of The Leftovers was “We’re still here,” while this season’s tagline is…
Nov 16 2015
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In addition to being an all-around magnificent hour of television, “Lens” has the best kind of ending: the soft…
Nov 9 2015
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Whew, this fucking show. I hate to be hysterical about it, but The Leftovers is absolutely clowning the rest of…
Nov 2 2015
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Alan Sepinwall’s HitFix interview with Damon Lindelof prior to the start of season two, was fascinating and…
Oct 25 2015
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The Leftovers has a problem most television shows would love to have. It’s now two related but essentially separate…
Oct 19 2015
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If season two of The Leftovers were flying too close to the sun on wax wings, it would have become obvious during…
Oct 11 2015
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All that prevents “A Matter Of Geography” from being a disappointment compared to the stunning “Axis Mundi” is the…
Oct 5 2015
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“Axis Mundi” is nothing short of miraculous. There are certainly more creative words to describe The Leftovers given…
Oct 2 2015
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It’s a long, long time before a familiar face shows up in The Leftovers’ second-season premiere. Until Reverend Matt…