IGN’s pick for the best television series of 2015, The Leftovers, finally returns this Sunday for the debut of its third and final season. I recently sat down with Damon Lindelof -- who created the series with Tom Perrotta, who wrote the book on which the series is based -- to discuss the approach to Season 3, which will partially take place Australia (a setting that’s been established in previous seasons as having notable importance) and the decision to wrap up the critically acclaimed, yet unfortunately not widely viewed, show in Season 3.
Lindelof also explains his resistance to binging TV shows and his preference that a TV episode feel like its telling its own clearly-defined story, rather than the more nebulous approach some shows take in the Netflix era of treating the entire season like a story meant to be seen in one sitting. Plus, the Lost co-creator discusses whether he'd return to broadcast TV again, now that he's wrapping up a show for HBO.
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Lindelof also explains his resistance to binging TV shows and his preference that a TV episode feel like its telling its own clearly-defined story, rather than the more nebulous approach some shows take in the Netflix era of treating the entire season like a story meant to be seen in one sitting. Plus, the Lost co-creator discusses whether he'd return to broadcast TV again, now that he's wrapping up a show for HBO.
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