Season 1 of HBO's The Leftovers was based on a book of the same name by Tom Perrotta. And Lost's Damon Lindelof, aided by Perrotta, reshaped the story for TV, making up the entirety of the first season. There is no follow-up book to The Leftovers though, so Season 2 - which premieres Sunday, October 4th - was up in the air, story-wise.
Because of this, certain elements of Season 2 (new location, reshuffled cast) might give off a "reboot" impression, even though it's where Lindelof and Perrotta naturally wanted to take things. "Reflecting back to Tom’s book, we always wanted the show to feel authentic," Lindelof said of the series' grim tone during a Leftovers Q&A panel at the TCA Press Tour, "but the first season of the show we make no apologies for. We wanted to ground the world. And to many, that may have felt bleak and depressing, but to us, it kind of felt honest. But what was really important to us is that the characters on the show didn’t want to feel that way."
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Because of this, certain elements of Season 2 (new location, reshuffled cast) might give off a "reboot" impression, even though it's where Lindelof and Perrotta naturally wanted to take things. "Reflecting back to Tom’s book, we always wanted the show to feel authentic," Lindelof said of the series' grim tone during a Leftovers Q&A panel at the TCA Press Tour, "but the first season of the show we make no apologies for. We wanted to ground the world. And to many, that may have felt bleak and depressing, but to us, it kind of felt honest. But what was really important to us is that the characters on the show didn’t want to feel that way."
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