Warning: Full spoilers for the season below...
As huge fan of the first season of The Leftovers, I still got why some folks weren't into it. I didn't quite understand some of the actual hate, but I totally gelled with why it perhaps wasn't someone's cup of misery tea. But something truly clicked this year for the series. And in a way that those who previously didn't like the show now thought it was spectacular. That's a rarity in TV. To turn that type of corner creatively for people. To get that second chance to make a first impression.
Season 2 doubled-down on the endearing Kevin/Nora coupling - taking them up and out of Mapleton, in fact, for a big change in location. All while exploring a totally different side of the Departure phenomenon in an examination of "those who were spared." Those who, maybe, weren't crumbling on the inside like the rest of the world. A small Texas town that suffered no departures whatsoever. A place that had become famous for being something mysteriously, nebulously "miraculous." It could have just been coincidence that no one vanished from Jarden, TX, but the world Damon Lindelof established back in Season 1 showed us that there was something going on just underneath the surface of our reality. There was a truth. But just like the characters on the show, we'd probably never fully know it. Or wholly understand it.
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As huge fan of the first season of The Leftovers, I still got why some folks weren't into it. I didn't quite understand some of the actual hate, but I totally gelled with why it perhaps wasn't someone's cup of misery tea. But something truly clicked this year for the series. And in a way that those who previously didn't like the show now thought it was spectacular. That's a rarity in TV. To turn that type of corner creatively for people. To get that second chance to make a first impression.
Season 2 doubled-down on the endearing Kevin/Nora coupling - taking them up and out of Mapleton, in fact, for a big change in location. All while exploring a totally different side of the Departure phenomenon in an examination of "those who were spared." Those who, maybe, weren't crumbling on the inside like the rest of the world. A small Texas town that suffered no departures whatsoever. A place that had become famous for being something mysteriously, nebulously "miraculous." It could have just been coincidence that no one vanished from Jarden, TX, but the world Damon Lindelof established back in Season 1 showed us that there was something going on just underneath the surface of our reality. There was a truth. But just like the characters on the show, we'd probably never fully know it. Or wholly understand it.
Continue reading…
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