US: The Leftovers

We finished series 1 last night, what a corking episode the last one was. Ended up forgiving Lindelof a bit for some of the Lost-isms that kept springing up throughout the series as a result.

The most enduring thing for me of the entire thing though is the musical score, one soundtrack I will be buying for definite.

Go on then, roll on series 2. :)
 
So, are all the folk who vanished in the rapture like event basically the unwanted and the reason everyone is so messed up (aside from the obvious) is that deep down they all know they contributed to it in some way?

Really enjoyed it, some great dark humour - the main characters "wtf" face whenever something bizarre would happen for one.
 
Watched the 1st couple of episodes and didn't think I'd stick with it, came back to it and saw the priest episode which was one of the best hours of TV I've seen. Just binged on the final seven in one day and thought it was excellent overall. Pretty crazy last episode. The music throughout the season has been outstanding.
 
Just finished the season 2 première and it looks like being just as brilliant as season one. :)

The first nine minutes will provide quite a talking point unless you peek inside the spoiler that is :D

from an interview on the Vulture with Damon Lindelhof...

"We all listen to the Grantland podcast with Andy [Greenwald] and Chris [Ryan]. And we love it and think they’re brilliant. But they both ******* hate The Leftovers. So the joke was, “What can we do to completely and totally **** off those guys?” There was a lot of, “Oh, Greenwald’s gonna love this” going around in the writer’s room. I think [the joking] was also a reflection of our fear that we were about to completely and totally shoot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. But … it felt right. It’s that simple. "
 
rids57 said:
Just finished the season 2 première and it looks like being just as brilliant as season one. :)

The first nine minutes will provide quite a talking point unless you peek inside the spoiler that is :D

from an interview on the Vulture with Damon Lindelhof...

"We all listen to the Grantland podcast with Andy [Greenwald] and Chris [Ryan]. And we love it and think they’re brilliant. But they both ******* hate The Leftovers. So the joke was, “What can we do to completely and totally **** off those guys?” There was a lot of, “Oh, Greenwald’s gonna love this” going around in the writer’s room. I think [the joking] was also a reflection of our fear that we were about to completely and totally shoot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. But … it felt right. It’s that simple. "
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I still have no idea what went on in those first several minutes.
 
Damn. My biggest fear was this would be similar to Lost and they would just toss in a bunch of random stuff, keep it going for as long as possible and i'd get fed up and stop watching due to most of it going nowhere.

Looks like it may go a similar path :p

I enjoyed the first ep but if the cavewoman scene was just trolling then how much else is going to be random to throw it off. I prefer an intelligently woven show :(
 
I think the whole cavewoman joke/troll may well come to bite them in the backside, a whole 9 minute extended scene is too much screen time to waste on egos.
I thought the rest of the show was very good, specially the new neighbours, there are going to be fireworks there. :D
 
Well, after solid slow burner first season the whole thing just got Lindeloffed in under an hour. No explanation, no preparation, not a word of introduction to why and how several characters ended up in the same alternative location, but off they go with unprecedented behaviours chasing weird and bizarre every five minutes. Just questions, never answers.
 
hmm

i liked season 1 haven't seen any of season 2 but i'm not liking what i am reading

i'll keep tabs on it for a few weeks and cram it if it sounds like it picks up
 
cm1179 said:
hmm

i liked season 1 haven't seen any of season 2 but i'm not liking what i am reading

i'll keep tabs on it for a few weeks and cram it if it sounds like it picks up
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I think it's just one of those things that you end up investing time into the first series and then you kind of feel obliged to see it through. I stopped watching Lost after 4 or 5 epsiodes of series 2 which at the time was an outrage to anyone who watched it but I think I had the last laugh on that one with the way it ended (plus the hype of the universal screening of the finale) but with the Leftovers it almost feels like if you miss an episode you'll miss the entire story if that makes sense.

Still I have absolutely no idea what is going on and I almost think Christopher Ecclestons part is a red herring which makes your brain apply the most 'logical' reason (even to an atheist) to the problem when in fact it is probably going to turn out to be something completely different or more sinister.
 
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