![]() (The show flirts with many imagined purgatories but perhaps the real Dante’s Inferno is the one we’ve been living in all along?) Three years after this bastardized Rapture, survivors in a nondescript town in upstate New York are just trying to make the best of things. An event known as the Sudden Departure strips the world of 2% of its population, leaving the remaining inhabitants of Earth in a kind of grief-stricken limbo. With just three seasons and 28 episodes, the series paints a harrowingly plausible dystopia. But, possibly the biggest thing The Leftovers has going for it is this: It’s a damn good show whose poignant philosophical musings and twisted, supernatural cliffhangers will alter your brain chemistry – if you let it. It boasts some career-high performances by the likes of Justin Theroux (who happens to be popping up on HBO’s new series, White House Plumbers this weekend), Carrie Coon, Liv Tyler, Christopher Eccleston, and Ann Dowd. It’s a winding mindf*ck of a saga birthed from the synapses of the great Damon Lindelof ( Lost, Watchmen, the brand new series Mrs. There are a few reasons to indulge in a re-watch of HBO’s supernatural drama, The Leftovers. ![]()
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