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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
If you skipped out on the Leftovers, it's your [sore] loss.
Don't take it as 'well, they don't deal with the event, so it must suck.'
The aftermath of 'the event' is truly more compelling than one could ever imagine the event itself to be.
It's very moving because it gives a solid, almost irrefutable, sense that in some form or another 'The Gospel' has a kernel of truth, but doesn't answer questions that remain [leftover] with that knowledge.
A third of the world's population disappears in an instant, and the world just chugs along. And the show takes it seriously as a concept. Imagine 1/3 of your family disappearing in an instant, and 1/3 of the family next door, and so on, and so on. How do you deal with grief? With faith? With random fate?
THAT is what the show is about, taking faith to the next level where it's not blind, but it's still not clear-eyed, and it's clouded with impotent rage and new questions and grief.
We are in a golden age of TV, and if I had to choose an experience I'd least like to lose The Leftovers would be high on the list. Game of Thrones or Fargo or Better Call Saul, might be tighter plotlines, but as a meditation on life, the show just sticks to your soul. It inhabits your worldview.
I can't recommend it enough, and am frankly jealous you have an opportunity to watch it afresh, possibly in a binge.
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I'm definitely not knocking The Leftovers, I could see it's brilliance from the few episodes I did watch. I agree that the aftermath is more compelling than the actual event in that scenario and maybe it was a poor example on my part, which is why I refrained from naming comparable shows in my initial post on the subject. I'd like to hope that I'll come back to The Leftovers at some point, but for what entertains me at this point in my life, it's a bad fit. And that's a definite it's me not you type of sentiment.
I used it here simply because of the thoughtfulness in the way The Night Of is being filmed. With the tension they built showing what it would be like sitting in a squad car at a murder scene you were at. What it's like to be processed and questioned by the police. The lead up shots of the jail, capturing the true desolation of the place. All that leads me to believe they're after more than a who done it. Which is great if you're throwing enough bones along the way that lead to a logical explanation of what happened. I think that is happening, with some of the memory flashbacks and the lawyer digging and capturing the moment at the funeral, etc.