What’s it gonna take to get you to watch The Leftovers?
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Nothing. I will never patronize anything in which Damon Lindleof is a principle, ever again. |
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I honestly have never teared up for a movie or show in my life before this one. |
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Just got caught up and your synopsis is spot on. Pretty heavy shit. Once you stop trying to figure out what's going on and watch how people respond to what's going on it is incredibly profound. |
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Heavy. That might not even be the heaviest scene, but its the one that sticks with me. |
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This show is firmly rooted in reality, and all the things that would make you shake your head as implausible or a narrative dead end in Lost, maintains the mystery we live with. I'm honestly curious how an atheist or agnostic views the narrative. It does a sublime job of presenting scenarios that would play with one's faith, while remaining plausible chance and serendipity firmly rooted in the real world. Case in point, I'm sure those with even the most passing acquaintance with the show is aware that, at some point in the narrative, 2% of the world's population simply disappeared. But while the characters in the show are deeply affected by it, that show makes no effort to explain it, outside various crackpot hypotheses being investigated by various entities. It's just SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED. It's a fact of life, the same as 9/11 or the sinking of the Titanic. The story is 'OK, this happened and it hurts like hell. So what do we do now?' It's not X-files, or Fringe, or Dr. Who. It's certainly not Lost. It's putting regular people in extraordinary circumstances, and letting them stew in the uncertainty and the striving for meaning in the face of a meaningless universe. Are you blame? Could you have done anything different? Does it matter? Will it happen again? How are people reacting to your plight. Again, what do we now? |
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But he burned me on LOST and again on Star Trek Darkness whatever. At that point I vowed to myself, "never again". |
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Maybe one of these days I'll catch up. But I still haven't seen the final season of Justified, which I think will premiere on Amazon in January, along with too many other shows to count. FYI, I had the final season recorded by the Direct TV DVR crapped out and had to be replaced. . |
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It does require a bit of patience, but like I said. Even as early as episode 3 you start to see the amazing potential of the narrative. Perhaps the best way I can explain it, it doesn't so much feel like watching a TV show, so much as watching the news covering tragedy in a part of the world you're almost but not quite familiar with. It's a very empathetic show that sticks in your brain. Also, the credit sequence for the first season does it no real favors. It's not bad, but the credits for the second season, by the time you get there is perhaps the best credits [in terms of being perfectly suited for the show] in the history of television [but no fair peeking ahead of time]. |
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I don't even know what to make of that episode. I'll have to watch it again at some point. What a trip.
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I hated it the first 15 minutes, but it grew on me.
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Alright. Not going to read thread. Is this series must watch or not? I'm having a hard time getting a read on how people feel about it.
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