Oh man, what a stupid mistake :|I hope it's good and I'll def give it a shot, especially since it's taking GOT time slot and I need something to fill that void now.
Also, just an fyi, it says July 29th in OP, instead of June.
Yeah, a critic also noted that.I've seen the first 4 episodes (screener) and the pacing is really slow. I'm not sure if people will dig it.
Washington Post - The Leftovers: A biblical event leaves a sorrowful mystery
Theres nothing warm or welcoming about it, nor is there meant to be. Where the networks True Detective occasionally broke its dolefulness with the slyest, philosophically artful wink at an audience riveted by its mystery, The Leftovers grafts more unhappiness onto unhappiness. Where Game of Thrones revels in even its most gruesome developments, it exists safely within the bounds of fantasy, so slay away. The Leftovers mainly acts as a means to deliver the worst news about human nature.
Yet, despite the downer language of this review, the show delivers on an exceedingly intriguing premise, with some of the most beguilingly morose performances delivered this year. Its a strange but good wallow.
Really don't know what to expect with this one, but I'll watch the pilot.
Thanks for putting the thread together.
Yeah, a critic also noted that.
Next sundayI guess tonight is this and the Michael Bay produced schlock. Man, Sundays suddenly went downhill.
So I wonder how ham they're going to go on the religion. Also are we going to get the Anti-Christ and stuff?
Ah, gotta get out of the way of Michael Bay! lolNext sunday
I've seen the first 4 episodes (screener) and the pacing is really slow. I'm not sure if people will dig it.
I've seen the first 4 episodes (screener) and the pacing is really slow. I'm not sure if people will dig it.
I guess tonight is this and the Michael Bay produced schlock. Man, Sundays suddenly went downhill.
So I wonder how ham they're going to go on the religion. Also are we going to get the Anti-Christ and stuff?
Lol dat op
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So is this gonna get cancelled?
Based on Tom Perrottas novel of the same name, and co-created by him and Damon Lindelof, The Leftovers is all bleakness all the time. Parts of it feel as though the show is emotionally blackmailing you into watching: What, dont you care about these poor, miserable people? Well, go ahead and change the channel then, you monster. The characters wander around in an emotional fog, with good reason:Nobodys giving anybody any breaks because theyre all in pain. Postapocalypse is no time for an ouch contest.The event was 9/11 multiplied by a couple million. Everyone knew someone who vanished. Many have turned to drugs or alcohol or self-mutilation.
But Id be lying if I said The Leftovers didnt fascinate me. The totality of the suffering feels new. The scale of it overwhelms, so much so that nitpicking the dialogue, the performances, or the filmmaking seems petty. This is what I meant by emotional blackmail, a certain amount of which is baked right into the shows premise. The Leftovers practically dares you to keep watching, and feeling. At the bottom of the first page of my notes, sloppy handheld camerawork is crossed out. Beneath it is overwhelming pain.
The Leftovers isnt a series of books like Game of Thrones, so do you envision the series going on for multiple seasons, or is it a one-off?
Perrotta: We dont even know if there will be a second season, so I dont have a plan.
Lindelof: This is an instance where I do feel comfortable saying what our truth is, which is our job was to generate 10 episodes of The Leftovers and make them as good as we possibly could and tell the story that we wanted to tell, and we didnt think about those stories in the framework of setting up the series beyond it. Its not about cliffhangers or dropping more mysteries. Lost had a mystery engine to it, so the show had to continue to drop mysteries in order to keep viewers involved and engaging in the mysteries, and we had to introduce new characters, too. The collective weight and size of that story was driving towards an entirely different ambition. For this, our goal was: If the show connects and people want more of it, there are more stories to tell in this world, but if it doesnt, and these 10 episodes are the only 10 episodes of The Leftovers that will ever exist, I hope it will be more like The Prisoner than other series that were canceled after one season. But we didnt want to think about the future, and were very committed to being in present time. Because the book embraces this idea of, Im not going to tell you about The Departure; Im not going to tell you how or why these people went, because thats not what the story is about. The story is about these characters living under the condition of felling like theyll never know. If thats the show that you want to watch, thats the show that we want to write. But that might not be the show that people want to watch.
Why do you say that?
Lindelof: Well, to me, the thing that made True Detective such riveting televisionas opposed to just good televisionwas that the thing that I cared about the least was who was responsible for these murders, and the thing that I cared about the most was Rust and Martys relationship, but their relationship existed as a result of these murders and was contextualized by these murders. But if you had presented me a final episode of True Detective where the murders were not resolved, I would have been frustrated, but at the same time, I felt that once that issue did get resolved, the more engaged part of me felt, Well, what of Rust and Marty? We feel the same way about The Departure in that the audience has to sign up knowing that its highly unlikely that theyre ever going to get that answer. And thats frustrating.
Though, all that dark philosophizing makes for punishingly grim, and at times tedious television. After a artful, captivating premiere episode, the series starts wandering. Its a bit aimless at times, as if Lindelof and Perrotta arent entirely sure how to wrangle the books scattered storylines into cohesive television. Its early yet, so Im still holding out hope for The Leftovers, but theres a tonal uncertainty thats worrisomezig-zagging in scope and theme is fine in moderation, but too much and its easy to disengage.
There is much here to like, though. Its a smartly assembled cast, which also includes a whispery but forceful Liv Tyler as a newbie cultist, a menacing Ann Dowd as a higher up in the G.R.s, and relative newcomer Carrie CoonCoon has a ghostly, withholding presence, and I find myself most invested in her characters quietly eerie plotline. The show is nicely shot, with a matte-finish stateliness and lyrical camera work, and is gorgeously scored. A lot of the music is Max Richter, and his mournful piano elipses give the series a grandeur and depth of feeling that its perhaps otherwise lacking. This is a show about longing to be chosen, ordained, blessed, counted, seen. And though its flaws keep it mostly rooted down here on Earth with us, its brief moments of near transcendence definitely make it worth a watch.as a woman whos become something of a celebrity after losing her entire family in the event. (Or they lost her, as the case may be.)
we didnt think about those stories in the framework of setting up the series beyond it.
Its not about cliffhangers or dropping more mysteries.
Lost had a mystery engine to it, so the show had to continue to drop mysteries in order to keep viewers involved and engaging in the mysteries
If the show connects and people want more of it, there are more stories to tell in this world, but if it doesnt, and these 10 episodes are the only 10 episodes of The Leftovers that will ever exist, I hope it will be more like The Prisoner than other series that were canceled after one season.
Because the book embraces this idea of, Im not going to tell you about The Departure; Im not going to tell you how or why these people went, because thats not what the story is about. The story is about these characters living under the condition of felling like theyll never know.
- Vaniety Fair (hahhahah...yes!) review: The Leftovers Is Dark and Intriguing, For Now
Damn, well I really like Max Richter...A lot of the music is Max Richter, and his mournful piano elipses give the series a grandeur and depth of feeling that its perhaps otherwise lacking.
That sounds like something I may find massively grating.This is a show about longing to be chosen, ordained, blessed, counted, seen.
This show's broken world is a hard one to shake off, and for me a hard one simply to step away from. In the age of second and third screens, social media and push alerts, it becomes difficult to sit through an episode of even the best shows on television without feeling the siren call of my inbox or my Facebook wall, yet I wanted to do nothing while watching each episode of "The Leftovers" (HBO made four of the first five available to critics) than to finish it — not to hasten the end of an unpleasant experience, but to keep from breaking the show's emotional spell.
But The Leftovers isnt much interested in my wants or needs; Lindelof has seen to that. Theres most assuredly not something here for everyone; it simply isnt that kind of show. What it is, I came to realize after sitting and squirming through four grim hours, is rather unique. Though hes still a little too fond of dream sequences and wise, watchful animals, Lindelof has successfully cast aside the whiz-bang nerd totems of his previous work and managed to tap into something deeper and more human which is precisely what makes The Leftovers so unnerving.