Written by: Blake Larsen
The Leftovers on HBO was supposed to be Damon Lindelof's glorious return to television. It was dark, mysterious, and laser focused on it's characters. And if you're a Lindelof fan, you know all of these traits fall right into his wheel house. And while there is an extreme and unreasonably loud minority who were disappointed in Lindelof's masterpiece of LOST, it was apparent that Damon had learned from his LOST experience. Instead of keeping the spotlight of
The Leftovers on it's highly tantalizing mystery of 2% of the world's population disappearing, both he and show co-creator/author of The Leftovers, Tom Perrotta, decided to willingly admit that they were NOT going to tell you why the departure happened or where the departed went. It was an interesting choice, and it preemptively cut all of the old LOST naysayers right at the knees. Season one, although shrouded in some controversy about it's tone and storytelling structure, was, in this humble podcaster's opinion, excellent television.
So it's easy for me to say that if
season one was excellent television, then it's second season was nothing short of
transcendent. Sure, there was a fair amount of tweaking done to season two in terms of characters, setting etc., but these were all changes that were unexpectedly positive, needed, and most importantly, well earned. In other words - it was a huge improvement and I think that not only was it the best show of 2015, but season two of The Leftovers stands firmly among the top five of any season of television I have ever watched. Click "read more" for a comprehensive review of The Leftovers Season two Blu-Ray.
