Leftovers [HBO] [** Spoilers **]

Just don't know what you'll get from one episode to the next, apart from the fact that it will be amazing.

Another fantastic episode. The characters are all so well fleshed out it is incredible.

castletownman wrote: »

What is the name of the song played over and over again at the start?

Have heard it so many times before without knowing the artist, and I must say it was a fantastic use of it.

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Just incredible TV. Totally above and beyond what "entertainment" should be. Worried about the viewing figures, I'd be gutted if it was cancelled.

Are the viewing figures very poor for it? I don't know anyone personally that watches it and anyone I recommend it to looks distinctly uninterested

Doesn't bode well for a third series if so, they need viewers to make it viable.

readyletsgo wrote: »

From reading what American's think about the show, yeah, ratings are low, like 700,000 avg a week. BUT, hbo have it on their on demand service over there and they are counting the viewership seprate there too, so could be Mich more.

Also, the writers have said, season is written and they are already working on season 3s script. I think it will get another season.

I mean, it's the best show on tv right now, it has to, right? right?

I wouldn’t be overly worried, it’s in a timeslot that is ridiculously competitive, The Walking Dead, Homeland, and Sunday Night Football are just a few direct competitors. People (myself included) are much more likely to watch those others live due to the higher risk of getting spoiled and then watch Leftovers on demand.

I’d be pretty confident they’ll get at least one more series even if the on demand numbers aren’t enormous.

Azalea wrote: »

The "Hit him as hard as you can and say Brian" :pac: thing reminds me of Lost in a big way and I can't help worrying about the whole Lost problem... but man... it is phenomenal!

Well if it's the Lost problem was getting answers and they've already stated that you're not going to get them all.

Aside from the departing itself everything so far that is 'supernatural' could be explained in other ways. I like the air of mystery behind them.

FloatingVoter wrote: »

^ Exactly. People depart. It has happened before in pre-history (cavegirl).

Where are people getting this bit from? I've read this on other posts too, and I didn't see cave girl depart. She died.

Anyway, this show is the most intriguing thing on TV right now, more so than even Fargo. It's so bizarre, yet so compelling. I know the producers have been at lengths to express that the show is called The Leftovers, and not The Departed, or The Missing. We're likely never going to find out what happened, as the show is about those left behind, and not the ones that went away. With that in mind, I don't get a Lost vibe from it, as with Lost, we never knew that the answers wouldn't come. Everyone expected a rational explanation, where as with this it seems unlikely that there can be a rational explanation for millions of people just vanishing.

In the latest episode, I think it starts to show just how crazy everyone is becoming due to not knowing what's happened. The people in the camp are certifiable, and Matt's probably not far behind. I think that Mary might have woken up and talked to Matt on their first night in Miracle, but that it was just a hallucination on the side of the road due to being hit in the head, plus his deep need to make it real. I wonder if John knows that the place is special, and that's why he goes around trying to shut up anyone confirming that it is a miraculous place, as that will just draw more in?

I'd like to see it get 3-4 good season, and then end too. Dragging it on for years will likely kill it, and not in a good way.

I saw it as them showing that people have dealt with similar situations/feelings throughout history.

They link the cave woman having to deal with and move on from her people ‘disappearing’ (hers due to the avalanche but which must have been as confusing to her as a departing would be in present time) and also link someone taking on her child to the family taking on the ‘special’ baby.

Also, by showing that earthquakes in the area are normal throughout time, they’re giving the standard Leftovers nod that what happened at the lake and the damage to the roads (that people think are special enough to put in a box) can be easily explained.

Superb episode.

My favourite HBO tv show since Deadwood.

If it's bringing you down that much, better not tell you what happens at the end of episode 5 then!

conorhal wrote: »

I can't watch the end of episode 5, can somebody spoiler it for me? I can't handle the way the series treats Christopher Eccleston's character, the trials of Job were nothing compared to this, for the character and the bloody audience as well, It's just emotional torture porn at this stage so I'm unsure if I can continue with this series in much the same way that I'm not that interested in watching (the far inferior) Walking Dead, which is just the highest rated snuff series on the planet right now.
I wonder at the chances of any kind of satisfying conclusion the show can have, because I can't see it getting renewed, thus making the time investing in it wasted, the audience for this sort of continual punishment is too small.
For the characters of Deadwood at least there was some hope, and there was always some humour also, but The Leftovers is just a dour, hateful, nihilistic series. I dipped back in against my better judgement and now I regret it.
Oh, and will somebody just give Christopher Eccleston two Emmy's right now, the second for his performance in his standalone episode in season 1 that was criminally overlooked also. Then again, I he wasn't such a damn fine actor I might have made it to the end of the episode.

wow. another amazing episode