EPISODE
SEASON
The Leftovers - Season 1
The series takes place three years after 'Sudden Departure', the inexplicable, simultaneous disappearance of 140 million people on October 14, 2011. It follows a group of people from Mapleton, New York as they struggle to continue their lives while they cope with loss and the tragedy of the unexplained nature of the event.
18 September 1961, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, USA
10 January 1989, New York City, New York, USA
11 November 1983, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
6 August 1978, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
1965, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
October 05, 2015
The Leftovers has a lot in the way of compelling storytelling to offer, but unfortunately it's brought down by about as much that feels like it's doing nothing more than getting in the way.
June 27, 2014
Grim it sounds and grim it is, but in choosing to focus on the kind of survival stories that no one signs up for but that to some extent eventually shape us all, it can be unexpectedly eloquent about love and loss.
June 27, 2014
Perrotta and Lindelof are working with an admirably rich premise.
April 25, 2017
The maudlin cadences doubtless cast a spell. However, to approach the cult acclaim of Lost The Leftovers needs to shake off the torpor and give audiences something to cling onto.
June 27, 2014
So with visions of Lost still too recent, here we go yet again. But after reading The Leftovers and being immensely satisfied with it, I'm not inclined at all to embark on what looks to be a very meandering journey towards who knows what or where.
June 27, 2014
The Leftovers has an inherently depressing premise that fascinates in its first few hours.
June 26, 2014
While The Leftovers is in almost every particular better than the immensely popular The Walking Dead, it also has none of that show's cathartic, zombie-killing release.
June 27, 2014
As long as the series can maintain its focus on the psychological truth, The Leftovers will feel fresh.
April 14, 2017
I've watched few TV shows that make you so thoughtful. Lindelof and Perrotta make you think about the universe and whether our sense of daily purpose is too often diverted away from those who matter most.
June 27, 2014
The Leftovers conveys nicely the difficulty of maintaining order, physical or psychological, in the wake of inexplicable mass trauma.