Content : The leftovers is an overrated slow TV show about life and death, grief, purpose, religion, love, hopen beliefs.
Form : A failed cerebral attempt at a twin-peakisation of Lost with non-resolved accumulating mysteries. Rhythm is bad and boring, most of the episodes are very annoying. I enjoyed a few scenes only in the whole show.
I forced myself to watch the 3 seasons because some reviews said : "watch the entire show, don't give up after first season". Epic waste of time. I wanted to give up at each single episode at each season. If you want something deep and intelligent, better read a good book than watching this show.
- Dramatic music when nothing happens, everything is an attempt at making things more dramatic than it actually is
- I never wanted to know what will happen next, and never wanted to know more about the characters and story
- There is no endearing, memorable character
- Too many positive reviews saying that negative reviewers did not understand the purpose of the show : it's well understood, it's failed and annoying
- Esotericism, symbolism everywhere, but it's going no where. Authors are just leaving out their own ego, viewers are victims. Writers, please do this alone at home only
Studying grief, family disintegration, and reactions of people to events is interesting : the way it's done in this movie is bad.
Tips : if you still want to watch it, find the feature "1.5 speed" on your video viewer, at least you'll save a few hours of your life
Compare the pilot of Breaking Bad, Lost, and The Leftovers : no comment