The Leftovers

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Title: The Leftovers

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

First aired: 2014-06-29

Creator: Tom Perrotta, Damon Lindelof

Cast: Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman, Christopher Eccleston, Margaret Qualley, Chris Zylka, Carrie Coon, Scott Glenn, Regina King, Jovan Adepo, Kevin Carroll

Overview: When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.

 

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[SERIES][TVPOSTER]View attachment 112265[/TVPOSTER][SERIESWRAP][EPISODENAME]The Leftovers[/EPISODENAME]

Genre: [GENRE]Sci-Fi & Fantasy[/GENRE], [GENRE]Drama[/GENRE]

First Aired: [RELEASE]2014-06-29[/RELEASE]

Overview: [PLOT]When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.

Based on the bestselling novel by Tom Perrotta, 'The Leftovers' follows Kevin Garvey, a father of two and the chief of police in a small New York suburb, as he tries to maintain some semblance of normalcy when the notion no longer applies. [/PLOT][/SERIESWRAP][/SERIES]

Revolves around the Rapture and follows a group of people who are left behind in the suburban community of Mapleton. They must begin to rebuild their lives after the sudden and mysterious disappearance of more than 100 people.

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The first book was the only one I read, it was ok, not bad or anything, just not great either. I blame this book for the death of the book club, and I blame a_skeleton_03 for choosing it.

However, I think it could work great as a series.

 

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spronk

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FROM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER DAMEN LINDELOF

nope, fuck that shit

 

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Drinsic

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lol Lindelof. aaaaaand fuck this

 

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Drinsic_sl said:

lol Lindelof. aaaaaand fuck this

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As per IMDB: Lindelof is a writer and producer, known for Lost (2004), Prometheus (2012) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)...

It's seldom that a single sentence contained all that I needed to know.

 

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Soygen

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As much as I agree with the Lindelof hate, my love of HBO is probably stronger. They don't make too much stuff that sucks. Granted, with Lindelof aboard, this could be another John From Cincinnati.

 

Falstaff

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So all the people who disappear, are they just on the island? And the people in white are the Dharma Initiative?

 

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No. Stop. I'm trying to not go there! FUCK!@#%

 

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Good concept for the series but the book had lots of problems. If they just take the concept and put good writers on it, might be interesting.

 

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chaos_sl said:

I blame this book for the death of the book club, and I blame a_skeleton_03 for choosing it.

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The book club was killed by abunch of people voting for a Tesla book to win and then never reading it. Makes no sense to blame this book, which people actually read.

 

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Soygen_sl said:

No. Stop. I'm trying to not go there! FUCK!@#%

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but..WE HAVE TO GO BACK

 

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spronk

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i don't believe him
Damon Lindelof Promises You His New Show Won't End Like 'Lost'

 

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My wife really wants to watch this. I really don't want to unless Eya tells me it's ok.

 

Falstaff

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I'm canceling my HBO as soon as GoT season ends because I don't want to witness this abomination.

 

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spronk_sl said:

i don't believe him
Damon Lindelof Promises You His New Show Won't End Like 'Lost'

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That actually makes me even less interested in this. Him still thinking Lost ended well is just unforgivable.

 

Falstaff

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Didn't want to create a new thread for Lost when I read this, but since it's been brought up...

The 'Lost' Creators Come Clean - Esquire

 

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The Leftovers | The Official Website for the HBO Series

New series premiered tonight.

I didn't see a topic on it here...so I started one.

thoughts?

 

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Trailer looked so bad that I refused to watch it.

 

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Meh. The pilot tried really hard to create tension and overall I just found it kind of boring. I'll probably keep watching simply because there isn't anything else and I'm not going to watch True Blood.

This does seem like a premise Lindelof can maybe work with. Unexplained phenomenon we never get an answer to and just a bunch of character development wrapped around it. I thought this first episode was acted well, for whatever that is worth.