The Leftovers

  • How Raised by Wolves Became Too Crazy For TV

    HBO's Raised by Wolves underwent a metamorphosis during its first season and its finale established it as the most wonderfully insane show on TV. Until it wasn't. ...
  • John From Cincinnati Remains HBO’s Most Baffling and Cryptic Show

    Fifteen years later, John From Cincinnati still confounds with its bizarre mix of religious enlightenment and surfing culture...
  • The Ten Best Television Episodes of 2017

    For the spoiler-conscious beware! I’ve tried to stay vague and avoid spoilers but some small ones might slip through. Tread carefully. It’s been a great year for television, whether streaming or traditional, as new shows made fantastic debuts, modern classics came to an end and classics returned to our...
  • Flashforwards: The Overused Tool of the Long-Form Narrative

    Spoilers for Lost, Arrival, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead, Agents of Shield, Uncharted 2 and The Leftovers incoming. Every now and then television as we know it gets reinvented. One pioneering show garners acclaim and fandom and completely changes the landscape inspiring a number of other...
  • The Best TV Series Finales Ever Made

    Spoilers inbound. If you see the name of a TV show you don’t want spoiled then move on to the next. Being of a long form narrative, television shows are a journey. A journey for the characters we check in with every week and also for us watching the...
  • My Hopes for the Third and Final Season of The Leftovers

    Spoilers aplenty for the first two seasons of The Leftovers. If you haven’t watched the show, then don’t read on. If that’s the case, then what the hell is wrong with you? Go watch it already, it’s amazing! Acclaimed drama is on TV every single day across multiple networks...
  • The Leftovers Season 1 Revisited

    This article is meant for people who have already seen BOTH seasons of The Leftovers because the first season is discussed in relation to events and information from the second season. This is a general discussion of the first season and not a review; some aspects of the show...