I finally caught up with the series finale of “The Leftovers”
on HBO. I have enjoyed watching this show. It has been somewhat uneven in
quality from episode to episode, (and sometimes it jarringly changes direction/plotlines)
but overall I thought it was a thought provoking, creative and well-written
show. The premise of the show is that 2% of the world’s population (randomly??)
disappear suddenly. The three seasons speak to how a small group of individuals
from one town (and the world in general) has reacted to this event. Of course
it has overtones of the rapture, which made it a theologically interesting
premise for me. That being said, the
series finale was anti-climactic and disappointing. I don’t
know why certain shows have such a hard time with this knowing a series will
end. In the very last episode, the show compresses something like 30 years into
1 hour and only in the last 2 minutes of the show gives a quick explanation to
what happened in the intervening years. (or was she lying, or were they dead a
la Lost?) Although it was an interesting explanation at the end, there was much
left unanswered, such as how and why the people the disappeared and the fate of
certain other characters. The theme song
of the show was Iris Dement’s “Let the Mystery Be” I guess they kept to that
theme in ending the series.
Friday, June 09, 2017
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