EPISODE
SEASON
The Leftovers - Season 1
This film begins three years after the sudden disappearance of 140 million people on October 14, 2011. Soon, the people of Mapleton, New York have to go on with their lives while trying to cope with the tragedy and mystery behind the disaster.
5 August 1965, New York City, New York, USA
6 August 1978, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
27 August 1966, Spokane, Washington, USA
30 December 1963, Houston, Texas, USA
13 September 1963, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 February 1953, Salzburg, Austria
18 May 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
29 December 1953, Albany, New York, USA
18 January 1967, New York City, New York, USA
13 April 1981, Panama City, Panama
30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
29 May 1958, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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.
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
The Leftovers conveys nicely the difficulty of maintaining order, physical or psychological, in the wake of inexplicable mass trauma.
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
Perrotta and Lindelof are working with an admirably rich premise.
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 27, 2014
As long as the series can maintain its focus on the psychological truth, The Leftovers will feel fresh.
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.
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.
