The Leftovers - Season 1 - Review

Film writer, Daniel Lindelof, to make this spectacular piece of art. I think the leftovers might be the greatest TV show of all time, it’s solid enough to be in the same place as Breaking Bad and all the other wonderful and unique TV shows.

The first season of this show is particularly interesting and it definitely filters its audience because the first three episodes are very interesting but slow. You will not be able to tell what the show is about or what is going to happen next.

I wasn’t able to decide if the actors are good or if they are doing a lousy job but by the end of the season, I was doing a standing ovation in front of my Television with my eyes filled with tears and a smile on my face. This is a show about life and the reality we all try to ignore, get over or move on from.

The story begins with an event, The Sudden Departure, in which 2% of the world’s population disappears on the morning of October the fourteenth. They’re gone without a trace, nobody understands where they disappeared or why and the rest of the world is left feeling… well, like they’re the leftovers.

The entire season takes place in a small town in New York called Mapleton, where a few of its citizens were in a parking lot one day. One of them was a woman with her baby, who wouldn’t stop crying and she looks like a typical absolute mess of a new mom.

She puts the baby in the car seat, gets in the Car, and talks on the phone and we can hear the baby weeping in the background. Suddenly, the crying stops and the mom looks in the car seat, only to find out that her child is gone. Poof, disappeared and after that moment of complete silence, we start hearing screams from everyone else in the parking lot.

A kid looking for his daddy, other people looking for their partners, saying “He was just standing here” and a huge accident happens across the street. It’s a chaotic, stressful and devastating start, the camera moves around the street and comes back to that mom screaming her baby’s name, begging for someone to help her but everyone else is as busy looking for other loved ones that have departed.

Now, you start thinking that the show is about what happened and wait to try and find out but the storyline moves to three years after that event and focuses on how people feel.