The Leftovers - Season 2 - Review

By
Ethan Griffin
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The Leftovers - Season 2

Let me just say that the combined effect of the actors in this show and the plot is a once in a lifetime kind of thing. The fact that all these emotions are perfectly relayed through a screen without a single close up shot is extraordinary as well.

The second season of The Leftovers is so much smarter and more entertaining than the first season. It still revolves around human connection and suffering and how the pain starts in our childhood and develops with the events and the circumstances we go through. It’s about faith, death, dreams, and it takes us to some kind of afterlife. This season is everything.

If you’re one of those audience members that like the creators or a particular show or film to explain what is happening in life and the events the characters revolve around then this season and the entire show is not for you.

The leftovers leaves out details on purpose, because like in real life no one knows, there are no answers, no logic, no sense making fair divine story. It’s about our psychological states and how we deal with life Traumas and our worst nightmares coming true and what we would do if they came true, how would we be like, how our lives would change.

This season starts with Kevin Garvey, Jill, and Nora Durst trying to make a family with and for the baby Nora found on Kevin’s doorsteps and create some sort of a life away from Mapleton. They move to a town called Miracle in Texas, where Nora’s brother moved in earlier and was feeling pretty safe.

Especially after the shit hitting the fan at the end of season 1. So this town is safe because on October the 14th, none of the citizens in Miracle departed. They say they were spared for some reason that they do not understand but they appreciate it and are grateful for God.

As they move in, the very first night, their new neighbors’ teenage daughter disappears and Kevin is going crazy because he was there but he doesn’t remember anything because he was sleepwalking.

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Nora doesn’t believe she departed and she doesn’t believe this thing is going to happen again, but Erika (her neighbor and that girl’s mother) believes she did because Evie (her daughter) would never do anything like that.

However, it turns out Evie joined the GR, and she faked her disappearance in attempts to remind the world of the “Sudden Departure”. The scene where we find out where Evie is and when her mom finds out, how she struggles to get her daughter to talk to her and regain emotional connection is just extremely emotional and very well done.

There’s also a scene in this episode where Nora’s new adopted baby gets taken from her and she finds in on the ground in a street where everyone is running away from a bridge in which they think is about to explode.

The scene where the baby is laying there on the ground with people passing above it and Nora runs and throws herself above the baby to protect her, is very familiar. Like that scene from Lion Kind when Simba sees his dad fall into the valley with groups of animals running and passing over him.

This season Laurie leaves the GR and decides to gain some courage in her life and to face the pain, try and help others instead of staying in a self-destructive loop. Tommy is back in Mapleton and lives with his mom in an attempt to find purpose and find ways to deal with their grief and their shared traumas.

Jill makes peace with Nora and seems to feel a little better with their moving to Miracle but this season’s strength is in Matt, Nora’s brother and his battle with faith and Mary his wife who’s been in a coma since the Sudden Departure but wakes up because miracles do happen in Miracle.

And Kevin’s battle with his mind, his mission to slay his own dragons and get rid of the Patti inside his head, one of the best episodes in the history of TV. This season is smart, surreal, realistic, and just makes the show one of a kind.