Damon Lindelof
The Leftovers

LA RECENSIONE

“Do you want to feel this way?”

First of all, this is an unfairly underrated series, but at the same time, I am aware that it may not be to everyone's taste.

Launched by HBO in 2014, ‘The Leftovers’ narrates over 3 seasons the vicissitudes of the inhabitants of an American town in the aftermath of the sudden disappearance into thin air (departure) of 2% of the world's population. Well, at this point you might think it's a sci-fi series and this might lead you to choose other titles, or you decide to start but, clashing with a lackluster first half of the initial season, you decide to quit. My advice: keep going. Give this series a chance which, as mentioned, starts very slowly but by the end of the first and in the following two seasons increases in quality, also due to a revision of the plot by the writers (including Damon Lindelof of Lost), following a drop in viewership.

The entire series is aimed at searching for an answer to the sudden departure, but the thread that unites the three seasons is really the love story between the two protagonists Kevin and Nora, played by the excellent Justin Theroux and Carrie Coon.

In this series, everything revolves around the figure of man, with his questions and hopes, with his weaknesses and madness, and above all with his need to believe in something beyond this world. You will then be faced with expressions of religious fanaticism, cults, improvised gurus, personifications of the figures of Christ and God, and in all this you will be kept to question what is right and what is wrong, what to believe in and what not, because in this series, as in life, there are many questions but few answers.

Finally, great credit for the positive outcome goes to the thrilling soundtrack by Max Richter, with all its dramatic and emotional impact.

It is certainly an atypical TV series, with topics treated in a way that is never trivial and far from a mass product made to gain audiences, but if you like the dramatic aspect of modern man, then I recommend you try watching it, savoring it alone and in small doses.