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EPISODE
SEASON
The Leftovers - Season 1 Episode 01: Pilot
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.
21 February 1964, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England, UK
21 May 1972, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
30 May 1979, Sterling, Illinois, USA
10 February 1973, Palestine, Texas, USA
6 May 1952, Horsham, Australia
19 February 1953, Salzburg, Austria
14 August 1963, Durham, North Carolina, USA
October 05, 2015
Despite my trepidation, the noisy glimpse of a fallen world proffered in the series premiere is enough to create a strong desire to see these questions answered.
January 27, 2015
Peter Berg's direction holds this question-packed hour of television together, introducing an addictive central conceit with proper patience.
October 05, 2015
This is some soul-crushing s- right here.
October 05, 2015
It's all a very weird, sad world, and we know it gets only more twisted from there.
October 06, 2015
These people have been cracked open, and the cracks are just near enough the surface to show, but just buried enough that they're sort of getting by.
October 06, 2015
Theroux's simmering-souled Garvey hooked me. I don't mind living with miserable characters, as long as they're interestingly miserable. There's some glory in the gloom.
October 06, 2015
Too many high-concept shows are afraid to be about what they're actually about, for fear of scaring off potential viewers; The Leftovers is exactly about what it's about.
October 06, 2015
This is The Twilight Zone by way of J. J. Abrams: a morally provocative, fantastical premise played out through a well-coiffed cast of actors with Gossip Girl-caliber good looks.
October 05, 2015
Destined to become a hot topic where people will argue over the meaning, the intent, the conclusions.
October 06, 2015
The Leftovers won't give out answers, but it also takes no prisoners. And as usual, the unknown here works to be more unsettling and terrifying than any hard truths.
