A review of tonight's "The Leftovers" coming up just as soon as I get a Thug Life tattoo on my neck... "Sometimes, you have to pretend." -Kevin "The Leftovers" has offered some very brief glimpses of the world before the Sudden Departure, and alluded to the characters' histories. It's been focusing on the aftermath of what happened, and hoping that the performances and what little backstory we've been given will be enough to give us a sense of why the Garveys, Nora, Patti, Matt and the others have been acting the way they have three years later. And for the most part, I think the show's been enormously successful at that. Amy Brenneman's face tells me so much about Laurie, for instance, that I was actually relieved she didn't start talking to Patti when they were in the diner in the wake of Gladys' murder. That said, the past...
- 8/25/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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