To Get Down With The Leftovers Or Nah: Mid-Season Breakdown

This picture above is the perfect representation of The Leftovers. Raw, emotional, powerful. The Leftovers is the last truly weird show that HBO has left. It embraces every inch of its magical, supernatural, God-fearing self. Now, I’ll keep it 100. I typically begin the breakdown of a show that is so heavily dependent on Biblical themes by telling people to stay away from watching if religion is not their thing. Not the case with The Leftovers. It doesn’t matter if you go to church three times a year, never, or twice on Sundays, this show is slowly creeping into MUST WATCH territory. Let’s jump into the Season 1 recap and a Season 2 breakdown and get into some character insights of this superbly written show. FULL spoilers for Season 1. Jump to the spoiler free Season 2 breakdown if you’re avoiding bombs. You have been warned.

Season 1 was all about the the world dealing with the unfathomable predicament of suddenly losing 2% of its population. No one has any idea how they all disappeared, but they’re gone and everyone else remains. Confused, heartbroken, desperate for answers and closure, they remain. Our series focal point is Mapleton Chief of Police, Kevin Garvey. He’s a seemingly good man trying to keep his picture-perfect upstate New York town together in the most trying time in the history of the human race. Not only is he dealing with the fallout of all these lives vanishing from so many Mapleton households, but his family is in shambles.

Kevin’s wife, Laurie Garvey …