“The Leftovers” Is More Confusing Than Ever But I’m Still Obsessed With It
Yes, I made fun of the first season of “The Leftovers,” but I’m secretly — well, it’s not really a secret — obsessed with it. It has a lot of problems. As this Grantland article explains, the show suffers from the disease of Pretentious Bullshit as a substitute for the difficulty of depicting the complicated human experience of being alive in a changing world. (Yes, deers need to stop being a symbol of wisdom and piety. So do doves.) However, the show does have a hold on many things that we experience in our culture, like the casual weird acceptance in the face of the inexplicable violence. (For example, a guy shoots up a community college in Oregon and we all react with creepy normality because…”stuff happens”?)
I did almost drown in the barrage of metaphors that began with the Quest For Fire woman having a baby post-earthquake apocalypse and ended with fish flopping around on an empty river bed. We get it. Death. Primal woman. They Mystery of Nature. (The book by Tom Perrota had none of this and actually depicts grief better than anything I have read or seen.)
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Also, a lot of strange things happen like a farmer brings a goat into a restaurant for slaughter in front of patrons and, apparently, the entire cast of “Perfect Strangers” did NOT depart/disappear in Star Treck beam. (Ok, so this was two paragraphs…)
Next episode? More weirdness, please.
