The Leftovers are heading toward their final destination when the series begins its third season this coming Sunday.It's fitting that The Leftovers Season 3 begins airing on Easter Sunday, not because of the tie-in with the trailer in which Kevin Garvey declares he's not Jesus, but because the series has always been about faith.As the series draws to a close, various characters will find themselves on intensely personal journeys that will push them to their limits and test their faith more than ever before. Theroux's Kevin is at the center of much of the conflict and discussion, as is his partner Nora (in a divine performance by Carrie Coon), his ex-wife Laurie (the always superb Amy Brenneman) and his father, Kevin Garvey, Sr. That's what they face every anniversary of the Sudden Departure.Is this it? Is this the end? The end is near. There are 13 more days.there is an anxious feeling that doom is coming, but it's hard to determine if it's some sort of mass hysteria or if it's the real thing.Considering what they've all been through, you'd have to choose. Either it's going to happen again and you're OK with that, or it's not, and you're OK with that, too.It feels like that's what we're all thinking about all the time, and The Leftovers got there first.Lindelof and Perrotta also did it far better than I'd ever be able in my real world situations.Even when the most astonishing thing is happening in the lives of the Garvey family, for instance, they somehow still do it with grace.
You have a week to catch up before the premiere, and it's worth your time. The callbacks to Season 2 are also worth a rewatch, or at the very least reading past Leftovers Reviews to reacquaint yourself with what you may have forgotten.This series is so stunningly beautiful it seems silly not to revisit it in some form or another.The Leftovers Season 3 is outstanding. It takes Season 2 and masterfully builds upon the characters' emotional backgrounds, giving them more depth and taking their journeys to stunning, unpredictable places with great reward.Without seeing the final episode, it's the best concluding chapter to a television series in recent memory. There's not a stone unturned on the fearless journey to what I expect will be a magnificent ending.Be here on Sunday, April 16 after the premiere airs at 9/8c on HBO for a full review.
Toward the end of the pilot, which airs Sunday, we follow our protagonist Justin Theroux's Kevin Garvey to a bar where a television station is airing a program commemorating the three-year anniversary of the departure. As two talking heads debate what it all means, photos of celebrities flash by with the chyron 'Remembering the 'Victims' of the Sudden Departure.' Those that left the Earth were:.
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Condoleezza Rice. Salman Rushdie. Shaquille O'Neal. Jennifer Lopez.
Anthony Bourdain. Gary Busey. Bonnie Raitt. Pope Benedict XVI. The bartender says what we are all thinking: 'The Pope, I get the Pope, but Gary fucking Busey?' The entire sequence adds a bit of dark humor to the moody pilot.Tom Perrotta's novel on which the show is based also features a passage that enumerates the famous people that were lost.
' Depending upon your viewing habits, you could listen to experts debating the validity of conflicting religious and scientific explanations for what was either a miracle or a tragedy, or watch an endless series of gauzy montages celebrating the lives of departed celebrities,' Perrotta writes. He then lists those who went missing:. John Mellencamp. Jennifer Lopez. Shaq. Adam Sandler.
Miss Texas. Greta Van Susteren.
Vladimir Putin. The Pope. 'the nerdy guy in the Verizon ads'. 'the retired Supreme Court Justice'.
'the Latin American tyrant'. 'the quarterback who'd never fulfilled his potential'. 'the witty political consultant'.
'that chick who'd been dissed on The Bachelor'. 'According to the Food Network, the small world of superstar chefs had been disproportionately hard hit.' That last one probably accounts for why Bourdain made the cut in the TV version.
No word on why Dan Marino didn't survive the book-to-HBO transition, though.This article is from the archive of our partner The Wire.We want to hear what you think about this article. To the editor or write to letters@theatlantic.com.