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EPISODE
SEASON
The Leftovers - Season 1 Episode 02: Penguin One, Us Zero
The series takes place three years after 'Sudden Departure', the inexplicable, simultaneous disappearance of 140 million people on October 14, 2011. It follows a group of people from Mapleton, New York as they struggle to continue their lives while they cope with loss and the tragedy of the unexplained nature of the event.
31 January 1939, Manchester, England, UK
5 June 1951, Hamilton, Texas, USA
23 October 2002, Huntsville, Texas, USA
1957, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
21 November 1983, Galveston, Texas, USA
20 February 1971, Dallas, Texas, USA
12 August 1974, Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland
October 06, 2015
Part of this show's challenge is to place us in the heads of characters coping with an utterly preposterous scenario, which is why the Case of the Disappearing Bagel was such a shrewd device.
October 08, 2015
The Leftovers takes place in a well-trod genre, in a form, the postmillennial prestige drama, that's been analyzed like few before it. The more it stops doing the things it has to do and starts doing the things it wants to do, the better.
October 05, 2015
Member, dismember, remember, commemorate: The consonance that The Leftovers begins to unearth here is potent, suggesting a society torn limb from limb and haltingly pieced back together.
October 06, 2015
This show carries with it an addictive angst that's difficult for those like me who are drawn to stories about broken people to resist. Everyone's cracked and creased, but in different ways and for different reasons.
October 06, 2015
What we gained in explanation, we lost in momentum. I'm still enthusiastic about the characters and the premise, but more things need to happen now.
January 27, 2015
Sunday night's episode of Damon Lindelof's new drama continued the relentless pacing of the first hour -- as long as the dour tone -- but with similarly fascinating results.
October 05, 2015
I'm pretty split down the middle as far as what has kept my interest following the second week and what I found myself a bit bored with.
October 05, 2015
It's a shame that more viewers aren't able to focus on the weirdness of The Leftovers instead of its melancholy. If they could, the show - which, by the way, is pretty fantastic - might not already be known as the biggest bummer on television.
October 06, 2015
One of the most fascinating things to me about The Leftovers is the way that the story is focused on the Garvey family, who lost no one we know about in the Departure, but who have all lost themselves and each other in the aftermath.
October 06, 2015
It's too early to push away The Leftovers, but the second episode did closely echo the premiere in particular ways, with the payoff being a surprising link between characters.
