Earthquake24
Dodgeball Yakuza
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Is anyone else watching this? The basic premise of this series is that 4 years prior, an "event" occurred. Over 140 million people all of a sudden "disappeared". The average joe all the way to the Pope, even Gary Busey...vanished into thin air, just like that. No reason, no answers. None of the remaining people have ever had any closure or sense of why and how this occurred. Some believe it is the Rapture, others don't or simply not sure such as Father Matt played by the great Christopher Eccleston, who is the town preacher who decides to delve into the backround of some of those who were "taken" and he finds that many of them sinned, were not of pure good, so he himself is conflicted between not being one of the ones taken because he so much believed in his faith. That and his wife who fell into a comatose state because she witnessed the disappearances while driving, going into shock and crashing, hitting her head into the steering wheel.
The show deals with the events 4 years later, the remaining people known as the Leftovers, how they deal with their day to day lives, the struggles, the mysteries. There is also the "cult", the Guilty Remnant, who'se sole purpose is to "remind" the Leftovers of the "Event". They dress in complete white clothes, stalk certain characters all over town and smoke cigarettes constantly because according to them, they know what's coming, so traditional means of watching your health means absolutely nothing. None of the townspeople like the GR, they are always fighting with them. They don't speak, all of their answers are written on paper.
Very dark, dreary, depressed settings but the acting is superb. The music is also excellent. The show is written by the creator of Lost, Damon Lindelof, and it does share some of the mysterious elements from Lost. The opening montage is really well made too:
The show deals with the events 4 years later, the remaining people known as the Leftovers, how they deal with their day to day lives, the struggles, the mysteries. There is also the "cult", the Guilty Remnant, who'se sole purpose is to "remind" the Leftovers of the "Event". They dress in complete white clothes, stalk certain characters all over town and smoke cigarettes constantly because according to them, they know what's coming, so traditional means of watching your health means absolutely nothing. None of the townspeople like the GR, they are always fighting with them. They don't speak, all of their answers are written on paper.
Very dark, dreary, depressed settings but the acting is superb. The music is also excellent. The show is written by the creator of Lost, Damon Lindelof, and it does share some of the mysterious elements from Lost. The opening montage is really well made too:
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