The worst show.
Has anyone else watched this? I marathoned the first season over the extended weekend with my wife and am impressed, even with Damon Lindelof's involvement. It's based on a book that proposed an interesting scenario: one day, without any explanation as to why, 2% of the world's population simultaneously vanishes without a trace. Religious nutjobs immediately claim the Rapture has taken place, new and increasingly bizarre cults arise from the shared sense of loss and everything from that point forward is tainted by the depressing lack of closure. Nobody ever returns.
The show basically uses that as a backdrop to tell the stories of a handful of characters living in a small town in New York, all of whom have been impacted by "The Departure" in some way. It's really fucking depressing a lot of the time, but the cast is decent (Chris Eccleston, Paterson Joseph, Tom Noonan, Scott Glenn, Liv Tyler, Justin Theroux going for some kind of f-bomb record, etc) and it's got a way of hooking you the same way Twin Peaks did at its best. It apparently did well enough that it's been picked up for a second season.
The worst show.
I liked it well enough. People getting hung up on the lack of an explanation are dummies.
I have a hard time giving a fuck about plots with people disappearing and reappearing out of time.
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