Is there anything good on TV this summer?
The Leftovers is soooo baaaad
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Also please explain why The Leftovers is bad. It's a show about the search for meaning that provides few answers. Works perfectly to me.
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I've only seen the first episode but it was full of unearned self-seriousness and patent ridiculousness. It's this bad combination of faux gritty realism and total absurdity—either of which I'd accept on its own but together just come across as stupid and self-important.
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It is awfully full of pregnant pauses, but I think it's somewhat...not satirical but reflective of the seriousness with which humankind takes itself (especially when it comes to things like 9/11).
Kinda hard to hold ridiculousness against sci-fi, no?
I don't know, week after week, I'm blown away by the acting, the scripts, and the slow release of information. I'm a fiend.
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It's so great, isn't it?
I love it. The dealer guy is very different from what I was expecting, but in a good way (for some reason I was imagining a smaller personality for him). Just watched the Hannibal Buress episode, which was unexpectedly heavy but pulled it off reasonably well.
The best two episodes are the most recent two, I think.
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Max! I am so glad to hear you say this. Critics are giving it too much of a pass. I like the concept of it but the execution is just trying too hard to be solemn and maudlin.
I think it needs to either fully go for the kind of interesting theater-of-the-absurd quality it sometimes shows, or cut it entirely and commit to gritty realism.
I would prefer the former.
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No. I'm watching some Danish (or maybe Swedish?) political show on DVD because there's nothing else.
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Borgen? It's really good. Nick loves it.
Yep, I'm only two episodes in. So far I'd rank it as "Good, but not great."
