But viewers tuning in for that kind of guessing game were largely baffled by and disappointed in the show’s grim first season. The impulse to view The Leftovers, based on Tom Perrotta’s novel about the aftermath of the disappearance of 2 percent of the world’s population, as yet another hatch-and-numbers-based puzzle to solve, was overwhelming. Lost was an early entrant into the increasingly-popular mystery show genre, which sends detail-obsessed viewers chasing theories in a way even Lindelof himself couldn’t have seen coming. When The Leftovers first premiered on HBO four years after the controversial finale of Lost, there was a strong temptation to mistake Lindelof’s new show for something it wasn’t. This article contains frank discussion of Season 3, Episode 8 of The Leftovers, entitled “The Book of Nora.” That discussion, along with excerpts of interviews with Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, will spoil not only the finale, but also The Leftovers in its entirety-so enter at your own risk.
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