Originally Posted by Sully:
Liv Tyler just knocked it out of the damn park this week.
Its amazing, an embarrassment of riches really, after what this show got out of Carrie Coon and Regina King a couple weeks back, and Theroux and Dowd last week, and Eccleston every Gott Damned minute he's on screen.
Minor aside, how brilliant was planting Evie's father's obsession with hearing crickets early in the season? And the girls driving to the lake in subdued silence? [Reply]
Wow. That ending. I don't know how they are going to have the time to resolve all of this season's storylines (or if they'll even try), but the finale should be quite something.
It really would be unfortunate if HBO doesn't renew and next week was the end as this season has been incredible. [Reply]
Phenomenal conclusion to one of the best seasons of television I've seen in a long while. While I'd love to see them make more and go deeper with some of these characters in a potential S3, that was still a fine place to leave this series. [Reply]
Just watched the finale and HOLY SH*T ..... what a fantastic series and just incredibly well done. The acting is just unbelievable .... WOW ... just WOW [Reply]
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The Leftovers will not be making a sudden departure from the TV landscape: HBO has renewed the acclaimed yet low-rated drama for a third and final season.
“It is with great enthusiasm that we welcome back Damon Lindelof, Tom Perrotta and the extraordinary talent behind The Leftovers for its third and final season,” said HBO president Michael Lombardo in a statement. “This show has proven to be one of the most distinctive HBO series and we are extremely proud of its unrivaled originality, which has resulted in such a passionate following by our HBO viewers. We admire and fully support Damon’s artistic vision and respect his decision to bring the show to its conclusion next season.”
Added Lindelof: “I have never, ever experienced the level of creative support and trust that I have received from HBO during the last two seasons of The Leftovers. Tom, myself and our incredible team of writers and producers put tremendous care into designing those seasons as novels unto themselves…with beginnings, middles and ends. As we finished our most recent season, it became clear to us that the series as a whole was following the same model…and with our beginning and middle complete, the most exciting thing for us as storytellers would be to bring The Leftovers to a definitive end. And by ‘definitive,’ we mean ‘wildly ambiguous but hopefully mega-emotional,’ as all things related to this show are destined to be.
“On behalf of our incredible crew and superb cast, we are all tremendously grateful that HBO is giving us an opportunity to conclude the show on our own terms,” Lindelof continued. “An opportunity like this one rarely comes along, and we have every intention of living up to it. One more thing. We are blessed by the unwavering support of our fans and the incredibly powerful voice of the critical community. We feel absolutely privileged to heat up one last helping of leftovers.”
Good news everyone. One more season left to come. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Great. Hope they have the story to tell.
Some stories can go on forever. Some have a narrative to conclude.
Romeo and Juliet, timeless classic.
Romeo and Juliet II, utter shit.
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UPDATE: I was able to get ahold of Lindelof to ask him a couple of questions about the renewal, first about how difficult it was to persuade HBO to keep the show going.
"I'm in Jersey helping my mom move," he said. "I was afraid I'd have to sing for my supper when I got back to L.A next week... I didn't. Mike Lombardo called with the good news and it was a done deal."
And why is Lindelof — who previously had to push ABC to end "Lost" much earlier than the executives there wanted him and Carlton Cuse to — ready for the third season to be the last? (In the press release announcing renewal, he wrote that the end would be definitive, "And by ‘definitive,’ we mean ‘wildly ambiguous but hopefully mega-emotional,’ as all things related to this show are destined to be.")
"It's a gut instinct," he said. "I feel like there's more story, but not MUCH more. And I don't want to drag it out unnecessarily. Lots of fans and critics understandably had a sense that we could have ended after season two... That was a strong indication we were closer to the end than the beginning.
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
Don't misunderstand the lack of inflection inherent in type.
I look forward to few shows more than this new season of The Leftovers, and sincerely hope it is as good as it has been up to now.
That's not snarky or sarcastic, even if it looks that way from the wrong angle.
Oh, I wasn't suggesting that. Just that if there's ever a time to have faith in Lindelof, it's now. If he didn't have some good ideas in mind for S3, I don't think he'd have pushed as hard as he did to get that one more season. [Reply]