The End Is Nigh for <i>The Leftovers</i>
In its third and final season, the HBO show proves it’s still the most surprising and moving show on television.
You can interpret however you please—as a black comedy, a punishingly bleak gauntlet of misery, or a zany riff on existence being an elaborate cosmic joke—but whichever way you read it, it’s hard to deny that it’s the most consistently surprising show on television. Throughout its two previous seasons, the HBO series has made unexpectedchoices (spoilers to come): It’skilled off its main character (twice), presented purgatory as an especially generic kind of Marriott, kicked off its second season with an abstract prehistoric fable, and
