Television: ‘The Leftovers,’ Small Town Loss After the Rapture on HBO

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Lorne Manly

Amy Brenneman plays the wife of a small-town police chief. Credit Paul Schiraldi/HBO

BROADCASTING---“The Leftovers,” which debuts on HBO on June 29, is not a David Lynchian exploration of small-town evil. The creation of Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, based on the novel of the same name by Mr. Perrotta, it is an intimate family drama that traffics in issues like faith and loss and grief and how to proceed after an enormous tragedy. “This show is about the condition of living in a post-apocalyptic world where, if you look out the window, it doesn’t look like the apocalypse happened,” Mr. Lindelof said. “But it did.” [link]