“The Leftovers” is definitely a show that can confuse the hell out of you, and the season premiere of season three titled “The Book of Kevin” is no different.
Damon Lindelof is known for building up mystery and not answering the lingering questions that everyone has. The first season did exactly this, and made the mistake of piling too many questions on top of each other without giving any answers. Season two was perfect, building up a sandwich of mystery and allowing the viewers to finish eating it before building a new sandwich.
I believe Lindelof and his co-creator Tom Perrotta will once again perfect season three, and they are definitely on the right track so far. Season three’s premiere lifted my curiosity for this show in a brilliant way.
It opened up to what seemed to be a town in the 1800s where a religious cult was prepping for the end of the world. Every so often they would come up with a date for when the world would end and that night they would climb up to their rooftops and wait for God to take them under his wrath, but nothing would ever happen. This went on for such a long time that people began to leave the cult and families would be torn apart.
I believe this was meant to show to us that we are constantly predicting the end of the world and so far we have been wrong every single time. Fast-forward to our show’s present day and once again people are predicting the end of the world to happen in two weeks, on October 14th, the seventh anniversary of the departure.
There was also another incredibly important and absolutely unpredictable scene in the beginning of the episode. Meg (Liv Tyler), Evangeline (Jasmin Savoy Brown) and the rest of the Guilty Remnant were bunkering in the welcome center of Miracle. Meg and Evangeline talk for a brief moment and then Evangeline notices the military poking a hole in the welcome center doors in order to get a peek inside. Evangeline immediately runs outside to see what’s going on and then a drone suddenly drops a missile right on top of her. Most likely killing her and everyone else inside.
Anyone who has faithfully been watching this show since day one probably understands that we won’t receive an answer to why the departure happened. This show is not meant to explain that, rather it’s meant to show how…
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