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In series like this, that don't follow a certain template you always have to worry about the ending. There's usually more and more questions, and they never get any answers. But not this time

"The Leftovers" have been a wonderful and interesting series with great acting. You never known what was just around the corner, and you never felt that you seen it before in other series or movies. So it was with great expectations that I sat down to watch the finale. As always it took it's time, and as always you never knew what was going to happen. And, for once, I felt that the viewer was treated with respect and was served some kind of explanation.

Off course one can debate if it really was a concrete answer, and maybe it wasn't. But, still, the way I see it the ending was more than that, it was an insight that, maybe not everything has to be explained to 100%. Like in the title song, both from the second series and the last episode I felt like they just: "Let the mystery be". They left out just enough, and explained just enough for the ending to feel satisfying. Good Work, and thanks for all the great time I've had with this series.

So were is the script? Was everybody asleep when they came up with this joke. I saw the original series when it came and it was fresh and interesting. Since then a lot have happened in the TV world and there is a lot of really good series around.

This is NOT one of them.

The original had a good, solid story, with good dialogue and a great cast. In that world they injected strange happenings and strange people. The base in reality and the fluid story line was what made the original series so good. This new joke has nothing of the original quality.

Here they have just put a lot of solo scenes after each other, with no glue to hold them together, or development of anything. You just sit and watch scenes playing, and as soon as you get invested in something, the scene switches to something else. Twin Peaks have become a soap opera, and not a good one.