Pretty disappointing overall. Nothing besides dead wife and the leprechaun and some epic backstories worked. Which means it's a brilliant adaptation because the book was pretty disappointing too. The problem is…faith itself. Its a bunch of bullshit and this late in the enlightenment we see right through it: hence the…

Legion like Fargo was only fitfully interesting. Hawley is not yet a showrunner on a David Chase level of preternatural social awareness and insight. There's too much manipulation and showiness for its own sake. Like the dickish True Detective writer, this new crop of TV auteurs suffer from a surfeit of references…

That BCS courtroom scene was ultimately meh because the whole brothers feudin' storyline is meh. BCS only gets interesting when it orbits the great mass of Breaking Bad's achievement and adds something new. The Leftovers is just a "quality" bourgeois upgrade of standard post apocalypse tropes. Haven't tried Samurai…

This review is…so. What, besides the return of Twin Peaks, has been better TV than that woodlands sequence this year? Nothing is the answer. NOTHING.