"“Bleak” is the most common adjective used to describe this show, and of course that makes sense—we haven’t lost 2 percent of our population, and our world is pretty bleak, so who’s to blame The Leftovers?"

She actually missed the connection between the doll and the effigies of the dead last week—because she was too busy trying to convince us that the show was making a point about idolatry to dwell on the other side of the coin. Thus an attempt to criticize a show for being simplistic ironizes itself to death.

Maybe…I just read it as the rev. trying to expose the truth.

The preacher in this show could just as easily be Catholic in both attitude and theology…he just needed to be Protestant so we could have an episode about him trying to keep his church open.

I guess these days if it's not a show "interrogating gender" or "interrogating race" we can't expect media critics to get it.