The Leftovers is heavily character-based, and inevitably ends up super-satisfying to watch because it winds up being about a bunch of real-but-flawed characters who temporarily-and-in-fits suspect that reality is discretely Walking-Dead-like, in that they feel like they're learning lessons about Reality but in the end…

*ramsay

yeah i guess i take back my butthurtness about it, it just struck me as unnecessarily subtractive to characterize the genre as splintered to the point where no two artists agree what it's about, and then to turn around & hold this album up as unique in that it's willing to commit the "sin" of original composition;…

yeah this was an oddly antagonistic tone for the review to take, and i wish the music section of this site were as open to engaging the more barely avant-garde reaches of the medium on their own terms as e.g. the film section is

are you guys serious he looks like chris elliott