Speaking for yourself, of course. More likely, it is divisive as art precisely because it is self-consciously subverting the rules of plot, visual narratives, acting, dialogue, and character development in the service of emotions that we rarely experience in this medium. So, that sort of thing isn't for you. Move on,…

Three things.
1. "I don't lie." The Leftovers may have made the best use of the unreliable narrator device since Catcher in the Rye.
2. The entire series did two things incredibly well - it proved love as the answer, and it put faith under a microscope to show us exactly how extremism forms in the wake of fear and…

Fair point. I guess I was more or less saying that in observing the murder, they crossed the moral line past the transgressions of the blackmail victims.

The drone. It was all about the drone. Because on the spectrum of moral crimes perpetrated by all of the blackmail victims, the only actual illegal crime we witnessed as observers was the string-pullers compelling a murder then watching it. Thus revealing the true question of the episode: in the coming technological…

Eh, what's the point of re-humanizing Mangum? The love of that record isn't anomalous. It's just a great record. A beautifully realized, mysterious, painful, iconoclastic, cathartic, gorgeous fucking record. Same thing happened when R.E.M. released Murmur - it's still a great record with similar qualities, they just…

I adored this movie. It had loads of interesting questions and subtext about creativity and art in a culture that is largely hostile to both. But mostly it was a showcase for two excellent performances, and you're right, those should be in the discussion for year's end awards.