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Episode 3 of The Leftovers was genuinely good, in the written-through sort of way where the "easter eggs" contain half the story, i.e. where every second meant something, and a complete story rather than a series of reversibly vague gestures. Highly un-Lindelof, so maybe the novelist's, or maybe Lindelof learned something.

The series has set up some unique problems for itself as a whole, though. Like an X-Files or Lost that promises, and relies on as its premise, that the big mysteries will never be solved. Where can anything go? Who will watch? Though one sees the appeal to Lindelof.

Lindelof is somehow the perfect name for someone whose work you want to hatewatch. No, ambivelatewatch. He's sucked me back in.