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The Leftovers Show Notes - Season 1
Welcome to the very first episode of The Sci-Fi TV Podcast, my name is Rem and to help us get started, we’re very happy to welcome Karen, one half of the most popular Walking Dead Podcast on the planet, the Walking Dead ‘Cast.
And a big welcome to Wayne Henderson, from the Packers Fan Podcast, 11.22.63 A Look Back, and another mysterious tv fan podcast later in 2017.
On our first episode, we’re talking about Season 1 of the HBO series The Leftovers. We’re doing two catch you up episodes to refresh you for the 3rd and final season which begins Sunday April 16th on HBO.
We’ll spoil everything in season 1, but not season 2, so you have a chance to catch up on season 2 before we do our next episode.
 
Might be a bit of language here too,

 
Questions to consider:
What first got you watching The Leftovers?
The Damon Lindelof factor (Lost!)
Will we ever know the reason for the departure?
What else is coming?
Favorite Scene?
Favorite Character?
What other unanswered questions do you have?
Dean the dog shooter. Angel? What’s with his truck? What does Kevin and Kevin Sr. have specifically? Is it that they’re resisting spiritual guidance? Did the GR use real bodies or mannequins?
 
Thanks to Karen and Wayne for joining us, and we’ll be back with a look at season 2 in early March as we make our way to the third and final episode of The Leftovers.  Get all the show notes, video clips and more on the website at Sci-Fi TV Podcast.com
 
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Episode 1 (Pilot)  
 
Tunefind.com
That song! “Retrograde” by James Blake
 
Kevin and his up in the laundromat with a crying baby in season two like the woman did at the beginning of season one
- Jill might act out less if Kevin actually told her what he was feeling and going through.  She acts out because she's not being included or talked to. (Kevin won't tell her not to go to the Memorial)
- What so obviously seems like the Christian rapture is being denied by Matt the
Priest
Tom reading ‘The stranger, by Albert Camus
lots of quick jarring cuts gives you the sense that there's tension and immediate danger just under the surface
 
Empty picture frames - The kids have lost all sense of meaning and purpose, and have become hedonistic.
Dogs, Deer and assorted animals. Kevin keeps waking up on the floor Tommy screaming under water Dog shooter at end, 'don’t just stand there'. What caused the dogs to go crazy? Matt as the Job of the Bible
 
Episode 2 (Penguins one, us zero)
Did Dean the dog shooter just give the black pickup truck to Kevin? Can't reconcile the black truck and how Dean would just give it to him Chopping down the tree,  is that to demonstrate the nature of futility? Why did Nora push the cup off the table?  
Episode 3 (Two boats and a helicopter)
Stop light goes from green straight to read and then flashes red, and pigeons on top of the street light Matt has the awesome creepy dream sequence!  
Episode 4 (BJ and the AC)
Baby Jesus stolen Christine accosted by naked guy: ‘ you walk over the dead, they're all in white’, ‘I know what's inside you’ Kevin tries to arrest the GR, for trespassing at the school Kevin almost crashes car, loses control of it Kevin driving black truck now? Jill almost torching BJ, felt dark and sacrilegious Tom takes Christine to hospital Lori tries to serve divorce to Kevin by Meg reading a note from Lori Jill gives Lori a lighter The Twins return the BJ On the bus, Tom and Christine find dead bodies in white all over the road, like the naked guy said Kevin meets Nora (moments of brutal honesty) Kevin and cops mass arrest the GR The rest of the GR is breaking into homes and stealing pictures (also brutal considering what happens later in the season Kevin finds Matt replacing the BJ,  and throws his away. Lori tries to get light from gutter  
Episode 5 (Gladys)