I watched this series based on the amount of positive reviews it got on this sub. During watching, I was undergoing a lot of personal change (giving up booze, trying to shelve past trauma etc etc) and I connected with the show's themes in ways that surprised me.
Regularly, I was finding myself on the verge of tears. At first, I thought I was being gamed by the beautiful and poignant theme music, but as I delved into it, what I found was that the respective journeys of Kevin and Nora would regularly resonate against questions that I had asked myself my whole life.
I was brought up a Jehovah's Witness and given this whole spiel about eternal life in Paradise if I did the right thing. I left that organisation in my mid teens and went on a bit of a quest of sorts to find myself, and ended up losing myself in the bargain. Unable to answer those questions I had been asking myself, I turned to other things to numb out / blank my continuous and unrelenting thought.
It's only recently that I have really started to feel like I've got it all buckled down. But there's still this big void where I feel like there are things that I should know, but that I don't. I put it to my partner this way: In making changes in my life, I feel like I have been given a new app that will solve a lot of problems for me, but that I don't know exactly what it does. Adding to that, I also have not been given a password.
The Leftovers kind of flipped that burning desire to "understand" on its head by telling me (in the words of the theme song) to "let the mystery be".
In short, I'd highly recommend this show as something that will provoke thought as an appendix to any self development you might be going through.
Submitted June 21, 2021 at 12:00AM by Duke_CrowBait https://ift.tt/3qdBb5j
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