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HBO's The Leftovers: Mourning and Melancholy on Premium Cable

HBO's The Leftovers: Mourning and Melancholy on Premium Cable

Borenstein, Eliot

Hardcover

Religion General Film StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1666947571
ISBN13: 9781666947571
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Dec 6 2023
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book unpacks and analyzes the central themes of sacrifice, melancholy, apocalypticism, and the nature of family and home in HBO's The Leftovers to demonstrate the key role it played in the development of early twenty-first-century television. Eliot Borenstein argues that the story of The Leftovers is the most sustained exploration of loss ever to appear on American television and subverts the expectations of viewers who look to prestige dramas as puzzles to solve by providing no clear answers the mysteries most central to the show's plot. Instead, Borenstein posits, the series endeavors to provide more nuanced and realistic portrayals of the melancholy that occurs when people's lives are unmoored, leavening an inherently depressing experience with absurdity and moments of grace.

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