that show is incredible. i watched it years after it completed, like 2020/2021. it hit me really hard. it captured a humanity-wide, bone deep sense of loss and the wearying effort to carry on. we all bag on prestige TV, but this show truly exists in a category above.
also, "the departure" theme composed by Max Richter has got to be one of the more evocative themes/motifs for a show.
He's a cop but isn't portrayed positively and neither are the police. It's an antihero setting which gives context for why his family hates him and the town thinks he's crazy. He solves one crime and then goes on to help that guy commit the same crime within the same episode as the start of his downfall. Like one of the other characters being an Episcopalian priest and the show dealing with rapture. It doesn't feature either as good things, shows both stumbling toward ruin, and I wouldn't consider it to be a Christian show so much as calling the bluff of their pre-rapture authority.
My first viewing was pre-COVID when it was just abstract themes I like from the genre. Doing it after really watching COVID collapse was an interesting experience. The only reason Miracle, Texas doesn't exist is because evangelicals don't believe COVID exists.
that show is incredible. i watched it years after it completed, like 2020/2021. it hit me really hard. it captured a humanity-wide, bone deep sense of loss and the wearying effort to carry on. we all bag on prestige TV, but this show truly exists in a category above.
also, "the departure" theme composed by Max Richter has got to be one of the more evocative themes/motifs for a show.
So you would recommend I watch the Leftovers then?
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He's a cop but isn't portrayed positively and neither are the police. It's an antihero setting which gives context for why his family hates him and the town thinks he's crazy. He solves one crime and then goes on to help that guy commit the same crime within the same episode as the start of his downfall. Like one of the other characters being an Episcopalian priest and the show dealing with rapture. It doesn't feature either as good things, shows both stumbling toward ruin, and I wouldn't consider it to be a Christian show so much as calling the bluff of their pre-rapture authority.
Hell yeah I'd be down for that
absolutely. one of the best written shows every made
My first viewing was pre-COVID when it was just abstract themes I like from the genre. Doing it after really watching COVID collapse was an interesting experience. The only reason Miracle, Texas doesn't exist is because evangelicals don't believe COVID exists.