Craig Hildebrand-Burke

Where to start a second season? Firstly, it's worth acknowledging what happened in the first season: what went well, and what didn't. A whole bunch…

The Leftovers is a show about trying to go home. It might be Kevin out in the Cairo woods, knowing he must return to Mapleton…

Something which will become apparent as the The Leftovers headed into its final few episodes is that it was increasingly rewarding to view the storytelling…

Content warning: this post discusses suicide in connection with the episode’s story. This episode always left me cold. I was never entirely sure what it…

On the surface, this seems quite a messy episode of The Leftovers, even if it builds to something unified. Nominally, there's two main plot threads…

Content warning: this post discusses suicide in connection with the episode's story. 'Guest' is the first truly great episode of The Leftovers. It is downright…

This is the hardest episode of The Leftovers. It's the least likeable, focusing mostly on the Guilty Remnant and an act of visually awful brutality,…

Some production backstory for this episode: In episode four, we did a Tom and Christine story where they encountered this soldier who was returning from…

This episode begins with Tom and an atonal injection of action, as the Holy Wayne's compound is stormed, people are shot, and he escapes with…