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Is the leftovers your favorite show?


I've seen some pretty great tv series but the leftovers is the one that I can't stop thinking about.

Everything about it gets me: the characters, the writing, the mystery, the raw emotion, and the beautiful music.

Who else feels the same? If not, what is your favorite show?

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It is in my all time top ten, for sure. Depending on how the final season wraps up, it could even move into my personal top five. :)

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Nice :) so what's your top 5?

I think Damon lindelof has an opportunity to do something really special here. If season 3 is as good as season 2, and he finds a nice way to end it, the leftovers could go down as one of the best shows ever.

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so what's your top 5?


Current top five:

Six Feet Under
Twin Peaks
LOST
The Wire
Breaking Bad






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It's on my list for sure. I had to 'psych' myself up to watch Season 2, it requires more of an investment that your run-of-the-mill crappy tv show so I wanted to be sure I was ready! Then once I got a taste it was like crack and I had to consume the whole thing in 3 days LOL

It makes me think, which is a huge plus in my books! I do, however, find it really hard to recommend to people. How do you say "you have to pay attention..but it might go over your head dummy" hahah


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I've seen some pretty great tv series but the leftovers is the one that I can't stop thinking about.

Everything about it gets me: the characters, the writing, the mystery, the raw emotion, and the beautiful music.

Who else feels the same? If not, what is your favorite show?


No...but, I look forward to watching it.

Right now my favorite show is "Blindstop" (2).

Rounding out my top 5:

(1) "Person of Interest" (which just ended it's run with an abbreviated S5).
(3) "Better Call Saul"
(4) "Elementary"
(5) "Scorpion"



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I haven't seen any of those but I might get into better call Saul someday.

Interesting to see someone like that show more than breaking bad.

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I haven't seen any of those but I might get into better call Saul someday.

Interesting to see someone like that show more than breaking bad.




Don't like it more than "Breaking Bad"...don't like ANYTHING more than BB. I plan to be buried with my BB DVD's. 

It is just that "Saul" is still airing; and BB isn't.



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Haha ok that's kind of what I figured.

It's hard to beat breaking bad.

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Better Call Saul season 1 and 2 were probably as good or better than Breaking Bad Season 1 and 2. But of course it's got a lot to live up to for the rest of it's run if it hopes to keep pace.

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It really is up to par with BB. Only it's not a thriller.

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Blindstop? You mean Blindspot?

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Of all time? No, probably not even in my top 10, though it's probably top 15.

Right now? It's definitely one of them. Of the shows currently airing, my favorites are:

1) Fargo
2) Game of Thrones
3) The Americans
4) The Leftovers
5) Orange is the New Black
6) Better Call Saul

I can't wait for season 3, though it sucks that we have to wait for 2017. Same with Fargo.

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Nice, You have good taste.

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Fargo season two might have been the best stand alone anthology season of a show ever.

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I thought season 1 was pretty good but I haven't seen season 2. I'll have to get on that.

Nice picture, Office Space is a personal favorite.

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Yes, a lot of great things about season one with actors and stuff but there were flaws..season 2 I didn't find any flaw really. Outstanding. Yeah Office Space is awesome..using the avatar I once had a guy PM me thinking I was Ron Livingston asking me how to get into the hollywood acting career.

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It's probably my favourite show currently running, alongside - ahem - Steven Universe. There are other current shows I'm enjoying, but they haven't grabbed me like The Leftovers has.

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I think it sits in the top ten, in very good company.
Certainly the most disturbing and it stayed with my the longest of any of them.

But it has a daunting task to break into the top 5.
We'll see where it's fits when it's all done.

The current list is:
Homicide: Life on the Streets
The West Wing
Battlestar Galactica
Hannibal
Fringe

Penny Dreadful is trying to elbow it's way in there.
So is Fargo
Then there's Mr. Robot ...
And Max Headroom and China Beach



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Nice list dude. Hannibal and Fringe are personal favorites.

At the moment my top 5 is probably

The Leftovers
True Detective (season 1)
Lost
Louie
Band of Brothers

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1) Buffy
2) Game of Thrones
3) Battlestar Galactica
4) Angel
5) Six Feet Under
6) Breaking Bad
7) The Leftovers

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The Leftovers, Fargo and Orange is the New Black are my favorite shows currently on the air. I love Game of Thrones, UnREAL, Sense8, Veep, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and others but those three are by a mile my favorites.

I've loved a lot of shows in the past. Lost was always my favorite show. I was fanatical about my love for 30 Rock, Friends, Six Feet Under and a few others.

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The Leftover is definitely one of my favorites. Nothing else like it on TV.

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Totally underrated show. I'd put it up there with the best.

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