Season two of HBO ’s The Leftovers ended almost incisively a year ago by convey karaoke king Kevin Garvey ( Justin Theroux ) back to life — and making it seem like Jarden , Texas was going to be his lasting home , sugared , place . But the first tidbits from the show ’s third and final season suggest that might not be on-key .
Entertainment Weeklyhas an interview with author - creator - showrunner Damon Lindelof about what to bear from the eight - episode third season , as well as the first image that ’s been released . By now , the show has long since left its source cloth — Tom Perrotta ’s novel — behind in its geographic expedition of newfangled circumstance and characters , even as Kevin stay on its center .
After dropping many , many lead in season two , time of year three will postdate Kevin and a few other as - yet - unrevealed character reference to Australia , where Kevin ’s long - lost nutball of a Padre ( played by Scott Glenn , learn with Theroux in the above picture ) will “ pull him into a rather unexpected position . ” The pick of Australia is no accident , Lindelof explain :
“ Australia is the end of the world geographically and our show is about the end - of - the - existence emotionally . And there ’s also something about Australian cinema — it ’s fundamental , ancient and religious — that felt like it correspond The Leftovers , whether it ’s Mad Max movies or Walkabout , or Waking Fright or Peter Weir movies . ”
Lindelof also said that the trajectory of the time of year will conduct to a “ conclusive ” terminate for the show as a whole , but also mention that The Leftovers will not be reveal all of its secrets .
“ It ’s a very measured storytelling process because you do n’t want to frustrate the audience , ” Lindelof says . “ It ’s one thing to say , ‘ I ’m give you this box with a present indoors and you ’re never fit to open it ’ — who ’s fit to swallow that gift ? We ’re constantly render to inflect and fulfill the hope we ’ve made . And it ’s not enough to say that all we give care about is the characters and not the mythology . But I do mean with The Leftovers the word ‘ mythology ’ does n’t necessarily apply the way it does to Lost or Westworld or Stranger Things or True Detective . Those shows have clearly specify mythologies . We do n’t want to frustrate the audience but The Leftovers play by its own stage set of rules and will bear on to do so . ”
In other words , do n’t hold your breath for a big reveal about what happened to everyone who went miss on October 14 , 2011 . They ai n’t gon na do it ; Lindelof did n’t name drop iconic Australian missing - persons film Picnic at Hanging Rock in the consultation , but he might as well have . The Leftovers is typeset to repay to HBO in April .
[ Entertainment Weekly ]
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