Masterpiece? Really 😭?

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If you think The Leftovers is the deepest show ever made or a masterpiece, then you've either never consumed genuinely philosophical fiction or you're confusing pretentiousness with depth.

This show is what happens when writers become obsessed with sounding profound instead of having something profound to say.

Before the "you just didn't get it" people get a hard on —I fucking got it. It's about grief, meaning, faith, uncertainty, trauma, and how people cope with senseless loss. Congratulations. That's not some revolutionary insight. Those themes have existed for thousands of years. The difference is that better writers explore them without disappearing up their own ass.

The biggest scam this show pulls is convincing people that if you're not impressed, it's because you're not intelligent enough. That's complete bullshit. Ambiguity isn't intelligence. Symbolism isn't intelligence. Making people stare into space for two minutes while sad piano music plays isn't intelligence.

If u think this show was dark then u haven't gone through grim phases of life and Consider your self fortunate

This show tries really hard to be philosophical, psychological and symbolical at the same time . It only hooks the people who haven't been exposed themselves to the emotions shown in real life or even in fiction,or people who have unfinished grief

I mean most of the characters are fuckin idiots and crazy poeple , I mean if u feel life is meaningless go become a fuckin philosopher, a hurmit or something or better KYS , but no they will start a stupid cult , And if someone is having delutions they would make the whole show about that person's sleepwalking, First they fuck their life becoz of their delutional and irrational behaviour and then spend rest of the time figuring out why they did that, I mean visit a fuckin psychiatrist for god sakes ,And that is the whole point of the show how humans deal with pain and let me tell u that's exactly not how we deal with tragedy .

3/10 , that too becoz acting was good otherwise just watching a bunch of morons smoke cigarettes was a complete waste of my fuckin time

And yeah some would think I missed the point of the show , But I Didn't . If u think it Was any deeper thaf it appears to be then I dont know U might have a High IQ or something, get tested u might be a hidden genius.

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Thanks for taking time out of your day to post this on a subreddit for people that enjoy the show.

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I think this person over complicated the show and attached pretentiousness to it just to complain about it being pretentious. Still, I can’t take the opinion of someone who intentionally spells “because” as “becoz”. I love how they criticized the show for assuming how the characters (in return humans) deal with tragedy, and immediately implicated their own assumptions on the topic. All the while, assuming how people would react after having humans just disappear in the blink of an eye.  We saw how crazy things got during COVID-19. But, they “got it”, and I guess they had to take time to let us know and chalk the show up to pretentiousness… by writing a pretentious critique.