I watched about half the first season and couldn't take much more. But just curious, what happened to make everyone disappear? And how did it end?
I saw where The Leftovers series ended....
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They didn't disappear, they ripped through to another dimension due to some gravity type disturbance. One of the characters transitions to the other side where she discovered they on the other side believed the 98% disappeared. Basically, the dimension just split. This was discussed in the final episode and they devoted about 15 mins to it. Didn't show anything on the other side, she just relayed her story.
The rest of the show was about the interpersonal relationships. Basically? The show was retardedly bad. Wasted 3 seasons on that nonsense.
They don't really explain how it happened, but Nora went through the machine that the scientists created that would send people to the same place where the people that disappeared went to.
We don't see what happened to her, but she tells her story. Basically after going through the machine she wakes up in the exact same spot, but no one is there. She travels and learns that basically everyone the disappeared went to this parallel world, but from their perspective they didn't leave, everyone else did. So to them, 98% of the world's population just vanished. She then travels back to try and find her family and discovers that her kids are all grown and her husband has remarried. So she doesn't go to them and instead finds a scientist that had gone through the machine like her and gets him to build another machine to send her back. Where she lives in Australia until Kevin finally finds her and they supposedly live happily ever after.
It wasn't a show designed to answer that question. The last episode had a main character explain she visited all the sudden departures in a parallel world where 98% of earth's population departed, but it's pretty open as to whether we are supposed to believe her or not.
TL;DR - The show was about grief, not science fiction.
I find it interesting both of you believe her. I think she's full of **** and backed out of the machine.
Her story seemed to be too real to not be true. We know people went through the machine, we know they disappeared, if she had backed out she could have come up with a much more believable and simple excuse as to why she never returned home.
We don't know they disappeared. It's entirely possible that were obliterated by the machine. If there truly is another side, why wouldn't the inventor of the machine build one in the 2% world and bring one back as proof? Reconciled the 2 worlds? She was embarrassed by her cowardice and hid in Australia.
Grief and belief. The stories people tell themselves to explain the inexplicable. Outstanding show.