Wednesday 18 November 2015

Frame Rated: THE LEFTOVERS, 2.7 - 'A Most Powerful Adversary'

Wednesday 18 November 2015

As usual, Wednesday means a link to my weekly review of THE LEFTOVERS at Frame Rated, with a look at the incredible "A Most Powerful Adversary"...
"A lot of The Leftovers is about ordinary people seeking explanations for extraordinary events, and the push-and-pull over accepting outlandish theories that fly in the face of common sense. These concerns usually play out with the show's big picture issue of 2% of the world's population vanishing, and how such an irrational event has completely upended everyone's beliefs. "A Most Powerful Adversary" tackles the same kind of idea, but with a narrower focus on Kevin (Justin Theroux) seeing the deceased Patti Levin (Ann Dowd) and struggling to reconcile this fact: is she a delusion invented by his own diseased mind, or a real paranormal occurrence that suggests he's special or cursed?" Continue reading...