'The Leftovers' recap: 'I didn't try hard enough'

HBO's "The Leftovers" kicked off its second season Sunday night and didn't hold back on continuing to test its audience with some of the most uncompromising material on TV. Before catching up with Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) and others who survived

The Leftovers (HBO, 9 p.m.): One of the most arresting, disorienting, heartbreaking, and polarizing shows of last year returns for another year of rampant PTSD, white outfits and chain-smoking, dogs for whom feral doesn't go 

HBO's "The Leftovers" kicked off its second season Sunday night and didn't hold back on continuing to test its audience with some of the most uncompromising material on TV. Before catching up with Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) and others who survived

It's a long, long time before a familiar face shows up in The Leftovers' second-season premiere. Until Reverend Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston) steps up to a Texan pulpit, the town of Mapleton, New York feels like a 

Season 2, Episode 1: “Axis Mundi”. The first season of “The Leftovers” habitually shifted the narrative ground beneath its viewers' feet. Sometimes it unexpectedly broke from standard ensemble-drama protocol to devote a full