“That’s not me saying we’re not going to deal with it.Given the subject of his new novel, “The Leftovers,” probably no one followed the story of the noted evangelical (and former Internet hottie) Harold Camping more closely than Tom Perrotta, a novelist who is to the suburban enclaves of America what Sherwood Anderson was to Ohio. “Even though I know that that’s the worst possible thing I could be doing as a storyteller, based on my past, but I’m just drawn to that kind of storytelling.” “If the characters are living in a system where there’s great ambiguity as to whether or not they’re going to get further information about this thing, then I have to create the same sensation for the audience,” he said. Lindelof won’t even divulge whether the show will explain the whys and hows. “I just don’t know if there’s any satisfying way to do that.” “That’s more interesting to me than, oh, they’re all in the Amazon rain forest found them,” he said. The thematic question he will commit to answering is, can the world go back to the way it was or does it have to change? Lindelof was by turns coy, playful and exasperated by questions of whether “The Leftovers” will answer what the audience really wants to know. Sitting in April in his office, where “Star Wars” posters fill the walls and a model Oceanic Airlines plane from “Lost” sits on an end table, Mr. The vocal minority unhappy with the ending of “Lost” written by him and Carlton Cuse soured what should have been a triumphant end to that six-year series. Lindelof, more than most show runners, knows he cannot escape the questions. “For me, what’s interesting about this show, and what’s interesting about what Damon’s doing, is that you may just have to sit” and deal with it, Mr. Perrotta, it is an intimate family drama that traffics in issues like faith and loss and grief and how to proceed after an enormous tragedy. The creation of Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, based on the novel of the same name by Mr. “The Leftovers,” which debuts on HBO on June 29, is not a David Lynchian exploration of small-town evil. In the midst of all this, the police chief - whose own family has been fractured by the departure - tries to hold both the town and himself together. And as conspiracy theories ricochet through the country - if the mass disappearance wasn’t the Rapture, just what was it? - shadowy organizations emerge, their intentions unclear.
Nothing has been truly normal since.Ī ghostly cult silently stalks the town, chain smoking. The shops on the Main Street are open for business, and the neighborhoods are full of pristine homes and well-manicured front yards.Įxcept something has gone terribly wrong in this fictional town in the HBO series “ The Leftovers.” Three years earlier, 2 percent of Mapleton’s - and the world’s - population mysteriously vanished. In the town of Mapleton, N.Y., all appears normal.
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