When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.Based on the bestselling novel by Tom Perrotta, 'The Leftovers' follows Kevin Garvey, a father of two and the chief of police in a small New York suburb, as he tries to maintain some semblance of normalcy when the notion no longer applies.
This tv show contains 84 potentially triggering events.
A dog is shot in the head in the first 5 minutes of the pilot as the main character reaches out to pet him, along with several others throughout the course of the first season.
Not abandonment, but a family has to put their dog in quarantine at the pound for two months. There’s a hard scene where the owner says goodbye to him through the cage. As far as I know, we never see the dog again? But there’s no scene about him dying or running away either.
When discussing Wayne at the beginning of the ep, it's mentioned that he has several priors for staturory. Also, mention of a departed person, while in the casino, who raped and killed a child
A main plot point in the first season is a cult leader keeping a large group of underage girls around around him to have sex with at his command
Another character is later beaten and raped while trying to infiltrate a different cult in the second season
Around 55 minutes into S1E8… ( SPOILERS) A character sticks a shard of glass into her throat. Skip to next episode when she picks up the shard of glass, you won’t miss much. She just tells Kevin, “You do understand” as she dies.
They also show it in the recap for the next episode.
Season 2, Episode 9. A baby is snatched from her adopted mother’s arms. A woman assumes the baby doesn’t belong to the mom, presumably because of the difference in skin color. Mom gets her back pretty quick though.
(Spoilers for the beginning sequence of this episode, which is a standalone story) A woman dies from a snakebite while trying to get her new baby to safety. It’s very sad. Another woman luckily finds them and takes the baby.
There are some abrupt moments of violence that are loud and shocking, mainlythe dog that's shot while the protagonist is on a jog. There are flashbacks to this moment that are also meant to make you jump.
Throughout Season 1, there’s been a couple dream sequences that aren’t obviously dream sequences. At least, not at first.
Throughout Season 2, a character frequently hallucinates, seeing and talking to someone that (most) other people cannot see. It’s not clear whether the entity is real (as in supernatural) or just imagined.
Major spoiler: Shortly after Patti picks up the glass, she slits her throat. Patti also admits beforehand that the woman who was stoned to death willingly did so, but it's unclear the exact motivation for the cult killimg themselves
The story is largely about a collective traumatic response to so many people vanishing. Some characters are impacted very strongly, and have PTSD relating to losing family, friends, coworkers, etc