SWMBO and I are binge-watching Haven. We’re up to season 4 and loving it. This is the show that Lost tried to be and failed miserably.
That’s quite a recommendation. I’ll give it a look.
Oooh…is it really that good?
Does it have a proper ending? I don’t even mean one that works. I just mean, was it cancelled or did it go out with a planned finale?
It was cancelled with enough advanced warning for them to close off the story - well, they left some wiggle room to continue, as well, but it did come to a satisfactory-enough ending
I watched the show up through early in Season 5. Even though my interest had really started to flag, I probably would have stuck around until the very end if the actress who played Jennifer Mason had elected to return. She gave off this quirky college girlfriend vibe that I found to be unspeakably hot. Her absence was kind of the final nail in the coffin. Sometimes when I’m browsing Netflix, I hover the cursor over the show and at least consider the possibility of plowing through the rest of the episodes, but I never manage to actually pull the trigger. I’m sure that I will at some point.
I thought The Leftovers was the show that Lost tried to be.
I’ve run into this show a few times, in the wee hours of the morning, I think. I can’t make heads nor tails what it’s about yet something about it is compelling. I understand it’s based on a Stephen King book (The Colorado Kid) which I have not read. Would it help to read it? I’m sure just watching it from the beginning would probably be better. I have no idea what season the episodes I saw were from.
The young man with the big chin (Crocket?) had turned evil (we know that from the absence of any visible sclera) and was going to betray(?) kill (?) the Good Guys. At the end, one of the heroes shoots him at his own insistence. There are many references to “Croatowan”, which sounded ominous but it wasn’t until he turned out to be played by . . William Shatner! that I was really sold.
Funny, I hadn’t really thought about it again until reading this thread. I’m assuming it’s available on some streaming platform.
Am I the only one who thought that this thread was going to be about the Christian singing group?
I lost interest around the time they started moving more toward the overarching mythology of the story and away from monster of the week. So, I missed part of a couple of the later seasons and returned for the last few episodes before the finale. It’s a pretty good show, and it had a satisfying ending.
Second. Decent premise, cast, and plots…until it made a left-turn towards the X-Files cliff. It tottered on the edge and then jumped.
On the bright side, there was no Negan.
Huh. I thought it was going to be about the classic porn actress Annette Haven.
I watched the whole thing as it originally aired. Meh, nothing much like Lost to me. But hey it gave Edge something to do after his broken neck made him retire.
I really enjoyed the first few seasons, the monster-of-the-week cases, etc. But then as the mythology developed, it started to get a little too silly. I watched it through to the end, however, and it did have a real end. I also liked the music in the opening credits.
Oh, and it doesn’t help to read the Stephen King Colorado Kid story. They aren’t really connected, just a fantasist’s starting point.
He was surprisingly good in it.
This is basically true. I was actually surprised when the final episode of Leftovers actually attempted to explain its core mystery, or at least expand it a bit and help us understand it.
I grew up listening to Christian music and have never heard of Haven. Huh.
That was Dwight, wasn’t it? He was quite good.
I liked the show, and that it never really took the easy way out. Sympathetic characters could and did die. Two in particular were very upsetting.
Plus I got introduced to at least one new to me musical group, Sweet Talk Radio, that I’ve grown to like a lot.