The Leftovers Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: "Crazy Whitefella Thinking"

Can Damon Lindelof only tell one story? It’s a question I keep asking myself as the final season of The Leftovers moves ahead, and the Lost similarities become less of an obvious homage and more of an apology. Lindelof was famously derided for his decision to veer the latter series — which he co-created with J.J. Abrams — away from its science fiction elements to instead tell the story of a burdened man’s struggle with faith. The Leftovers, to his credit, never toed the genre line; it is...