10 TV Shows That Actually Get Better With Every Season
4. The Leftovers
The Leftovers ran for just three seasons, but in that time crafted one of TV's most harrowing portraits of calamity and grief. In a world where 2% of the population have disappeared, a small town tries to move on, with troubling results.
Initially set up as a mystery about the Departure, it quickly became clear that The Leftovers was about the reactions to the world-altering event, rather than the event itself. For three seasons, it explored what might happen in such a situation, how religion would find its place and how disorder would grow.
Mysterious and gloomy, The Leftovers was never easy to watch, but seeing how its characters grew from their losses and found themselves became more compelling every episode, right up until its haunting farewell.