Jim and A.Ron are watching the Watchmen. In this episode, we will be your sponsors where you can find support for your extra-dimensional anxiety. If you'd like to check out the paper A.Ron cites in the feedback section, it's called "The Great Recession and Land and Housing Loss in African American Communities: Case Studies from Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi", by Nembhard, College, and Otabor (Part 1; Part 2). Theme music provided by Joseph and the Spirits. For more, you can find them here: JosephAndTheSpirits.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc ..read more

Jim and A.Ron are watching the Watchmen. They talk about the appearance of the Silk Spectre, who came prepared with jokes, as well as what is missing. There are stories within stories happening all at once. Theme music provided by Joseph and the Spirits. For more, you can find them here: JosephAndTheSpirits.com If you are a club member, immediately following every episode, join Jim & A.Ron for their live Instant Talk - hear their thoughts and reactions, as well as join a live chat with your fellow fans to ask questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad ..read more

Jim and A.Ron are watching HBO's Watchmen! They discuss their thoughts, fears, and anticipation about this highly anticipated upcoming series.   Immediately following every episode, join Jim and A.Ron for their live Instant Take - hear their thoughts and reactions, as well as join a live chat with your fellow fans to ask questions. Find our review of the 2009 Zak Snyder directed Watchmen here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information ..read more

It's almost time for Damon Lindelof's new show, Watchmen, to premiere. We couldn't be more excited so we've decided to record a preview episode to kick things off a little early. Since there's probably a lot of audience overlap between the two shows, our podcast for The Leftovers is going to be repurposed into the Watchmen podcast. We've archived the episodes of The Leftovers in another feed which you can find by searching for "Leftovers Bald Move" in your podcast app or using the Podcast Subscription Tool on the website. Get ready. We're just a few weeks away! Learn more about ..read more

We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, and now it’s time to say a very fond farewell and goodbye to the greatest television show I’ve ever seen, HBO’s The Leftovers.  After we ponder things we’ve seen and read since the series left us, we open up our bulging mailbag to see the multitudes of takes and opinions from you, our fellow fans.  Thanks for everything, everybody.  This was incredible, and I wish I could see you next week for more of the same.  If you’re interested in reading some of the many things we’ve looked at since last week, Vulture has an incredible collection of article ..read more

Jim, A.Ron, and hundreds of listeners grapple with their feelings about the series finale of HBO’s The Leftovers, “The Book of Nora”.  Was it good because it was a work of art that was brilliantly written, expertly acted and shot, and in it’s rigid adherence to ambiguity the most Leftovers The Leftovers of all time?  Or was it bad because it answered nothing, or everything, or too much at any rate, or betrayed or gave short shrift to characters we cared deeply about, or invalidated what we felt about past episodes?  The answer, more than usual, rests with the ..read more

We are incredibly pleased with the penultimate episode of HBO’s The Leftovers, “The Most Powerful Man in the World (and His Identical Twin Brother)”.  It is true that this episode is ridiculous, and dumb, and it doesn’t make any sense, and we shouldn’t care so much about, much like the reaction of Kevin himself.  But we can’t help it.  Everything they were selling we were buying, and in bulk.  Dick jokes.  Sure.  Body swapping between twin Kevins?  Why not?  Surprise guest stars as Secretary of Defense and the Vice President?  Shut up and ..read more

Jim and A.Ron talk about the latest episode of The Leftovers, “Certified”.  A very dark, powerful episode that has us rethinking how much sunshine and good feelings the finale is going to allow us to have before everything is said and done.  We discuss when Laurie decided on her final course of action, Nora’s beach ball metaphor, the inability of Kevin Sr. to properly judge whether he ends up saving the world, and our thoughts and expectations for the end now that we’re only 2 episodes away.  Because happy ending or sad, we’re going to be forced to say goodbye to all t ..read more

HBO’s The Leftovers had a Matt Jamison episode in “It’s a Matt Matt Matt Matt World”, which means it was heavily thematic, absurd, inspiring, infuriating, and more than anything, Biblical in it’s intensity.  Adding John, Michael, and Laurie, and a bunch of hedonists who’ve formed a cult around a 91 year old lion just makes it so much more so.  We discuss Matt’s shifting relationship with his faith, a surprising amount on the human penis, and attempt to talk a few Leftovers fans off their emotional ledges. Read the Matt Zoller Seitz interview with Damon Lindelof on Vult ..read more

Jim and A.Ron are struggling to get by in this post-Nora/Kevin romance world.  It’s just all almost too much. But are they done for reals?  Is there hope for a reunion, or a happy ending for these two, or should we just look for our nearest LADR box and jump in, no questions asked? But there are always questions, aren’t there?  Would you kill a twin baby to save the world from cancer?  What sort of crazy whitefella adventures are the Kevins going to get up to in the land down under? Will the sun still rise in a post-Mark Linn-Baker world?  I guess we’ll just have to ke ..read more