SPOILERS AHEADThese are some of the questions raised through the show:1) What made the people vanish? 2) Where did the departed go? 3) How did Kevin Sr. know Jill was locked in the fridge? 4) Why are the Guilty Remnant really doing what they do? If it was just as simple as a cult for making people remember the departed, how were they so well organised across the country? 5) What did the cave cold opens mean? The caveman one, where the people in the cave died. Then one woman survived, only to be bit by a snake, and have her baby taken away. 6) What did the other cold open about the woman standing on the roof mean? 7) What's the deal with Dean and the dog stuff? If it was just him going crazy, why did Kevin go along with it? 8) How did Mary get healed? 9) What caused Kevin's sleepwalking/split-personalities? 10) What did the national geographic magazine mean? 11) What was up between Kevin and Aimee? 12) Did Kevin Sr. really stop hearing voices? If so, how? 13) How did Matt get healed the first time? 14) Was the earthquake that saved Kevin from drowning really just a coincidence? 15) Was Wayne's hugging power real? He seemed to be able to read minds as people were thinking about their wish or their pain. 16) What did Kevin wish for from Wayne as he died? 17) How did Matt win all the money at the Casino? That was too good to be luck.And obviously: 18) How did Kevin keep coming back to life? I doubt it has anything to do with a condition that would require a pacemaker. Maybe they subtly answered a couple of these... But this show, to me, is about a bunch of people messed up in the head who can't find happiness. And then some of them die. It is depressing, and suspenseful without any real payoff other than an answer to #2.

This show at its best is great television, but at its worst is a snooze fest. I had heard glowing reviews from people, so I wanted to like this show, but I couldn't get into it enough. Most of the reviews I read here are written just after the pilot, and my firm belief is that you should never review a show until you watch the whole thing. The pilot is rough but it gets progressively better. The first season is solid with a coherent plot and frustrating but interesting characters. The second season I've seen people call artsy, but to me it's just annoying. It presents a good mystery in the premiere and then works so slowly to solve it and abandons the plot when it wants to. The finale is awesome as most of this show's finales are, but it was the most dissapointing season. The third season starts out promising and then again loses it, and the finale, is poetic but predictable and boring.The acting is great and I was very surprised by the quality of Justin Theroux. Carrie Coon, Christopher Eccleston and Amy Brenneman were the heavy hitters, and they are the saving grace of the show. I'm all for shows that emphasize character development but this show is a bit overkill on it. The third season abandons some characters and really on focuses on Kevin and Nora the majority of the time, which was also annoying. Overall this show delivered some of the coolest moments on tv, specifically the first season finale, which in my opinion is the show's best episode, but also had some incredibly dull moments which is the show's big ditractor. I truly wanted to like this show, but I just couldn't. It had some very powerful moments and the music is well incorporated but it really all came to nothing, which makes me sad because this show had such great potential. 6/10 is generous for me but I can really rate it any lower because I did enjoy and actually love some of the show's great moments.

This series was completely engrossing all the way up until the last episode. The writing and acting were top notch, Ann Dowd's performance especially. Having been very disappointed by the ending of Lost, I had hoped that the series wouldn't end on a frustrating note--alas it did.Unlike some reviewers, I found all 3 seasons to be excellent, and the penultimate episode was my favorite. But after viewing the final episode, irritation set in. It was almost as if the writers abandoned ship after Episode 7 and a group of amateurs took over.I do not need every mystery explained to me, in fact it is often better to leave some themes ambiguous. I didn't care if the viewer learned why the 2% left--that wasn't really the point. But Nora's foolish story about going to the "other place" and getting the person who was responsible for the original departures to build her a new machine so she could get back home was pathetic. Surely something more interesting could have been devised. Not sorry I watched it--but it could have been great.

Wow! This show has a lot of mixed reviews. I just finished watching Season 3. This is my take on it. It's a drama. Not science fiction, not action, not anything else. That being said, I think you would have had to experienced quite a lot of life, loss, grief, denial, blame, avoidance, fear, longing, abandonment, I could go on. Any loss is profound if the attachment emotionally is strong and if a person does disappear in whatever way that may occur it's impossible to grieve effectively as you don't know whether they will ever come back. For those who've made comments on losing someone being minor and that after 3 years why are these people falling apart? The answer is you never get over any loss. Only if you experience loss would you understand what this series is trying to portray and it does so very accurately. The answers to a lot are revealed over time as is often the case in relationships. No one ever reveals everything about themselves all at once. We get to know the characters over time. I give it good as season 3 changed tempo and wasn't as good as the first two. Overall it delivered a lot of different messages on life, living, death, love and regret and many more besides. You need to be able to be patient, think and read between the lines.