![]() ![]() We were looking for opportunities to make it less melancholy and more explosive. One of the huge changes overall is just the prevalence of violence in the show. Vulture spoke with Perrotta about several serious divergences we noticed in last night’s episode, and he generously broke it all down for us - what’s changed, how, and why, and what The Karate Kid has to do with it.Īs the episode opens, Holy Wayne’s compound is stormed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, and Cults, and innocent young Tom winds up killing one of them. ![]() Perrotta didn’t write the second episode, but he had plenty of say in the writer’s room as showrunner Damon Lindelof and his team set about taking the show farther and farther away from his book. Even though the pilot episode of The Leftovers was co-written by Tom Perrotta, the author of the 2011 novel the HBO series is based on, it departed from the source material in a few ways - most prominently, the transformation of our hero, Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux), from small-town mayor to grizzled police chief. ![]()
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