The Worst Episodes of The Leftovers
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When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "The Leftovers" is "Penguin One, Us Zero", rated 7.4/10 from 5901 user votes. It was directed by Peter Berg and written by Damon Lindelof, Kath Lingenfelter. "Penguin One, Us Zero" aired on 7/6/2014 and is rated 0.2 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "B.J. and the A.C.".
7.4/10 5,901 votes#1 - Penguin One, Us Zero
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/6/2014
In the wake of a series of disturbing encounters, Kevin pays a visit to a therapist. Tom finds himself in a precarious situation with Christine, a favorite of Wayne’s. A frustrated Meg is asked to part with pieces of her past. Jill and Aimee tail Nora Durst, who became a local celebrity when her entire family disappeared in the Departure.
Director: Peter Berg
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Kath Lingenfelter
7.6/10 5,337 votes#2 - B.J. and the A.C.
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/20/2014
A holiday display goes wanting, sending Kevin scurrying to find out who is responsible. Tom and Christine run into trouble at a hospital and on the road. Kevin retrieves a surprise detainee from a neighboring police station, and receives unexpected visitors at home. The Guilty Remnant put its stamp on the holiday season.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter, Carl Franklin
Writer: Damon Lindelof
7.9/10 7,213 votes#3 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/29/2014
Three years after millions of people – some 2% of the world’s population – vanished into thin air, residents of Mapleton, NY weigh the pros and cons of a “Heroes Day” tribute to the local “Departed.” Attempting to maintain a sense of normalcy in his strained community, police chief Kevin Garvey faces additional challenges at home with his daughter, Jill, who’s lost in a cloud of apathy with her friend Aimee, and son, Tom, who has gravitated to a cult led by the charismatic Holy Wayne. Also of concern is a silent, white-clad group of chain-smoking men and women called the Guilty Remnant, who team up in pairs to stake out people and places around town. As tension in Mapleton escalates, the lives of Laurie, an unexpected member of the Guilty Remnant, and Meg, a recently engaged young woman, converge.
Director: Peter Berg
Writer: Tom Perrotta, Damon Lindelof
8.0/10 5,017 votes#4 - Solace for Tired Feet
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/10/2014
After learning his father has escaped the psychiatric hospital, Kevin orders an APB to track him down. Jill attempts to break an endurance record. Holed up in Indiana, a disillusioned Tom makes an unsettling discovery.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Jacqueline Hoyt
8.2/10 5,300 votes#5 - Gladys
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/27/2014
Laurie’s resolve is put to the test in the wake of a brutal hate crime. After his latest initiatives to maintain the peace in Mapleton fall short, Kevin turns down an outside offer to rid the town of its problems. Matt brings his pulpit to the street. Meg takes on a new role.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Tom Perrotta, Damon Lindelof
8.3/10 5,533 votes#6 - Axis Mundi
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/2015
Jarden, Texas was renamed “Miracle” after it was discovered that no one had departed. The town has since become a magnet for tourists and people who are convinced it is special and can keep them safe. Among the local families is the Murphys: the father, John, the mother, Erika, and their twins, Evie and Michael. While trying to protect his town from frauds and charlatans, John gets an ominous warning from a man who claims to have psychic powers. Soon afterwards, Kevin Garvey, Nora Durst and Jill Garvey show up in Miracle. This newly formed “family” left Mapleton to start over, but Kevin cannot seem to escape his past. The Murphy family and Kevin subsequently experience a mysterious event that will that change their lives forever.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Jacqueline Hoyt
8.3/10 5,050 votes#7 - Off Ramp
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/2015
Laurie and Tom Garvey’s work to rescue lost souls takes a toll on theirs. Laurie seeks to spread the word about the Guilty Remnant’s dangers, while Tom’s infiltration of the cult uncovers a whole new nest of problems.
Director: Carl Franklin
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Patrick Somerville
8.5/10 4,986 votes#8 - Ten Thirteen
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/2015
A personal loss and subsequent pilgrimage to Miracle offer clues on why Meg embarked on her path as a Remnant crusader. After a fallout with Laurie, Tom seeks to reunite with Meg.
Director: Keith Gordon
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Monica Beletsky
8.5/10 5,078 votes#9 - Crazy Whitefella Thinking
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 4/30/2017
With the clock ticking towards the anniversary of the Departure and emboldened by a vision that is either divine prophecy or utter insanity, Kevin Garvey, Sr. wanders the Australian Outback in an effort to save the world from apocalypse.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Tom Spezialy
8.6/10 5,556 votes#10 - Cairo
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/17/2014
Kevin fears he’s losing touch with reality after inexplicably finding himself in a difficult situation involving Patti Levin, a leader of the Guilty Remnant. Meg loses control during another encounter with Matt; Jill confronts Aimee about her relationship with Kevin; Nora stands up to Laurie, and finds her privacy invaded.
Director: Michelle MacLaren
Writer: Curtis Gwinn, Carlito Rodriguez
8.6/10 4,890 votes#11 - Orange Sticker
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/2015
In the midst of an earthquake, Nora awakens to find Kevin missing and her hopes of safety in their new town dashed. The Murphys are left reeling after Evie’s disappearance. Kevin returns home, but without his memory of the night before or his cell phone, which would link him to the missing girls. Meanwhile, an old enemy makes her return in an unexpected way.
Director: Tom Shankland
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Tom Spezialy
8.7/10 5,254 votes#12 - A Matter of Geography
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/2015
Kevin, Nora and Jill try to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of the Mapleton riots, but problems from the past keep resurfacing. The new Garvey clan finds a fresh start in the safety of Miracle. Nora makes an impulsive choice, while Kevin gets entangled in the Murphy family’s problems.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Tom Perrotta, Damon Lindelof
8.7/10 4,819 votes#13 - Don't Be Ridiculous
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 4/23/2017
In her official capacity as fraud investigator for the Department of Sudden Departure (D.S.D.), Nora travels to St. Louis to investigate a possible scam that involves convincing the family members of The Departed there’s a way to see their loved ones again.
Director: Keith Gordon
Writer: Tom Perrotta, Damon Lindelof
8.7/10 5,084 votes#14 - It's a Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt World
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 5/14/2017
Convinced it is Kevin’s destiny to be in Miracle for the coming seventh anniversary of the Departure, Matt Jamison impulsively heads to Australia in an effort to bring Kevin home. Unfortunately, God gets in the way.
Director: Nicole Kassell
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Lila Pyock
8.8/10 7,143 votes#15 - Two Boats and a Helicopter
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/13/2014
In the face of dwindling church attendance and threats on his life, Reverend Matt Jamison continues to preach his gospel: that many who disappeared in the Departure were sinners and not saints. Matt’s campaign is detoured when he learns he may lose the church to foreclosure, forcing him to launch a desperate, last-minute plan to come up with the cash to keep it.
Director: Keith Gordon
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Jacqueline Hoyt
8.8/10 6,008 votes#16 - Guest
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/3/2014
Nora goes to New York for the second annual Departure Related Occupations and Practices (DROP) conference, but discovers that someone else has her ID badge, so she searches the convention as a "Guest," and has encounters with a salesman, an author and a rogue attendee.
Director: Carl Franklin
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Kath Lingenfelter
8.8/10 5,448 votes#17 - The Book of Kevin
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/16/2017
Three years after Miracle, Texas was overrun by the Guilty Remnant, Kevin Garvey has returned to his role as chief of police. Although he seems to have moved past the incredible events surrounding his “resurrection,” the Seventh Anniversary of the Sudden Departure is just two weeks away and many believe another apocalyptic event may come with it.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Patrick Somerville
8.9/10 5,723 votes#18 - No Room at the Inn
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/2015
Rev. Matt Jamison takes his vegetative wife, Mary, outside Miracle to seek answers about her condition, but their lives take a dangerous detour when he is barred from returning to town. Racing to get her back into Miracle, he struggles to keep Mary safe from desperate tourists squatting just outside the town’s gates.
Director: Nicole Kassell
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Jacqueline Hoyt
9.0/10 5,373 votes#19 - Lens
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/2015
Some unexpected visitors get under Nora's skin, and she becomes preoccupied with a burning question about herself. Kevin's predicament becomes impossible to ignore. Erika finds an unlikely ally and reveals some haunting secrets.
Director: Craig Zobel
Writer: Tom Perrotta, Damon Lindelof
9.0/10 5,107 votes#20 - Certified
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 5/21/2017
Laurie Garvey, a former therapist, must become one again as she heads to Australia to help Nora and Kevin along their paths.
Director: Carl Franklin
Writer: Patrick Somerville, Carly Wray
9.1/10 6,640 votes#21 - The Garveys at Their Best
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/24/2014
Kevin tries to suppress his bad habits while tracking down a marauding deer in Mapleton. Laurie receives not-unexpected news amidst a rising sense of foreboding. Tom connects with his past, against his better judgment. Nora has a job interview; Kevin Senior receives an honor.
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Kath Lingenfelter
9.2/10 5,718 votes#22 - G'Day Melbourne
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/7/2017
Kevin and Nora travel to Australia, where she continues to track down the masterminds of an elaborate con, while he catches a glimpse of an unexpected face from the past, forcing him to confront the traumatic events of three years earlier.
Director: Daniel Sackheim
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Tamara P. Carter, Haley Harris
9.3/10 7,342 votes#23 - The Prodigal Son Returns
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/7/2014
An unexpected ally helps Kevin get out of a jam near the town of Cairo. Meanwhile, an elaborate Memorial Day initiative by the Guilty Remnant plunges the town of Mapleton into chaos. Holy Wayne grants a final wish, Tom copes with his new reality. Nora makes a life-changing decision.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Tom Perrotta, Damon Lindelof
9.3/10 6,523 votes#24 - A Most Powerful Adversary
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2015
Nora gives Kevin and Jill news they weren't expecting. Laurie makes a rash decision that affects the Garveys. Kevin deals with the fallout of Nora's news, and explores his options re: tackling his Patti problem head-on.
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Patrick Somerville
9.3/10 6,755 votes#25 - The Most Powerful Man in the World (and His Identical Twin Brother)
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 5/28/2017
On a mission of mercy, Kevin assumes an alternate identity.
Director: Craig Zobel
Writer: Damon Lindelof, Nick Cuse