I binged The Leftovers in a week and it messed me up for days after

I watched all three seasons in 7 days and by the end I couldn't sleep because I kept thinking about those opening scenes. Has anyone else felt weirdly empty after finishing a show that heavy?

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the_sam1mo ago

Finished it in five days last year and felt the same way. That scene where Nora finally sees the baby birds in the last episode stuck with me for weeks. It's the kind of show that makes you sit with the silence after it ends, not much else does that.

dylanward1mo ago

What helped me was watching something completely different after, like a comedy with short episodes. I binged "The Good Place" right after and it kinda reset my brain. The heavy stuff from The Leftovers still hangs around in the background but it's not as crushing anymore. Sometimes you just need a total tone shift to process what you watched.