'The Leftovers' Episode 4 Recap: Baby Jesus Goes Missing

The Christmas episode of The Leftovers was anything but merry:

A truck crashes on a highway, ejecting hundreds of corpses bound for funeral homes; a deranged man punches a pregnant woman in the stomach, but miraculously the baby’s OK; Laurie asks Kevin for a divorce, and their troubled teen daughter steals the plastic baby Jesus from the town nativity display and ... hold on a moment.

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[Walks to fridge. Looks for something to take the edge off another post-Leftovers bout of acute existential dread — this show is bleaker than the nightly news but each episode is better than the last. A month in, it’s beginning to find its groove. Finally! I doubted you, Lindelof, but you’ve proven me wrong. YOU WIN OK. Bad news: Nothing in fridge. Returns to laptop. Resumes recap.] Read more...

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