STALE CRUMBS UNDER THE LAST SUPPER TABLE

THE LEFTOVERS — COMPLETE SERIES (1–3) — 2017

I am extremely critical of the whole saga. It starts with 140 million people disappearing from the earth in one single second and going nowhere we know or nowhere identified. We will understand that there are several universes in our cosmos and that the people have been shifted to another layer of reality. Constantly some characters will be able to cross the limit, particularly the main character Kevin Garvey who could shift from here to there and vice versa, which is particularly vicious, from this here our world to that over there their world where all the disappeared are living in a very precarious situation, at least from what we are shown.

Then a cult is erected everywhere, in our universe, of people who refuse the situation and decide to step out of this here society though staying in it but marginally and disruptively They dress in white. They live a life of total recluses who do not speak at all. They scribble a couple of words from time to time. They sort of preach a final apocalypse is coming and some of them provoke the people outside the cult so that they become violent and burn as many buildings as possible where this cult has taken refuge. We are on the verge of genocide, and yet that does not cause the apocalypse these crazy cult people are envisaging. As if it were easy to bring the apocalypse.

Speaking of the Apocalypse, the Benedictines who ordered the Choir Tapestries of the Abbay church of La Chaise-Dieu at the end of the 15th century, had one triptych showing the Las Supper. Jesus is in the middle and on his left we cannot help but see Mary Magdalene, fantasized by the fact that she will be the first to whom the resurrected Jesus will appear, and to his right is the young adolescent John. The trinity of love imagined (perhaps) or fantasized (for sure) by the abbot who ordered and we know, devised with others the whole set, hence this particular scene, implying, suggesting, maybe saying this love trinity is that of triumph since we are before the arrest on what is considered the betrayal of Judas, that some consider the mission of Judas to…