a show which my friends who always make good recommendations, recommend

HBO’s The Leftovers. I haven’t seen it.

It is supposed to be top of the line good.

From the wiki–

The Leftovers starts three years after a global event called the “Sudden Departure”, the inexplicable, simultaneous disappearance of 140 million people, 2% of the world’s population, on October 14, 2011. Following that event, mainstream religions declined, and a number of cults emerged, most notably the Guilty Remnant.

The first season revolves around the Garvey family and their acquaintances in the fictional town of Mapleton, New York. Kevin Garvey is the Chief of Police. His wife Laurie has joined the Guilty Remnant. Their son Tommy has left home for college, and their daughter Jill is acting out.In the second season, the lead characters move to the fictional town of Jarden, Texas, where not a single citizen was lost in the “Sudden Departure”. The third and final season unfolds three years later, in 2018, starting 14 days before the cryptic seventh anniversary of the Sudden Departure, with events taking the main characters to Australia.

This is from a review. I just selected it so you can “hear” how people who like it talk about the show, which is something I have picked up on from my recommendation friends.

To spend five or six consecutive hours watching HBO’s The Leftovers, as I did ahead of the start of the show’s third season on Sunday, is to find most other shows on TV looking small by comparison.

The Leftovers, which made a quantum qualitative leap from its first to second season and maintains that quality level through the first six of eight final season episodes, is a tremendous iceberg of a show on which one could write endlessly about just one or two calving chunks of interest and come nowhere near delving into even a small portion of what lurks underneath.

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You can’t get away with the things The Leftovers gets away with if you don’t have one of the best and most committed ensembles on television, a cast so superior that…. [etc etc].

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/leftovers-season-3-review-994159