I have probably watched the first two or three episodes five or six times. It was just so somber that I could never get past that point for several years. Finally starting a couple of weeks ago I decided to power through, and wow what a show!

My wife isn't interested in watching a slow burn show, so I would give her mini-recaps of episodes here and there. Around episode six, I told my wife "my headcanon is that the 2% ended up on an alternate Earth minus everyone else," (thank you Sliders) and imagine my surprise when that ended up being the case! I've never called something so accurately so early!

The character arcs were amazing. I absolutely love Scott Glenn so seeing him get a role he could sink his teeth into was phenomenal. I'd say season 2 was my favorite. I genuinely thought the show might just end up being an anthology about different areas and people and got a little bummed. So I was delighted when Matt showed up and then of course our other central characters right at the end of that premiere episode.

I thought the finale was perfect, and really enjoyed how the last season really took what we'd been shown the first two seasons and sort of turned it on its head. The first two seasons are people grasping for meaning, and the show hinting at there being some deeper thread, only for the final season to show that no one had a clue. Everyone was just grasping to different debris of faith in a storm of the grief.

My only petty gripe would be that I really wanted to see video of people vanishing. It was a little immersion breaking when they'd show news reports talking about it or show characters who clearly witnessed what happened, but won't show the audience something every character has definitely seen.

Also, and this is just a personal wish, I'd have loved a single episode after the finale showing an accelerated timeline of how things went down on the 2% Earth. Sort of like "The Plan" showed the Cylon side of things in Battlestar Galactica.