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TV Analysis Report (1000 words) The Leftovers is a TV drama about a sudden departure of 2% of the world’s population. At the beginning of the narrative the diegetic world is in a state of normality as we follow a stressed out mother and a baby, after following her for a couple of minutes her baby disappears along with millions of others creating a state of disequilibrium in the narrative structure. There is a three year time skip in the story and the remaining 98% are doing their best to move on which is the new equilibrium, conforming with Todorov’s narrative theory. Many of the ensemble cast align with Propp’s character theory, Kevin Garvey is the story’s protagonist and hero figure, he is a police officer whose job is to keep the peace after the departure, he’s defending the peace from Patti Levins the villain of the story and a leader of a cult that refuse to move on and forget the departed by disrupting the lives of those that they decide to target. Nora Durst is the P...