“Everybody is wondering what and where they all came from,” rang out Iris DeMent’s jubilant (extremely joyful) voice every week during the opening credits of HBO’s second season of The Leftovers. She continued: Everybody is worrying about where they’re gonna proceed when the whole thing’s done / But no one knows for certain and so it’s all the same to me / Think I’ll just let the mystery be.” DeMent’s voice—a contented medium between a screech and a honk—and the words it carried over her bluegrass ditty were inevitably the most joyous fraction of every episode. Hers was a point of view almost entirely lost from a explain obsessed with people’s points of view: blissful willful ignorance.
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