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I am watching The Leftovers - only just now finishing the first season. Most episodes are ensemble pieces, but a few episodes focus on a single character. Sometimes this works to lend gravitas to a later event, their arc contained and resolved within a single episode. For others, it establishes them as the main character in their own story, and over the course of several episodes - thrillingly - these same characters and their stories begin to overlap and become irrevocably t

When the TV presenter says “thanks for tuning in all season” at the end of the Last Night of the Proms… I have a sudden, biting sense of...