The Leftovers (2014)

Damon Lindelof's next series after Lost, made with novelist Tom Perrotta, and the closest thing to an answer to what Lost was really about. It follows the people left behind after two per cent of the world's population vanishes, and its single-character episodes do what Lost's best flashbacks did, turning someone you had misjudged into the person you care about most. From the second season, a small Texas town where nobody disappeared becomes as much a character as the island ever was. Know the deal before you start: it cares far more about how people live with not knowing than about explaining the vanishing. It runs three seasons on HBO and ends exactly as its makers intended.