The Leftovers?

HBO came out firing on this one taking on a drama where 1/200 (not sure actually) of the world's population has disappeared. It's not a "rapture" movie, as some of the people taken were clearly douchers, but there is truly no explanation. The show instead focuses on a town, probably of decent size, but not too large, and how that town keeps moving on despite the craziness that people just disappeared. I recognize a few faces, primarily Amy Brenneman (I think, but I'm not looking it up) and Liv Tyler, but there are no huge stars by any stretch of the imagination. I'm on the fence after a couple episodes as I really have no connection with any character and wouldn't mind all of them shooting it out in the middle of town at this point, so that makes it hard to think I'm going to like this show. It is an interesting take and original, so I will try my best to pay it some just due, but I can't really endorse it at this point. The town is clearly fractured, and they certainly highlight some big parts of it. The sheriff loves to drink and then do stupid things, like shoot stray dogs in the middle of a city street while they feed on a huge deer they mauled to death somehow. There is a weird cult that wears only white clothes and refuses to speak, and despite those OBVIOUS limitations, that cult is growing? There's some random guy who apparently has some powers (Christ-like essentially) that makes no sense to me. I'm still giving it a shot, since besides the new 24 season (thank GOD Jack's back), television is pretty much garbage. Please, some network, save us.