By The Leftovers is taking a leaf out of The Wire's book, with co-creator Damon Lindelof confirming that the second season will be significantly different to the first.
Speaking to Collider, Lindelof explained that he was "captivated" by the direction The Wire took in season two.
"Although some people think the second season of The Wire is its least successful, I was just completely and totally captivated by the audacity and boldness of just shifting the storytelling down to the docks, and taking the characters who I had become deeply enamoured of and sidelining them in favour of entirely new characters," Lindelof said.
"In my mind, it paid off huge because it set up the paradigm for what the third season and the fourth season of The Wire could be, not to mention the fifth season."
Lindelof added that he is excited by the chance to "shake things up a bit" and do something daring.
"We've exhausted all the story from Tom Perrotta's book. It was a novel, it wasn't meant to be a continuing series," he said.
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"Tom remains very involved in the storytelling moving forward, but what could we do that would shake things up a bit and pitch a bit of a curveball but at the same time not reinvent the wheel?
"We're still making a show about the same thing thematically. We still want it to feel the same way that the first season felt, but I do feel like the catalyst for coming back was, 'Let's try something bold!'
"And if it doesn't work, well, it will be a spectacular failure as opposed to a humdrum one."
The Leftovers airs on HBO in the US and on Sky Atlantic in the UK.
