'The Leftovers' season 3 spoilers news: Justin Theroux character to cross over to the dark side?

"The Leftovers" is packed up for Australia where the last season of the series will be shot. It seems the show changes locations every season. The first was set in a fictional town named Mapleton, in New York, where the Garveys lived when the "Sudden Departure" transpired. It involved the disappearance of two percent of the world's population for no apparent reason.

Kevin Garvey's (Justin Theroux) family survived the event. But Garvey, along with his daughter, Jill (Margaret Qualley) and his girlfriend Nora (Carrie Coon), decided to leave the town because a cult known as the Guilty Remnant, to which his ex-wife Laurie (Amy Brenneman) belonged, made the place a difficult one to live in.

So in its second season, the show caught up with the Garveys in Jarden, Texas, said to be a "miracle town" because none of its inhabitants disappeared during the Sudden Departure. But the GR, which was led by Meg (Liv Tyler), eventually got to Jarden and damaged it as well.

The second season, though, was when Garvey discovered his power of resurrection and died twice, but made it back to the living. In one of those deaths, he was able to establish a connection with his father, Kevin Garvey, Sr. (Scott Glenn), who reached out to him and told the younger Garvey he was going to Australia.

This now made two grounds for going to Australia: one, to get away from the destruction in Jarden; and two, to find Garvey Sr.

Yet, with everyone from the show going Down Under, it would seem that the GR has the same idea as the Garveys', as if it were dogging Garvey.

There have been speculations that he may give in to temptation and finally fall under the sway of the GR as well. This suggestion seems to fit in with showrunner Damon Lindelof's musings regarding Garvey's apparent struggle with the dark forces within him.

In an interview with Variety, the showrunner expanded on his theory, "Audiences crave a level of depth and darkness, but this kind of internal darkness — deep, emotional darkness — doesn't settle with audiences."

He explained that that kind of darkness is seen as something associated with "depression and despair," something audiences do not like to see.

Lindelof said that audiences "want to see characters trying to dig themselves out of holes... They want to see a light at the end of the tunnel — not extinguishing a light."

He admitted a show must not have darkness without the relief of light — and humor, a "flicker of hope."

"That was something we derived from the first season of 'The Leftovers.' I think the themes of the second season are just as dark, but if you go into unrelenting darkness and despair, American audiences will reject that outright."

Whether Garvey will give in to his dark cravings is something "The Leftovers" season 3 will answer. The premier date has not been announced as of yet, but the second season can be viewed on demand on HBO.