Matt Jamison

Matt Jamison is a small-town reverend whose congregation has withered since the Sudden Departure took millions and, in his town's eyes, none of the truly righteous. He fights back with pamphlets and dogged research, determined to prove the vanished weren't saints — a man clinging to meaning while everyone around him prefers silence.

Christopher Eccleston plays faith not as comfort but as compulsion, all clenched jaw and righteous exhaustion, so that Matt's crusade feels less like piety than survival. The show gives him an impossible task — defending God's logic after an inexplicable catastrophe — and Eccleston makes his stubbornness both maddening and heartbreaking to watch.”} Wait — remove stray quote. {