My Top Cancelled TV #3

Lost

"Why do you find it so hard to believe?"
"Why do you find it so easy?"
"It's never been easy!"

Oceanic flight 815 crashes into a remote island.  Before crashing, the plane veered off course and lost all radio contact.  The pilots are dead and technology does not work.  The survivors band together for protection, with surgeon Jack Shephard (Fox) leading the group.  They also want to find a way to get back home.

But the Island has other ideas.  There are polar bears and other strange occurrences.  And the inhabitants on the Island, called the Others, are causing problems.  Everyone has secrets and a hidden agenda.  Can they survive long enough to get off the island?


I admit it, I was a little late to the Lost phenomenon.  Before the 6th season premiered on ABC, I bought the other 5 seasons on DVD.  I figured I would check it out, and if I wasn't interested / impressed, I would resell the DVDs or donate them to my public library.  But I was captivated from the beginning.  I watched the first season within a matter of days.  The pilot is infectious.  It grabs your attention from the beginning and keeps you interested.

The show managed to juggle a large cast (only a portion of which is listed below), evolving Island mythology, and the character backstories (which appear in every episode of the first few seasons).  And just when you think you know what is happening, the writers would throw a new twist, mythology, character, etc your way.  The writing wasn't always consistent, but most shows have bad moments / seasons.

Love it or hate it, people were talking about this show... networks are still trying to duplicate it's success, but nothing is working.  Many people were disappointed with the final season and the series finale, but I felt they wrapped up the show in a satisfying way.  All 6 seasons are currently available for instant streaming on Netflix.  Check it out, but be prepared to be sucked in!

Lost (2004-2010)
Creators: J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber, Damon Lindlehof
Starring: Matthew Fox as Jack Shephard
Evangeline Lilly as Kate Austen
Josh Holloway as James "Sawyer" Ford
Jorge Garcia as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
Terry O'Quinn as John Locke
Michael Emerson as Ben Linus 
Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah 
Daniel Dae Kim as Jin Kwon
Yunjin Kim as Sun Kwon
Emilie de Ravin as Claire Littleton
Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond Hume
Dominic Monaghan as Charlie Pace
Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet Burke