This balance has largely been lost in the age of streaming now, in which producers pride themselves on making seasons of television like long movies, owing to a persisting inferiority complex with film, as well as a fundamental misunderstanding of the lesson of this consistently emotionally-harrowing trailblazer. Although episodes of “Lost” are pieces of a larger puzzle, they also stand on their own as individually satisfying stories. As much as the narrative infamously built on itself, the writers understood the power of the episode. This gets at what made “Lost” such an enduring favorite and why its success has been so seldom replicated. Nonlinear structure took off, as did substituting cases-of-the-week with rotating central characters.
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The sprawling international cast introduced audiences to diverse perspectives, albeit there has scarcely been another show that has boasted four Asian series regulars simultaneously outside of shows explicitly about the Asian experience like “Fresh Off the Boat” also from ABC.
Its serialized mysteries engaged viewers - with each other online, long before social media and aided by ABC paving the way for the Internet as a platform for official tie-ins. Its unprecedented budget demonstrated the potential for cinematic quality on the “small” screen. “Lost” was revolutionary in some ways that are still not quite felt 16 years after its debut. Abrams has rebooted film franchises like “Star Trek” and “Star Wars.” Co-showrunner Carlton Cuse spawned a media empire as a prolific producer of successful shows like “Bates Motel” and “Jack Ryan.” Co-creator J.J. 121 episodes aired on ABC tour through our 10th anniversary of the finale photo gallery of the 25 greatest that still hold up a decade later.Ĭo-creator and co-showrunner Damon Lindelof went on to make two of the most acclaimed and inventive shows of the next decade, with “The Leftovers” (28 episodes across three seasons) and “Watchmen” (a single season of nine episodes). “Lost” was often imitated, but the industry’s move away from commercially-driven network oversight and toward creatively-autonomous shorter seasons makes it unlikely that there will be such an epic again, especially with its inception being a last-ditch risk by executives who being pushed out the door. Plotlines throughout the addictive first season include the group's efforts to build an ocean-ready raft to decipher a voice picked up on the plane's transceiver and to penetrate an underground hatch.Having premiering on September 22, 2004, “Lost” ended its run on May 23, 2010. Ever-changing group dynamics are endured while unanswered questions pile up about the island and its existing inhabitants, both human and inhuman. One by one, flashbacks reveal details to their often-troubled pasts and those of core castaways including lottery winner Hurley (Jorge Garcia) former Iraqi soldier Sayid (Naveen Andrews) the pregnant Claire (Emilie de Raven) drug-addled rocker Charlie (Dominic Monaghan) Korean couple Jin and Sun (Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim) single dad Michael (Harold Perrineau), son Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) and dog Vincent and twentysomething siblings Shannon (Maggie Grace) and Boone (Ian Somerhalder). Luckily, there's a doctor in the house, as Jack (Matthew Fox) assumes a leadership role for the group while developing an affection for the beguiling Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and philosophical differences with bad-boy Sawyer (Josh Holloway) and mysterious loner Locke (Terry O'Quinn).
Oceanic flight 815 from Sydney to Los Angeles crash lands on an island in the South Pacific, with 48 survivors facing uncertain hopes of rescue while getting to know one another-and their eerie new home.
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