Lost - The Greatest TV Show Ever!

I never finished House of Cards so started a rewatch of it recently, but I could see the quality going down hill, so I read some reviews and apparently the ending was unsatisfactory, so I gave up and switched to Sopranos.

There are a load of series I never finished and other series Ive watched repeatedly.

I started a rewatch of Lost a while back. I was enjoying it and then I remembered, there is a lot of sh1t to come with flash sideways bollox, a whole load of stuff left unresolved, so why bother. No need to be disappointed twice.

Feel free to explain it.

I remembering loving this when it came out first. I know I got to season 4 and then gave up. Maybe the criticism was overblown but I’m not against shows that make you have to think while watching it, it’s when it doesn’t make any sense in the issue.

prison break is another show that started out really good. The first season is really good and I watched it all the way to the end, but it really was a chore to get through by the end. I watched the new season and wish I hadn’t now. It requires you to forget a HUGE part of the end of season 4. We did get another episode in Ireland which makes the new season even dumber.

Did you ever see the scene in one of the recent terminator movies where you're meant to believe Arnies character the T800 accomplished his mission of killing John Connors but stayed around in this timeline, became a curtain salesman named Karl, drove a van with Karls drapes on it and was living as a family man with a woman and her kid for years? Far cry from the original film.

You just say to that would ya ever f**K off with your nonsense.

That's what the storylines in Lost were like. Flash sideways, alternate purgatorys mean to look like real life and then someone says no, that's real purgatory and the island was real.........and all the other storylines that never made sense, I remember a polar bear at one stage in early seasons and all that dharma initiative rubbish, can't remember where any of those stories went. Not to forget the others, who were they again? Why did the plane crash again? Why were the people chosen?

A lot dont get the ending though which is hilarious it was the clearest part of the whole show.

I do however agree and think it was a 3 season story originally and when it became such a hit the studio demanded more and the writers just scrambled desperately to strech out the material for 6 seasons. And thats why you'd have a sudden classic episode in the middle of a severe lull and so much irrelevant meandering nothingness scattered throughout.

Ahh feck, you got there before me 😁

I read the OP and wondered what age they are that they don’t remember phenomena like The X -Files, Twin Peaks (if you know, you know 😂), Dynasty wasn’t as good as Dallas, Joan Collins though was a piece of work, but nothing like the question that was on everyone’s minds for months:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_shot_J.R.%3F

There was V too, ‘twas like a scare before bedtime 😖

Well that was inevitable. The "But its so obvious, you just weren't paying attention / smart enough to understand / had given up on it" comments. I watched it in entirety, and watched it all again before watching the final episode and I still felt disappointed, and didn't really get it.

As another poster said, so many storylines that went nowhere.

Spacey was acquitted of the charges. Instead of rewriting the ending, NetFlix should have held out.

But before Trump and before the Spacey thing, it had already lost its way.

M*A*S*H would definitely on the list for sure.

Not a good series however one that took over the world in the 90's was Baywatch it was cultural phenomenon all around the world like no other series.

"Run Yasmine, run like the wind" which is a quote from another series about Baywatch that generated real sheer mass hysteria like no other for it's time.. Friends.

Another poster made the point, that when it was at its best, it was without doubt the best show, possibly ever. Nothing has come close to capturing the imagination of the western world in terms of TV, the way lost did. It was an event, something people around the world discussed the next day. No show has ever reached those heights.

The X-Files was the very same 😳

I don’t comment on Lost because I’ve never watched it, but I do remember there were many who were disappointed with the ending. Almost as disappointed as Bobby Ewing’s “It was all a dream” retcon! There were many tv shows are up there with Lost in terms of their influence and their ability to have captured the Western world with events that were discussed around the world the next day. But none of that should take from the view that Lost in its own right was a cultural phenomenon. I feel the same way about GOT btw - if a show is hyped up, it’s overwhelming to the point where I’d only be watching it for the sake of it, and not because I should enjoy it.

Never saw Invasion either, and there were plenty of people who never watched shows like Fringe or Earth: Final Conflict (it was awful now I actually remember it 😂), or Heroes, another JJ Abrams cracker, or the criminally underrated and not a show you want to watch during a pandemic:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leftovers_%28TV_series%29

They’re shows that have quite literally a cult following, a dedicated audience that will still be discussing the shows years after they’ve ended and are either in syndication (that reminds me, I ordered China Beach on DVD months ago, still waiting 😡), or are bootlegged copies.

Fringe was a great show that ended as it started - don't remember any season of it actually being rubbish, was another kinda reboot of the show a few years ago but cancelled after one season (can't remember the name now) that actually got better as it went on.

The likes of shows like Lost would never survive in today's TV culture