"Lost" (2004) TV series 2004-????

Creators:

J.J. Abrams
Jeffrey Lieber
Damon Lindelof

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | unknown

Release Date:

22 September 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

They're not the survivors they think they are. (Season Two)

Plot:

The survivors of a plane crash are forced to live with each other on a remote island, a dangerous new world that poses unique threats of its own.

Plot Keywords:

Plane Crash | Doctor | Survival | Flashback | South Pacific

Awards:

Won Golden Globe. Another 48 wins & 159 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sat. Dec. 19	11:35 PM	ABC	Some Like It Hoth	#5.13
Sun. Dec. 20	12:35 AM	ABC	The Variable	#5.14

Cast

Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah (116 episodes, 2004-2010)
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford (116 episodes, 2004-2010)
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon (116 episodes, 2004-2010)
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon (116 episodes, 2004-2010)
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen (116 episodes, 2004-2010)
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke (116 episodes, 2004-2010)
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard (115 episodes, 2004-2010)
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes (115 episodes, 2004-2010)
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton (93 episodes, 2004-2010)
Michael Emerson	...	Benjamin Linus / ... (76 episodes, 2006-2010)
Dominic Monaghan	...	Charlie Pace (70 episodes, 2004-2008)
Harold Perrineau	...	Michael Dawson (60 episodes, 2004-2008)
Henry Ian Cusick	...	Desmond Hume (56 episodes, 2005-2009)
Elizabeth Mitchell	...	Juliet Burke (52 episodes, 2006-2010)

Also Known As:

Perdidos (Spain) (Venezuela) [es]
Изгубени (Bulgaria: Bulgarian title) [bg]
Остаться в живых (Russia) [ru]
Avodim (Israel: Hebrew title) [iw]
Izgubljeni (Croatia) [hr]
Lost (Finland) [fi]
Lost (Norway) [no]
Lost (Brazil) [pt]
Lost (Germany) [de]
Lost (Argentina) [es]
Lost - Eltüntek (Hungary) [hu]
Lost - Les disparus (France) [fr]
Lost - zagubieni (Poland) [pl]
Naufragiatii (Romania) [ro]
Nezvestní (Slovakia) [sk]
Oi agnooumenoi (Greece) [el]
Perdus (Canada: French title) (dubbed version) [fr]
Pokoli éden (Hungary) [hu]
Teadmata kadunud (Estonia) [et]
Ztraceni (Czech Republic) [cs]

Runtime:

42 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Portuguese | Spanish | Arabic | French | Korean | German | Latin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

France:U | Singapore:PG | Finland:K-15/13 (TV rating) | Netherlands:12 | Malaysia:U | Germany:12 (TV rating) (season 1) | Germany:16 (DVD rating) (season 1) | South Africa:PG (13V) (TV rating) | South Africa:PG (10V) (DVD rating) | Brazil:16 (DVD rating) (season 2) | Brazil:18 (DVD rating) (season 1) | South Korea:15 | Germany:16 (TV rating) (season 2) | Germany:18 (One episode) | New Zealand:M (Season 1 DVD) | New Zealand:M (Season 2 DVD) | New Zealand:PG (Season 3 some episodes) | New Zealand:PG (Season 2 some episodes) | Germany:16 (DVD rating) (season 2) (part 1) | Germany:18 (DVD rating) (season 2) (part 2) | Brazil:18 (DVD rating) (season 3) | Canada:14A (Season 2 DVD) | Canada:PG (Season 1 and 2 DVD) | UK:12 (Most episodes) | UK:15 (Some episodes and DVD rating) | South Korea:18 (DVD rating) (season 3) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | USA:TV-14 | USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

Hawaii Film Studio - 18th Avenue & Diamond Head Road, Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company:

ABC Studios

Trivia:

When Jin is at the house of the person he is meant to kill, Hurley is on the television behind him. If you look (extremely) carefully you can see that he is wearing the grey shirt that he is wearing when the television cameras show up at the petrol station later on in the series.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: During the scenes in the 1970s, all of the spectacle wearing characters have an anti-reflective coating on their lenses (the greenish hued reflection). While these coatings are very common today, in the 1970s they were generally reserved for optical equipment lenses.

Quotes:

[repeated line]
James 'Sawyer' Ford: Son of a bitch!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Jay Leno Show: (#1.25)" (2009)

Chilling, atmospheric and addictive – if the writers can weave all the clues and ideas together in the end, this will probably be stapled as the best show ever in television

While originally reluctant to jump on the bandwagon of watching "Lost", I accidentally caught one episode at the beginning of season 1—the one with the polar-bear—and it has had my undivided attention ever since. The show, that is. Not the polar bear. So bear (heh) with me while I throw out as much rambling, semi-coherent praise as I can muster.

"Lost" takes a simple idea of a passenger flight full of people crashing onto a desert island, and gradually adds extraordinary depth to its premise by exploring each character deeply and unflinchingly—what drives them, who are they? Where did they come from? It soon becomes clear that the island upon which they are stranded acts as a common denominator for many things in their lives, whether they're running away from something (Sawyer and Kate among others) or getting in touch with spirituality (Locke, Claire). But "Lost" also zooms in on the island itself and the mysterious horrors that it houses... and they all seem to be strangely connected.

While television actors are not exactly known for their subtlety or dazzling acting abilities, most of the cast of "Lost" are, in truth, spectacular actors for their respective parts, projecting heart and humour in their performances. There's also a multitude of eyecandy, but not generally of the plastic Hollywood kind as most TV shows. The characters all feel very real and they are extremely compelling to watch. Their interactions rarely fall prey to predictable sappiness, petty arguments or cheesy melodrama (although they are annoyingly secretive) – these people are first and foremost trying to survive and whatever relationship appears is treated secondary to action. The realism of these characters facilitate an already well-sculptured plot.

About this plot... Imagine a tree as the template plot, then the branches as subplots (in this case, one branch for every character) – well, Lost adds twigs to each branch and then tiny twigs to those twigs as other story lines. If you're a brother/sister to one of the main characters in the flashbacks, you will get your own storyline. If you're a DOG you will have your own storyline. Unless the writers manage to weave them all together into some glorious culmination in the end, they are setting themselves up. I am more than a little worried there will be some disappointing cop-out to this show, as I'm sure most people are.

But assuming the writers do pull this off, "Lost" is possibly the best show ever to hit television.

9/10