Lost (2004)
Lost is a 2004 mystery series created by J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof. It stars Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly and Terry O'Quinn.
Oceanic flight 815 breaks apart over the Pacific and drops its survivors onto an island that should not exist. Jack, a spinal surgeon, falls into reluctant leadership beside fugitive Kate, con man Sawyer, lottery-cursed Hurley, and the seemingly reborn John Locke. Each episode braids present-day survival with flashbacks that expose who these strangers were before the crash. The island answers nothing simply: a sealed hatch, a distress signal decades old, sounds moving through the jungle. Created by J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof, the series turned network television into a puzzle box that viewers argued over for six seasons.
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What is Lost about?
Oceanic flight 815 breaks apart over the Pacific and drops its survivors onto an island that should not exist. Jack, a spinal surgeon, falls into reluctant leadership beside fugitive Kate, con man Sawyer, lottery-cursed Hurley, and the seemingly reborn John Locke. Each episode braids present-day survival with flashbacks that expose who these strangers were before the crash. The island answers nothing simply: a sealed hatch, a distress signal decades old, sounds moving through the jungle. Created by J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof, the series turned network television into a puzzle box that viewers argued over for six seasons.
When was Lost released?
Lost was released on 22 September 2004.
How many episodes does Lost have?
Lost has 118 episodes across 6 seasons.
Who made Lost?
Lost was created by J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Jeffrey Lieber.
Where can I watch Lost?
Lost is available on Hulu, fuboTV, Google Play, Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch Lost
Rent: Google Play
Buy: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play
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Cast
- Matthew Fox as Jack Shephard
- Evangeline Lilly as Kate Austen
- Terry O'Quinn as John Locke
- Josh Holloway as James Sawyer
- Jorge Garcia as Hurley Reyes
- Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah
- Dominic Monaghan as Charlie Pace
- Harold Perrineau as Michael Dawson
- Yunjin Kim as Sun-Hwa Kwon
- Daniel Dae Kim as Jin-Soo Kwon
- Emilie de Ravin as Claire Littleton
- Michael Emerson as Benjamin Linus
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A few thoughts on Lost
Firewatch bottles the same dread of isolation and half-glimpsed mystery in the wilderness. Lord of the Flies remains the ancestor of every stranded-survivors story, watching order curdle without rescue. And The Leftovers, from co-creator Damon Lindelof, chases the same ache of unexplained loss with more patience and even bigger questions.
Stranded together after everything falls apart
Lost begins with Oceanic 815 breaking apart over the Pacific, dropping strangers onto an island that should not exist. The Wilds and Flight 29 Down maroon their own planeloads after eerily similar crashes, The I-Land wakes its castaways with no memory of how they arrived, Keep Breathing traps one woman alone in the wreckage, and Cast Away leaves a single survivor to rebuild a life from nothing.
Somewhere remote where nothing is what it seems
Lost keeps answering nothing simply: a sealed hatch, a decades-old distress call, sounds moving through the jungle no one can explain. Firewatch sends a lookout into a forest hiding its own conspiracy, Harper's Island turns a wedding party into a killer's hunting ground, The Lost World keeps dinosaurs alive on a forgotten island, The Third Day traps a visitor in island rituals, and Crossbones buries pirate secrets in Caribbean coves.
Flashbacks that slowly reveal who these people really are
Every episode of Lost braids present-day survival with flashbacks exposing who these strangers were before Oceanic 815 went down. Yellowjackets cuts between a stranded soccer team and the adults they became, Station Eleven jumps between a pandemic's before and after to explain its survivors, Tell Me Lies alternates timelines to show how a relationship curdled, We Were Liars circles through one family's past, and Smother peels open a family's history.