Time To Get Lost
I don't watch much television outside of sports. In fact, I can't remember last when I sat down and actually watched for more than 15 minutes. That said, the best drama on TV has it's season premiere tonight. If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm talking about Lost. If you've never seen it, run out to your nearest Target or Best Buy and pick up Season One on DVD, then take off the rest of the day to catch up.
The premise of the show is fairly basic. Oceanic flight 815 crashes and strands 50-ish survivors on a strange deserted island full of preternatural and wonderful and creepy things. Gilligan's Island meets Twin Peaks? Maybe, just with less Bob Denver shouting, Skippppppeeeerrrrrr!. There are about 12-14 main characters, which may seem like a lot, but each episode focuses specifically on one character for the duration of that show, using flashbacks and the like to tell the character's backstory...and somehow making it relevant to the happenings on the island. I'm telling you folks, the writing on this show is the best I've seen (at least as far as drama goes). Each character is richly developed, and even the initially unlikable personalities draw you in, flirting between deprecation, sympathy, and even redemption. What goes unseen to the casual observer is even more fascinating...the intricacies that are woven into the story. There are a series of numbers that are somehow relevant to all that's happening. From a cursed winning lottery ticket to an inscription on a mysterious hatch. Plotlines, past, current, and future, are woven together seamlessly, and at least once during each show, you'll find yourself saying, Holy shit...but that was...cuz he...but she...ahhhhh, I see.
The show comes from creator J.J. Abrams, who also does Alias (which I've yet to watch, surprisingly enough because Jennifer Garner is just about balls hot). The lead writer is absolute unknown, Damon Lindelof, who came out of obscurity to write these amazing stories. How that happened is as strange as some of the plotlines. Anyway, if you enjoy character dramas, especially those with a twist of the bizarre, get home tonight, grab some popcorn, settle on the couch around 8:58pm EST, and tune to your local ABC affiliate. Or ABC-HD...yeah!
The premise of the show is fairly basic. Oceanic flight 815 crashes and strands 50-ish survivors on a strange deserted island full of preternatural and wonderful and creepy things. Gilligan's Island meets Twin Peaks? Maybe, just with less Bob Denver shouting, Skippppppeeeerrrrrr!. There are about 12-14 main characters, which may seem like a lot, but each episode focuses specifically on one character for the duration of that show, using flashbacks and the like to tell the character's backstory...and somehow making it relevant to the happenings on the island. I'm telling you folks, the writing on this show is the best I've seen (at least as far as drama goes). Each character is richly developed, and even the initially unlikable personalities draw you in, flirting between deprecation, sympathy, and even redemption. What goes unseen to the casual observer is even more fascinating...the intricacies that are woven into the story. There are a series of numbers that are somehow relevant to all that's happening. From a cursed winning lottery ticket to an inscription on a mysterious hatch. Plotlines, past, current, and future, are woven together seamlessly, and at least once during each show, you'll find yourself saying, Holy shit...but that was...cuz he...but she...ahhhhh, I see.
The show comes from creator J.J. Abrams, who also does Alias (which I've yet to watch, surprisingly enough because Jennifer Garner is just about balls hot). The lead writer is absolute unknown, Damon Lindelof, who came out of obscurity to write these amazing stories. How that happened is as strange as some of the plotlines. Anyway, if you enjoy character dramas, especially those with a twist of the bizarre, get home tonight, grab some popcorn, settle on the couch around 8:58pm EST, and tune to your local ABC affiliate. Or ABC-HD...yeah!
posted by sethro at 9:01:00 AM
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Dude, what a mind fuck. We gotta talk.
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