Lost : Thoughts

Lost was a really great "binge show". I watched it this spring, starting just about when the series concluded. The fact that I live under a rock helped me avoid all the discussion regarding the finale. This show has been on my list for years - since middle school, when I was not allowed to watch "grown up shows" - because of Dominic Monaghan and my insane Lord of the Rings fandom. I figured that now that it's over, what better time to start, right?

It was very good. The whole of it, minus the final season, was on Netflix Watch Instantly, which made it so easy to access. Despite theories that the writers haven't had any idea what they've been doing since day one, the show was very well crafted [early CGI polar bears almost turned me off of it all though] in visual, written, and intellectual ways. It's one of those shows that you actually have to watch because if you miss thirty seconds, you won't have any idea what's going on for the next four episodes. Every episode, no matter how ridiculous, left me craving the next, which is an incredibly good thing for a television show.

The show takes a lot of effort to experience, but it's really something of a television masterpiece, and the journey is well worth the hours of your life that you'll spend watching it.