I started watching the first season on Netflix, it’s actually really good! Apparently it’s been out for awhile, it’s better than a lot of the new shows I’ve seen! Check it out if looking for something new to watch
Yeah, I always say that the first two seasons are some of the best TV ever, but unfortunately it goes on way too long and gets weird for the sake of being weird. I loved the characters and ended up watching the whole thing, but as a whole I don't look back on the entirety of the series fondly.
One of the worst things about many great TV shows is that they don't know how to end. Sometimes it's okay to end a great thing. It happens in life. It may be better to go out with a great ending while on top instead of dragging it on and on because you have great ratings and you're making money on it.
I agree. The money just gets so good that no one wants to walk away from a pay day. No one on that show has really hit it big since either (at least that I recall).
Seinfeld (even with its weak last episode) ended on top.
British series are an interesting format. They shoot short series (6 episodes mainly) that allows big names to star in them and not pass up movie work. The writers need to keep the storylines tight. They also seem willing to do a season and move on.
I started watching the first season on Netflix, it’s actually really good! Apparently it’s been out for awhile, it’s better than a lot of the new shows I’ve seen! Check it out if looking for something new to watch
I agree with a lot of the above posts. The first season completely drew me in and then my attention started waning as the writing got looser and the plot meandered. I called it quits somewhere in season three.
I find a lot of shows are like this - although maybe it's a comment on my ability to commit to watching one series. I loved early episodes of The Walking Dead, and grew disinterested by season three. Game of Thrones was fantastic early on and then became a terrible bog-standard fantasy show (albeit a very high budget one) that seemingly forgot what made it good in the first place. I think the last full series I finished was the German Sci-Fi show "Dark", although even then the first two seasons were far better than the third.
I try to stick to movies or standalone single-season shows now. Maybe I'm missing out on something good, but at least I'm not disappointing myself.
I think the writers wanted to end the show after S3 and the network essentially forced them to keep it going. Call me crazy but I still enjoyed all 6 seasons. Some pretty messy writing and local theater acting towards the end (Ben and Sayeed!) but still a fun show. Seasons 1-3 are awesome. More people should strive to be like John Locke.
I just finished binge watching it on Netflix a few weeks ago. Great show, although it seemed like the writers started to get lazy. Or they were committed to a certain number of seasons and were forced to keep it going. Terrible ending.
Just watched it in its entirety over the last couple mos. Those first 3 seasons were awesome! Enjoyed the whole thing, but those first few were the best.
Right before the last season, my now wife and I binged all 5 seasons (DVDs of the over 100 episodes) over 15 days. We had work, too, and I was adamant about watching everything and skipping nothing.
The Constant is still my favorite TV episode of all time. The end of the series was... not that satisfying, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I read an article recently about how Lost is more easily palatable now because of the binge factor. Having to wait a week for everything drove people insane in many ways.
I think the writers wanted to end the show after S3 and the network essentially forced them to keep it going. Call me crazy but I still enjoyed all 6 seasons. Some pretty messy writing and local theater acting towards the end (Ben and Sayeed!) but still a fun show. Seasons 1-3 are awesome. More people should strive to be like John Locke.
Lindelof stated that this was the case, and ABC kept saying to them after each of the 1st 2 seasons, why would you want to end a show that people are watching?
"More people should strive to be like John Locke." I don't think you can be like John Locke.
I streamed it recently (saw some when it aired but didn't remember much) and think a lot of the ambitious writing works better when you can make connections by streaming episodes in close succession instead of waiting a week and then months between seasons. The Constant is incredible!
I'm old af and here to tell you the show doesn't mean anything as the writers didn't know how to end it.
Lost deserves credit for showing networks and producers that viewers would no longer tolerate shows that continue on without a coherent plot simply because they drove ratings early on. If you're under 30, you had no idea how many successful shows dragged on for YEARS because they were a gravy train, and everyone ate it up. But thankfully Lost showed that wasn't going to work anymore. Television got unbelievably better because of it.
I streamed it recently (saw some when it aired but didn't remember much) and think a lot of the ambitious writing works better when you can make connections by streaming episodes in close succession instead of waiting a week and then months between seasons. The Constant is incredible!
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