This Sci-Fi Hit Is Better on Rewatch Than It Was the First Time. Here's Why.
Lost premiered 22 years ago as the most expensive pilot in television history. It became a cultural event that defined what weekly appointment viewing could be, and then it was partially buried by a divisive finale.
That's a shame, because the finale is 6 hours out of 121, and the other 115 are some of the best network television ever produced. What makes Lost endure is how much better it is when you rewatch it. Knowing where the story is headed lets its themes resonate even more deeply, more than 20 years later. And that's a hill I'll die on.
There's a good chance you watched Lost in the early 2000s, too. And there's an even better chance you think it got bad. Or you have some sort of perspective that it started strong but went off the rails after the first three seasons. Somewhere along the way -- maybe...
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