Popular Tv Show Essay - Lost -

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The 2004-2010 television series Lost was and still is a very popular show. The combination of mystery/sci-fi aspects with legitimate storytelling and cliff-hangers keeps the audience pretty engrossed. The unsolved mysteries and cliff-hangers especially give the viewer’s something to discuss after each episode. The show is questions within questions, mysteries on top of mysteries, a science fiction, a comedy, a love story yet creepy and scary. On top of that, it leaves you on the edge of your seat, it is thought provoking, like a good novel that never quits. J. J Abrams among other has created a timeless television show, touching on every aspect of the human condition better than any other show in existence. In 2004, travelers on Oceanic Flight 815 find themselves stranded on a deserted tropical island after a devastating plane crash. Forty-eight passengers have survived and we follow the past, present, and future of a group of survivors. The episodes usually observe one person more closely than the others, initiating flashbacks from before the flight or flash forwards from after the island. As a result of this, we learn about the peculiar lives of each of the main characters who seem to all have a major secret or challenge. The survivors feel the island isn’t normal, after spotting a polar bear and an unknown “smoke monster” living in the deep jungle. The main characters of the show are Jack Shephard, Kate Austen, Sawyer, Benjamin Linus, John Locke, Hurley, Sun & Jin Kwon and Sayid Jarrah among others. These characters vary from a Spinal Surgeon to a Conman to an Iraqi Torturer. Though most of these characters live distinct lives, and live in very different conditions, it seems that they are all connected in some way, though they don’t seem to know it. After Forty-eight days of being stranded on the island, the survivors from the front section of the plane

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