Lost - TV Series Review

In the series ‘Lost’, we get familiar with a group of people who survived a horrific air plane crash and are stranded on a mysterious island that is surrounded by many unknowns. As the dark marked group sticks together to find all sorts of ways to stay alive, subplots unraveling deeper enigmas and character backgrounds are intertwined into the core plot’s narrative that blurs the line of truth and time.

Gone elaborately Lost encodes meanings and motifs of survival, the destiny, the supernatural with an aura of mystery married to the bizarre at times. It provides the audience with the metaphysical dilettante betweens the predetermined and the chance and does so in a surprising deep way while playing with parallel universes and time trips.

The cast is great and everyone does an excellent job portraying their characters; the characters are distinctive. Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, and Terry O’Quinn also exit the series showcasing their character development and their issues, so it can be interesting to follow them.

Being with Jack Bender, Stephen Williams, and Paul A. Edwards at the pilot, ‘Lost’ is very much thought through and detailed. The directors are a great example of how to combine character focused sequences and abstract mysterious setting that will actively engage the viewers.

Michael Giacchino has done a great job providing music that creates a creepy and emotive, and there is high energy when required in the series. Because the music becomes a protagonist itself, an important narrative of anxiety and passion is added to the story.

The series features good shooting especially the scenes depicting the Island as beautiful but else deserted. It brings more to the show’s visual style, specifically using various camera work to enhance the feelings of the characters and the overall feeling of the island.

Lost’s production design designs a credible universe for the events to unfold and even though it’s a purely otherworldly show at most times, it gets that right down to the grounded car crash scene−. The island itself becomes the subject of this movie, its beauty and details depicted make the audiences to feel the real milieu of survivalism.

‘Lost’ had a creatively effective use of special effect that is employed in the plane crash opening and in some episodes where it does not take over the show but rather helps to set the mood and create suspense for the series.

Lost’s editing is efficient and precise, always cutting quickly and effectively between time, the present, past and multiple variations of a reality. It also means that the transitions help to retain its suspenseful pace.

The pacing of the series does feel fairly consistent; with a great skill, the show alternates between suspense and character development. It creates its setting at a pace that ensures that viewers remain glued to their television screens all the time.

Talking in ‘Lost’ is spectacular and meaningful, pointing at the internal conflicts of the characters and their feelings to one another. It weaves itself skillfully into the plot sometimes even becoming a piece of the puzzle that reveals something about the island’s lore.

What ‘Lost’ succeeds in doing is to entrap the audience with its complications hence, some critics may consider some of the show’s twists and turns and loose ends as a downside. The storyline is fairly ambitious at times though it also rambles confusing some plot arcs and offering no conclusion or clarity.

I have outlined and dissected the show ‘Lost’ for one consistent thought, namely ants lack understanding of any complex and surreal reality show they witness this is not an ordinary program one has to work diligently to decipher. It generates contemplation about relations between people and about destiny despite some concerns regarding plot.